The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-27
POLITICS OF SOCIALISM.
THE SOCIALISTS wow SEEKING FOR
pBEsJDENITAL CANDIDATE.


r,,, c.nuot Find = Proper Ns.. Rss WIN
W,.n on Iookiue for Hi.-Wn no Eiisi-
n,s Candidate Now Come TO the Frents
within short period. perhaps. the Socialist
t,hor marty will. for tho first time IN its his
tory. nominate a candidate for the ONCE OF
rros,,,cnt Of the United ststes. It will do this
q nm, eligible candidate can be found In tho
country. II any such candidate will accept tho
nom nation. II any portion OF the party will
agrro 10 vote for the nominee. II the leaders o.
ia rarty can stop squabbling among them
selves for n while. II they can auell those OF
rho members OF the party who are always op-
posed to politics. while forever crying Doodle.
and II they can take q short rest from their
rerrctual assaults upon all other working
mons organizations. The nomination Is de-
pendent upon so many contingencies that u
may never take place. though the subject Is
under debate In all the SECTIONS and the argu-
ment over II wakes hot
There are several thousand organized So
cialis,s in this city. but tho party Is split up
into pickering factions. which desptse each
other, and which at the same time detest not
only tho Democratic and Republican parties,
I'm. also the Georgites or Single Takers. and
the Bcllnmyites or Nationalists. and tho Pow
icrlyi,es or Knights OF Labor.and the Populites
or Farmers Alliance party. and the Weiss
nnnpitcs Or Anarchists. and the Gomrersites
o, the Federation Of Labor. and the Blisser-
Users " tho Central Labor Union. and other
ORGANIZATIONS all along to the end OF the
chapter.
1T Ia possible" said member OF tire party.
that something may bo done at the conference
IN Rochester. to which somo delegates have
been elected. but you cannot toll. we could
nro,d 10 antuconizo all other parties and Or
carnations" he added. III we had any kind
of harmony among ourselves but this Is the
last thing to he locke ed for We are nearly all
Germans. full OF Old World notions and preju-
,lircs, Many Of us do not understand tho Eng
u.h language or the established methods OF
American politics. or the system OF republic
can government. or tho ways oil tho American
people Some Americans have Joined the party
fro,, tine to time. but the German men,
bers are sure to accuse them Of being
booders or OF being false to socialism.
or of trying to use the rroletariat. or OF wear
ing better clothes than wageworkers. Our
party once endorsed a candidate here and
then our leaders gave orders that he should
lie boycotted at the election Comrade Schlue-
Ter o: Nogt or Kuhn or Bruecknsnn Gun tell
about 1t. We have had trouble with Jpstus
srhwab and his friends. and last month We
o oi the jewish worinSmen. OUR leaders can.
rot get along with Que another. or with any
oody else. and they are all the tine hlatherng
about boycott and noodle ami selling out.
The Soc alst who spoke in this way said he
was. ncyeithelcss IN favor Of nominating
rtat, S. Just 10 see how many votes the party
would il oil. asst year there was II Socialist
candidate for Governor Of the state OF New
tie vote uf the state.
ir arg tw" prominent obstacles to the
list Presidential candidate: In the first pince.
ii seems lmlussinlr to Ind any eligible Ameri-
ran WI" would accent the nomination and 10
the second place. tho platform upon which
S tSo Office 't q PTssdsn. ' if the
t"candida,es; it is admitted by the, 30
4 any marx in the whole e"Sn,ry has eyer
III hat is orr truunlr.' said Socialist. when
asked to sive III" names Of the men who had
t, ,iH.o is tina, We i" moi know where to look
1"ra candidate. II We could rpt up man
@ wa. d ys in .nr0ps we MS1 set sfsy sd
II them in sew York city. though there is
na It :, ,h oyow Mho you'd I'd ssDHS5t
VIII i e. 'sEsS az ss:s
I'm r. isarn 'Lat the socialis,{s ali over
!hs ity Were Just . as badly puzzled;
oHE o SeS nn he win not ao
replied the s',ciaIist. TOR he is not member
ofour pnrty. and We will not nominute any one
reporter CAV. another name. And he win
not do" replied the socia list. for he is not q
vote ior candidate who, is Joined to the
aristocracy. or the loafng classes. or the ex.
.s s we aRa Es t oMn
lit Of eiieibles alter naming two. and, was
in the same state Of mind. and merely said
that some honest worker or drbeiter could be
found to take the nomination. .,
III nhafnclp n
Socialist candidate for President is the plat
form Of the socialist party. That Platform as
y. 1880. contains this plank: We DEMAND
the abolition Of the PreyidenSy vics,Presi
Every member Of the Socialist party is pledged
to suppo,t the platform which embodies this
M ana only p, pSsy
Socialist oandidats for the Presidency be put
in nomination.
PLATFORM nude by those Socialists who de-
ill., &. sss e ssss.sss
|, can DO aboli' he'd only by thu election Of a
President who will approve Of the bill to BE-
therefore 1t In necessary to elect one Socialist
q MScS viii Il a aposh aMa oas
S,Whiis tho Socialists would abolish the Pres.
Presidency itself"
Ofcourse this sophistical argument IL eom-
hated BY many Of the members Of the Socialist
PARTY. who do not desire to eircumvent. the
language or undermine tho great principle OF
tn- party platform. Whether those protesting
unyirlding mombers are In the majority
VIII he ascertninrd ms soon As the vote has
!'een taken In the sections throughout tho
country. il i turns. out that they are In the
denry OF the United States will be put In noui-
nation. The question will 10 decided within
hh nt time. Meanwhile debate upon 1t In the
sections and In tho socialist places Of rendez-
vons is carried on with dangerous energy.
strength in this State has been fully brought
cut was last year. when the Socialist candidate
Ior Governor polled 1861 votes. or less than
on.,half tho vote OF tho Prohibition candidate.
The SOCIALISTS are extremely enraged at the
single Tux Iarty OF Henry George for going
o,"r to the .eysland Democracy at the Chi:
n""lEo and his followers with being mere
l"!"d1ers" who have sold out to the capital
Iati. enemy aS they sold out once before for
.a.h IN hand. They are also violently opposed
me p"op,o1 party organized last February
n ny 'hS leader, leaders Of ths Farmers ALI
Sal nny W. who ~ made w Of Socialist nlauks.
chusctts Tarty II Nationalist though fbis