The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-18
A TICKET.
Socialist Labor
Nominees.
HARDY FOR MAYOR.
They WantVotes to Express
Principles.


arisen in the local section of the So
cialist labor party have finally only
served to strengthen the ties among the
members at large, and now that there
is no weighty question as to the per-
sonal standing of any member or as to
his individual views in interpreting the
socialistic doctrine, the minds of the
sections are tending towards the matter
of preparation for the fall campaign
in this city Now that the charges of
Martha Moore Avery against Charles
K. Hardy for denunciation of Daniel
De Leon, the editor of The People, the
organ of the socialist party of Ameri-
ca, have fallen by the wayside, all is
ripe for plans for attacking a common
enemy-the capitalist. AS told in The
Spy, the local section refused to I'M
vestigate the charges preferred against
Mr. Hardy by Mrs. Avery, and threw
them out so that her appeal Will be
taken to the executive committee OF
the national party at st. Louis, Where
it will be decided whether to discard
the charges altogether or to hold an IN
vestigation as to whether Mr.. Hardy
said that Prof De Leon did not prac-
tice what he preached, or not. While
there are one or two in the local sec
ton who supported the charges OF
Mrs. Avery against a fellow member,
in the matter OF the municipal cam
paign in which the discussion is now
on, all are united.
1t is fact that is not now well
/ known, that the local section of the
/ socialist labor party is to have a more
complete ticket in the municipal contest
this fall, so that there will be three full
party tickets in the field. Last year
| tile socialists nominated candidate
| for mayor and three candidates for
/ places in the aldermanic chamber, but
this year it has been decided to nomi-
nate six candidates for the higher
branch Of the civic legislature, and also
a candidate for mayor as last year,
Another course which has been practi-
cally determined upon is not to renom-
mate DR.. Rosto o. Wood for mayor,
but to relegate his name to the rear,
and place before the public for mayor
atty honors, in his place, Charles K.
| Hardy who of the present members of
Ethe socialist labor party headed the
ticket last year in respect to the num-
Der Of votes. secured Addison W.
/ Barr, who headed the socialist alder
manic candidates last year, led his
party ticket by a thousand, having
about 1000 votes, but as he is not now
g. member of the party, Mr.. Hardy is
entitled to the honor of having received
the largest number of votes, he having
stood second to Mr. Barr. DR.. Wood is
a thorough socialist, and good work
or. but be has not been identified with
the socialist labor movement in Wer-
cester to the degree that Mr.. Hardy
has, and accordingly it has been de-
cided to place Mr. Hardy's name at the
head of the ticket as the nominee for
mayor, as he has been known for a
long time for his pro-socialistic beliefs,
/ and his active connection with social
ism will bring out a test vote of those
who accept the principles Of the So
cialist labor party
Last year it was with great diff
Guilty that Mr.. Hardy was induced to
accept the nomination for alderman
but finally after he had been APP
preached by the members of the party
in different lights, he yielded to their
| persuasions and entered the field, to
come out second on the ticket. Mr..
Hardy is a deep scholar and an able
eXpounder of socialist labor principles
so that his candidacy will appeal to
the wage-earners of the city, who by
! his public addresses and well known
independence, have come to know and
| like him.
! Another singularity Of the socialist
labor party is that they claim they
| do not want votes, except of those who
accept the socialist principles. S,ympa%
thetic votes, votes from those who may
| personally admire the socialist nomi-
nees, they have no use for, and it is
! inmaterial to them whether the votes
are given them or not. They desire
votes from men who they term Glass
conscious that is from men who rec
ognize that there is a struggle between
the capitalist and the wage Garner, be-
tween the producer and the manufac-
turer, and who, recognizing such
struggle, vote to secure a cooperative
! commonwealth, where the entire civic
| body will own and operate the means
of production, doing. away with private
ownership and production. The social>
lists would not wish a single nominee
on their ticket elected and the others
left out in the cold as that would show
| that those who received the least re,
| ceived the votes of the class conscious
voters, while to the nominee who per-
| haps might be elected, would come the
votes of those who personally edmired
| the nominee but had no belief in the
principles for which he stood before the
| people For this reason the socialists
claim that they did not wish the cleo
tion of Addison w. Barr to the alder
manic chamber last year, because his
election as shown by the disparity be-
| tween the number of votes h 2 received
and the average received by the other
| two candidates, was due to sympathet-
ic votes, and his election would have
resulted not from believers in tIile So
cialsm, but by personal followers Of
Mr.. Barr. The socialists do not, as they
claim, tolerate manworship. What they
demand is belief and acceptance in the
principles of socialism, whether the ex-
ponent of those principles be negro or
a Filipino. So in the last campaign the
socialists reckoned their numerical
strength by the vote given DR.. Roscoe
o. Wood for mayor and this year while
they hope that their campaign of cdu-
cation has aroused the masses and
~evolved socialists, they say they do not
care whether any one of their eandi-
dates is elected or not, but that they
do look with interest to the vote given
| their candidate for mayor, as showing
whether their strength has decreased
or increased.
This is what the Philistines fail to
appreciate, that the socialists do not
want the votes in themselves, but
merely the votes of those men who
believe and live in the principles of the
socialist labor party.
With Charles K. Hardy nominated as
the socialist candidate for mayor, in
place of DIR. Rosto 0. Wood the Six re-
maining candidates for the board of all
dermen will be selected from the rank
and file of the party.
! L. X. Usher, who is one of the most
prominent members of the section, and
the first American born citizen to be
connected with the movement, who was
nominated for the board of aldermen
| last year, will be renominated. The
first new name to appear on the ticket
will be that of Charles K. Wiley, an
able worker, and one of the deepest
thinkers in the section and the most