The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-21

pOt CnFl6tl0n love, Is the safe guide d
life, cannot find an honest man in thei
own ranks even with the full glare q
arc lights. There is now NO Socialis
party. Their Ethiopian scheme is min
ped In the bud by the frost Of anarchy
They are split permanently into tw,
parties. self-named "kangaroosn an,
skunks." Human selfshness, their god
has converted what should be q mag
nincent party enthusiasm into marrow
fractional zeal. Midroaders,. the onl,
safe and true socialist party possible il
the United States during our lifetime
need not longer be the refuse dump Of
the billingsgate of such anarchists. >
who are now emptying it onto them.
selves.
Some of our finest fellows valuable
as fusionists are valueless) had Tin dis
gust with false Populist leaders who,
through conventions. committees etc.,
become bosses), jumped from the frying
pan into the fire. Gossip says some
honest men at Two Harbors, P. ]. Sea-
berger OF st. Cloud, Bonham of st. Paul
with a few others in the cities. had be-
come Socialists. Are these deserters
kangaroo" or skunk" Socialists?
10 understand these statements I
must tell you
WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON WITH
THE SOCIALISTS. 500
Their N. E. G. (national executive
committee) is not elected by their party.
1t Is elected only by few sections in
New York city. This N. r. G. auto-
cratically rules their whole party. The
great boss of their N. e. c. ia Mosul
DeLeon, editor of their official organ
THE PEOPLE. He has out-Butlerized
Butler himself. DeLeon sits as a made
lord In his Office, and receives letters
from honest Socialists. Do thew con-
n1ct with his immediate notions. he
throws them into the waste basket
slurs or deposes the writer's. DeLeon
belongs to Dist 40 X. of L. Assembly.
IL was SO socialistically inclined that
the Socialist Labor party IS. L. P.) had
good prospects of capturing not only it
out other unions, as the Big 6 of the
If DeLeon, under such cir
cumstances, in leaving such unions to
build new labor unions, to be part of the
5. l.. r., divided asunder those old labor
unions, had not plain chance of doing
more good thereby, of making decided
over the old form of !
apor union, then he clearly shows he
lld 1t only out of ambition to make him
self mogul labor leader He did it
plainly in opposition to all the former
actics of the S. L. p. In the most con-
raolctory manner, he is about to form
abor unions which permit members to
'ote for either of the two old parties
hey choose A fine 'ffiafl, a consistent
Y. 3. c., to call labor agitators fakirs. 1,
nd then do the same thing themselves!
10 say nothing ofothe reaction, that /
g1ll come upon them, jim their first labor
They have thus gone back on
helr former assertions, that relief can
My come at the ballot box. They thus,
themselves, become "temporizing re-
no longer Carl Max Socialists
Singularly, all their sections. are about
venly and doggedly divided on this
aD]ect. For instance, Section Mime
polls, which rules Minnesota. met and
ldorsed the followers of DeLeon by a
ote OF "a to 16. They had a pitched
attic until midnight. This is the way
lelr leaders stand on the question:
eonard, DR.. Hirschfield, Lee and Lucas
q the attack against the DeLeon
arty; while Hammond, who ran for
'vernor on their ticket Ted the
'kunks' against the 'kangaroos.." 800, ,
10 return to New York The German
'clallst paper, Voltzeitung, announced ,
meeting to elect new N E. C. for the
tn OF July. Thirty-eight men out of
D representatives were present. Thew
ted for new N. E. c.. a new boss and
new national paper. The other side .
aims they were led by William Klein +,
no was appointed by Tammany's boss. 4
eeman, as sewer inspector of New :,
'rk city in order to prevent further in >,
ads of Socialists, particularly in
7emans district. However that NAV -
the Klein men, with slaves. stones o.
IS, attacked the DeLeon Headquarters ;,
q forclbly marched off with what Of -
lal documents and newspaper ma ,,
flais they could seize, to another :;
'eet where they set up housekeenino :,
themselves. There are, therefore n
o sets OF men claiming to be the ma -
nal executive committee. with their -
bosses, and two off1cia, =
sans, both bearing the same name o.
ammany judges" and their own h,
ourt of appeals at Cleveland Ohio r
We decided adversely to the old II nit
IN different states there VIII fo,1ow
'al complications in place Of cam .,
lgns, as to whether the "skunks" mr. q,
angaroos' will be entitled to the old
clal name on the ballot T.
n Minneapolis we wait to see tho y.
angaroos' suspended and Leonard
" tell me, will sue the Hammond fol, st
wing for the property of the party tn
Hlrschheld has already in disgust
igned ''s e'ehIao1s -, :
When their court of appeals. located