The leader., 1904-08-31
IESRu9G.
Socialists Nominate Presidential EIec-
tors and Adopt Platform.

tors and Adopt Platform.
Hattiesburg, Aug. AZ. III,
State Socialist convention, which
closed tonight in this city, attract
ed no little attention and was fair,
Nv well attended. Yesterday was
spent ID discussing the principle:
Hof the party, the formation Of a
platform and the selection Of pres!
idential electors. Last night an
address was delivered BY Sumner
IN Rose, editor of the State So.
cialist paper, the Grander Age 81
Biloxi, which was enthusiastically
received by the Socialists present.
The following delegates were
present: Alfred Wildly, Hat
tiesburg; T. b. Walden, Laurel;
e. j. Crump, Meridian; Dr.. ID.
b. Morris, Perry county; Sumner
w. Rose, Biloxi; IT. Al. Meadows,
Perry county; Jacob Ryan, G.
w. Balls, s. X. Nall, 4. i. Carter,
ID. "A. Anderson, Perry county /;
John ID. Wallace, Holmes; G. w.
Smith, Meridian; G. +. Myers,
Perry; j. b. Burleson, Perry; z.
4. Riggs, Biloxi; d. p Myer,
T. ID. Pace, jackson; J. e. Les
ter, u. w. Persons, j. w. SWof-
ford, j. r. johnson, John r. Car
ter, 5. B. Ellis, w. Ell Gibbs, w.
/. Roberts and John Measley,
jackson.
State Electors: At large, w. M.
Broadway, Holmes county, and ID.
r. Myer. Perry county; First
q. Z. Riggs, Harrison
county; Second district, T. j.
Crump, Lauderdale county Third
district, j. D. Wallace, Holmes;
Fourth district, John 4. Wallace;
Fifth district, G. w. Smith, Lam
deldaIe; Sixth district. Jacob
Ryan, Perry; Seventh district, Z.
B. Walden, Jones; Eighth dis
trict, w. P. Berdine, Kinds coun-
The following platform was
We, the Socialist party of the
State of Mississippi, in conven-
ton assembled, declare our alle-
glance to the Socialist party of the
United States and our fidelity to
international Socialism.
{ We call upon the members of
our class, be they farmers or wage
workers, to join us in taking the
machinery Of the government
from the hands of those who rep
resent the plutocracy instead Of
the people, and placing it in the
hands OF those who are the people.
THE tools of production today
are under the ownership of the
class, and the working
class is allowed to use them, not
for the good of the nation, but for
the enrichment Of the capitalist
only, and when no profits can be
made for the capitalist, the tools
and means of production are lock-
ed up and the workers are left to
starve. This ownership by the
class places the lives and
liberty of all the people in the
capitalists hands.
As long as the capitalist class
owns the means Of production and
workers be they union or nom
union must beg for jobs at the
hands of those who rob them Of
more than half the wealth their
hands and brain produce.
The wage system tends con-
staDtly toward a lower standard Of
living, and is the cause of all the
crimes from which society suffers,
including disease, ignorance, muir
der and poverty.
'On the one hand, dogs, cats
and monkeys are dined, wined,
and, when dead, are buried in
costly caskets, while on the other,
little children starve and die of
disease in filthy tenements, or
their lives are sacrificed BY the
thousands in great mills and mines
to grind out profit for those who
own the tools of production.
Wages ever falling lower, or
the cost of living ever mounting
higher, and the determination Of
the capitalist class not to allow the
worker any Of their demands for
better treatment, has filed the
land with strikes, lockouts and
other troubles, and soldiers have
been placed at the disposal of the
capitalists and armed bodies of
men not Of the military have been
organized and are today seeking
to take from the wealth producer
the last vestige OF liberty Of which
be is possessed. and the country is
in q state of actual anarchy.
These sinister conditions have
brought about the organization Of
the Socialist party; that justice
might be re-established, that gov
ernment might be the expression
of those governed, and not the ex.
preston of few masters; that
men might be as we'll treated az
dogs, cats and monkeys; that to
the worker should belong the en-.
tire results Of his work; that at
last might be carried out the Bib
heal injunction: If d man viii
not work neither shall he eat.
Too long has the working class
been led as sheep tn the SHAMELESS
too long have they followed false
gods. Now the Socialist party
calls them to Join together Id theil
class interest and make q stand