The sun., 1908-07-21
AMATEUR SOCIALISTS TO RUN
p. STOKES FOR ASSEMBLY,
ooaFRT HUNTER FOR CONGRESS-.

-. Brothers-ln.Iaw VIII Descend on the
East side After the Hot Season and
Take to the Tail OF Cart-Rose Pastor
s,oke. TO Assist in Campaign Oratory.
a. Phelps Stokes. who is the husband
=, Rose Pastor Stokes and who once ran
~, President OF the Board Of Aldermen
I, this cty, Is going TO run for Assembly
=, the Socialist party's ticket in the Eighth
di.trict this year and Rose Pastor Stokes
has promised to take the stump for her
hrshand and put herself at the disposal
~ the campaign committee of the district.
While Mr. Stokes is running for Assembly
II the Eighth his brother-in-law and fellow
Socialist. Robert Hunter, hopes to be run
ming for Congress in the Tenth Congress
district. Mr.. Hunter and Mr.. Stokes have
hotb consented to be candidates and Rose
Pastor Stokes to be cart tail orator.
Mr.. Hunter has been a Socialist for three
wears; Mr. Stokes not 80 long. Both are
considered by the Socialists Of Grand street
N have passed their novitiate at any rate,
and are therefore available now as candi-
dates which apparently has pleased Mr..
Stokes and Mr.. Hunter immensely. The
candidates are spending the summer at
their beautiful country homes in Connecti-
out,
The decision to run Mr.. Stokes for the
Assembly was made by the Socialists in
the Eighth district only recently when
Jacob Panken, a lawyer and Soci9list ora
tor. declined to run on the plea that he
would be more useful in the national cam
paign. Mr.. Panken ran in the district last
wear and got l,osa votes against 2,o96 for
the Tammany man,
That vas big gain over the previous
year, whom the ticket polled only about
100 votes. The leaders in the district, with
James G. Phelps Stokes running and Rose
Pastor Stokes helping him run. already
see victory within their grasp. They said
Yesterday that there was no doubt that
Mr. Stokes would carry the district be-
cause everybody knew him and Mrs. Stokes.
A meeting Of the district organization.
made up Of go members. was held ON Friday
night at SIS Grand street, and after Mr..
Panken had declined to run Mr.. Stokes
was chosen by unanimous vote. Mr..
Stokes was up at Noroton Point, Conn.,.
but a committee had previously waited
upon him on one of mis- town visits and had
received word from him that he would
be delieAsed to run for the Assembly.
Mr.. Stokes is now reported to be working
on his btter OF acceptance. famed by the
cool brse1es that blow off the Sound.
Anothc- meeting is to be held next Friday
evening and his fellow Socialists in town
said yesterday that they hoped that Mr..
Stokes would find time to run in and make
q keyusts speech.
According to the plans made for him by
bis party Comrade Stokes will have lot of
heavy work to do this fall. At the Grand
street headquarters II was said yesterday
tbGt Mr.. Stokes and Mrs. Stokes were ex-
peeted to leave Noroton by August and
make stumping tour for the State ticket
up the State. returning by September 1
to open up the campaign in the Eighth
Comrade Stokes is q good Socialist. We
believe said Organizer Jacob Grlber at
th headquartars yesterday. 1T wouldn't
haze done to run him last year because he
hadn't been Socialist long enough. but
beth he and Mr.. Humter have been long
epough at 1t now to be candidates. What
Nh. Stokes may lack as a speaker Mrs.
Stokes more than makes up. When she
stsrts speaking nothing can stop her. We
propose 10 send around carts with our best
spekers on them. including. OF course. Mr..
ard Mrs Stokes. There will be more cart
tdl meetings than the district ever sew
hfore. Mrs. Stokes will be absolutely under
the direction Of our campaign committee.
Mr, Stokes Is not as good q speaker as Mr..
Panken, who has been Socialist for years,
bat there's a good deal in his name. you
know
Although Candidate Stokes has been q
resident Of the district ever since he be-
came Socialist he never spends his sum-
nere there. and even during the winter a
good part OF his time Is spent at Noroton.
ost Mr.. Gruber said that the Stokes fat at
Norfolk and Grand streets is his voting
residence, and Of course Mr.. Stokes will |
nvs there throughout the campaign.
mr. Stokes contributed $50 once to the |
ortrict organization and two years ago
gaVe $500 to the State COMMITTEES. He and !
Mfs. Stokes drop in once in a while at the |
headquarters. Mr.. Stokes hasn't the hand |
nSklng acquaintance in the Eighth that |
.aarhe Adler, Issy Cohen and some Of the |
t'a;ssnen Of the district have. In fact |
II vas admitted by some Of the comrades
yee'efd y that 30 far as they knew neither |
Mr' nor Mrs. Stokes had done a great deal |
Vi oaing on voters in the district, but they |
s.e that the East Side was very proud |
vi rose Stokes Pastor and knew Mr.. Stokes
a. iormer settlement worker, and that il |
rose Pastor Stokes only did as we'll on !
W ne stump as she did in the rent strike the
usulct would be carried by the Stokeses
qui's handsomely over Morris 0ranbard !
vi Me lammany ticket and Louis Freidel
w he Republican ticket, or whomever
'"e the two parties may name The indie
peooence League Is counted on to have a
'ehet by itself this year and In four COR
.Neo hght the odds are on Stokes, SO they
'ay On Grand street now And il we
'uoe carry this district with Stokes we'll
1eep II, said some of the comrades II
VI 'ookes as a runner comes up to the
'afectations Of his comrades at aIa Grand
,uee' he'll be the first Socialist elected to
''e assembly from this city
M hunter isn't 10 sure Of running on
-. socialist ticket this fall as his brother
nav The Socialists in the Tenth Con-
,iess district haven't formally voted on
Ae question as vet But when II was pro |