New-York tribune., 1911-12-14
.LyNN, THE SOCIALIST, MILD
Twilight Club Was All Agog for
Hot Attack on Roosevelt.
MISS MILHOLLAND PRESlDES
Chief Justice Russell Declares at
Dinner He Prefers Jamaica
to Utopia.

The Twilight Club met last night. John
Tucker. the secretary. said il was the 621th
dinner of the club. not the 621th annual ON
ner. but lust dinner No 627 They gath
cred at the Hotel Marseilles. Broadway
and 103d street, and their chief purpose
aside from dining for the 627th time, was
10 hear Chief Justice Russell, of the Court
of Special Sessions, debate with George K.
Lunn. the Socialist Mayor-elcct of Schenec-
tady
4 mysterious individual who signed him.
self Walter :. Giles informed all the
newspaper Offices in wretchedly type
written letter that Mr. Lunn would "ac-
cusc Theodore Roosevelt with teaching inn
morality" and somehow or other the same
mysterious individual had managed to con
vey the same idea 10 tho TUilighters. so
the Twilightcrs were all agog.
Strangely enough though. Mr. Tucker
said no Giles" belonged 10 the club. and
though Mr.. Lunn didn't know any such
person. there was a sentence in Mr.. Tuck
or's letter to Mr.. Lunn framed in exactly
the same mould that appeared in the Giles
letter to- the newspapers. and some Of the
members thought that maybe Mr. Tucker
was Giles" and that Giles was Mr..
Tucker.
At any rate, it proved to be a false
alarm. for Mr.. Lunn's accusation Of MIR
Roosevelt was couched in the mildest
terms possible. What Mr. Lunn objected
to. on the part of the former President
was his insistence in using tho phrase
"malcfactors of great wealth II got peo-
pic TO thinking that all ills would he
cured If these "malefactors" were aboC
shed, said Mr.. Lunn, and that teaching, he
said. was unethicsl. and, in manner OF
speaking. immoral
Lunn's Criticism Disa pponts.
The Twilightcrs were apparently disap-
pointed at the nildness of MIR. Iunn's crit
icsm. but they checred him heartily when
he added that his main quarrel with MI
Roosevelt was that the eX-President was
I'm favor Of the present system Presi-
dent Tafts hope OF restoring competition,
the Socialist politician thought was
doomed 10 failure.
Each speaker was limited TO fifteen min
utes, so Mr.. Lunn didn't have time to do
fine socialism, which Miss IncZ Milholland
who presided. particularly requested him to
do, but he ended with this command and
prophecy:
Find out what the socialists want, be-
cause we're getting it. We're going to have
Supreme Court entirely dlfcrcnt-difter-
cnt type of mind, | mean-where human
rights will be considered first, then prop
crty rights"
Chief Justice Russell. who was announced
as the affirmative debater on the question,
lis Industrial Competition Superior TO so
cialism?" refused to take the socialists seri-
ously. and, scorning the Utopia dreamed of
by the socialist declared fervently: Live
in such a Utopia, I'd rather live in Ja-
maica."
Mr.. Lunn had declared that he couldn't
see the difference between the Progressive
Republican and the stand-pat Republican,.
Men like Crane and Aldrich," he said,
believe in skinning the eel from the head
down. while men like Roosevelt and La FOL
lette believe in sknning it from the tall
up, and maybe in putting a little salve on
the eel after; but it's all the same-they re
all for the system.
Says Change Is Desired.
George l.. Record, OF New Jersey, SAID
lHatt tnoukh he leit tiidt P"""' H''''''''''N
was I'm favor of radical change from
present methods, yet he could not get any
constructive idea from either the judge or
the socialist. His own opinion was that
we'd have TO apply the soclalistic or the
monopolistic theory, both Of which are
identical, he said. TO public utilities. and
restore real competition TO everything else.
Before the debate. Mr.. Tucker made. a
formal announcement OF the next dinner
of the Sunrise club. three weeks from
Monday night next, with Emma Goldman
for the speaker, and the subject: Woman s
Inhumanty to Man.
MANY of the members Of the Twilight
Club are old members of the Sunrise Club
he explained, "and We announce each
Others meetings"