The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-12
SOCIALISTS SORE
At .HANFORD
/ stern Judge Who Cancelled Natur-
: alzation Papers of Leonard
oIsson Who Was One
Of Them.
CONVENTION THIS WEEK
Court Has Been Object Of Attack Be-
fore For Various Rulings
Against the
People.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May H.. Bit
ter denunciation of Judge Cornelius
H. Hanford, federal Judge of the Wash
ington district, was heard tonight from
the majority of the delegates gathered
here for the opening of the national
convention of the socialist party to-
morrow.
The action of the jurist In depriving
Socialist Leonard OLSON of his natur-
alization papers because he believed
in the elimination of individual prop
erty rights by majority ballot was
accepted by the rank and file as the
opening gun in a general campaign Of
| socialism in America. Washington
delegates who are here insisted that
this action of the federal Judge was
the beginning of struggle to dis
franchise the foreign born American
citizens of the Pacific slope, because
CT the growing strength of socialism
\ there.
The matter will be taken up on the
floor of the convention next week. The
\ fact that Judge Hanford in his decis-
lion placed restrictions upon natural
ization which are not part of the
fundamental law of the United States
was alleged by the socialist leaders to
be a violation of constitutional priv,
ilege which, if carried out as far as
the text cf the decision seemed tc
indicate, would mean the revocation o.
the ffstmra ,isatiaR napars of everyons
who believes in direct legislation o
any nature
Job Hartman, of Los Angeles, Con
. eressman Victor Berger, William D
Haywood, John s. Fargo Morris Hol
quit and all of the other leaders in the
city we're open in their denunciatior
+ and in their declaration that the de
csion of the federal judge must bt
I appealed at any cost.
This Is not the time to talk abou
I this said Hartman, 'it is time TO
action, and we will have to get busy
: | do not believe that this decision cal
I be accepted as a criterion of what W.
can expect from the courts. OF cours,
: the appellate court can be depended
;. upon to reverse such an absurd rul
$ ing"
It was believed that a motion viii
be made at Mondays session of tn
convention to pledge the national sc
cialist' organization to finance the lega
] methods necessary to determine th
5 constitutionality OF Judge Hanford'
II decision.
: The first session of the conventio
: will be held In Tomlinson at 10 a. m
tomorrow. 1t will be devoted to Oh
= ganiZation and the real business gatl
: ering will not begin until Monday.
is already certain that the conventio
= sessions will be filed with oratorica
!. pyrotechnics because of the wide di
ference of opinion whether the col
= vention should endorse the militar
attitude of the direct actionists, c
. take the easy methods" suggested b
= the "parlor socialists" of not antagol
izing any prospective followers.
The question of a national ticke
has been relegated to the back-groun
81 pending the decision of how far tn
IT Slatform shall go in endorsing indu
Ie trial unionism.
y The convention will last at least
!, week and 1t is not likely that the pc
sonality of candidates will be Sc
=, - ious subject of discussion before I'll
: latter part of the session.