Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-07-18

AmeIICdH -pOlltlcS.
The National Campaign COMMITTEE
IS planning to go to press by July 2Oth
with a number of BE sixteen page
pamphlets provided for by the nation.
al executive committee and eamnaien
committee in joint session. The re-
turns from the one day wage fund will
enable the committee to do this. The
plan is to distribute twenty-five mil.
lion pamphlets, each sixteen pages.
free OF cost, except for carriage. dur
ing the months Of August and Septem-
ber.s Other literature will be prepared
for the last month of the acmpaign.
The campaign committee at a re-
cent meeting, adopted a motion re-
questing the locals and comrades 70
order such supplies from the cam
paign committee in, order that the
profits aceruing therefrom would come
to- the Socialist party rather than to
private concerns.
The national campaign committee
has decided to carry a complete as
sortment of campaign supplies. in
GLIDING drinking cups, neckties, watch
fobs, pocket knives, all carrying the
pictures of Debs and Seidel, also auto
graphed photographs, in both cabinet
size and in frames ready for hanging
on the wall, and number of other
novelties. Some OF these supplies are
already on hand in the campaign head
quarters; ready for shipment. Prices
for the same will be found in the July
Monthly Bulletin, and will also be
sent to the locals by circulars within
a few days.
All orders should be addressed to j.
Mahlon Barnes, campaign manager,
Ill North Market street, Chicago, III.
Proposed Referendurs.
''Sisseton, S. D., July 9Th, 1912.
"Sisseton, S. D., local, with 38 mem
| bers, unanimously demands the recall
of Morris Hillquit as member of the
national executive committee, for the
reason that he has consistently favor.
ed the retention of. Mahlon Barnes
as an officer. of the Socialist Party, in
the face of proof of immortality, and
that said Hillquit went so far as to
represent to the national convention
that the national executive committee
had asked that said Barnes be chosen
to the position of campaign manager,
when this was absolutely false and
that such course tends to retard the
growth of the party and to give a
wrong impression as to Socialism. /"
burlington, Colo, July 10th 1912.
Local Burlington. Colorado, makes
motion that referendum be sent
out to all party members reading:
| Shall ]. Mahlon Barnes be retained
as campaign manager for the cam
paign of 1927 And that the referen-
dunn be accompanied by one copy OF
fall charges brought against~J. Mahlon
Barnes while he was national secre-
tary, and all evidence taken in the
case be sent to each local or branch
"Comment-We believe that tine
Barnes case has aroused much conten-
tion and dissatisfaction in the Social
list party and that the only way it can
ever be settled permanently is for the
members to be fully informed on the
| I'D al than SnfflQ IT.
| 1--WE believe that If the charges
made by the Christian Socialist are
correct, Barnes should not be allowed
to hold any Office in the party, and II
they are not, he should be exonerated
and the Christian Socialist barred
from the lists of Socialist papers.
1--WE believe one copy OF charges
and evidence ito each local or branch
will be enough to fully inform each
member and will not cost so much as
copy to each member.
| "All who are in favor Of this should
send in their seconds at once, as our
time to act Is short.
members of Local Burlington IN
good standiAg eleven"
The naakenal Office desires TO call
attention of all locals in organized
states that their votes on Referendum
B should be sent to their respective
state secretaries, not to the National
Secretary.
The National executive committee
lis voting on a motion by Hartman
I6hat the committee call upon all the
locals In the country to contribute
funds to the Chicago Daily World 1or
the purpose Of buying large press
and eouipping the Office sufficiently TO
issue 100000 papers daily and that a
circular letter by Charles Edward Rus,
/ sell accompany the appeal.
Seconds Of Referendums.
The National Office has received In
/ 10th ridoc nf nrODOSGQ