The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-11-29
STATEMENT OF TUE COUNTY
SECRETARY.

To the Snohomish County Central
Committee. the County Executive
Board. and the membership of the
Socialist Party Of snohomish Com-
ty.
Dear Comrades
It is with great pleasure that / sub
nit to YOU the following statement Of
the work OF the Campaign and Exc
cutive Committee. outlining in part
the work accomplished together with
a partial statement Of the receipts
and expenditures by means Of which
the campaign was conducted.
A short foreword may be Of inter.
est in computing the progress of the
growth Of the socialist movement in
Snohomish county:
The highest socialist vote cast in
the election of 1910 in Snohomish
county was 1850 The near socialist
or sympathetic vote has always been
reckoned to be, at least, one-half of
the vote cast for socialism in the past.
On this basis our straight vote at that
time would have been, in round num-
bers, 500 This sympathetic vote, OF
whom there are many thousands in
the county today, were those who
could no longer stomach the old party
rottenness, but who were open for
any change that might be offered, re-
CARELESS of what banner it might be
brought in under For the most part
those whose brain cells have become
fossilized to such an extent that a new
thought could not find Judgement in
it, or of those who might be better
known as dough faces. The man who
lacks stamina to come out and take a
stand for that which he knows to be
right.
The year 1912 witnessed the rise OF
a new political party popularity known
as the progressive party, party
established along progressive lines,
without the adoption of any principles
to make it progressive, but whose
platform of promises and half
promises made a fit haven for the
above enumerated fossils and dough
faces, thus Kidding, to the delight of
the socialist party, the barnacles and
mushrooms that had attached them
selves to it.
The new party has thus acquired
the leftovers, for which the socialist
party sings praises. Never the less,
the vote of the socialist party vote in
Snohomish county rolled up the splen-
did total Of upwards of 1000, or on
the basis of 500 straight votes two
years ago, again of to 1.
Can you multiply? If you can, null
tiply 1000 by 5, the ratio of gain the
past two years and find the answer
in the vote two years hence.
There were held in the various To-
Gals in the county in the neighborhood
of 100 propaganda meetings at which
there was an attendance of upwards
of $4,000 people. Many thousands Of
pieces of literature were sold at these
meetings. In fact the supply seldom
met the demand.
There was received from collections
and donations, s3S456; literature and
supplies, $62.35; total of $446.91.
There was expended on propaganda
and organization, $948.8O; printing,
literature, etc, $128.60; total of
s477.4O.
Leaving a balance of expenditures
above receipts of $30.49.
This deficit is apparent only, as the
literature, stamps and cash on hand
will more than offset this.
There was distributed throughout
the county, not including the city of
Everett, more than 10000 pieces of
literature, and in the city, which was
taken care of by the City Central
Committee, a much larger number.
A very important factor in the
propaganda work of the county has
been the COMMONWEALTH" which
has been the means of spreading
broadcast to thousands, who were not
privileged to hear them, the speeches
of Comrades Debs, Berger and War
ren.
We can congratulate ourselves on
the growth of the movement in our
county, the state and the nation. Our
greatest regret has been the lack of
funds to carry on the campaign with
the vigor and force that appealed to
us.
And now, comrades, at the close of
this wonderfully successful campaign,
which is a mile stone in the advance
ment of the socialist movement, we
must law down our weapons Of war,
but must pursue the enemy into oen
of the stronghoIds of the capitalist
party, the public school The election
of officials of the school boards is
near at hand and this fortress we
must have Then let us up and at
them again and get the control Of