Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-18
Former Mayor of Milwaukee,
Emil Seidel, is Second Choice
on Ticket; Two Women Con-
teStants for Honor.
VIOLENCE HAS NO
PLACE IN PROGRAM
Industrial Workers of World
Repudiated by Decisive Vote
of Convention; Victor Berger
Denounces Direct Action.

[By Morning Journal Special Leased Wire. ]
Indianapolis, May 1I.-Eugene "
Debs, of Terre Haute, was dominated
today as a candidate for president of
the United States by the national con-
vention of the Socialist party this
afternoon.
Emil seidel, formerly mayor Of Mil
waukee, was nominated for vice pres
Iasnt.
Mr. Dehs was not in the hall when
the result of the ballot was an
nounced, but Mr.. Siedel In a few words
thanked the delegates and promised
them that he would make the cam
paign as lively as any of the capital
istic parties had seem"
Many candidates, including Kate
Richards O'Hare, of st. Louis and
Anna Agnes Mahlay, OF Seattle. were
named for the second place. but only
three, Mr.. Siedel, John w. Slayton,
Pennsylvania. and Dan Hogan, Arkan-
sas, remained to he voted upon. Mr..
Sedel on the first ballot received 159
votes Hegan IS and Slayton 81.
Mr. Hogan's motion to make
Mr.. Sedei's nomination unani-
nous was seconded by Mr.
Slayton. Job Hartman, of Cali
fornia, and Duncan Mcdonald, of Illi-
nois, were nominated for the presi-
dency, but declined to let their names
stand.
Aside from the nominations which
We're not completed until 1880 to-
night the only other business of the
business of the convention of the af-
ternoon session was the adoption of a
section OF ;he ccsrtitution which
places the party as taking decided
stand against violence as a weapon
of the working classes.
The section was not adopted until
after several hours of debate, which
many times ran into personalities. The
section reads:
ANY member of the party who OPP
poses political action or advocates
crime. sabotage or other methods of
violence as a weapon of the working
class, to aid in It's emancipation. shall
be expelled from membership in the
party. Political action shall be con-
strued to mean participation in elec-
tons for puJlic office and practical
legislative and administrative work
along the lines of the socialist party
platform"
The section was opposed by the "di-
rect action" forces who have been es-
pousing the cause of the Industrial
Workers of the World and was fa-
vored by the so-called yellow" or
conservative factions III the party.
Congressman Berger, of Milwaukee,
declared those who opposed the sec-
tion belong with Emma Goldman and
are trying to hide behind political
action"
There is a bridge between sociai-
ism and anarchism," said Congress
nPn Berger Those who stand tor
'roliiical action are not for the bomb
thr"wer and the dagger wielder. Tho
trcuhie is, there are anarchists in he
party who are trNing to hide under
the euise of 4. w. w ,"
A motion to strike out the section
regarding violence was lost on a roll
call vote. 80 to 1871, and ii was then
passed by a viva voce vote.
While the vote on the measure was
being tabulated the delegates broke
Into singing the "Maisellaise" and
The Red Flag"
Many delegates slood upon the
Lahles cheering and singing and tho
I demonstration was kept up tor sew
erai minutes.