The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-07
Socialist Party
Organization
ny EDWIN ,. brown.

rms Will conclude my WfihnkH on
questions pertaining 10 the Socialist
party and its organization, as u must
now be apparent as 10 who tho real
Socialists Of Seattle are.
l desire 90 thank every person who
worked and voted for the Socialist
cause. our effort has not been In
sain--we have served a cause.
DEATH RATTLE on THE REDS.
Franz bostrom. state secretary.
and the socialist yotcciess Voice.
edited ~ Hulet Wells. have been
great factors ia obstructing the or
sanitation work OF the Socialist
party IN our state and city. This
destructive work must have been
s.Anned with CAFE, because their
followers are So slow In observing
tns effects os their crude work IA
Direct Actionixta.
In last week yolcelcas Socialist
Voice. Wells dcntes tnat hs is
direct actionlst. but IL ellis conduct
Is not that Of direct actIonlst / do
not know the meaning OF the term.
WELLS. when with your sanction
Harry Lloyd got twenty l. W, W.
members 10 JOIN the ftfth ward So
ctallst local about eighteen months
ago. so as TO defeat the Will Of the
majority ~ rough house tactics,
was tnat not anarchy. sabotage or
direct actions
WELLS, you Endorsed Bruce Rog-
ers Tor campaign manager Of your
recent city HE'D campaign. and Bruce
contends that LABOR leader who
does not advocats violence Is
traitor TO the working class. II this
direct action or anarchy, or both
WELLS. when you. bostrom and
the gang refused Joseph GILBERT. the
party candidate for congress In the
last presidential election. place on
the platform with Victor Berger and
Gene Debs. were the gang and you
guilty Of party treason and sabot-
. sseg
took ten dollars from Judge John Il.
Humpnries twhan he was a capital
list candidateJ for campaign ex-
penses. your whole gang was guilty
OF party treason. ana you know ~
WELLS. about eighteen months
ago. when the Fiftn ward local
elected Mr.. Joseph Gilbert editor of
the Socialist Voice, your gang passed
. resolution to destroy the Voice.
and then some OF the gang. Ike true
anarchists took ten thousand OF the
party papers and destroyed them
Was this direct action and anarchy ?
WELLS. Bostrom- your state sec
Rotary. says that sabotage (which
means anarchy and destruction OF
life and property IL the least direct
of any action. Is this what you
stand for
WELLS, what about the Tacoma
state convention last March. when
Alier. Boomer. Price and the gang
showed approval at declarations OF
anarchy and drove the real Social
lists into an independent organiza-
tion7
WELLS, you have a uonstrous
gall or a fools couceit TO do as you
have and then call any one liar
for exposing e. gosr tactics ,,s,, social,
list Voice stated that desired the
party TO run me for mayor In 1914.
Bruce Rogers wrote this and eight
others signed II. Yet you know that
.aaam L. D.. Ia 80 m
two different occasions / appeared
personally at your Fifth ward local
and asked that you be nominated.
And N J. Kennedy called on me
three different times and requested
me to try for Endorsement. and
against my wish ne put my name
before the convention. and after you
were nominated the party unanim-
poration counsel Yet you have the
nerve to accuse the Seattle Times Of
lying. Why, man. you have the
Times beat a mile as a pleasant iiar.
WELLS. after you were indorsed
By the Socialists as a candidate for
mayor two years ago you were one
OF large delegation that called on
me. and you personally made the APP
peal for me TO file for corporation
Counsel, 80 "a tyou said TO give
strength 70 the ticket, and then, as
always. 1 yielded to the member
ship viii ~,
file for mayor this spring. when the
4 Reds needed TO show their real
4 strength You would have received
one-haf as many votes as Rausch,
and that was about what you did
receive four years ago. Why did
you go under cover this year IL you
are IN good faith2
WELLS. you say that the Social
ist vote goes back yet tho COM
bined Socialist primary votes for
mayors and corporation counsnIr
show large increase OF Socialist
votes, and also II shows that yours
and Bostrom's anarchy will not be
tolerated by the Socialist voters.
CHALLENGE you TO DEBATE.
The Socialists should learn the
facts az 10 what divides tho party
] contend that you, Bostrom and 9th
in this state to direct action in de-
fianse Of the national contribution.
and would be pleased 70 debate this
question with you.
FUTURE ORGANIZATION.
II 10 evident that tho Socialist
party's political organization should
be effected under the primary law.
Wells and freaks would be harm
less. We would soon have a pre-
cfnct committeeman, one election
Judge and one clerk In each precinct
In Seattle, or an Organization Of s55
rnAnbers 70 do party work But the
party boss and your gang would be
out Of power. You and Bostrom are
about through as obHtructloniata
and you Will have 70 work with the
SOCIALIST party as Socialists or work
4irts, because political action has
#been repudisted by Haywood. Ettof
&nnd l. w w. as an organization
S.s# EDWIN J. BROWN