The sun., 1917-07-09
SOCIALISTS SELECT
HILLQUTT FOR MAYOR
Party Convention in Labor
Temple Attacks Selective
Service Act.
KEYNOTE FOR CAMPAIGN
Two Women Decline to Run
for Presidency Of Board
of Aldermen.


yesterday and concoeted prescriptions for
the cure of most Of the worlds Ills. 1t
was decided emphatically amid great
cheers and gavel pounding that the
selective service act Is well nigh the
worst thing in the world and on the
strength OF its great unpopularity the
Socialist party would be able at the next
election to garner in many votes.
But In order to fight selective con-
scription or make 1t an issue, one who
understood the law of the land should
be nominated for the office Of Mayor.
So Morris Hlllquit, the Socialist lawyer.
who Is in Chicago telling the national
Socialist party what TO do. was selected.
With him on the ticket will be Frank n.
Slovenian, candidate for Comptroller.
and Edward f. Cassidy. candidate for
President OF the Board Of Aldermen.
This triumvirate was taken from a
list Of six nominees Joshua Wanhope,
Frank A, Sieverman. Elmer A Rosen-
berg, Edward y. Cassidy and Algernoi'
Lee were named and declined In favor
Of Lawyer Hillquit and his nomination
then was made unanimous. Algernon
Lee was named also for Comptroller,
but declined in favor OF Sieverman
Mr.. Cassidy Is "Conscripted."
Two women, Mrs Bertha Mailly and
Mrs. Arie r. Macdonald, were among
! those first named for President of the
Board of Aldermen. together with four
CHI ~
John Block and Edward F. Cassidy. All
Of them declined the office, but Cassidy
was "conscripted" and nominated by
acclamation. Mr.. Cassidy was the nomi-
nee for Mayor in 1909.
After the slate was written out the
convention set about finishing the plat
form begun yesterday, but there were
so many things wrong with the world
outside New York city that Chairman
Slovenian ha6 a strenuous time keeping
things headed in the right direction.
When finally the resolutions committee
came in with all those wrongs on paper
the delegates had their chance. and two
or three hours were necessary to make
| the phraseology clear and emphatic1
After which most of the resolutions
were thrown out altogether.
The rioting In Boston July I. when
| parade OF Socialists carrying red flags
was set upon by a band of soldiers and
sailors and the Socialist headquarters
was mussed up. furnished an hour or so
OF polemics. The resolutions committee
wanted to denounce the soldiers and
sailors with all our might" and the
resolution called the uniformed men
''ruffians and rowdies" acting under a
| false consideration of pseudo-patriot-
! ISM"
w. NJ. FeiEenbaum Talks Up.
II was the opinion OF William NJ.
| Feigenbaum, chairman OF the resolu-
tions committee, that to call the soldiers
and sailors "ruffians and rowdies'' right
out loud would have a salutary effect"
on magistrates and judges who refuse
to punish them for such acts because
Judges haven't the courage to say any
thing against a man in uniform"
At this a man in the back Of the room
said: 'I want to dell you, comrades, We
| should have patience. Don't tink ven
intimidate dem judges. We should leave
oud dat rufians and rowdies business
and only say soldiers and sailors"
After this sort of logic had erupted
from all corners OF the room, much of
II In concert, the resolution itself was
lost and nobody seemed to know after
ward whether the convention had de-
nounced the actions of the soldiers and
sailors or merely failed TO call them
ruffians and rowdies,
The race riots in East St. Louis made
another problem for the convention.
The resolutions committee in a long
resolution explained the murder and
lynching and burning OF the negroes OF
East st. Louis as the result OF the ac-
tions Of the capitalist class" in inn
porting the negroes from, the South.
lsvN. - - at,f. Al
several of the delegates had been some-
what impressed by what COL Roosevelt
told Samuel Gompers.
brooklyn Lawyers View.
Louis B. Boudin, a Brooklyn lawyer
was of the opinion that the resolution
in stating that the East st. Louis crime
reflected a problem that cannot be
solved as long as present economic con.
ditions last had not got at the rea
cause. He believed that the Capitalist
class" had not so i-.uch to dc with IT al
race prejudice. He said 1t might be tn,
result of the old fashioned labor move
ment. seen still in some unions, that will
not admit negroes TO their membership
''On It's face" he declared. at was
beastly, miserable crime. a mean, in
human thing that needs no explanation
After his talk Chairman Fiegenbauu
: explained that the lynchings were tn,
result Of the attitude of the Democrtai,
party toward the negro. He said thu
Democrats teach hatred Of the negroes
in the same way that the old Russian
autocracy taught the people to hate thu
: Jews.
A speaker from the floor then inter
, posed Wilson owes his occupancy Ii
the White House to the Democratic
party's misuse OF negroes; 1876 electora
r votes depended upon the suppression O.
the negroes in the South"
The resolution finally was defeated.
| The State military census, along with
) the selective draft, was point Of stront
? denunciation. Several women amonI
the delegates feared that the Stat
census would result In women beinI
conscripted and sent across to tn,
} trenches" II was decided that thi
law should be fought by the Socialist
= in the campaign.
= Assemblyman A. I. Shiplaooff sootheC
. the women who feared the trenches b.
declaring the State military law TO b.
merely a whim Of an imbecilic Assem-
blyman and Assembly. which would re
= suit in nothing"
FRENCH MONEY BOARD NAMED