The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-10-15
10000 RADICAL
SOCIALISTS BOO
BURLES0N EDICT
Mass Meeting at Madison
Square Garden Defends
New York "Call."
PARADE UP 5TH AVENUE
Police Disperse Disorderly
"Frec Speech and Press
Advocates.
PARADE UP 5TH AVENUE

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have had a restless sleep. Perhaps his
left ear burned. That is. II there is any
truth In the supplement to Old Aunt
Dinah's dream book which says your left
car burns when people talk bad about
you They talked bad about Postmaster
General Burleson last night In Madison
Square Garden. Indeed, they had no
good word to say about him. And the
bad words hurled out by the speakers on
the great platform mad exclamation
points pierced after them by the crowd
OF nearly 10000 persons. They booed
and Missed and catcalled whenever Mr.
Burleson's name was mentioned.
They werc there. these 10000, In the
interests generally Of free speech and
the freedom Of the press as II Is under
stood by the radicals. and the interests
particularly OF the Socialist organ. the
New York CGl. Many Of them also
were there particularly to hear Morris
HillQuit. the Socialist candidate for
Mayor. for several thousand departed as
soon as Mr.. Hillquit had delivered his
speech and before a collection was be-
gun to fight the legal fight Of the news
papers and periodicals which have had
their second class mail privileges taken
away from them or are threatened with
expulsion from the mails.
BiG Crowd II Kent Outside.
Outside Madison Square Garden was
another great crowd Of $4,000 or $4,000
persons who could not get in
The outside throng divided into
groups OF about 500 persons each and
radiated from the building In parades.
great crowd started UP Fifth avenue.
Men. women and children danced along
mil
unmuzzleahle belief in free speech. BY
the time the Union League Club at
Forty-hrst street had been reached the
demonstration had reached almost the
heights Of freedom.
I'VE want free speech We want a
free press! Down with capitalism!
Down with the plutocrats! Down with
Morgan and Rockefeller. they shrieked
and screamed
fcverberated throughout the theatrical
district. The reserves from the West
Thirtieth street police station came on
the run. Sersts, Gum and Kenyon at
the head OF all the reserves finally dis
persed the gathering.
But there were other paraders a little
lower on the avenue. They stopped at
the Waldorf-Astoria In search OF pluto
Gratis. Parading through the lobby and
dancing along Peacock Alley. they
vented their spleen against Postmaster
General Bureson.
Hotel Guests Arc Jeered.
Women carrying copies Of the New
York Call. done up in large bouquets"
Haunted them In the faces Of all the
hotel guests in sight and yelled defiance
at others trying to sleep on the upper
floors
Police followed tho women through
Peacock Alley and suffered them to
have much free speech in the chase
They were followed out into Thirty
third street and Thirty fourth street.
After the plutoorats OF the Waldorf had
been impressed with their zeal for free
speech the plutocrats lodged at the Nc
Alpin were decided upon as susceptible
to their pleas. A sreat throng went
shriekine and screaming through the
lobby OF the McAlpin.
Soldiers going along the streets on
their way to Camp Upton at Yaphank,
l.. l.. for a while were fooled into think
ing they we're being given royal fare
well. When they learned, however. that
they were Socialists seeking free speech
they lent their hands to the police IN
the sidewalks and stopping the
noise.
Some OF the crowds dispersed In
Broadway and In little groups proceeded
up that crowded thoroughfare. Mean
while the Madison Square Garden rally
was In full swing.
Your cheering voices" said Mr. Hill
quit. when finally no got them quiet,
have certainly been heard at Washing
ton. and when your voice does reach
there II will serve notice on the Govern
nA1t NN a~H
tutional liberties Of the people should
not be allowed to live"
U. $. Colors Are Cut Loose.
That was enough for another demon
stration. The hilarity reached such a |
pitch that all around the galleries
where the ends of long bands of red.
white and blue stretched from n centre
point in the building and were ached,
persons began cutting them loose Every
few minutes long strip Of red or white
or blue would be broken loose from its
and nutter down to the floor.
s. John Block. Socialist candidate for
Attorney General. who acted as chair
man Of the meeting. finally had to re-
quest those In tho galleries to leave the
colors alone.
THE colors of the American flag are
precious" he said, because there is so
much red In them"
Otherwise, however, the crowd was
orderly. United States Mar
shal Thomas Mccarthy. who was there
with several Of his men, left the hall af- |
ter Mr.. Hillquit's speech. saying that
the meeting and the speeches were
within tho law. Besides him and his
men there were $50 policemen. Harold
Content. Assistant District Attorney, and |
three post office inspectors also were In |
supervising tho taking of