New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-12
No Permits Granted Parties
With Pacihst
Ideas
Sufragists Lead Way
First to Get Permission -
Meetings Must End
by 10 P. M.
Isisr rorrrsrrnienrel

Socialist party. with its anti-conscrip-
ton plank and its pacfistic ideas, gets
any large number Of votes out Of Camp
Upton in the forthcoming election. IT
will be no fault of the military au-
thorities.
When other spellbinders are extol-
ing the merits Of their several candi-
lste5 and causes, Socialist stumpers
will find themselves blocked at the
gates. That. at any rate, is the gem
eral Interpretation of the leading
clause in set OF campaign regula-
tions issued to-day by Major General
j. Franklin Bell. jr., the camp COM
mandcr
mo permits" runs this regulation,
will be granted to political parties
whose platforms include doctrines of
REASONABLE nature or tendency or sub
versivs of military discipline"
Nor would General Bell be more spe-
cihc when asked by the Tribune cor
respondent tonight to explain the ex-
act meaning OF the paragraph.
81 don't cross my bridges before !
come to them" he said. Let others
take what they may from the language
of the regulation. | will say. though
and most emphatically, that any party
which stands against the laws while
state OF war exists is certainly guilty
of treason"
No Socialist Seek Permit
Concerning General Bells habits of
bridge crossing, it IS known that TO
date no Socialist has applied for per-
within tho camp.
II develops that il was really the
suffragists who finally won permission
TO bring the campaign into camp. An
earlier application had been made by
Senator Calder. who wished to stump
among the citizen soldiers for Mayor
Mitchell. The matter was left in the
air.
But the representative of the suf-
fragists, man, was more persistent
lie got his answer at last, and 1t was
yves" Naturally, the bars were let
down to all others who have not put
themselves IN the persona non grata'
class.
The camp commander does not un-
dertakc 70 provide buildings for the
political meetings, of which each party
and cause will be permitted TO hold
three. Indeed, there are no buildings
in Camp Upton big enough 70 accom-
modate the crowds which. in one way
or another. the spellbinders are ex-
pected TO draw from their evening rest
hours in barracks. .,
Applications for permission to hold
meetings viii be granted only when
made BY responsible persons, and must
be fled az headquarters by noon OF
October IS.
lhe following two regulations make
il clear that personalities Will not De
tolerated:
advocates Of the election of the par
ticular candidates or OF the passage OF
particular measures must limit their
discussions to actual candidates. or
measures. All meetings must be of
en- educational nature, relating TO the
issues involved in the campaign, and
difcussioa of irrelevant matters, es-
pecally those which merely serve TO
arouse feeling. and nothing else, must
be avoided.
"The above regulations will not be
extended TO persons, however well
meaning. who desire TO enter into gen.
eral or speculative discussions Of abb
straet political questions. Only those
speakers who are accredited by the
committees directing the campaigns of
the candidates or By responsible Off
Gals Of organizations advocating or
opposing pending measures will be per-
mitte&to speak"
MeRgs will not exceed three hours
in length and must be over and done
with by 10 o'clock-the rockies routine
bedtime.