New-York tribune., 1918-10-30
Representative 81 ie G e
Charges Hillquit's Sup
porters Are Padding
District
Inquiry Started by
Director of Elections
Money Spent Freely in Eff
fort to Defeat Fusion
Candidate

Representative Isaac Sicgcl, of the
Goth District (uppcr East Side),
charged yesterday that the Bolshevist
supporters of his opponent, Morris
Hillquit, arc colonzing the district in
good old 1-ammany style. These
charges arc being investigated by Emil
Manzella, Deputy Superintendent Of
Elections.
Hillquit was defeated two years ago
in the race for Congress by Repre-.
sentative Siegel by approximately 800
votes. At that time the Democratic
candidate, Rosenblatt, pollcd 300
votes, or 400 less than Hillquit. This
year, because of the mcnacing strength
of the foreign born Bolsheviki in the
goth District, Representative Sicgal
has been indorsed by the Democrats
and is running as loyalty candidate
indorsed by the National Security
League. Mr.. Sicgel charges that HILL
quits supporters are planning to com
bat the fusion of Democratic and Re
publican strength by the colonizing
He said yesterday that his districts
population has been swel'ed in the last
two months by horde Of foreign born
young men and women, the former
long-haired and the latter short haired.
This alleged phase Of Socialist activi-
ties is receiving the careful attention
of the Superintendent of Elections, ac
cording to Representative Siegcl, who
also says that the newcomers profess
sions of faith in Socialism at the regis
tration places has been suspiciously
unanimous. Most of them, he says, are
simply boarding in the goth District,
and have left only temporarily their
true residences in Congressional dis
trlcts in which the Socialist candidates
have absolutely no chance of election.
Representative Sicgcl says his pacfist
opponents are spending thousands of
dollars, but avoid trouble on that issue
by asserting the money is being spent
Tor "Socialistic propaganda rather
than IN the interests of Hillquit, who
own party of being a capitalist.
julius Gerber. executive secretary of
the Socialist party here, denied the
colonZatlon charge yesterday.
We haven't the money to do that
sort of thing" he said. "That's out of
the question for US"
Some of Hlquit's foreign born sup
porters arc putting into practice the
tricks they have learned recently in
the Rand School Of Social Sciences in
tenslve course Of soap-box oratory and
Hillquit is at Saranac Lake recupcr-
ating from an attach. of throat trouble,
but he is to return to New York this
week, and his followers are planning
to draw him through the streets of the
10Th District in an open carriage.
This is said to be a part of Lesson No.
in the Rand School course.
"Thc old 69th Regiment recruited
most of its men in my district" Rep
resentative Siegel said yesterday, land,
all told, we have close to 5000 men in
active service. But at the same time
this was the only region to which
troops were sent to prevent expected
disorders when war was declared on
Germany. The 47th Regiment of
Brooklyn was stationed here at the
request of former Police Commission
er Arthur Woods. Ostensbly the SOL
diers were guarding viaduct, but in
reality they were here to prevent riot
ing by the large radical element"
Two years ago, when Representative
Siegel was elected for his second term
the vote in the district was, approx
mately, as follows: