Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08
BALLROOM BOLsHEV|K'
NOT POPULAR WITH REDS
Domiciles OF ANARCHISTS in America
Disturbed Over Emma Gold
mans Successor.
"wHo WILL WEAR CROWN"
Radical Meeting Houses Buzz With
Nominations for Leadership Of In
dustria1 Workers OF World and
Other Discontents.
nv AUGUsTIN LARDY.


NEW YORK, Dec. T.-"Red Emma"
queen Of anarchists. Is about to be de-
ported to Russia. Who will inherit her
Red crown. or will there be q regency :?
Candidates for Emma's crmine an.
parently have narrowed TO two. 1t de-
veloped tonight: Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn. /. WV. leader, and Mary Elean-
OF Fitzgerald, former Goldman-Berk-
man associate. And judging from the
fact that Miss Fitzgerald is an out-and-
out advocate Of anarchism. while Miss
Flynn breaches pure !. w. W.ism. rad
icals were favoring Miss Fitzgerald
tonight.
But whether the honors go to Miss
Fitzgerald or to Miss Flynn, 1t will
mark decidedly new epoch In Ameri-
can radicalism, for both women arc
American born.
coffee houses on the East Side, and the
salons of the parlor Socialists" in the
more fashionable sections OF the city,
than:
Ballroom BslHhevik.
THE queen is going-,going-soon to
be gone. Long live the queen" But
mher Wnst woman in AmerGn was to
cal thought. and the crown of anarch-
istic leadership. since even the most
sanguine radicals are conGeding there
peals against deportation Will have
Rose Paste. Stokes? In the words
OF Hypoiite Havel, who writes intro
auctions to Emma Goldmans books:
Bah! Rose is a ballroom Bolshe-
WIKI
in Blackwell Islands jail for having
distributed Red literature several
months ago? AIollie. radicals say. is
too young to wear the proper dignity
Married Woman Loses Claims.
Stella Comyn Ballantine. niece Of
the country is hosror-stTicken IA, at the he
thought Stella Bailantine, although t,oIsh
religion to rags. Several years ago
stella marred--legally married. mind
with John Barrymore in The Jest" :,
1t locks as IL the Misses Flynn and
Fitzserald-both of them Of Irish,
American stock-have clear field and
4 fine start.
radical leadership" said Mrs. Ballan-
es s ! Tsa and y1un nsva al can no
anarchist. but I'm married
"Teddie! stop romping around the
room with the gentleman's cane? DO
There is no such thing as q Red
Crown" continued Mrs. Ballantine.
"Anarchism is movements volun.
ta-y movement. even an unorganized
movement-Teddie! Now you've broken
the cane on the lamp! Did you hurt
yourself. precious?'
Mary Fitzgerald Silent.
The interviewer fed to see Miss
Fitzgerald. She was at her apartment
in Greenwich Village, where also re-.
side Mrs. Ballantine, Mrs Stokes and
Miss Flynn.
Mary Eleanor, Fitzgerald is tall.
handsome woman of about thirty-five.
She has fine. wide-apart gray eyes,
wears her hair in a Grec1an knot upon
the nape of her neck, wears colorful
loose robes and sandals;
Unwilling to talk Of her candidacy
for Emmas position. she defined an
archism IN a fluent address which
sketched her own life while she rolled
cigarettes between long, artistic I'm
the removal Of one consumed
Born on a Wisconsin farm, Miss FitZ-
gerald said her girlhood ambition was
for rh ses
set her Thinking" She reached an an
archistic philosophy long before she
Rose Pastor Stokes refused to define
herself as n.n anarchist, which, of
course scratches her from the slate.
Emma Goldman's deportation:
"siberty" Ideals Discarded.
ideals OF liberty developed in the
bourgeois state go into the discard In
proportion as there Is growth In the
intensity and clarity of the struggle
between proletarian masses and the
propertied bourgeois. The conception
of the working class in S.ne-ica finds
announcement in every attempt of the
bourgeois state to reverse or ignore
Its own fundamental law as a sign OF
the growing solidarity of the workers -,
Miss Flynn was too busy getting up
a meeting Of workingmen 10 comment
ander Berkman's deportations, or to
talk about her chances of capturing
Emma's crown
!, So it seems a regency is the best
the Red world can hope for lust now.
SAYS AMERICA SUFFERS