New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-10
1000 Cheer
Debs's Photo
In Red Panel
Hillquit Declares the 1920
Campaign On and Makes
Plea for 100000 So
cialist Votes This Fall
AssaiIs Old Partie S
Palmer. Wood, Sweet and
Lusk Kissed and Booed
at Sunday Mass Meeting

oosred with sudden and conspicuous
brilliancv before 1000 persons after
Morris Hilquit at the opening Of the
Socialist partys national campaign at
Madison Square Garden yesterday af-
;ernoon. had asked that Eugene V.
Debs. "the saint in prison garb," be
gwen 5000, 600 votes this fall.
Everything suggestive of red, except
me red exit lights and the red stripes
:p the American flag decorations, was
notably absent until life-size portrait
O. Debs was unexpectedly flashed be
fore the audience The portrait, which
had been taken from the walls of the
Rand School. depicted Debs with
clcnched fists making a speech.
Il WAS covered with green curtain
high above the speakers platform IN
I'll Oscar Ameringer follower of Vic
Tor l. Berger who was about to ask
hat collection be taken, pulled a
rope aud displayed. magic-like, the
Dcbs likeness outlined against a sun
set-red background.
Five Minute Ovation
The incident had the effect not only
OF stimulating the collection but of
bringing the audience to its feet in a
fye-minute ovation. As the coins
dropped into the metal cups with a
rattle like hail on a tin roof and as the
ousted Socialist Assemblymen. who
helped in the collection, hurried from
aisle TO aisle the uproar continued.
Kisses and boos for A. Mitchell Palm
err Major General Leonard Wood,
Thaddeus c. Sweet and Clayton f.
Lusk were just as vehement as was the
cheering for Debs. Democrats and Re
publicans We're described by Mr. Hill
quit as the real rcvolutionsts" Of this
country and the Socialists as forming
the conservative party" He charged
hat the Democrats had "revolution-
ized' the Department of State into n
department of propaganda, the Depart
nent Of Labor into q department Of
failing and the Department Of Justice
into department of panic and hys-
terra.
Mr.. Debs's imprisonment at Atlanta
under a ten-yeat sentence for violation
Of the espionage act was held to he no
bar to his aspiration to the Pres dency.
Millions Of persons. Mr.. HiIlcuit said.
feel the imprisoned Socialist should
oe freed 81 once.
Other incidents unexpected b. the
audience attended the speecn-making.
Nr Amcringer, noting that scores Of
l.
Hliqult spoke and before the collection
was taken. announced that some Of his
auditors had noodles with cavities in
them for brains only as big as wal
nuts. Many who had started out re
named
Return of War Profits
The intention of the Socialists to
make d demand that war profits be re-
turned to the people campa On issue
was Indicated by Seymour Stedman, of
lineage, one Of the attorneys who de-
Tended the Socialists at Albany. He
SAID ho had evidence that many profit
GERS made $4,000 out Of every dollar
tuey invested.
These were the men who shed bar
le's OF tears for Belgium, but not a
tear for Ireland.' said Mr. Stedman.
Tie asserted that the government, in
saipplng ammunition to Poland to be
used against Russia. was indulging IN
guerrilla warfare and that the covenant
OF the league Of nations had been writ
zen by "senlle old men"
Revolution and violence were de-
.cnbed by Mr.. Berger as being disteste-
iul TO nm. NO one who knows Vic
,or Berger viii accuse him of believing
III Instruction. he said. Il don't want
violent revolution. Violence produces
nothing permanent. Permanently must
De growth. If violent revolution
comes it VIII not come from Victor
merger and his kind. But If the ruling
cases In America go on as they are
.Aey VIII get such q revolution. They
are insisting upon it Dy their course
winch robs the workingman Of his faith
l" political action
y. nar.es q. Passing, president of the
ofId Var Veterans of Minnesota. said
mat 5000 American Legion members
~ MS state were joining his organiza-
9n' Whlch was lighting for free speech.
me the Kaiser, who is described in
e newspapers as the Beast of Berlin,
,VN IA luxury IN Holland, Mr. Debs,
ne champion of the working peoDle. IS
smut up In a vile jail in Atlanta" he
men as Debs." Il
Campaign Declared On
Nhen Mr. Hillquit started to speak
was greeted with an ovation aug
@ ,vHssa by the playing OF tho enter
WA. ,jVHale by brass band
,bo p I'm TINS meeting the curtain Of
ana - genital campaign Of 1920 rises
S ro inc Socialist party makes its open
sad Mr.. Hjnout
mo. we are stiil alive, still in politics.
IVA f. actlVe and aggressive than ever
rbo n"cihg our political opponents with
"VT.kL1ost eomposure and confidence
vsrt "nIe me old parties have the adj
fre " ' CT US III money, power and. for
shine s.n'e oelng, IN numbers, we have
~WT!'ageS outweig Ching theirs.
nd we are first IN the field. While the
ebo;op@ parties have an embarrassing
sNoro OIL Presidential asplrauts from
sgy;o1. me scores OF self-appointed
mo. r-A, o. the country. and are spend
on. no,. .VHS TO stimulate the spontane-
pVgu,"r preference for their favor
ali ttSa"V'4"'eS. the Socialist party saves
"W" money and excitement.
fiji nave but one candidate, the man
tho ''SSeSt heart the finest soul and
SHIN, VS' humane spirit in America. the
0nr III prison garb Eugene V. Debs.
e~uG .u@te Us in JAN, but millions of
eorr,n snow that for the good Of the
,,i '> ne should be free The poten-
al ~ t''o oates of the old parties are
sI 'a'Ee. but millions Of citizens
sono cS OF the good of the country
'' 'nem should be locked up.
Platform Is Ready
SIN '' en- again the poor old parties are
buidUDoSy wiki the difficult task of
one nrs.o sneir platforms, trying to nail
cover t, ~, plank to the other TO
ordersSp me yawning chasms Of q dis
It is Nv world. Our platform is ready.
which tbe same solid platform upon
ela6st 'Ne pioneers Of the modern So.
chajIs,, movement first issued their
tslism e' 10 the whole world of capj-