New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
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Conlooy Brands
All. Socialists
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'As,U. Traitors
Declares Mere Fact That the
! Ousted Assemb blymen Be-
longed to Party Was Sufii-
! cient for Their Expulsion
Sums Up for. Prosecution
Denounces Organization as
! ssCommitted to Continu-
ing Program of Treason
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From StuF Correspondent
ALBANY. March 4.-1n an all-day
speech Martin Conboy, Of counsel for
the prosecution in the trial Of the FIVE
Socialist AssemBlymen. summed up to-
day the evidence produced before the
Assembly Judiciary Committee.
At the outset Of his summary Mr..
Conboy said he intended to confine his
discussion Of the evidence to the off,
cial pronouncements, proclamations,
manifestoes, declarations, platforms
and writings Of the Socialist party and
to the statements of its accepted
leader. He held to this intention re-
ligiously, except when drawing con-
clusions from the portions Of the testi-
mony he read. What promised to be a
dry digest Of dusty documents became,
under the carefully marshaled phrases
Of counsel, masterpiece In political
word painting.
He pictured the Socialist party in
the United States as an organization of
perpetual traitors, committed to con-
tinuing program of treason, bent on
VeotIOyllH american luStlCuClUUH' anu
overthrowing by violence this govern
men, he said, from the very fact that
they were members Of this party, we're
traitors and enemies of the govern
ment, and therefore should be expelled.
'N Perpetual Traitors
"The Socialist party Of America" he
declared, "is neither a party nor
Awe So r~,su
ated for the purpose Of accomplishing
in the United States by any available
means, determined only by national
conditions and exigencies, the social
revolution and the establishment of
Socialist commonwealth as part of the
international revolution Of which the
present Soviet government of Russia is
part
of America are not occasional but per-
'petual traitors, in constant conflict not
merely with the purposes Of any tenn
porary administration Of the affairs
of this government but with its very
institutions and fundamental laws.
They are citizens not of the United
States but subjects Of the Internation~
al. Their submission to the laws of
this country is a matter Of expediency
or result Of the coercion of the
penal law"
: He declared that it was Impossible
for Socialists elected to public office
to take the pledge Of their own party
and at the same time take the oath
required by the state and Federal con-
stitutions, and added that not only
should they be denied membership in
legislative bodies, but they should not
be allowed to take the oath of office.
Conboy also charged that the party's
approval of Soviet Russia proved that
it was disloyal and was bent on set
ting up a dictatorship Of the prole-
tariat in this country.
Cites Yiddish Publications
He charged that the apparent pur-
poses Of the three Assemblymen who
took the stand and the chief witnesses
Of the Socialists was ."to throw the
dust Of political and parliamentary
and inoffensive acts into the eyes Of
this committee, and the correspondents
OF the newspapers represented in this
chamber" ~ '
:. ut is necessarily he said "to look
into the propaganda carried on by the