Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-04
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Men Should Not Have Quail
ifiCationS Imposed Upon
Them Not Demanded By
Constitution, He Contends
CHARGES SUMMED UP
IN 5 HOUR SPEECH
Demands That Judiciary
Committee Frame Report
Recommending Seating Of
Socialist ASsembIymen,

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Albany, N. Y, March S.-Morris
HIlquit summing up in five-hour
speech today in defense Of the five
suspended socialist assemblymen
who have been under investigation
for the past seven weeks, told the
assembly judiciary committee 1t
had no right to impose upon these
five men qualifications for office
not demanded by the constitution.
Declaring that the whole pro-
ceeding against his clients was "a
part of the national hysteria
against radicalism," Mr.. Hillquit
demanded that the judiciary com
mittee frame a report recommend
ing the seating of the five social
lists and completed his summing up
with a warning that If the assem-
blymen are unseated that stain
upon democracy will never be
washed off never be removed"
"The precedent once created" he
asserted, will work towards the
undoing of the entire constitutional,
representative system, so laborious-
ly built up and upheld in this
country"
Mr.. Hillquit said that he had
summarized all the charges under
eight main heads as follows:
That the socialist party is a rev.
olutionary organization.
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means of violence.
That it does not sincerely believe
in political action and that its
politics is only a blind or camou-
flage.
That 1t is unpatrlotIc and dis
loyal.
That 1t is unduly controled--or
that 1t unduly controls-public Of
ficials elected on its tickets.
That II owes allegiance to a for-
eign power, known as the interna-
tionale
That il approves of the soviet
government of Russia and seeks to
introduce a similar regime in the
United States.
That the socialist assemblymen
personally opposed prosecution of
the war and gave aid to the enemy.
Mr.. Hillquit argued each of the
first seven charges at length, say
ing Seymour Stedman, his col
league, would reply to the last.
Briefly, his answers were:
That the socialist party was revo-
lutionary and that socialists are
reVolutionists in the sense that
they favor a program that will take
the Industrial system out of the
hands of private individuals and
turn it over to the people to organ
ize it properly.
That socialism has come to build
and not to destroy and that the
mass action the socialist party has
in view is the legal organized action
Of large masses in the community.
That the socialist party did its
sacred duty to protest against the
war, inasmuch as the socialist
party did not believe that democ-
racy would be assured as the re-
suit of the war.
That the socialist party has a
right to tell candidates elected on
the socialist platform to get out of
the party should they prove un-
true to platform pledges and prom
ises.
That the socialist party is not an
anti-national party and that If So
sialism is international, so is capt.
talism, art and modern life.
That the socialist party does not
approve of the soviet government
of Russia and does not seek to In
troduce a soviet form of govern
ment in the United States, although
sympathlzing with the Russia So
cialists in the maintenance of their
soviet government.