Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-05-10
Guarded by Police, to
Save Them From Anti
Radical Demonstra-
tions, Leaders Meet.
Democrats and Republi-
cans Roasted to a / urn;
Stand by Red Flag Is
Victor Berger s Plea.

New York, May 0.-The Socialist party
of America Sunday plunged into the
active political warfare Of the 1920
presidential campaign with broadsides
fired by its big guns" at the national
convention mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden.
Ensconcsd in this fortress, which vas vas
York police to guard against anti
radical" demonstrations, the meeting
hailed Eugene V. Debs, now serving ID
years in the Atlanta. Ga, federal prison
for violation of the espionage act, as the
Socialist candidate for the presidency.
Repeated Ovations greeted characterlza-
tiOn Of Debs as "our only candidate
International Socialism, to be gained
by peaceful means through the rein
forcement of political action by industrial
action''-declared by speeches of Social
list leaders to signify the general strike
was declared the aim Of the party,
amid the cheers of an audience of 5000
persons.
l.. W. W. Are Excluded.
Singing of The Internationale. the
hymn of Free Russia" and the Marseil-
laise marked the entry into the garden
Of party leaders. but great care was ex-
dustrial Workers Of the World and Com
munist sympathizers who attempted to
distribute propaganda at the meeting.
Debs was proclaimed tbs -partys
presidential nominee by Morris Hillquit,
once New York mayoralty candidate. in
an address in which he denounced the
administration at Washington and both
radically revolutionary in contrast to
the Socialist party, the only conservative
force in American politics"
Seymour Stedman, Of Chicago, gen
eral counsel of the Socialist party, out
lined its 1920 campaign as conceived
by the national executive committee.
He advocated an international peas
congress elected by the voters of the
nations of the world. cessation Of the
attack soviet Russia. and the independ-
ence Of Ireland India and Egypt.
i Seek Public Ownership.
Reinforcement of political action by
industrial action headed the party's
list of domestic issues. according to Mr..
Stedtnan, who declared also for public
ownership Of railroads and release OF
political prisoners las among principal
party demands.
Mr.. ,Hillquit. in attacking the admin
istration, declared it had employed force
and violence in Revolutionary tactics"
The Democratic administration" he
said, has forcbly overthrown the cor
ner stone of the republic, the freedom
Of the press. speech and assemblage and
has substituted for it the rule Of the
club and the jail
ut has turned democracy into a vir-
tual autocracy and has revolutionized all
departments of federal government, in
TACT il not in name. = =
Nor is the Republican party less rev.
olutionary than its Democratic rival. 1t
rs the party of Leonard Wood, who has
set aside the bills of rights and runs
on the enlightened and humane platform
ot ship or shoot; the party Of Thad-
the ballot: the party of Clayton r.
Iusk. who conceived the novel idea Of
penalizing education.
Victor Berger Speaks
Victor l.. Berger, unseatcd United
states representative from Milwaukee
and under 2O-year sentence for viola
tlon Of the espionage act. declared that
he had nothing to take back"
Il am the Socialist representative
from Milwaukee,. no matter what Presi-
dent Wilson. congress. or the League of
Nations says abont it, he added.
Berger declared that some of the
red bombs were manufactured in de-
partment Of justice laboratories. or were
myths Of "hright Young newspaper mems
minds He charged the department
Of Justice had originated many of the
planks in the Communist party plat
FORM
II oppose any violent revolution" he
added
He closed with the remark:
"Stand by the colors-red-there's
no question about that"
Carl o. Parsons. Minnesota state
chairman Of the World War Veterans
association, brought out an anti-Ameri-
can legion demonstration when he as
sailed that organization as the ''offspring
of Wall street and special interests
''Roos" and Kisses came from all
parts of the hall