Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-12
REDS IN SOCIALIST PARTY BEATEN WHEN
 FIRST CLASH COMES
By Decisive Vote Radical Dec. laratiOn of Principles is
 Beaten
BITTER DEBATE IS
 FEATURE OF THE DAY
Engdahl Calls American Flag the Flag of Wall Street and of Wilson Dictatorship in Clos
 ing Argument

New York, May 11.--Thered flag 'Internationalists' of the socialist party of America went down to their first real defeat in the partys na- tional convention here today.
 By the decisive vote of 1O3 to 33, the convention crushed a radical declaration of principles submitted by the delegation from Illinois, which provided for the dictatorship of the proletarist," and limitations of citi- zenship throughout the United States.
 Bitterness of invective marked the day long debate between the "conver- sative" forces of Morris Hilouist Of New York and the radicals led by ]. Louis Engdahl of Chicago.
 You are afraid of the dicta atorship of the proletariat" Engdahl shouted in closing the debate on the Illinois measure. "Yet you have the dicta- torship of Palmer, Wilson and Burle- son. You can't fool anybody by phras- es, nor can you fool anybody with the decorations of this convention hall, the American flag, the flag of Wall street eiiu NhS oiSldlOI oHIp Ol w llSOIl.
 "There is only one road to victory There is only one flag, the red flag of international socialism. We can dc nothing better than ally ourselves with our comrades in Russia, Italy and everywhere else where they be- live in international socialism,
 "l see only one kind of socialism international world socialism. We cannot compete as phrase mongers with the labor party, the non-partisan league, the committee of fortv-eight or any of the old parties. But we can compete with all in revolutionary socialism,"
 Arraigns Reds.
 James O'Neal of Brooklyn. arguing for the victorious Hilquist "conserv. ative" platform, bitterly arraigned the word dictatorship.
 Are we scientific socialists or are we dogmatists ?" O'Neal asked. "The time and conditions which favored the Russian revolution must be studied before we attempt to adopt them here
 q don't like the word dictatorship Let it go throughout the country that you favor a dictatorship of the pro- letariat and you cease to be political party. Introduce such resolution and you must do your work under ground or you will be driven under by Sweet at Albany and the politicians at Washington who exercise such a dictatorship but that would not excuse us.
 Bourgeois democracy, with all it's shame and Illusions. permits in nor mal times direction by an honest and fair discussion. To espouse the die tatorship program would turn every such democracy into an absolute au- tocracy."
 Discussion of the Hilquist declara- tion of principles and platform pro- gram will come up again tomorrow and the Illinois delegation already has served notice that it intends to fight for incorporation in it of the dicta- torship principle rejected by the con- vention today
 When the Hilquist program is intro- duced following action on the decla. ration of principles, the Illinois dele gation will move adoption of a sub stitute pregram which today was placed in the hands of delegates fo, study pending it's formal introduction on the floor of the convention.