The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-16
SOCIALISTS PUT
OUT BY BIG VOTE
0usted AssembIymen Say They
Will Run for Election
Again.
BILLS TO OUTLAW PARTY.
Bar Socialist Ballots Until They Stand
BILLS TO OUTLAW PART>
Bar Socialist Ballots Until They Stand
For Americanisr,-Vote to Expel
Three Assemblymen Was 116
to 2a-Other Two 1914 to 30.

Albany, N. 1.-Ine state assembly
cast out from its membership the five
Socialist assemblymen from New York,
who stand convicted of disloyaltS ,aX
members Of traitorous party.
votes on ousting were: Louis Waldman,
lis to %; August Claessens and
Charles Solomon, 116 to %, and Sam
uel Orr and Samuel De Witt, 104 to 40.
Speaker Sweet and his associates
then took up the question of how to
keep the radicals out of the legisla-
ture. Hardly had the vote been Off
cially recorded when work was begun
on the preparation of bills that will
carry out the recommendations of the
Judiciary Committee to outlaw the So
cialist party. These measures will de-
clare that the Socialist party's consti-
tuition is in conflict with the Constitu-
ton Of the state and that the party
must come within the law or suffer
denial of position in this state.
One measure will declare, it is un-
derstood, that any party whose mem
bership includes aliens, minors and
dues paying members cannot function
under the Constitution of New York.
Another will prescribe that loyalty
to the state transcends loyalty to
party functioning under state charter
and that the oath Of office cannot be
c1YI, 10 5a rvix
to dues paying members of a party
also it will forbid industrial action,
recognized by Socialism as one Of its
powerful weapons.
Further, 1t is expected that New
York will take the lead in demanding
a new loyalty pledge from Socialists
in this country, as an aftermath of the
war, by insisting that the party re-
nounce all allegiance to the Interna-
tionale Of Moscow, the recognized
fountain head of world Bolshevism.
1t will require that the party openly
announce that it has abandoned its in
sidious propaganda against the govern
ment and definitely commit itself to
the principle Of accomplishing any re-
forms it seeks solely through political
action
At the conclusion of % hours of SEN
sational proceedings the ballots on un-
seating the five Socialists were cast at
10 o'clock in the morning while the
weary assemblymen lolled deep in their
chairs. The big vote stunned the So
cialists, who had hoped almost to the
last minute that they might be heard
in their own defense. Nothing dra-
matte or imposing marked the signifi-
cant moment in political history.
The Socialists were expelled indivfd-
ually because in the belief of the house
they were unfit "to have and to hold
| their seats" The majority report rec
ommending expulsion asked also that
the Socialist party be outlawed in this
state There was nothing in the vote
dealing with the treatment of the par
ty as an entity, although Orr and De
| Witt were unseated solely because of
| their loyalty to Socialism.
Only Waldman Of the accused five
was present when the vote was cast.
| The others had remained until long
| after daylight, but interest in their
| own fate gave way finally to exhaus-
| ton.
Party lines went to pieces, as was
expected. Eleven Republicans and sew
enteen Democrats voted against the
| anseating of Waldman, Claessens and
Solomon. Twenty Republicans and as
many Democrats voted against ousting
| Orr and De Witt. Miss Margaret L.
| Smith of New York voted to expel the
| 1--WE "as matter of conscientious
duty" and Miss Elizabeth Van r. Gill
| tette of Schenectady favored their re-
| tention.
Twenty-seven ex-service men voted
to expel all five; seven to reseat and
| four to oust three and reseat two.