Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-12
better than minority tyranny.

4 higher power than the sovereignty
of the people to make our laws for
us,
Disappearing Expulsion.
New York Tribune (Rep.): The
expellers personally are men who
love and would protect democratic in
stitutions. Yet in this particular
case. the Socialists stand as the
champions and constitutionalism and
orderly processes of law.
New York World (Dem.): So far
as the World is concerned. it intends
to support these Asscmblymen for
reelection.
Toledo News.Bee (IndD: The AS
sembly members who voted to GUST
the Socialists convicted themselves
as traitors to fundamental American
principles.
Eel Paso Herald (IndD This near
sighted action makes great campaign
material for the Socialist party.
Sioux city Tribune OndD: New
York legislators may not realize it,
but they are stimulating that which
they would wipe out.
Birmingham Age.Herald (Dem }:
Combating an idea with force has
never been a success and it will be
interesting to watch the results.
Dayton News (Dem): Establish.
ed precedent that is apt to prove
exceptionally dangerous to our ma
tional democracy.
Sacramento Union Cnd.) Who, aft
er all, is the more dangerous, man
who is radical but honest. or a New
berry who buys a seat and spends
hundreds of thousands In Corrupting
an American electorate?
Seattle POst-lntelligencer tInd.
RepD: 1t is display of power by
an intolerant majority which cannot
be condoned or excused.
Philadelphia North American
tProgD: A political pogrom. A re-
Election of the IIohenzollern intolar.
ance and stupidity.
Memphis News. Scimltar Gnd.):
Somehow it does not look like play
ing the game according TO Hoyle
when the two great parties combine
to pick on small opponent who
wanted to get in. 1t looks un-Amer-
lean. and indeCently like an act of
panic.
Baltimore Sun (Ind. Dem9: The
Socialist they say, recognized his OBJ
legation TO his party as a superior to
his obligation TO his country. If
this reasoning were carried to it's log
ical extreme 1t would bar out nearly
all the members Of all our legisla-
lures.
Pittsburgh Press (lndD: The trial
was trayesty, the report lie, the
expulsion an anarchistic outrage.
Detroit Free Press (Tnd1: Colonel
RooseYelts Americanism is unadulter-
ated his sense of justice is so clear,
that his attitude alone casts rather
peculiar atmosphere over the judg-
ment of the assembly.
Cleveland Plain Dealer end. Dem.)
The New York Assembly acts in a
manner not only to deny representa-
tive government, but to invite direct
action.
Cincinnati Times,Star (RepD: We
must not allow ourselves, under pres
sure of foreign radicaiism, to give up
cur Americanjsm. Attacks on the
American government by force must
be met by foree-but the path to or
derby change at the ballot box must
never be closed.
Des Moines Register tInd. Rep0:
This is tantamOunt to declaring that
all non-conformists must rely on VIC
lence to win their reforms, since the
VInlnnf of
Chicago Post UndO: Even in the
days when the Kaiser ruled Ger.
many it was possible for Socialists
to sit in the reichstag. to present
their views and TO cast their votes.
Eat the greatest state in America
throws them out OF It's legislature.
Bridgeport Post Ind) He who
believes that America can be kept
American by the violation OF the
most sacred constitutional rights that
America stands for. upholds the ex-
Lulsion Of these duly elected mem.
bers Of the New York State Assem-.
bly, as an act OF valiant American
ism.
Brooklyn Easle Qnd. DemD: Mr..
Sweet is losing time in drafting new
laws to disfraneise the Socialist par
~. Why. at this late day. resort
TO law and legal formula when the
more direct method has been so sue
cessfully employed?
New York Globe QndD: Mr.. Sweet
in his goodness and innocence, has
done what other men have been i'm
prisoued and deported for doing. He
has made Bolshevists.
Boston Herald end. Rep: VIII
this expulsion create more radical,
ism than IL can destroy?
ST. Louis star (Ind.): II the prin-
ciple be granted. any political minor
ity will be liable TO exclusion from
governmental affairs on whatever
grounds the majority CONSTITUTES as
menacing.
Pittsburgh Leader prog Rep:
II the ballot box is 10 be withdrawn
as an instrument OF defense, the
/ country should be informed of that.
Then we shall know upon what other