New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Among the signcrs of the nrotes,
were Miss Ruth Morgan, president of
the Colony Club; R. Fulton Cuttinp
Mrs. Mrs j. Borden Hartman, Robert Grier
Munroe, Mrs. John Blair, Emory r
b5utc:kner, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin
1uIlus henry Cohen, Miss Marjorie
senton Cooke, Miss Elizabeth R. Della
field, John M. Glenn. Mrs. James Iees
Laidlaw, Mrs. Gordon Norrie. Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Poole, Arthur Ruhl. Will
lam IA Jay Schieffelin, Henry r. Seager
Bobert Livingston Schuyler. Arthur
Moods, Mrs. Philip Lydig and George
w. Wickersham
The telegram to Chairman Martin
was as follows: -A O. - Il
Whlle we recognize that the AS
sembiy is the judge of the qualifica-
tlons OF its members, we respectfully
protest against the disqualification Of
men duly elected to the Assemble he- a.
cause of their beliefs, opinions. or no.
iit'cal Affiliations. We believe such
actlcn would be inconsistent with the
principles of representative govern
ment and would establish a precedent
1or the exclusion Of any minority at
the will Of the majority"
j., 1T was said at Socialist Headquarters
that $4,000 in cash and about 100000
IN pledges has been collected for legal
expenses.
Opinions of prominent publicists on
the Assembly's action in suspending
the Socialists were made public yester-
Day by "The Socialist Review" pub
llshed by the Intercollegiate Socialist
Society, 70 Fifth Avenue. The opin-
IONS were sent in response to ues-
tlons. Some of them are:
FELIX Frankfurter, professor in Har-
vard University. Law School:
OF course the action of the New
York Assembly is subversive of ali
that is meant by constitutional pro
cesses of democratic government, and
IS IS: the kind of intolerance that breeds
dlstrust of evolutionary DEVELOPMENT.
As Governor Smith put it, this sort If
thing is the most sinister form of the
old know-nothingism."
Allen McCrrdy, secretary of the
Committee of Forty-eight appointed at
st. Louis: THE action is an affront
and an insult to the soul Of America The
men who are guilty of this atricity are
men who know nothing about the spirit
of American institutions. They reveal
the necessity for campaign Of Amer
lcanization to be held for the especial
benefit Of Albany legislators. The &C.
ton of the Albany Legislature was a
direct denial Of the sovereignty of the
American people"
Dan Hoan, Mayor of Milwaukee:
The action of the New York Legisla-
ture has the earmarks of being a part
OF we'll planned national conspiracy
OF our American moneycd plutocracy to
crush il possible all forms of action
on the part of the working class to
better its condition.
"The purpose, however, here as else
where, will fail. Progress of the human
family will go on as directed by eco
nomlc and natural laws"
Henry r. Seager, professor of polit-
ical economy at Columbia University:
The reason why the action of the New
York Assembly has aroused thoughtful
citizens as have few recent occurrences
IS that it is so clearly blow at our
fundamental American institutions. If
| were Socialist l might find solace
in the certain tendency of such arb-
trary conduct to drive literally minded
citizens into the Socialist party. AS a
non-Socialist, l can see in it only g
denial of the essential American right
of representation through duly chosen
representatives, which, if persisted in,
must prove faA.l to our free American
system of government"
William Hard, magazine writer on
international affairs: "The exiling of
those five Socialists was, of course,
the most co"ardly as we'll as out
wardly the boldest effort so far made
by rulers in the United States to sub
stitute force for reason in our poll
tics. The gentlemen who did the exi-
ing will never really adventure them
selves among you Socialists to try to
convert you from your ways by per-
sonal effect of argument at cost of
their own time and money"
The executive committee of the
National Security League yesterday
adopted resolution characterizing the
Assembly action as "unfair un-
American and danger to our institu-
tions." The resolution urged that the
unseating of the Socialists be re-
scinded $50 that the public may know
that the impulse of Americanism which
prompted the action of the Assembly,
as a pro .cction of the state against
alleged supporters of Bolshcvism. is
followed by the sober second thought
Of following the orderly process of
trial before conviction"