Evening star., 1920-01-29
bOLSHEV|SM AND
SOCIALISM LINKED
|NDEbS' ADDRESS
Speech of Sentenced Man Is
introduced at Trial of
N. Y. AssembIymen.
BY the Associated Press.

ALBANY. N. Y, January 29.-Eugene
V. Debs' last speech before his voice
was silenced by a penitentiary SEN
tence of ten years for violating the
espionage 8 ct was read into the rec
ord today at the trial of the five sus-
pended socialist assemblymen being
tried by the assembly judiciary COM
mittee on charges of disloyalty. A
pamphlet circulated by the city COM
mittee of the socialist party of Great
er New York contained Debs' speech.
In his speech, made before socialists
in Cleveland last March, Debs, declar-
ing he spoke las a socialist. a revolu-
zionist and a bolshevist." praised
Lenin and Trotsky ''as the greatest
statesmen in the modern world" and
expressed defiance of the laws of this
country and the Supreme Court The
speech was distributed in pamphlet
form by the city committee of the
socialist party of Greater New York.
according to the prosecution.
In this speech Debs termed Lenin
and Trotsky the greatest statesmen
In the modern world, to whom 1 pay
my tribute of love-
Defends Socialists Principles.
He asserted the only part the
working class" was allowed to play
in the making Of peace was through
"a secondhand representative, Sam
Gompers." ,s
After paying his respects to those
-nhar opposed socialist principles. Dehs
continued in his speech:
With every drop in my veins I
despise their laws and l defy them
am appealing to you, the plain peo-
pie. / do not care anything about
the Supreme Court be-gowned, be-
whiskered, be-spectacled old fossils.
corporation lawyers, all Of them.
They did not dare to declare the es-
pionage law unconstitutional. That
law, do / respect it? No! How fine
to do as Wendell Phillips said: When
they pass law like that put it under
your feet"
Decline Governors Invitation.
The suspended assemblymen said
today they would not attend the gov
ernorS reception at the executive
mansion tonight. although they had
been invited Assemblyman Charles
the custom of the socialist delega-
! tion in the past to attend such func-
tions. Gov. Smith. speaking as a
/, private citizen" has condemned the
manner in which the quintet were
suspended without first being tried
Admit Red Probers' Evidence.
In it's effort to link the socialists of
in a conspiracy to overthrow organized
government here the prosecution yes
terday succeeded in introducing in evil
dence the testimony obtained by the
joint legislative committee investigat-
ing radicalism from L. c. A. X Mar
tens, self-styled Russian Soviet" am
bassador' to the United States.
The evidence was admitted after
protests by the socialists counsel
Seymour Stedman then demanded
that the testimony be read in its en-
tirety.
The reading began and seemed due
to continue for two or three days, when
an agreement was reached whereby
the testimony is to be printed and pre-
sented to the defense. Then both sides
will read into the record such portions
as they desire.
Describes Socialists Policies.
The chief witness yesterday was
Mayor George X. Lunn of Schenectady,
who testified he had been ousted from
the party after he had appointed a re-
publican to office and had refused to
discharge from Office socialist who
had voted for other than a socialist
candidate.
The prosecution, which claims that
it is possible for alien members of the
socialist party to control socialists
elected to public Office through a clause
requiring nominated candidates to give
the executive committee signed resig-
nations from office, brought out that
Mayor Lunn had signed such a resig-
nation in 1911, but had refused to do
SO after that.
| Mr.. Lunn, a former member of Con-
gress, also testified that he had point
ed out at the socialist state conven-
tion in Rochester. in 1914, that, with
aliens admitted to full membership, i,
might be possible for them at the
meeting of local to issue a party
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