Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-10
NORWICH, CONN, MONDAY. MAY 10, 1920
Debs Presidential Nominee of Socialists
Morris HiIlquit Made Address Proclaiming Eugene V. the
 Standard Bearer.

Standard Bearer.
 New York, May 9-The Socialist Party of America today plunged into the ac- tive political warfare of the 1920 presi- dential campaign with broadside after broadside fired by it's 'big guns" at the national convention mass. meeting in Madison Square Garaden.
 Ensconced in this fortress, which was surrounded by a strong cordon Of New York police to guard against anti-radi- cal" demonstrations. the meeting hailed Eugene V Debs, now serving ten years in the Atlanta, Ga, federal prison for violation of the espionage act, as the so- cialist candidate for the presidency. Ov- ation after ovation greeted characteriza- ton of Debs as 'our only candidate" "
 International socialism, to be gained by peaceful means through the rein forcement of political action by industri- al action'-declared by speeches of so- cialist leaders to signify the general strike was declared the aim of the party amid the cheers of an audience of 5000 persons.
 The singing of the Internationale the Hymn of Free Russia and the Marsel- laise marked the entry into the garden of party leaders, but great care was ex- ercised to exclude agents of the Indus trial Workers of the World and Com munist sympathizers, who attempted to distribute propaganda at the meeting.
 Debs was proclaimed the party's presi- dential nominee by Morris Hillquit. once New York mayoralty candidate, in an address in which he denounced the ad- ministration at Washington and both democratic and republican parties as radically revolutionary" in contrast to the socialist party the only conservative force in American politics.
 Seymour Stedman of Chicago genera counsel of the socialist party, outlined it's 1920 campaign as already conceived by the national executive committee. H. emphasized an international peace con gress elected by the voters of the na tions of the world, cessation of the 'ex ploitation of Poland as means to at tack Soviet Russia and the independence of Ireland, India and Egypt. The reinforcement of political actiol by industrial action" headed the par tvs list of domestic issues, according t MT. Stedman, who declared also for pub l lie ownership of railroads and release o | political prisoners as among principa f party demands.
 1 MT. Hillquit, in attacking the admins tration declared it had employed fore l and violence in revolutionary" tactic: "The democratic administration"
 said has forcibly overthrown the COT nerstone of the republic, the freedom c
 the press, speech and assemblage, an
 has substituted for it the rule of tn club and the jail.
 Tt has turned over democracy into
 virtual autocracy and has revolutionize
 all departments of the federal goverr l ment in fact if not in name. It hs l abolished the department of state an fcfeated a department of propaganda
 favor of every reactionary cause an
 movement abroad, with a bureau of il
 ternment instead of the former burea
 of passports
 Tt has converted the postoffice depar
 ment into an index expurgatorius has remodeled the department of labor I
 substituting a bureau of jailing and ii junction for the bureau of mediation ar conciliation, and a bureau of deportatiC for the bureau of immigration. It h; abolished the department of justice charge of an attorney general and hi created a department of panic and hy teria in charge of an alarmist general
 Nor is the republican party less rev
 lutionary than it's democratic rival It
 the party of Leonard Wood. who has s ! aside the bill of rights and runs on t
 enlightened and humane platforms of sh or shoot; the party of Thaddeus Sweet. who undertook to abolish the bs lot; the party of Clayton R. Lusk. w
 conceived the novel idea of penalizi educa ton.
 But out most vital advantage over 0 , opponents is our certainty of victory. Y cannot lose. The old parties cannot W . .'The republican and democratic part y represent an anticipated and decaying ( = der. With all their appearance d strength. they are waging a losing bat
 agains tthe forces of the new social ord
 b come. Their spokesmen are beginni
 t3 feel the approach of their doom, hen Y their convulsive clutching to power, tn,
 brt tal terrorism, their abiect fear" I Victor l.. Berger. unseated Unit e States representative from Milwaub e and under a twenty-year sentence r violation of the espionage act, declared n addressing the meeting that he h e nothing to take back" T am the IS cialist representative from Milwaukee, r. matter what President Wilson, congrt 7, or the league of nations says about Il he added.
 2. He criticized the denial of passpt
 to Jean Longuet the French socialist,
 ] enter luiS COulll4S'
 '' "A passport was denied Jean Longu
 who wanted to lecture in this country X, France" Mir. Berger said. They S; l. passports were issued only for imports " reasons, and that was not important. F J. only recently Georges Carpenter got k passport to come here. That Was imp l. tant !'
 d Berger declared that some of the 'Re d bombs were manufactured in departm' y of justice laboratories, or were myths
 bright young newspaper mems mind
 He charged the department of justice |
 originated many of the blanks in D communist party platform.
 T opose any violent revolution" al added. Revolution by violence beg r. nothing permanent. If the Russians Wi e. their kind of revolution, let them have y. and God bless them But l want diff of ent kind of revolution-without violen ir It is possible to have a peaceful revo h. tion-the only kind that will last"
 Carl O. Parsons, Minnesota state cha
 mai. of .he World War Veterans assoc
 tion, brought out an anti-American IS zion demonstration when he assailed t
 organization as the offspring of W es sueet and special interests" he
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