New-York tribune., 1921-03-28
Carnegie Hall Mob Rushes
Stage, Menacing Rabbi
Si1verman When Latter
Says House Is Packed
King g Defiant as
BOlsheviki Hiss
Maryland Man Calls for
Vote on Lenine Rule.
but Parker Objects

A Bolshevistic audience at Carnegie
Hall threatened to mob Rabbi Joseph
Silverman last night at the close of a
debate between Senator William H.
King, of Utah, and Senator Joseph L.
France, Of Maryland, upon the ques-
ton Of recognition of the Lenine gov
ernment in Russia and the encourages
ment of trade with it, =
Senator France, who had denounced
the American policy toward Russia,
saying that the Administration had
allied itself with European Imperialism
in the hope Of enforcing the payment
of Russia's debts, closed his address
by offering a resolution embodying his
objections to the national policy
Crowd Demands Vote
Alton B. Parker, who presided, i'm
mediately called his attention to the
fact that no vote was to be taken at
the meeting and Senator France paused
midway in his resolution
There has been a misapprehension "
he said. There will be no vote"
The audience was in an uproar I'M
mediately. Men and women jumped to
their feet yelling "vote! Vote!" and
"Be an Americana" Rabbi Silverman
stepped to the front of the stage to
quell the tumut
"As the government has declared a
definite policy" he explained, "it would
be un-American to take a vote"
The audience broke loose again, and
If was cayraro1 cocorJr bofnro D,L1>;
Silverman could make himself heard.
"This is packed meetng!" he cried
in a voice which reached to every
corner of the hall. ~ move we ad-
journ."
The audience and those on the stage
rose. Somewhere in the center Of the
house woman burst into inarticulate
shreks and started clambering over
seats to the stage. Other women and
men followed her. Rabbi Silverman
was their objective, and they scram-
bled and trampled one another until
they had surmounted all obstacles and
their leaders were shaking their fists
under his nose and yelling taunts at
him.
Other Outbreaks
Two patrolmen who were on the
stage interposed their bodies between
the rabbi and the mob and held off the
latter while DR.. Silvcrman's friends led
him to rear exit.
1t was not the first outbreak that
had characterized the meeting, but the
others had been directed at Senator
King. who frequently was interrupted
but never disconc erted.
In one point in Senator Kings
speech, when q chance reference by
him to former President Wilson caused
the assemblage to break forth in boos
and Kisses, Alton B. Parker, who pre-
sided, advanced to the center of the
platform, raised his hand and ex-
claimed:
THAT doesn't do you any credit"
Shakes Fist at Audience
Rut the Utah Senator was at no time
in need of any assistance in holding
his own with his antagonistic hearers.
You people, he calculated at one
juncture, shaking his fist at the audi
ence "who say you are friends Of
Russia are not the friends of Russia.
You are seeking the destruction Of
Russia and Of all the governments Of
the world. including that Of the United
States. You are seeking the destruc-
tion of all order and Of all law. You
are unworthy of American citizenship. ."
a little later Senator Kings assertion
that the United States troops landed
at Archangel to protect Allied supplies
from capture by the Bolshevik- German
forces entered Russia in the capacity
of "invitees, not INVADERS" met with
another hostile reception from the
gathering. Quite few of those on the
stage Joined in the showing of Boil
shevik sympathy.
Senator King wheeled and pointed
dramatically to those who sat behind
him who had joined in the Kisses.
Scores Lenine and Trotzky
II admit" he declaimed, chat Lenine
and Trotzky, whom some of you seem
to love, did not invite us. But l would
remind you that Leninc and Trotzky
are to-day trying to tear down our own
government, and all the other govern
ments of the world"
Another storm of catcalls from the
house caused Senator King to raise
his two cIinched hands toward the au-
dience and shout in a voice that
drowned out the cries of the radicals:
II don't know whether any of you
bolshevik sympathizers had boys in the
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