The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-24

\ 10000 people; from outside come
the sounds of cheering and Of revolu-
tionary songs from thousands more of
the proletariat of Paris that has not
managed to squeeze into the Manege
Japy, where the two fascist candi-
dates, Henri de Kerillis and Paul
Reynaud, have, in answer to chal-
lenge from the Communist Party,
agreed to come and answer charges
brOt against them. Beyond the crowd
teeming in the narrow, neighboring
streets stand in serried ranks hun
dreds of policemen and municipal
guards. Cavalry patrols amble up and
down the adjoining boulevard.
Garchery, one of the Communist
deputies, presides. Tonight" he
says, your enemies are coming here.
They are coming here as accused, to
be heard at the bar of the people Of
Paris. Let no man interrupt them.
Let no man jeer at them. They have
come in a spirit Of bravado, and. their
friends of the bourgeois press will &C
claim their courage in affronting the
wrath of the people in this hall. i. /. &.
Let us show them that we can be calm
and strong. In your behaviour you
will vindicate the dignity of the pro-
letariat."
Fascism on Trial.
| A FTER him the two Communist can
"A didates in this Paris double by
election in which, not only the BRAND
government, but fascism itself, stands
on it's trial. One is a worker who has
subsequently gone into law and whose
daily business it is to defend before
the criminal courts those comrades
whom vindictive society has chosen
to arrest for the "crime" of attack
ing it. The other is a working baker.
As the the latter is closing a sudden
tremor runs thru the crowd like an
electric spark. Here they are!"
Escorted by small band of picked
stewards, the two fascist candidates,
Henri de Kerillis and Paul Reynaud,
with a small general staff of bour-
geois journalists and politicians,
march up to the platform.
The whole audience stands and
greets these heralds of the enemy
with one great, strong song; the In
ternational. Then, suddenly, dead 81
lence. Marcel Cachin is ON his feet.
cachin's Appeal.
A MASTERLY speech, compact with
4 biting irony and serried argu-
ment, driving his opponents inch by
inch to the wall. Henri de Kerillis,
Taittingers man, Mussolini's man, the
honest broker for the firm of Farman,
against whom in official documents
stands the damning charge that thru
his indefatigable efforts that firm
cheated France out of eleven millions
for worthless aeroplanes. A model Of
patriotism -. lucrative patriotism.
The man who prides himself on his
bombardment of Carlsruhe and the
i 0Se~eA Va hAChg nOhCn anu
And Paul Reynaud, the man of Mil
lerand and the banks. The man who
but a few days since said the people
Of Paris were 'canaille' :"
Relentlessly Cachin drives his
points home, puts his questions, states
the case for the people before the
tribunal Of the people.
Again the audience is swept to it's
feet, and, as the last sounds of the
International echo thru the enormous
hall. spare, slight. pale figure, Henri
de Kerillis, steps forward.
To do him justice he made no at
tempt at eloquence. He took point by
point the questions Cachin had put to
him and attempted to reply to them.
On some personal points he seemed
sincere. On others he stumbled and
lost himself in a maze of contradic-
| TONS Only on one point was he as.