The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-02-21
The Editor S
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State Central Committee
Dear Sir:
IN the past you have not been
looked upon IN the light Of being
a mobocrat or even an abctcr Of
such border outlawry and this
community was surprised and
shocked to learn from you. If cor
rectly quoted by the press, that
you heartily endorsed the actions
of the members of the American
Legion, who recently took the law
OF the land In their hand, and BY
force and barbaric violence broke
up a meeting being held by citi-
zens theoretically 50 at leastl be-
cause those in attendance differed
from their political faiths and be-
liefs. In extolling tleir actions in
a public partisan meeting, among
many other thing you are speci-
fieally quoted as having said: IF
I had been IN Seattle I might have
been wight down there with them"
Admitting, for the sake of argu-
ment, that that school was dissem-
mating Communistic propaganda.
verify advocating the overthrow Of
our government, even so. there
was no excuse for suppressing It
by mob violence. Both the nation
and the state have statutory laws
prohibiting such teachings and fix
ing a severe penalty upon anyone
convicted of the practice. If so.
why not let the law take its course,
the law being In the hands of its
friends? But Gle law was there
and at that very time, and It could
and would have taken ample care
OF the situation, If it did its duty.
and that too without the aid or as
sistance Of q judge and jury chos-
en- from persons laboring under q
patriotic delusion. For reasons
not yet explained the law did ar
rest some Of the participants, but
subsequently failed for some rea-
son not yet explained, to file a
syndical or any other kind of a
charge against them and the next
day or the day after they were re-
leased from prison to go scott free,
no crime by them having been
committed. The mob followed in
the wake Of the law and created
a disturbance despite the fact no
crime had been committed.
In the face of all this some days
thereafter you used language In a
public address, which might en-
courage that or a like mob to re-
peat itssH under similar circum-
stances. We're you not the tech
nical head of the state Republican
organization your words would
have been as salt that had lost its
SAVIOR, falling on deaf ears, but as
local head of one Of the major par
ties of the country, what you said
is taken as a reflection of your
party policies, or that is the pre-
sumption; it, therefore, seems and
appears that the coming campaign
win have as its paramount plat
form plank: Let the Mob Rule.
With the Democrats mobbing the
Negroes Of the South for advocat-
ing Republicanism and the Repub-
licans of the West mobbing the
Proletariat (white) for advocating
Communism or any kiud of ism
that opposes the high-ha1ded acts
of J. P. Morgan & Comp any, the
fundamental principles of The gov
ernmont, life, liberty and tie pur-
suit of happiness, are to go slim-
mering and mobocratic principles
are to supplant them.
I am as radically opposed to the
Commnnistic form of government
as you would have us believe you
are, which is taken with grain
of salt, but want the majority to
rule and that too whether it be
Democratic, Republicanistic, Com
munistic, or any other kind of a
political group. am of the opin-
ion that unless the Republican par
ty repudiates your mobocratic
speech its nominees win lose thou
sands Of votes In the November ell
ection.
Judging from the actions of the
Protestant religious fraternity of
this community in its denunciation
of mob law following the Legion's
mob escapade the Methodist church
is as much ashamed of your mem
bership therein, in view of your
late outburst, as you seem to be
for being a member thereof. AN
ger and pride are both unwise and
vinegar never catches flies"
Horace R. Cayton
800 21st Avenue