HAMILTON REIGNS RICH ARE BLESSED
Oneal, James
HAMILTON REIGNS RICH ARE BLESSED By JAMES ONEAL HAMILTON REIGNS," wrote I William Allen White, Kanaw Republican editor, of the Republican national convention. Of toe platform, he said:...
...Late in January, 1920, he was quoted as saying that "the tide of employment had changed In the right direction...
...Q. What are the salaries of the governors of the different states...
...The Socialist party permits the fullest freedom of conscience in all matters, and In this and all other countries there is the widest diversity of religious beliefs among party members...
...The salaries of the attorneys of the great corporations...
...Sidney Yellen, state secretary of the Socialist party of Ohio, has asked Joseph W. Sharts of Dayton, to represent the party In Columbus, the state capitol...
...The governors of other states receive front 14,000 a year up...
...Secretary Yellen reports that since the Interpretation has been made public, more petitions have been filed than before...
...Vindication of the right of the Negro as a citizen to enjoy the full bene, fits of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness Is traditional in the Republican Party ,and our party stands pledged to maintain equal opportunities and rights for Negro citizens...
...I have heard that Socialists are not allowed to believe in religion.—Ben Schuman...
...One other section of the laboring population Is given special attention, the Negro masses...
...is on a sound and prosperous basis...
...The first of these meetings was held In Cleveland where more than 300 workers responded and unanimously passed the following resolution: Whereas, the Secretary of State of Ohio has seen fit to interpret the new election code so that minority parties such as the Socialist party will not be able to place their candidates for President and Vice President before the people, and Whereas, this will mean that thousands of Ohio citizens will be deprived of their right of franchise, and workers will not be given a chance to vote for a choice other than those picked for them by cliques meeting In hotel bedrooms...
...How did Hoover meet this greatest economic disaster in all history...
...The decision has added an impetus to the Ohio comrades to go ahead with increased vigor getting signatures on the petitions...
...What the workers do not get in wagea will in part go to the party campaign chests...
...Now It Is these "lily white" Republican organizations that seek to eliminate Negro voters In the South, from politics...
...A. No one but an Ignoramus or a prevaricator would make such a statement...
...Of toe platform, he said: ."Wherever the benefit* of government are pledged, aa they are always pledged to come, they go first to those at the top that they may ahower graciously the blessings of prosperity upon those at the bottom...
...He preyed tnat by the middle of 1932 ~* 'depression would pass...
...He predicted that »« year 1932 would be known in American history as "1932 A(fter) Depression...
...It Is commonly understood around the capitol that the law was pased to dam the flood of Socialist votes that was expected in the coming election...
...From the beginning of the Socialist movement in this and other countries the position of the organized movement has been that religion is a private matter...
...It ii the same Hoover who has nursed great capitalist interests with Federal funds and advised the starving millions to look to the state and local governments for help ia their distress...
...The state office has sent out a ¦ call all over the state to hold mass protest meetings to arouse public opinion while an appeal Is being made to the attorney general...
...ow Charley and Herbert subscribe to a platform which leads *"» this statement: ** meet In a period of wideJ*sd distress and of an eco**""< aepreselon that has swept P world...
...He approved the "lily white" Republican organizations in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Florida...
...Why can't they get together and settle their differences...
...That is, the plug hats shall enJoy the Juicy meat while the millions are to get the bones...
...The slotted time had almost passed and on May 1 he said that "we have now passed the worst...
...I am constantly reading about bloody fights between Socialists and National Socialists In Germany...
...This, year is the first presidential election in which the revised election code has Deen operative...
...A. The Governor of New York receives $25,000 a year and the use of an Executive Mansion during his term of office, besides living expenses when he is away from the capital city...
...The wage-cotters who finance the two capitalist parties feel this "compelling necessity...
...The election code virtually prohibits new parties...
...National Ticket Barred In their benevolence, they* will allow the state ticket to be represented on the ballot but not the national ticket...
...In the following March he predicted that "the worst effect of the crash upon unemployment will have been passed during the next sixty days...
...The day after the Wall Street crash in October, 1929, he declared that the "fundamental business Of the country...
...In order to get the state ticket on the ballot, 1 per cent of the voters must sign the petitions or approximately 30,000...
...Here is what the G. O. P. declares regarding them: For seventy years the Republican Party has been the friend of the American Negro...
...Many who get the small amounts receive "bonuses" that pull their salaries up Into the hundred-thousand dollar class...
...The ruling classes gather around a dinlag table loaded with the fruits of labor's toil and the table rests upon the brawny backs of the forking masses...
...Corporations Assisted The platform even cites the measures enacted to help the giant corporations that rule the nation It boasts that Hoover sent the starving to the state and local governments yet he stands between the "helpless citizens and disaster...
...Even Whites Disfranchised In Virginia the G. O. P. "lily whites" had gone so far in this policy of eliminating Negroes that, as Lewinson points out In his book, "Race, Class and Party," "the machinery designed for the disfranchisement of the Negro was actually disfranchising white voters...
...It Is a reactionary, brutal, antl • labor, antl - Socialist, antiSemitic party...
...w—i--------— ------a few crisp green bills...
...Be it resolved, that we, the workers of Cleveland, assembled under the Socialist party banner, denounce the Secretary of State as a tool of the two capitalist parties against the party of the workers, and Be it further resolved, that this protest be sent to the Secretary of State, to all the local newspapers and to The New Leader...
...In Europe the Socialists have so long been recognized as the spokesmen of the best Interests of the masses that parties organized for reaction and even for Fascism steal the name] .Socialist in order to make headOhio Socialists Fight To Remain on Ballot Mass Meeting ia Cleveland Denounces Legislature's Action to Prevent Thomas and Maurer From Going Before Voters of State By HY FISH ACCORDING to a recent decision of the secretary of state, Normac Thomas and James H. Maurer, Socialist Party candidates for president and vice-president respectivelv, may be barred from the ballot in Ohio...
...like myself, who won't join the Socialist party until the Socialists quit fighting each other.—D...
...One Day's News '¦'old in Grief NEW YORK (FP).—If you don't read the business page, here la a summary—In grief—of one day's news to show you what chances are for more jobs in the near future: Bank clearings—the amount of money transferred In business — are down 02.6 per cent from last year . . . taxes are delinquent on 40 million farm acres . . . building permits In May were down 89.6 per cent from last May in 577 cities .. . 12H million dollar bank closes In Spokane . . . "low as machinery sales rats has been for last few weeks, it reached a new bottom during last few days...
...Because of his large vote in the South in 1928, soon after his inauguration, President Hoover at a press conference declared that he wished to build a party organization In the South "such as would commend Itself to the-citizens of those states...
...Farm Prices Still Fall In the past the farmers have rolled up big majorities for the promises qf the G. O. P. Referring to the last batch of promises the platform declares: They have been redeemed...
...In France there are antl-Sociallst parties that call themselves Radical Socialist, Republican Socialist, etc.-, while In other countries antlSemitic parties call themselves Christian Socialist parties...
...We do not propose to depart from that tradition nor to alter the spirit or letter of that pledge...
...TUo great corporations pay their presidents all the way from $1,200 to, several hundred thousand a year...
...In November he repeated this statement and there was another crash...
...How a party that cannot draw 10 per cent of the vote, can get 15 per cent of the voters to sign petitions was not explained in the decision...
...There are a lot of people...
...Unless a party polls 10 per cent of the vote In an election, entitling it to participate in the primaries and hold a state convention thereafter, the only way It can obtain such official recognition is by a petition -signed by 15 per cent of the voters of the state or approximately 300,000 signatures...
...It is the ripe fruit of capitalistic policies...
...Perhaps the law will be a boomerang against the two capitalist parties and will rally the workers around the Socialist party in greater numbers...
...In December there was a repetition of the same statement...
...The law was passed in 1929 so - speedily that not even the newspapers were aware of it...
...It Is the program of the ruling masters of finance and capital as drafted and accepted by their political agents...
...Yet the platform admits that the prices of wheat, corn, rye and other farm crops are "cruelly low...
...Don't allow the enemy to fool you...
...This idea Is written into the Republican platform...
...This is the Republican platform in the great year "1932 A(fter) D(epression...
...We wonder what mother thinks of the following in the platform: f There has arisen in the last few years a disturbing trend away from home ownership...
...The answer of the workers of Ohio to this," Yellen said, "should be an Increased demand for petitions and show the ruling class of the state that we will not* stand for such a flagrant violation of the rights of franchise...
...Dan Campbell...
...What are the salaries of the presidents of the great corporations...
...R took Charley Curtis, Vlce"•sldent, still longer to underJjssd what had happened...
...The ¦xnventlon that nominated Hoover J»rt Curtis met in the middle of nil...
...It la decayed fruit for the working masses...
...The G. O. P. has been the party of "home and mother...
...x October he appointed Arthur Woods to place 2,600,000 persons ¦aok to work...
...Q. I am an ardent believer in Socialism, but there Is a statement that I have heard from many sources that I would like to have cleared up...
...A Hypocritical Reference Charley was precise...
...Hoover has been renominated as the man who "stands resolutely between the helpless citizens and disaster...
...Char•V sent a New Tear's message to ¦* Jobless and the hungry on JanJ*Or 1, 1931...
...The hold that the power trust has over these men Is also well known...
...F. K. A.- Our correspondent is fooled by the name of the so-called National Socialist party of Adolf Hitler...
...No public mention of the new law was made until comparatively recently...
...It is impossible, without reference to Income tax figures—which are not made public—to tell exactly what the salaries of corporation presidents and attorneys are...
...Beautiful sentiment, but it Is a tissue of falsehoods...
...Q. Why do the Socialists always fight among themselves...
...So the logical results of Republican "lily whitelsm" is the disfranchisement of both Negro and white workers in the Southern States and Herbert Hoover, clerk of great capitalist enterprise, coolly approves of this policy while his platform carries the sob stuff of seventy years of friendship for the Negro masses...
...It took Hoover an entire year is understand that the capitalist system had broken down and that bullions of wage workers and working farmers were becoming starvelings...
...Today the unemployed probably number four times that figure...
...Poppets of Power Trust The Ohio Legislature has long been known as having the lowest calibre of members, made up of small town lawyers and Inconsequential cheap politicians whose minds can readily be made up by way with the masses, and to confuse and divide the workers...
...W»K'* have hean slashed all ov¦ the country and the platform carries this hypocritical reference to it: Wage scale* have not been reduced except under compelling necessity...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 26
