No, Dear Reader, Hoover Did Not Steal Socialist Platform Plank
Bent, Silas
By SMm Bent No, Dear Reader, Hoover Did Not Steal Socialist Platform Plank Noted Writer Tell* Why Only Intelligent Vote b • Socialist Ballot—A New Deal in Economics Is Needed. JJERBERT HOOVER...
...It's dangerous for you two fellows to get feeling angry at each other and making a lot of noise...
...And to intersperse these poem" here in the very funnel of this political tornado Is my answer to the anti-lovers, and a challenge to their future drolling against love...
...All of the smaller auditorium in the building have also been reserved, and a public address system will take care of thousands in overflow crowds...
...He will arrive in Milwaukee at 7:80 p. m. from Now York City...
...First came Abe Lincoln, who unwittingly delivered him to the clutch of the carpetbaggers and the Republican Party, . . . Fakir, savior, witchdoctor Marcus Garvey and the rest came in time after time...
...Russia still stands unrecognized by tho United States because of their years of Inept and mawkish shrieking against the gods...
...For a party that shouts Internationalism until It Is raw in the gullet I cannot understand at all why it goes batty whenever Russia is mentioned, snd Is now weeping great gobs of glycerins tsars over the quite evident fate of our fellow black workers...
...James, wears silk stockings and satin knee pants at...
...and Roosevelt is a conservative Democrat...
...Within a few hours after Senator LaFollette voiced his endorsement of Roosevelt, Socialist headquarters here and in seversl Wisconsin cities had received scores of requests that Thomas make immediate answer...
...I could not pay At any time for what you gave...
...And until wage slavery goes into limbo, all of us—white, brown, yellow and red—need one genersl united party to bring freedom and peace and plenty about...
...It is to create security in the millions of homes of our country, to produce increasing comfort, to open wider the windows of hope...
...Thomas's speech in Milwaukee will be beard Monday night, Nov...
...The unions they have gained or organised are now shattered and done...
...I'll...
...The tough the list W the fellow »r closest...
...LOS ANGELES WILL HONOR DEBS' MEMORY LOS ANGELES.—A public meeting will be held by the Socialist Party to commemorate the life of Eugene V. Debs on Friday, November 4, at 8:00 P. M., at the South Pork Auditorium, 40th and Avalon Boulevard...
...The speakers will be Fred H. Moore, defense attorney in the Sacco-Vanzettl case, and William H. Henry, lifelong friend of Debs snd former National Secretary of the Socialist Party...
...So I decided...
...Arrangements have been made to have Thomas close his campaign in Milwaukee...
...I ' By S. A. DeWitt I MORE SONNETS You have not lived through love beyond the fear That first appeared whan lev* began to live And palse between us...
...People may look at you and see that you're both alike...
...Tho trade Was palpably unfair...
...But when I found how lightly you divorced Your conduct from your promise, it was good Merely to find myself , , . misunderstood with the above sonnet is hardly fair to the Jimmy with tho above three sonnets is hardly fair to the Jimmy HIgginses all over the land who ar edoing such inspiring work...
...In my wsy And with my poorer gifts, I knew I made A sad exchange for you...
...And what is good for the five per cent is an economic system which, despite Mr...
...The "Capital Times" of Madison, the principal organ of the Progressives, states it is ready to help form a new party, apart from the two parties of capitalism...
...Maybe the White House should be rebuilt, with a Democratic wing and a He publican wing...
...Let me come to the defense of Jimmy, my boss, in the matter of John L. Spivak's recent book, "Georgia Nigger...
...THOMAS TO CLOSE IN MILWAUKEE CHICAGO...
...He would set up in its stead a constructive cooperative production for use and not for swollen profits...
...If was good to hear Your full professions, stintlessly to give The blessings of your being...
...But neither does it do justice to the fragrant moments when thoughts of lova snd romance steal in between hours of thundering to the left, and weeks of muckraking all over to the right...
...I seriously question their sincerity in this instance...
...Brewer, Warren and Putnam, of New York, the publishers, were kind enough to Bend me a copy for review...
...Hoover meant, out of this system...
...The first two, of which 60,000 were distributed, created a large amount of favorable comment, and the third edition is expected to be the most valuable piece of material used thus far in the campaign...
...Spivak's book just would have to wait until the Socialist vote was counted...
...either of you I Neither has « n lud himself irtca, You're I The calendar pmber 8. You, the Republican Mdift, hold on ? f »k»ng passes \ both of yon Sling and take > y«n see how *»f arguing...
...announced a change in the Campaign schedule of Norman Thomas, which will bring the Socialist presidential candidate into Wisconsin on the eve of Election Day to wind up his campaign...
...Wond that way fsrts so imWn only run*toy for Wall ?P>« and fight, J*»re after a 1 President's...
...I am therefore hastening to announce to the long suffering public, to the millions of my colored fellow citizens, and to the tender-hearted tovarishes of the Third International that The New Leader will certainly contain a thorough, highly favorable, and devastatingly indignant review of John L. Spivak's "Georgia Nigger" right after the campaign...
...This will be Thomas's second campaign address in Milwaukee...
...In the meantime, Socialists point out the abortive nature of Senator LaFollette's position...
...The fellows who've seen Roosevelt, are flocking to Hoover and vice versa...
...The ways of ths Communists are strange and devious Indeed...
...This nation is the child of a successful revolution...
...The ReI Hoover...
...Spivak is an old friend and because I had reported on his Hatfield Feud book a year or so ago in this column, informed his publishers of my whereabouts, and so, I presume, "Georgia Nigger" came to me instead of going to Jim Oneal...
...Following his public address, Thomas will speak over the radio to a nation-wide audience...
...At the same time, the 12th Congressional District, In which Abraham P. Conan is candidate, is likewise distributing an edition of 26,009 copies...
...You're like two peas trying to get into a pod that has room for only one...
...The colonists rebelled against the "divine right" of kings, and even in the Philadelphia convention the Hamiltonian faction, which wanted to set up a constitutional monarchy in this country, was defeated...
...This it strives to achieve by trying to deliver progressive votes to the Democrats...
...Norman Thomas is the spokesman and the defender of the dispossessed and the disinherited...
...Hoover is a liberal Republican— very liberal to the railroads and banks...
...Now, a fellow could have a hot argument about whether the equator is north of the South Pole or south of the North Pole...
...Now, if anyone had supposed" that Mr...
...And now ths Negro...
...Isn't that why both parties are stressing the repeal of prohibition 7 Jest one more bit of advice before I close my letter...
...And by the way, folks, get the book for yourselves...
...the Communists . .. sll to rescue the Negro . . . from what .. ,f Wo Socialists consider the Negro, tho Jew, the wop, and the gentile American all victims of capitalism...
...Here he will make direct and emphatic reply to the LaFollette statement...
...And a directors' room for the Wall Street lobbyists...
...This thought alone Restrained my passioned greediness snd forced My playing character above my own...
...The chief Issue to be stressed during the final week of the campaign should be: "Don't throw your rote away...
...Louis when he said that five per cent of the population of this country supported the other ninety-five per cent...
...Andrew Mellon, who, as Ambassador to the Court of St...
...That end is not the making of money...
...a lot in «r« neorHWfn manItttowwehe¦"tUal randl ¦ Ph steep, end ¦ Ms talk...
...The decision to send Thomas into Milwaukee again was reached partly as a result of the endorsement of Governor Roosevelt by Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr...
...And I am certain that Norman Thomas intends to say a great deal more on top of what he has been saying for all these years about Negro peonage and persecution as practiced by the brutal Bourbons of the South...
...The Bonus Army has felt the blight of its contact...
...John L. Packard, member of the National Executive Committee of tho Socialist Party, will bo Chairman...
...it was and is the mainstay of industrial autocracy in the United States...
...Because of the self-same excellent book...
...He meant by implication to say that what was good for the five per cent must be good for everybody...
...7. Mayor Daniel W. Hoan will also participate in the meeting...
...Their own party has splintered Into a half dozen parts...
...Every one knows that it was caused by the law of supply and demand...
...Third Special Edition For Bronx Organization The Bronx Socialists, waging one of the most aggressive campaigns in their history, have found The New Leader of the greatest value in their propaganda work, and are getting out their third successive special campaign supplement of this paper...
...An audience of more than 10,000 greeted him there three weeks ago...
...And stop arguing with each other about what caused the depression...
...The Rand Book Store sells it, snd it genuine literature * * ? What is moot to my mood right now Is the delightfully confident manner In which the Communist Party has strutted forth as the "one and only" champion of the Negro...
...And even If their concern be genuine, I question the advantage to be gained by the Negro in his struggle for real freedom under a sponsorship of propaganda protection from the American Communists...
...Thus the king, as the vice-regent of the Lord, passed from the scene...
...And then an emphasized note tells on how a copy was sent to Norman Thomas, and to The New Leader, and how both have ignored the book...
...Then came Harlem, then tho intellectual white swiggler of cat-gut in Black Bottom, and now...
...Most of these requests came not from Socialists, but from men and women bred in the true LaFollette tradition who said they could not stomach the party of Roosevelt, Garner, Hearst and Vincent Astor...
...You may belong to two different parties, but they play the same game at both parties...
...The main difference between you is that there isn't any...
...If Midas had the terrible touch that turned all things to gold, these howling dervishes hsve the dreadful wizardry of turning everything they sponsor or touch to messy ruin...
...Poets are what poets be, a stubborn and incorrigible array, snd so, if all the Sherwood Andersons and Five-Year Plans prophecy and conspire against the few remnants of tender sentiment that the machine age has left us, and announce their inevitable disappearance from human behavior, I must contend and struggle with all the poor magic of my pen to keep the sound of lyric and serenade heard through tho Liebesdaemmerung...
...And strike sfter strike among miners snd textile workers has withered within under its touch of doom...
...JJERBERT HOOVER has said in this campaign: "This economic system has but one end to serve...
...If you both keep in the dark, one of you may be elected...
...I |sjl 1HAIHMIM The Regular Conductor of the Column h Bach From the Wan—Welcome Home...
...But, as we all know that he is somewhat muddle-headed about economics, his absurd statement about the economic system in this Land of the Free passed silently and smilingly without contradiction...
...The Socialists of that city have taken the Public Auditorium, the largest in the city, for the Thomas rally...
...Don't attract too much attention, or both^pf you will be beaten...
...i Letter fi itarted run I year we had nice race...
...But the Founding Fathers took over bodily the English political policy that whatever makes the rich happier and richer is good for everybody...
...But the terribly suspicious and insatiable "Daily Worker" saw in silence of The New Leader on that book a "Conspiracy of Silence on Facts in 'Georgia Nigger'," for so the headline reads in last Tuesday's issue of the Communist daily...
...Give It to Wall Street...
...Norman Thomas voices a political and economic policy which would take "money-making," in the sense Mr...
...Socialist national headquarters has...
...Hoover knew what he was talking about it would have been suspected that he had stolen the main plank from the Socialist platform...
...As a result Thomas's speaking schedule has been rearranged so that he will wind up his campaign in Wisconsin, in the great municipal auditorium of Milwaukee...
...Keep quiet...
...For everyone -jecognizes that Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Rootevelt are now the twin standard-bearers of the political policy which would make the world safe for plutocracy...
...London social functions, expressed the American political code compactly but informally at a dinner in St...
...That theory was and is the mainstay of monarchy in Great Britain...
...We I that no one I Both parties Wry effort was » fellows who Itched...
...Truth be it said, I have given this space up for almost two months now to generous contributors and guest conductors, owing to the demand of campaigning...
...Hoover's eloquence, has but one end to serve, the enrichment, through the profit system, of the rich...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
