Any Vote But a Socialist Vote Is a Vote Wasted
Davis, Jerome
By Jerome Davis Any Vote But a Socialist Vote Is a Vote Wasted Noted Yale Professor Tells Why He'. Casting His Ballot for Thomas and Socialism. I SHALL vote or Norman Thomas because I feel...
...One could go on for column after column, mentioning names, telling tales of work done here and all over the great land of ours...
...The chairman introduces the powerful speakers with well-deserved praise...
...But behind all this fine acclaim and scene are hours snd nights of planning, circularizing, putting up posters in unfriendly places, standing at subway stations and handing out throwawaye, and dozens of humble doings...
...I am thinking of the lonely nights spent by these wives and mothers, and my'heart swells with pride and gratitude for their great contribution to Socialism...
...And for which we all have hoped, fought and | dreamed so long...
...They were not expected to live...
...Karl Paull, Noah Mandelkorn, and William Bessemer are making nightly addresses throughout Ohio for the state office...
...Great hall meetings, big rallies, and smaller ones, all look and sound inspiring...
...In October done 185 new members were taken in...
...Instead of glittering generalities it comes out squarely in favor of compulsory unemployment insurance, the socialization of credit and the currency system, and public ownership of electric light and power...
...The subject will be, "Who Car Deliver the City From the Grlj of Tammany...
...HILLQUIT ON THE AIR Morris Hillquit, Socialist candi. date for Mayor of New York, will speak over Station WEVD Saturday, November 5th, at 8:15...
...When the votes are all counted, when the praise and congratulations are loudest, and when hope for the New Day swings up into the blue, let us have our wives and mothers remembered for the manner in which they served while we went forth...
...Roosevelt's neighbors say that he doesn't have any hogs on his farm...
...If Norman Thomas has one, two or three million votes, whoever is elected will try to take over some of the policies for which three million voters stood...
...Hillquit to Debate Pounds Over the Aii Morris Hillquit, Socialist candidate for Mayor, will debate Lewii H. Pounds, his Republican opponent, over Station WEVD Sunday night from 10 to 10:45...
...And all the warning, reason gives to spurn Their cruel seduction, has the sound for me Of sacrilege before divinity...
...The Socialist platform clearly strikes out against present evils...
...Both the Republican and Democratic candidates snd platforms are squarely behind the existing economic order...
...None of the other candidates have done as much to cause the American people to question those of our habit patterns which are obsolete and need change...
...How shallow then, and spurious the pose Of sage experience upon the times When lovers weepl Here is an age that knows The constellations for familiar rhymes, And sums infinity upon a slste With half a schoolboy's zest, it seems absurd To ask for understanding from the great And erudite, about so small a word As . .. love...
...My last reason for voting for Norman Thomas is that it is the only effective wsy for me to register a vote against the evils of capitalism...
...In the second place, I shall vote' for Norman Thomas because I believe he stands for the best policies of any of the candidates now in the field...
...This is my epigram against the pain Attendant on the waning of the spell Your witchery has meshed about my brain...
...To vote for a man merely because one thinks he is going to be elected is the type of action one would expect from a high school boy...
...The debate is scheduled to begin at 7:45...
...And when my arguments against marriage in such instance were given, many discursive letters were rccieved, pro and con...
...They were taken to the Mission Emergency Hospital and booked for attempted suicide and malnutrition...
...A Vote Not Wasted In the third place, I shall vote for Norman Thomas because I feel that a vote for anyone else would, so far as I am concerned, be a vote thrown away...
...Wives of Socialists who are active in this campaign are giving a great deal more than ordinary computing of social values can show...
...thrown out ¦•e eat for P started to PM* for turnt Wt probably H»tUng will ¦Nhe *n«m IsJrcsateat...
...His party's platform contains more concrete and definite suggestions for the welfare of the American people than any of the others...
...Hillquit, Mrs...
...George, Jack Friendman, David Treves, and the English Twain .. . Humphries and Harges . . . have put Rockawsy into the Socialist limelight . . . And what J. B. Matthewa has been saying and doing these great days will have more than mere echo as a result when the tale Is made after Election Day...
...A Deserved Word of Praise For the Wives Who Wait WhtU the Heroes Battle ____i tnr___i n__ By S. A. DeWitt MORE SONNETS /*- REATER than wisdom is to love too well...
...The only vote which is not thrown away is the vote which one believes is for the best candidate who stands on the best platform in any given situation...
...At one meeting, in the southern Ohio mining region, he said, the Republican county chairman stood at the bottom of the starway with his henchmen and intimidated many from coming up to the meeting...
...Of course, I'm thinking of Mrs...
...George Fields, campaign manager of Queens, is doing one sweet job here in Long Island...
...The crowds cheer, and the air is full of promise and hope...
...But when the ghastly emptiness expands Too close upon reality, I turn To tho enchantment of your blessed hands...
...e ? I will be sorry to see Curtis go...
...Then there is Gilbert Ssckman, of my own burg, who holds forth nightly, in all boroughs, and gives real meat to the starving mindi about us...
...Even from the standpoint of registering one's maximum influence it seems probable that a vote for the Socialist Party will have the greatest effect in liberalising the attitude of the other two parties...
...State Secretary Sidney Yellen reports that Ohio has now 66 branches in 84 counties with a total membership close to 1,600, an increase of almost 100 per cent since last June...
...CLAESSENS MEETS HAYS IN DEBATE Arthur Garfield Hays, liberal lawyer and supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the hope of "progressivism" in the United States, will defend his position in a debate in Newark Sunday night with August Claessens, who will support the Socialist candidacy of Norman Thomas...
...It's all over but the shouting— and four years of crying, see Will the Roosevelt Republicans defeat the Hoover Democrats, like the Hoover Democrats defeated the Smith Republicans in 1928T * • • Well knew that oa Wednesday, but will we have Thanksgiving »aj this jo*-l f.g...
...It does not dodge the question of the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...But let me just conclude by personally congratulating, Norman, Morris and Louis, our three headliners on the clean-cut Socialist campaign they have made right along through this fight It has been an In* spiratlon and a Joy to have worked with them, and ft pre* sages the growing Into being of a great, big united Socialist Party...
...the Republican Party or the Socialist Party...
...Even if they merely waited for us to return with news of great work so well done...
...Without the benefit of perspective, right here in the heat of the most active campaign we have ever waged, I find time to observe and meditate over the splendid co-operation wives are giving their mates, and in some cases, husbands are giving their gifted wives...
...I SHALL vote or Norman Thomas because I feel that he is preeminently the best and >most able candidate now in the field...
...He's the man who made Hoover's heslth during the past four years count as one of the nation's greatest assets...
...Long ago, I wrote here on the subject of men and women who devote their lives to crusading in the Cause...
...His tour brought him to 28 cities and towns where he addressed over 8,000 people...
...It Is sincerely to be hoped that Nnrinnri Thomas will register the V --greatest vote that the Socialist Party,has ever received in its history at the November election...
...Thomas, Mrs...
...Yet when I ponder through the lore Of arid formulae, and cold ado For curve and space and time, for sperm and spore, I find myself In sudden search for you, As <>ne lost wandering through Arctic gloom Visions and hastens toward a hearth lit room...
...I But...
...Within the moments when my reason speaks Rebellion to the tyranny of love, I see a curious pallor on your cheeks, And feel a deathly chill in dread thereof...
...Mnoa in one latter knows sW wants to •net way...
...Sharts spoke at seven trade union central bodies, and in six colleges and three churches...
...eh_ leans that from apitalism it is hit if what is ffliiomic system »rs don't get power to buy i their labor, rtly the things [ht that wrong, giving all its living is too niist system to track, and we see a Socialist irate profit, the -sent, will give imhip and coIE" their food sup by some tech i been seen of M days, neighttwy found the S on the floor, I m from the stove on which no food had been cooked for nearly a month...
...But more than these worthy souls, I am thinking on the thousands of women who bide at home with comforts snd csre for their Jimmy Higginses, for their unsung heroes, for the men who carry the platforms, distribute the literature, attend hundreds of committee meetings, do the homely and so necessary chorus that make an organization function efficiently...
...Getting about as I do, I find Gene Shrigley, of Hempstead, who has been delivering the clearest, sanest talks of Socialism to his fellow-citizens of Queens, that ever 1 have been blessed enough to hear...
...nothing V jg Massif in liC"' he VSSZ Jack was made to understand early in the campaign that he's the rear end of the donkey—and that's why Roosevelt has been doing all the braying...
...On the other hand, if the vote for Norman Thomas is negligible, the successful csndidate can well feel that he can Ignore the necessary social legislation for which the Socialists stand...
...Waldman, and others less illustrious, but certainly just as forebearing and patient, while their battle-weary men go forth to battle in many far places for their ideals...
...But dopesters say he'll have one In he cabinet in charge of post offices...
...The danger is that millions of Americans may throw away their votes in this way, helping to perpetuate inferior policies and to elect inferior candidates, and to delay lhe~ adoption of the very policies in which they really believe...
...It stands squarely behind freedom of speech and freedom of press I do not agree with the platform on prohibition, but I do not find that either of the other major parties has one which is much nearer to my convictions...
...To vote for one candidate to keep the other from being elected as the lesser of two evils, may be theoretically justifiable in certain circumstances...
...The men who do this work have women at home, and these women in many esses have sons and daughters ' tho Yipsel movement also doing yeoman service with love and devotion to the Cause...
...SHARTS COMPLETES HIS OHIO TOUR r\AYTON.—Joseph W. Sharts, *^ Socialist candidate for governor of Ohio, has returned home to wind up a whirl-wind campaign drive which he has been conducting during the past month...
...The debate will be held at Griffith's Auditorium, Broad Street, under the auspices of the People's Institute and with the cooperation of the National Roosevelt Progressive League and the Wequahic branch of the Socialist Party...
...New Names Which reminds me that this campaign will bring forth new names of comrades and great promlae for them in the movement...
...Sharts reported that he came across various methods of intimidation used by the Republicans and Democrats...
...His subject will be, "Health, Housing and Education...
...If he is going to be elected anyway' one's vote does not count...
...Those Who Wait at Home They also serve who sit at home and wait...
...Those who braved his displeasures were mostly union men belonging to the United Mine Workers' Union or to the Pottery Workers' Union...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 19
