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“...PRIOR TO 889.
Collapse of the Henry George MovementDis-
sension in the Early Labor MovementIll-
Starred Rosenberg-Bushe Struggle for
Sounder S. L. P. Political Policy
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New York on the ticket of the United Labor Party, had loom-
Ssnmt arena. Sixty-eight thousand
(68 OM) votes were cast for Henry George, not in modern
Greater New York, but in old New York limited to a much
in the
The fact is also to be borne in
mind that this happened in the days when ballot-box stuffing
was quite freely indulged in, repeating being practised by
both Tammany Hall and the Republican Party. So general
vas this foul practise that men boasted openly of having voted
early and often; and many, in fact, considered themselves
good American citizens because they not only voted once on
Set" ^ ^ different
district, -^e oftener they voted, the batter American citizens
they considered themselves to be
Of course all the ballot-box' stuffing and repeating was
Hir"? old parties, and when, in spite of all of it,
Henry...”
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“...WITH DE LEON SINCE '89. 5
earnest, that the time for experimenting with all sorts of
uTfi hat the Socialist Labor Party
should become a real political party, not only a party of prop-
aganda. Several Sections, under the leadership of W Rosen-
berg and F. Bushe, editor of the Workmen-'s Advocate, the of-
ficial p^ty organ^-the American Section of New York among
em 00k the stand that the time had arrived for the Social-
ists to enter the political arena not here and there and at in-
definite periods, but to unfurl the banner of International So-
cialism on American soil without compromise or fusion with
any other political party. It was here that the New Yorker
Volkszeitung did its nefarious work by using its influence to
drive both Rosenberg and Bushe out of the party, and all
those who stood with them as well.
Rosenberg and Bushe thought they had the whole party
organization to back them up, and without doubt the majority
S infliL r"* But what wa a little
tene o organization to the Volkszeitung...”
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