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“...that in the
Opening paragraph of his lampoonist call he openly threatened
Section organizers with dire consequences if they failed to
circulate his production, saying, literally, that "failure on the
part of any such person to communicate this statement to
the Section and to furnish it to the members of the Section,
will be followed by us with definite charges against the per-
son so transgressing, and, further, that if any members be-
came aware that an organizer had failed to distribute the lam-
poon he wanted "prompt advise of the facts in order that we
may take action against the guilty person; and, third, that
instead of making definite charges against officers according
to their respective functions, he hurled vague and cloudy ac-
cusations against what he called managing powers, all this
and more besides simply enraged the membership and caused
short work to be made of him and his call when the Party
took its vote. In fact, the Curran impudence helped to settle
the entire Kanglet...”
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“...WITH DE LEON SINCE 89. 91
for votes without considering Socialist principles, did much to
who left the Socialist Labor Party, no matter how many lam-
poons were sent out by soreheads, the principles of the party
So?he''"-" Party had to be upheld
So the resignations of prominent members finally had the effect
tte greater er, made to maintain the p.,,r.nd it.
T A^H-rTe Hickey ease.
T. A. Hickey had been employed by the Socialist Labor Party
as agitator and orpnizer. and at the time here mentioned he
was a member of the editorial staff of the Daily People Hickey
as a speaker was applauded to a degree that completely wiped
out his modesty, of which he never possessed any great
amount Because he was regarded as a good speaker, aided
by his Irish witticisms, which generally took well, Hickey be-
came possessed of the belief that he was the most important
where e failed to appear as a speaker
where Sections had arranged meetings, and sought to excuse
his conduct with most flimsy statements.
Conduct...”
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“...termed in their lampoons the managing powers.
Vogt had only contempt for Siff and Pierce; the logical
centrists were not in love with their Rhode Island allies, and
Pierce disliked all the rest, for he considered himself aj'logical
center all by himself. The only thing they all had Tn com-
mon, like their predecessors of 1899, was hatred for the man
whose inferiors they all well enough knew themselves to be,
intellectually and morallyDaniel De Leon.
Those were indeed critical days. Lampoon followed lam-
poon-sent broadcast by the four groups that were bent upon
killing the Socialist Labor Party. Some good fellows were
drawn into the vortex that for a spell gained quite some force.
Peter Fiebiger, who because of his good nature and his liberal
contributions to the party funds we called Saint Peter, and
Peter Damm, who because of his name was frequently called
Damn Peter, were two men of the latter kind....”
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