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“... the journal
in the hands of the Socialists there would be little chance for
crooked acts.
In District Assembly 49 the reactionists were whipped com-
pletely. William L. Brower was elected district master work-
man by a large majority, but not without a lively combat. It
was mainly the tireless work of De Leon whose activity and
most strenuous efforts brought in newly organized locals. In
those days there was hardly a night that De Leon was not
deliyering a lecture, attending meetings of the party organiza-
tion, local assembly, district assembly, committee meetings
campaign work,all this in addition to his writing as th
editor of The People.
Boring Stopped; S. T. & L. A. Started
By this time another general assembly was to be held at
Washington, D. C. This was in 1895. Sovereign and his
clique knew that their heads would fall into the basket. De
Leon, heading the delegation of District Assembly 49, together
with the honest elements in the order, could easily have got...”
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