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“... parts dared openly to assail the Socialist La-
bor Party principles or tactics; they all claimed to be in accord
with the basic principles of the Socialist Labor Party. In at-
tacking the party they all hid their real object behind gener-
alities and personal attacks upon De Leon, Kuhn, and what
they 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...”
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