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“..., was used as the un-
derlying text and it was used effectively. The other appre-
hension, that part of the membership, or a considerable part,
might be shaken by the Curran move, was equally without
foundation. The brazen effrontery of Curran, first, in that he
set himself up as the N. E. C., demanding from an outraged
Party that its vote be returned to "him; second, 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...”
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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...”
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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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