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“... in itself.
In this protracted legal battle, the Party finally won out
all along the line. We won out in the injunction case and
did not go to jail though we came very near it at one time,
so near that the Volkszeitung, in a premature but
very triumphant news item, announced that we would
have to go to the lock-up; we won out on the bal-
lot contest and preserved our name and emblem in
New York State; we beat them when they tried to
lay their claws on funds that had been gathered by the Party
for a Daily People. No doubt there were powerful influences
at work behind the scenes that favored a different outcome,
but the conspiracys methods had been too raw, its procedure
too illegal, to make possible its being upheld in court with-
out establishing precedents that would, at one time or other,
recoil upon the established political parties of capitalism
whenever they might have a family row.
In the light of subsequent events, it is not without inter-
est to quote an...”
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“...128
DANIEL DE LEONOUR COMRADE.
more. This is probably the view of the N. E. C. and should
not be misconstrued as being opposition.
Fraternally,
(Signed) O. M. Howard.
Holyoke, Mass., March 27, 1899.
Mr. D. De Leon.
Dear Comrade:Comrade Malloney wrote to me today
asking for a letter I had received from the Debs Headquarters
in Chicago. (There is going to be a debate between Malloney
and Gordon at Winchester.) In looking up this letter I came
across two letters you wrote to me at the time of the Casson
affair and I owe it to you to admit what you prophesied has
happened. What seemed to me then a harsh and dogmatical
letter seems now a bit of mighty good and friendly advice.
Events proved your words true. I have sent the letters to
Malloney to read them to his audience in case Gordon should
come out with his old chestnuts about your bossism and tyr-
anny, etc. It took me several years to see the truth, but it is
all the plainer now after reading your letters, and then...”
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“... wants to report a labor meeting, they pick out
the biggest jackass they can lay hands on, and just as soon as
they have ascertained the biggest jackass possible, they give
him the appointment, and that jackass must win his spurs or
his long ears, whatever the case may be.
The worst worry of his life, I should s ay, was the
Editor the natural born Socialist Editor.^* The terrific birth-
rate of this genus during De Leons life-time was simply amaz-
ing. The charged atmosphere these species could create when
their genius was rudely prevented from blossoming forth, was
such, at times, that it all but converted us to the idea of pri-
vate ownership of the party press. This certainly is a safety-
valve, as the natural born can then rush right into the enter-
prise of editing his own paper, and by the time he has squan-
dered all the savings of his admirers and been thoroughly
misunderstood by the masses he will generally go way back
and sit down.
But in the S. L. P. there is no...”
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