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Charleston, W. Va., Thursday, April 13, 19111Vice, Crime and Prosti-For a Price by May or Holley and His “Man Friday” Al. Guill, Figurehead Chief of Police.lolln Baker White for clly solicitor. Do you want these men (or tlu.se impoitunt offices? The only way 10 :oat them is lo vole the Social is*, ticket. Altogether pood citiztMB anil elect llie Socialist, candidate to ih.* Board of Affairs. and let us have a clean, pure graltless administration.j.iii: .succkssifb methods ofSOCI VUISM.By Algernon Lee.From what wo can learn Mayoi VICE. CHIME and prostitution Pro-Holley had excellent reasons lor not investigating the Campbell charjvs against his right bower, Al Guill. As if. seems that our honorable mayor was a silent partner to the whole bus* iness.Fiji* Instance we will fake the case of John Wills or the Elk Pharmacy. Mr. Wills was arrested lor selling whiskey without a prescript ion and was fold by Chief Guill and Mayor Holley if ho would pay $50.01) ho would* not bo prosecuted land that they would sec that he was not indicted. Mr. Wills was only aid.* lo pay .$25.00 of the amount which was sent in by a policeman and because ho was no! able to pay the other $25,011 the evidence r.i possession of the police was laid liefore the recent grand Jury and Mr. Wills wn.-indicted. Previous to this .Mr. Wills was charged with selling dope and retained Judge Wert/, to defend him and was lighting the case when a Negro friend of the mayor's told him if he would go to see Gen. Holley he could fix It. Mr. Wills called on the mayor and was tofd that he would not have any thing to do with the enso if Judge Wert* was in it. hut said if wr.Hs would retain Win. G Barnhart lie thought they »c*ulil have It thrown out. Mr. Wills told Judge Went/ what the mayor had said and Went/ advised him to go to Barnhart. which he did and tin* uikc was? dropped. Wc have heard of other cases that could !»»» mentioned win*re i hr* bootlegger had paid for protection and were promised that they would not he kidicted. 1! the half of the grnlting tlint wont on while our city was dry could be uncovered it would impeach several in high places. Claude HulT. a notoriousboot logger who hud rooms e.i Summers street sold from three hundred to seven hundred pints of whiskeydaily and was never pulled. Why was this? Wc hear that he paid so much a day to the chief or police lor protection. Campbell mentioned this place J\i Ids letter. Why didn't the* mayor have the place investi doubt he had good rea-ov n. Jt seems l i run the coming to us that those the illegal sales of whiskey not only had lo pay the chief of policy so much weekly for protection. but also had to grease the co li n i y oflicials as well. If this in-format Ion is true and indicationsall point in that direct ion as wcknow that these places ikiu risked openly, then our oily official* are* nothing but si lot of graitei* who have pro.-pored by promoting ' vice and are unworthy public servantsgated? No sons of his in formation engaged infromoffice.wore*havesub-neverand should he expelled All of the Campbell charges true mid a blind man could found ample evidence to have st an tin i ed them, but this would do as Chief Guill is C«en. Holley's personal friend ar.vt knows too much about the general's private life, so it would never do to antagonize him as he might squeal. Yet ilic people must put up with those oflh ials and be ia\d in pay them good salaries. Can you expect criminals to pul down crime? Can you expect moral degenerates to abolish prostitution?These are the conditions the Holley reform admin 1st rat lr.*.i haw fastened on the people of Chariesto:i. This is what the Holley machine stands for. Are you going to vole t» continuei b it; ^tnic of affair:* by electing i ».•office the Holley slate? In voting for the Holley slate you are voting for Al Guill for Chief of Police andFourth WardMade Dumping GroundThe fourth ward like other sections ofdumping ground for tilth and din fromor Charleston our city, is the nasty, rotten other sectionscom-p;.*o-Slliciiornightif [-i -e-w 1 icre the rich reside*. kook at the trash, manure -and ‘other stinking rottenness (lumped under the people's noses in the fourth ward. Here the foul and filthy water from mills and manure stand in stagnant pools from year to year, while putrid old rottenness smoulders. d{»enys and Mils the air you brent lie with the germs of disease and death.kook at sections where the wealthy live. You s«*o no such dumping grounds among the rich people’s homes. No. they the too nice to smell the stench of their own trash avid dirt. Hut (lie poor andmoil herd as the rich call the pie. are compelled to sniff and this capitalistic con \ miination plutocratic pollution day and from year in year. i’nder Socialism these localities where the poor hard working people live -.-.onId he as well drained of poison water and cleared of manure and other foulness as locations where the wealthy Jive. A good sewer *-ystein would dra/.i these death producing sections of their other timber good for fuel for tiro would Ih* given ir I sic poor for wood to cock their food and keep them warm. The manure and other fertilizer waste and trash would b( hauled away to enrich the farming lands, while useless trash and tilth would be biinird anlt;1 our » ity k'-pt :;s neat, healthful a*nd dean as possible.And yet with all ibis nasty abomination stcnching the p:*oph* with stink, disease and death, tic* plutocratic papers ot Chaileston have tin*New York Independent. March 1).101 1.I Mr. kce is one of the leaders of the Socialist party in the United States. lie has been the candidate of his party for mayor of New York City, has been editor of The Worker and The Call and is now president of the Hand School or Social Science. —Editor. 1The Socialists entered the field of national politics in the United States in the year 1SSS. They polled 2.068 votes—too few even to excite ridicule. Since then, they have passed through five Presidential campaigns, and in every one they have increased their poll, reaching a total of 4 2 1.-000 in I nos. In the Stnto and Congressional elections just held they have made another gain of at least 5 0 per cent. This is a record of steady progress entirely unique in rill* history or the “third parties on American soil. But it is exactly in accord with the history of the Socialist party in every other civilized country.Socialism has been ignored. It has been laughed at. It has been denounced. But it has proved its vitality.There is one aspect of this movement which has so far received no attention outside its own ranks. Much lias been written during the last six years about the theories of Socialism and their application to specific problems. But the general public knows hardly anything about the internal organization of the party and the methods by which it carries on its work.Tin* form of organization and met hods of action adopted by the Socialists arc in close harmony with the peculiar principles and purposes of their movement, and at almost, every point they an. in sharp contrast with those of the other parties. /When we speak of the Republican or the Democratic party. wP have In mind a comparatively small body or leaders and a large number of passive followers. The party organization consists of professional or semi-professional politicians, the majority of 1 linn nnice holders, office seekers. contractors, or saloon keepers, with a few great financiers, industrial magnates, and eorporatinn lawyers in tin* upper ranks, all held together by mutual dependence* Tor tlio promotion of personal or busi-ticHK interests. It is this organizedifTbrazen audacity llt;» assert that .Milwaukee. Wisconsin. bn.-ausi* it is? governed by Socialists. Is unclean— when these papers should know that mo such penurious, pernicious practice .is dumping manure under poor people’s noses would bt» tolerated in that city a single moment. Milwaukee is kept dean and pure from hH such foul net's as the plutocrats impose on the people here. And Milwaukee in this respect is as far above the capitalistic corruption of Chsu lesion as Heaven is beyond tin* rottenness and filth of Hell.This is the good Socialist admin is-tration in Milwaukee against which the rich rcccvitly combined the Dem-'ocratir machine. the Republican, ring, the Wealthy Women voters and the Catholic church. In order to defeat Socialism th*\v all combined and gave Catholics control of our public schools by helping *o elect as school eomissiouers every candidate the Catholic Church desired. Rather than be deprived of the opportunity to tnl tlw public, wealthy politicians give the Carbolic Church control of our public sidiools i:i exchange for enough votes to defeat Socialist candidates. Such is the greed and robbery of the savage rich that they would put our splendid public schools in the ham's of Catholicism or any tliit.g else in order to continue their crime.As inhabitants ot the fourth ward ar* victimized by mis nasty filthiness. th»* citizens r,? the firt nvard are neglected or forced to live in filth. There is not a single foot of pavement in the entire first ward. Sidewalks are In wretched condition. Many streets have nothing but mud(Continued on Page Four.»body of leaders that writes the platforms. chooses the candidates, and directs the party policy, both before and after election. The rank and file are not asked to take part hi ill** work of party management. They have no thought of doing so. It is not their business—for they agree with the leaders 1n regarding politics as a business. The average Republican or Democrat resents the suggestion that, he should bo more active in the direction of his party’s affairs. Hlt;» declares. with some pride, that he is not a politician. His activity is usually limited to voting once a year. IIc gives a few minutes on one other day in the year to go to the primary and vote for one or the other of two factional tickets, prepared for him by the leaders, he considers himself an exceptionally public-spirited citizen. He takes ittfjor granted llmt political parties.like other business institutions, must be hierarchically* organized and ri:l**d from above. Tl;e only control which he conceives it. possible for the rank and file to exercise over the machine” consists in staying at home on election day. or scratching'’ the ticket, or. if the conduct of the machine is altogether too outrageous. rebuking it once in a while by voting the ticket offered by the machine of the other large party. It Is a purely negative control, and spasmod b n Ily exercised.The financial methods of these parties are consistent with their form of organization. The rank and file are never expected to furnish the campaign funds. If. under exceptional circumstances, when the party machine is deliberately “riding for a fail they are asked to do so. they op**n their eyes in astonishment and put their hands in their pockets, notpVha ViWatisCoulliirthe at t 6 rax mor seek of a thetui yTJ ton puli I moo have cuss Iran ha vi (Ally allov fran pern it. i thro will vote keepto V lickci lies, you r year IH t hislutedhavec.\ pi trolfiftyearncou Ifsavediedpernoursisuch(heelectwhoowniWOlll to sfullc the He poop in t side i sche oppo such won |rcasit hey wha I 111|rPWF char Mail cli is.rero.day.ter men Ugh Si anie wha I l-ili fMail to hingmencom]this The ing to *. conttheymena fratheianotonetheaiulnieiandpeo;era;lt;nrall.• Continued on Second Pag**.)Ton!;IIIOItheIPO]thhwh:iTl(' 0 I
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