s as a Socialist. The following summary of his
testimony is from the "New York Sun" of January 29, 1920:

"The outstanding features of Mayor's Lunn's testimony were his
statements that on the night before election in 1911, when he was
running for Mayor on the Socialist ticket, two members of the party
went to his home and presented a blank resignation for his
signature. This, he said, he signed in order to 'avoid a squabble,'
although he considered it 'child's play and illegal.' He refused,
he said, in 1913 to sign the required resignation before the
election. This time he was defeated. In 1915, he testified, he was
again nominated and elected, after repudiating that part of the
Socialist Constitution which bound him to follow the dictates of
his party leaders. The result, he said, was that the State
organization revoked the charter of the entire Schenectady local in
order to discipline him."

In a ninety-page brief, submitted to members of the New York Assembly on
February 12, 1920, by counsel of the Judiciary Committee, after five
weeks of investigating the qualifications of the suspended Socialist
Assemblymen, Attorney-General Charles D. Newton and the other signers
said that the five Socialists by "their promise ... to place their
resignations in the hands of the dues-paying members ... abdicated their
functions as Assemblymen and disqualified themselves from taking the
oath of office and rendered their oath false." ("New York Times,"
February 13, 1920.)

The same brief, according to the "Times" of above date, says:

"A decent regard for the Assembly as the popular representative
house of the State requires that these five Assemblymen be excluded
from their seats. They have taken a false oath to secure seats
which they cannot occupy as gentlemen, patriots, loyal citizens or
Assemblymen. They come here under the false pretense of being loyal
to their Government, when in fact they are really citizens of the
Internationale, and desire above all things the destruction of this
Government."

The Socialist Party of America is also denounced by the same brief on
three other counts, which the "New York Times" of February 13, 1920,
thus summarizes:

"The Socialist Party is a revolutionary party, having the single
purpose of destroying our institutions and Government, which they
abhor, and substituting