an whom Morris Hillquit
stated resembles "the Nazarene," and who styles himself "a flaming
revolutionist." A press report, from Atlanta, Georgia, dated May 14,
1920, quotes him as saying:

"Personally I am a radical. I have always been one. My only fear
has always been that I might not be radical enough. In my own party
I always led the minority, but I hope to lead a united Socialist
Party to the polls this Fall. They are fighting within my own party
today. It is a good healthy sign. The radicals keep the
conservatives from giving away too much to popularize the movement.
That is what killed the Populist Party. The leaders sought to
popularize its political propaganda by pandering to more
conservative elements. They lost the radical support of their
party, which became the Socialist Party, and naturally the
conservatives had no further use for them. To begin to placate your
enemies is to invite decay."

The radical minority in the Socialist Party formerly comprised the Left
Wing members who later on became Communists and Communist Laborites. J.
Louis Engdahl of Chicago at present leads a new Left Wing radical
minority within the Party.

The American public may at times be gullible, but hardly sufficiently so
as to believe in the sincerity of Hillquit and Victor L. Berger, who
filled the air at the Convention with phrases of moderation and disclaim
of treason and revolution, following their gentle verbiage by nominating
Debs who scores those who "sought to popularize" "political propaganda
by pandering to more conservative elements." "Panderer" is not a pretty
thing to be called, but the pleasant Messrs. Hilkovitz and Berger
swallow it. That their conservative phraseology would fool no one was
recognized at the Convention by Irwin St. John Tucker, who said: "You
can disguise yourself by sprouting pink whiskers." Mr. Tucker, however,
would not join the Camouflagists, remarking: "It may be that the
American people are not yet ready to accept Socialist principles, but I
would rather lose an election than lose those principles."

Hillquit himself said in the Convention, on May 13, 1920, that the
nomination of Debs "proves that we have not receded from our position of
revolutionary Socialism and that we will be more effective and still
more revolutionary than ever before."

J. Louis Engdahl may be an enemy to the United States and to society in
general, but he