Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1920 — SOCIALISTIC FIVE EXPELLED. [ARTICLE]

SOCIALISTIC FIVE EXPELLED.

Albany, N. Y., April I*—The five suspended socialists of the New Yoric Assembly were expelled today, following an all night debate. The charges were disloyalty. An individual expulsion vote was taken on each member. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., led the fight for reseating them. Counsel for the ousted socialises contended that the constitution does not- designate loyalty as a -qualification for Assembly membership, that the socialists constitute a recognized legal party and that -their opposition to the war was only passive.