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                                  HARRIMAN RYCKMAN & TUTTLE

    JOB HARRIMAN                                                          HIGGINS BUILDING                                                
   J.H. RYCKMAN                                                         LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
 EDWARD W. TUTTLE



Morris Hillquit,                                                                        November 6th, 1911
      320 Broadway, New York.

My Dear Morris: - 

                       Yours of November 1st just received.  I wish that 
you would see that Miss Maley is sent to us. I believe she would
be an excellent campaigner.    There are those, however, I think
would be an injury rather than a benefit and I trust you will not
send any one unless  we  know  who  they  are  to  be.

         I will let you know in regard to what the National Executive
Committee can do,  if anything,  in a few days.

          Can you not come?   Could you not bring Hunter with you?
I am specially anxious for you to be here the last week before 
December 5th.   We are conducting a large campaign and doing it in
systematic order.   The other people are frightened to death.
I believe we will be able to rout them.

          This morning the Tribune, the principal campaign organ of
Alexander, states that it is not a question of merits or demer-
its of Socialism, but of the merits and demerits of Mr. Alexander
and myself.  Now, I am perfectly willing to go on the stand, and 
we will challenge Mr. Alexander on this ground to appear in public
as to who is better qualified for position of mayor.   The old
man does not know anything and he has never forgotten anything, so
you can see his state of mind.  He never heard of a social problem 
and would not know it if he met it in the street.   He seems to be 
honest but many of those who know him best claim that he is hypo-  
critical;  personally I am not acquainted with him.

           We have many important questions here and we have the dope on 
the questions.    I wish you would come.    You can afford it,
especially to see how a movement runs along lines I have advocated
for the last seven years.        The union men are all in with us and
the unions are paying their officers to help man our campaign,  so
that the organization is the best possible.     If you could but see
this and see how it is working you would not hesitate one moment,
when you go back to New York, to step squarely on over to the po-
sition I have taken for the last ten years,  for you will see,  by  
watching our movement, how easy it is to bring the entire labor 
movement of any city bodily into the Socialist movement.  I do not
wish to discuss this matter with you because I haven't time, 
otherwise I should be delighted.

             I do not think that it is possible for them to defeat us at the polls,
although they have five dailies and we have but one;  but, on the other
hand, we have five votes where they have but one.

            Thanking you for your interest and expecting to call on you
for other work before this month is over,  I am,

             			Sincerely yours,

		                    [Job Harriman] 


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