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Show I PILiEli REPLIES TO j ATTORNEY'S CHARGES I IK Assistant Resigns Declaring If He Cannot Agree on Policies H Toward Radical Element if PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21 Francis , Fisher Kane, United States attorney Ex for eastern Pennsylvania, who tender-EI tender-EI cd bis resignation, did bo, he said, for Ff a principle, fl In his letter to the president, he m "L am obliged to take this step be-- be-- cause I feel out of sympathy with the m anti-radical policies of Mr, Palmer and ' his methods of carrying them out." 3 Mr. Kane also suit a letter to At-torney At-torney General Palmer, disagreeing with Mr. Palmer's statement that 1 there does not seem to be any question ques-tion of policy involved in the raids, "it is one thing to debar an alien! coming into this country by admlnis-1 ; tratlve methods, but it is quite another lo deprive a man who has been in the country a long time, and who perhaps has a wife and children here, of what I wo are accustomed to think of as constitutional con-stitutional rights," wrote Mr. Kane, i ; "In tho present raids we appear to be attempting to repress a political party. It has a platform, most of which is highly objectionable to me and you So much I grant you but calls itself a political party and holds open meetings meet-ings and discussions- Consequeutly we ought not to raid It unless we are absolutely compelled to do so in order lo enforce the law for by such methods we will drive underground and make dangerous what was not dangerous Palmer Replies. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Attorney General Palmer replying to a letter from Francis Fisher Kane, announc-! ing his resignation as U. S. attorney for eastern Pennsylvania on account of tM disagreements with the policy of tho ; department of justice, charged the at-1 at-1 ' tomey with "an apparent misconception misconcep-tion of the duties of the department of justice in the enforcement of the laws as written." For that reason, Mr. Pal- i mer wrote Attorney Kane that he was "bound to say that your resignation I seems to me to bo quite the proper ! ' step for you to take " i 'I Attorney General Palmer In his let- : I tcr said the socialist party of Ameri-; Ameri-; ca early in 1919 was rent with dissen- ! : sion caused by certain elements with- 1 i : Ing its organization," which caused re-; re-; , course to mass action as the means to j obtain the reforms considered neces- , ! sary by them, a plan which was con- ! : trary to tho fundamental principles . j of socialism, as I understand them, ! which advocated the obtaining of re- , forms through the ballot and bv po-j! ! litical action." " ITvo Parties Formed. "This dissension in the ranks of the socialist party," he continued, "resulted "re-sulted on September 1, 1919, in the creation cre-ation of two organizations namely, the communist party of America and ti the communist labor party. Immediately Immedi-ately upon the formation of the communist com-munist parties a program and manifesto mani-festo were adopted by these parties, based upon the manifesto of the Third international, adopted on March 6 at 3 Moscow. As specifically stated in tho manifesto of the third international and its program, the accomplishments 1 of Its aims was not to be reached by merely the conquest of the political ; power of the so-called bourgeoisie . state, but was to be reached by tho destruction of thb state. Further in ; the same manifesto, we find enunci-i enunci-i ated the principle that in order to achieve tho aims of the proletariat, it will be necessary to annihilate tho enemies' apparatus of government, namely, its police, jailers, judges, priests, government officials and others." oth-ers." It was because, Mr.. Palmer wrote, of the adoption of this manifesto bv the communist parties in the United ; Slates as their program of action, and because of these parties' desire to : make the industrial unrest in this l- country "more general and militant" fthat the raids were conducted. Regarding the procedure followed in the deportation of an alien, the attorney attor-ney general stated that he had failed to find any instance In which an injustice in-justice had been done an alien. |