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Show 1 Socialists Say He Has Done More for Party Than Any Other '.NEW YORK, May C Thaddeus C. Sweet, Republican speaker of the New York assembly, today was jocularly t recommended for nomination for So- H , cialist candidate for president by Mor- H lis HUlquit, chainnan of the platform HP 1 1 committee of the Socialist party of mk 5 j America. KJ fij ' Hillquit made bis "recommenda- wmli yn before going into session with MBl l platform committee, which with the D party's executive committee, met here H today to work out preliminaries for H . Uie national convention opening here Dfl I j Saturday. H j I1 j "I think we should nominate the H(j'- inan who has done most for Social- !m ism in the past year," Mr. Hillquit : 1 said. "Therefore, unquestionably, Mr. I Sweet should be the nominee." (I ! Mr. Hillquit was chief counsel in J j defense of the five Socialist members I j oprpelled' this year by the New York j assembly. Speaker Sweet launched the I j ouster movemenL |