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Show They Want to Vote at Any Time and at Any Place in America NEW YORK, May 12. Detailed consideration con-sideration of the proposed "moderate" platform of the Socialist party, as presented pre-sented by Morris Hillquit of this city, was the principal business before the national convention of the party today. to-day. The "red flag internationalists" who were defeated yesterday by a vote ' of 103 to 33 in their attempt to substitute sub-stitute a more radical program for the party, declared they would continue their fight against the Hillquit document. docu-ment. Jean Longuet, leader of the French Socialists, whose passports the American Amer-ican embassy at Paris refused to vise, sent greetings of the French Socialist party. Cameron H. King, of California, was elected chairman for the day over William Kruse, of Chicago. A' representative of the International Interna-tional Brotherhood Welfare association, associa-tion, known as the Hoboes' union, ap-i peared at the convention to ask the delegation to endorse a proposed amendment to the United Stales constitution con-stitution providing that all citizens shall vote in the general election, regardless re-gardless of race, sex, color, habitation, occupation or "lack of occupation." Tho amendment is in direct opposition opposi-tion to the .platform of the Illinois delegation, which provides that citizenship citi-zenship be limited to only persons "permanently employed." James IL Maurer," president of the Pennsylvania Stato Federation of Labor, La-bor, sent a telegram to the convention today declining to be a candidate for the nomination for vlco president o; the national ticket. m |