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Show RATIFY DEBS'S NOMINATION. Socialist Candidate for President Holds Meeting in Now York. NEW YORK. Oct 23 -Eugene V. Debs, (he Presidential candldatu of tho Socialist Social-ist party, addressed a meeting held hero' tuday in the Academy of Music lo ratify his nomination. Tho hall was crowded and Mr. Debs was given an enthusiastic rpcepllon. Ho said that tho economic freedom of the laboring class hinges upon up-on tho showing which tho Socialists may luake In the coming election and declared that the enmity between tho leisure class nnd the lnborlng class is increasing. "The so-called middle class will ccaso to exist as soon as tho laboring class 1 finds out that It has bad enough of capitalism." cap-italism." ho continued. "You need ti fow more millionaires and tramps, tho one enslaved by superabundance of food with ! lack of digestion, tho other cureod with abundance of digestion but lack of food Tho capitalist Is bound to attack the so-called so-called middle class, and when ho gets through with you gentlemen of tho middle mid-dle classes, you will be ready for us. You will then find that the tlmo has come to shake off tho two platforms of the same party which aro In the fluid for election. The nominee of one of these platforms wns the choice of J. P. Morgan, tho nominee nom-inee of the other the choice of John D Rockefeller. You havo no cnndldate, you 1 ot the mlddlo class. Y'ou will bo orpro-1 prlated by theso capitalists, then you will 1 come to us. We will In turn expropriate the acproprIators." |