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Show IWILSON 'PANNED' B! SOCIALISTS Debs Is Victim of Hysteria, They Say, in Applauding Berger's Victory CHICAGO, HI., Feb. 1. The Socialist Social-ist party through Its national organise,' tlon here. Issued n .stntemr-nt Mon-lay on tho refitnal of President IVllion i" pardon Eugene V leb.s and th prime court decision in tin Berfeer case. ' The supreme court. In ordering a new trial for Victor U Berger, T Louis Encdahl, William F. Kiuse, Adolpfa Cirmer and Irwin St. John Tucknr. confirmed what the Socialist party has maintained, that the five Socialist of-fk of-fk lals were tried and ejbnvlctBd In on Atmosphere of hysteria and t'r-.i'illo that made a fair trial Impossible. 'Tho Socialists declare (hot the pros-tcutlon pros-tcutlon of the five mn t ; .-t'u-r with the prosecution o( Eugene v. Debt . i other espionage cases, were political trials and that the men are being punished pun-ished for political opposition to the dominant political p;rlV and for no other offlnse." The statement applauded the supreme su-preme court decision as far :,s if related re-lated to Judtfe Landis and atl 1 his motives. It then tnrm-it to tho Debs case, assorting President Wilson had "refused to recoRnl7- t1'-- f.i. ; t'i .i the hystefla of the wai period la r and that savage punishment for political po-litical heresy Is out of. ii.ui " |