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Show 50DY OF DEBS IS TAKEN TO 1 TERRE HAUTE I :'fi j Answers Call f -Ts jur i W' . S , ' (er Being Unconscious 74 jlours, Socialist Leader wcrs Final Summons; Indomitable to End. .HIHdiST, 111., (let. 21 (IT I i:iiii" return I" l'is "'"1 111,1110 ' n 'llie body of Eugene V. Debs, ,n.i,it Socialist, who five times .'a oimlithite for the presidency , ,!. i iiilinl States, lily in a fu- .-.,lp:irlor here today. !i,;,ll (.line to the dauntless i-'.o-.1 leader lit li o'clock last l( just MS (lays before he would hecii "1 years' old. .-lMl;iv at noon a train bearing the will leave for Terre Haute, . '. where on November 5, 1S."3, r;- was burn. oanplete nervous breakdown, ,.utu:ited by kidney trouble. j,,il the fiery Socialist into a j hospital a little more than a tli ago. Kor some time he lin-f.vcil, lin-f.vcil, but .Monday afternoon he vikiil.v took a turn for the worse ilhis personal physician, Dr. H. I Wiseman, announced that death i. but a matter of hours. Hut the indomitable will of this wild once polled a Million :t for president while he was a rtMtrr i" tlle Atlanta federar pen-initinry. pen-initinry. staved off the end until i it tiiil't-Ions tiiil't-Ions Invincible Spirit Cur almost 74 hours he had been 1(iiti-i"iis. Once when he re-aiiitil re-aiiitil Ills senses, evidence of that ivimilile spirit that led him to .id a cause which always seemed ,. lull just short of its goal, came it. Il( nsked his wife for a pencil :il impel- and then with a shaking ..till lie scratched out the poem of t nicy which ends with : i am the Master of my futp. I am the captain of my soul." KUGKNli V. DEBS ; his declining years r:s :n his youth. In lS8o. June 9, he was married to Miss Katherine Metzel. At that time he was grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Lo-como.ive Lo-como.ive Firemen, which position he held from 1880 to 1803. Prior to that time, from 1871 to 1874. he was a locomotive fireman on the Terre Haute Indianapolis Kail-road, Kail-road, which job he left to accent a position with the Hulman & Co.. wholesale grocery house at Terre Haute, from 1875 to 1879. The fo'-lowinir fo'-lowinir four years he served as city clerk at Terre Haute. In 1885, the same year ho was married, he was elected a member .of the Indiana legislature. From lfiftt to 1807 Deh was president of the American liailway Union. While president of the railway rail-way union he won a big strike on the Great Northern Railway. While directing the still larger strikes on several Western railroads in 1804 he was charged with conspiracy. but was acquitted. JTiu'n he wiis charged with violation of an injunction injunc-tion and was sent to jail for six months for contempt of court. He filled n large part of the horizon hori-zon of the Socialist party, as writer and lecturer, for over twenty years after his release from his first jail senrence. During this period he was almost the standing candidate of his party for president. Debs was sentenced on Sept. I I, 191S. to ten years in the Mounds-1 .ville, W'. Va.. penitentiary for alleged al-leged violation of the espionage act, through, a speech before the Ohio State Socialist convention at Canton Can-ton on June 10 of the same year. A Federal grand jury at Cleveland re- turned ah indictment a-aiit hie Ion .Tune 22. He was tried Sept. 0. iinit was his last message to the lid. (line Debs is dead ! To tliousauds of Americans these -iir words mean that a dear friend passed. tens of thousands perhaps lilliuiis they mean that, the lender f -cln'ls ngainst the social order f the dtiy is removed. , Probably both are right, iiime Idolized .D litiia whose name decorated In; history of the republic during , be hist years of the nineteenth een-urriiuil een-urriiuil the opening uf '';e twen-it'th twen-it'th century was more idolized by h followers than Eugene Victor Ji'lis. Xo man's policies were more 'iiterly hnted, sometiines feared, by , liiMlefcnders of the existing system limn Debs. But there was little personal -foel-lii-; iifiiiinst Debs in the minds of n lust majority of his countrysnen. U Uiiuy deplored his iolicies as. d"-Ti:itlve d"-Ti:itlve of social order; denounced liis (Hiance of existing conditions Is reviihdionary and regarded his ii menace to the republic. Hut few failed to admire lh,o per-chnrneter per-chnrneter of a man they ad-uilitHi ad-uilitHi to be honest and whose de-'"Unn de-'"Unn to his ideals as he saw them l'icp put him under sentence of a M ut pcidtentiary. - - 'His loomed large in the politics at Cleveland, before Judge I). C. Westhaven and convicted on March 10. 1910. the Supreme Court of (he United States uphcbL the conviction and sentence, nnd on April 12 left his home at Terre Ilaute. journeying journey-ing alone to Cleve'and where he was placed under arrest, .lust at dusk on the evening of Ihe l"lh he quietly slipped throng the prison gate and entered a barred cell and became prisoner "Xo. 22,.'.', In Atlanta Prison He' remained at Moundsville two months, fin .Tune IS he was transferred trans-ferred to the Federal prison at, Al-lniun Al-lniun and became "Xo. !)(io." lie served, two years, eight months in ten days, being released on orders Of the late President Harding on Dec. 23, 1022. Shortly before his release Debs was permitted to go unattended to Washington to lay his case before then Attorney General Daugherty. He refused to plead for release, simply sim-ply claiming it as a matter of justice. jus-tice. After resting at his home m Terre Ter-re Haute for several months', Doln returned Io the lecture platform and made several short tours. While Debs bad received the verj best of altenliou and treatment at the Atlanta prison, to which be voluntarily vol-untarily attested. Cue confinement and the burden of years complicated complicat-ed an existing heart trouble and Debs was compelled to return to his home at Terre Haute. "Hie nation for a minority repre-Mtullve. repre-Mtullve. lie was repeatedly the ("iilciitial candidate of the Soclal-'"IKit'iy. Soclal-'"IKit'iy. He knew and his friends il enemies knew that his candidly candid-ly mis always hopeless from the Q- stninliM i ut of possible election. But I" made each election a gallant (1 'Tugglo nnd won the love of his ad-l('"'iits ad-l('"'iits and nt. least the resix'ct of Ills I'llI'llllOR. of Great Strike - I Ww first came into prominence ( In (lie railroad wars of Ihe latter I "I "f the last century. As leader . 'Hii' great railroad strike in ISM. 'Inn Mien President Cleveland put : ,!" 'iih the iron hand of Federal I. ,r"iw, Debs was a "first, page'' """si'ilper story for months. His '"''f Imprisonment, as a result of " legislation, is still fresh in the .-. "iiiils of newspaper readers. Ti't' lull, spare frame, willi sunk-11 sunk-11 I'Ves still gleaming brightly in T'lc "f Ihe mist of years: the pal-,r pal-,r billowing years In prison: the '"l lii'iiil and feeble body belied the i ,;iH vigorous intellect, as be was " " "'I tlle pint form following bis Ml"isi' from Atlanta. But Debs "K n fighting man to the finish. "ls I'iltercst enemies always ailiuit-1 ailiuit-1 lint. T" he sliiilsticnl : Debs was born '"Terre Haute on Nov. 5. lSRo. the "f Unniel and Margaret Bette-"li Bette-"li lVhs. He received a common !''""'l education and then went to ""r';. His .education was largely "''iiiiinl through independent study i' Was st ill as keen a student in III1 |