Show 0 PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT 0 o 0 EUrE EUGENE EUGENT v. v DF DEnS DEBS S For the fifth time Eugene V. V Debs has has has' been boen nominated b by tho the Socialists for tor the presidency He outranks oven Br Bryan an In that respect In 1900 on tho Socialist Labor ticket ho polled x v votes 0 t e 8 A As s a straight ht Socialist y o in 1904 1004 1308 1908 and Ir x 1912 he ho tallied K A'S AS v respectively c- c an and 1 votes In 1916 the Socialist I. I candidate Allen L. L Benson totaled k Debs Dobs Is nearl nearly 65 years cars old and was born In Torre Terre Haute Ind of ot 4 French descended parents He went to school until ho was 14 14 and soon afterward became a railroad fireman T A He Ho later organized the Brotherhood of ot Railroad Brakemen and was Instrumental Instrumental mental In organizing all the tho bodies that now make up the powerful railroad railroad rail rail- road workers workers' unions He served Bened In the Indiana legislature two terms as a Democrat In 1894 ho served six months months' Im Imprisonment Imprisonment Im- Im for violating an injunction Issued b by William Howard Taft later President It was then Victor Berger converted him to Socialism Debs' Debs present imprisonment Is the th result of ot a speech ho made In Canton Ohio June 16 16 1918 in which t he urge urged workers to oppose tho the war and cease all activities tending to promote It Every or effort was made to save savo him from the ten year ten ear sentence ho Is servIng serving ing lag but the United States court and Attorney General Palmer Palme turned down all nil appeals In his behalf Even Soviet Russia made a plea for tor him and the Socialists say his name namo has gone round the world I |