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Show SOCULISTS. CHEER OEBS I0THE ECHO Fifteen Thousand Persons Crowd Madison Square Garden Gar-den lo Hear Candidate.. By International News Service NEW YORK, ScpL 20. Fifteen thousand thou-sand persons cheered ISugcno V. Debs for seventeen minutes this afternoon In Madison Sqtiaro Garden, when the candidates candi-dates of the Socialist party for president and vice president and the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor of this state wero officially notified of their nomination. Those in the garden had paid an admission ad-mission price of from 1C cents to a dollar. dol-lar. Two thousand additional Socialists were addressed at an overflowing meeting in the Gordon theater, where seatF sold for cents. S. John Block presided. Emll Zeidel of Milwaukee, r candida te for vice president, was the first speaker at tho Madluon Squaro meeting, and said in part: "Wherever I go T find the name enthusiasm enthu-siasm :uj is manifested at this magnificent magnifi-cent meeting. There was a time ten or fifteen years ago when the workingmcn would not listen to a Socialist speaker. Thoy throw dried vegetables and eggs at them, but they do not do that any more. The eggs cost too much today. Giant Growing1 Up. "The conditions under which the producers pro-ducers of wealth work is gradually developing de-veloping a temper which few of the rich understood and which tho workers themselves them-selves do not fully realize. There is a giant growing up. He will tako the affairs af-fairs in his own hands some day. That giant is Socialism." Charles Edward Russell, candidate for governor of New York, introduced Mr. I Debs, who In part Bald: "The only party that haa a moral right to appeal to the working class in this campaign Is tho Socialist party. The other parties represent only three divisions divis-ions or the same capitalistic class party. They draw their funds from tho same sources, they represent the same system, they all stand for wage slavery. There's no material difference In them, In candidates, candi-dates, in platforms or In the manner In which they Were nominated. Says Taft a Specialist. "William Howard Taft is a more or less celebrated Jurist, a specialist when It comes to issuing Injunctions to keep the working cla-as In subjection. Woodrow Wilson personally Is a mild-mannered mild-mannered gentleman, -nothing about him to offend. But politically, he has nothing noth-ing to bay for himself, Polltlcallv he Is the kid glovp on tho paw of the Tammany Tam-many tiger. "You have heard of Theodore Roosevelt. He la posing as the champion of tho dlo-tressed dlo-tressed and downtrodden masses of this nation. "Theodore Roosevelt considered as a champion of the working class! Think of It! That mighty military chieftain, that great conqueror! He never thought of the worklngman In his life except as a means of furthering hla own selfish, sordid ambltlonH. If ho has in his record one word, anywhere In bis history one. line to show that his heart haa throbbed in sympathy with the workers, I should like somebody" to point It out to me And he' Is running now on a platform which he denounced as anarchy and treason within th last-four years." |