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Show SOCIALISTS HOtllNATE PEPS FOR PRESIDEUT ""CHICAGO. May . Eugene V. Deb wi yesterday, afternoon nominated as the So- clalist candidate for President of the United States..: , ; ? : j ; - - enjaniin Hanford of New York City was nominated far Vice-President. Neither at the candidates had any opposition. . &fter condemning the policies of the IemocratlQ' and Republican parties, the platform, '-as adopted, appeals to the American people for support on the groond that the Socialist party is the only po. lmcal organisation standing for the principles prin-ciples by which the liberty of the individual indi-vidual may become a fact; as -the enly political organisation that Is democratio -md has for its purpose the conversion of aU society, to the principles of true democracy. de-mocracy. Capitalism and private ownership of the tneans of employment, it is declared, "grounds society in an economlo slavery which renders Intellectual and political tyranny Inevitable." The fidelity of the American Socialist party Is pledged in the platform to the principles of International Interna-tional socialism as embodied In the united thought and action of Socialists of aU nations. na-tions. - The question of inserting a plank In the platform favoring labor unions, which caused several heated discussions during tha convention, was adopted by a vote of 107 to 63. |