Show debs Is optimistic haute ind eugene V debs regarding the socialist vote says the so called falling off was pot a falling off I 1 attribute the votes tall ing short of the expected mark to the tact that an unusually large vote was cast tor the candidates in 1904 then there were a great many disgruntled democrats who were cha guined because parker wag ed and they voted with the socialists thi s ear they went back to the democratic party and voted foi bryan 1 count that we have made a gain n the actual socialist vote |