Show EUGENE V DEBS BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAK DOWN There was disappointment In Pitts Pittsburg burg burg- Sunday when the 1st party of ot America in convention lecel ed word ord from Terre Haute md- md that Eugene V Y Debs could not appear The message said that Debs had suffered a a physical breakdown Eugene V Debs is growing crowIng old He Is not the militant force foice o ot of a quarter of o a century ago when he be led the railroad men mea in the calamitous A R It U strike Then he was young and eager for or a test testo tesio o of strength When the strike end od cd in a disastrous defeat for lor the workers Debs still undefeated proceeded to arouse the toilers agaInst what he termed the abuses of capital He turne turned socialist and began a campaign of lion of ol the capitalistic system and finally during the war var Incurred the thedie die displeasure pleasure of the American gov- gov government gOY gov government by proving to be obstructionist In opposition to the draft his unpatriotic attitude he was sent to prison and when reo re released leased was not granted a restora restoration tion of his citizenship ReturnIng from Cuba a a few d days ys ago he re- re remarked re remarked marked that he be did not know how to list himself on appearIng before the Immigration officers If It heI he be I was as not a citizen of ot the United States he would be debarred He refused to make his own u cation and so eo the Immigration of oC officers saved saed him from further embarrassment em embarrassment by declaring that in inasmuch as he was known by them to have been born bom in this country they would admit him Debs has had a strenuous life No 10 one doubts his sincerity but buthIs buthis buthis hIs extreme views have haTe caused him to be recognized as a radIcal Men of the period of ot 1853 1896 1833 1896 are passing Roosevelt has bas gone also Bryan Dran and Gompers McKinley and Hanna Tanna were among the first fint to go 0 Debs Debe Is 72 12 and now he Is giving evidence of ot the wear of ot the years Time works Its changes and brIngs ne new Issues and new men |