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Show SOCIALIST CANDIDATE PRAISES PALS IN JAIL I I HACKBNSACK, N. J.. "ct 6 Se-: Se-: mour Stedman, Socialist candidate for i vice president, in an address here last ! night, defended Kugene V Debs, the party S candidate for president, and , praised lctor L. Berger of Wlscon-j Wlscon-j sin "Thrse men were convicted," h said, Under the espionage act, although al-though their remarks were made be-j be-j foro this art went Into effect. Five i pars hence thc same fate might i ome to me for remarks made here tonight ' Mr. Stedman said If Debs' speech I had been given wider publicity in I Democratic and Republican newspapers newspa-pers of the country, fair-minded people peo-ple generallj would be convinced of ' his Innocence. The speaker orltlclajed the return of I railroads to private ownership |