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Show FARMER-LABOR NOMINEE ASKS I DEBS' RELEASE Christensen Asks Other Candidates Candi-dates to Join With Him to Get Pardon DENVER. Colo July 21 Parley P. Chrlstehesn. Farmer-Labor candidate candi-date for president, today telegraphed I to Senator llardinc. Republican nominee, nom-inee, and Governor Cox. Democratic ; candidate, Suggesting thut all Join In ! a demand upon President Wilson to 1 Immediate! release Eugene V Debs i from prison. T i;.t Ol mess The text of the message follows I have been selected b the Farmer-Labor party as It candidate for president of the United States. It Is my intention to inaugurate as quickly as possible a natlon-Wlde campaign In behalf of the ideals of polltl.nl i and Industrial democracy embraced I In the platform of that party. But I dislike utterly to start on such a campaign while one of my opponents I Is In prison, and especially while he lis In prison for no crime other than I an honest public exprevSon OI ns p0. Utlcal views 1 refer to Eugene V. Debs; nominee of the Socialist party WAR LONG OVER. The war has been over for pearly two years and whatever justification in r- tnlghl have been on the part of tin- government for denying Debs his ireeamn during the war has now been dissipated by twenty months of peace. Air. pebfl maj be utterly wrong in hs (deaa of how best to conduct the af-j fairs of soclets .md so may 1 be and so may be ou. but conception of llb-ert llb-ert includes the right to think wrong I Bay to Mr Debs and to others oth-ers with whom I disagree. Including the candidates of the Democratic 'and Republican parties. 1 loatht your ideas like death, but i Wll defend with my life jour nglit to express them.' , OlM I'l.I .11 S I . Doss it not appeal to you as a mi tter of simple Justice that the pres-i pres-i Idexitial candidates of the Democratic, 1 Republican and Farmer-Labor parties should join In a demand upon the president of the United States to Immediately Im-mediately release the Socialist candidate candi-date from Atlanta prison" As for me it shall not be said that I have been a party to the persecution of any man for the opinions he holds a 'id I should i ga r! ni .self if f., . ed to publicly announce mv condemnation condem-nation of the .imprisonment of Debs I since I have entered a race hi which j ho Is a competitor. Your sense of I sportsmanship must ha e led vou since lyoUr nomination, to consider the po-, po-, 6i Hon of Debs. 1 beseech an answer , fiom you to this proposal." A welcoming committee was formed form-ed yesterday in Salt Lake to come to I Igden tomorrow to greet Parle) P. Christensen. Farmcr-Eaboi candidate candi-date for president. The committee will meet the landidate here ami uill eSCOtl him to sait Lake. It ls ex- Ipected that, in addition to the Vlslt-ing Vlslt-ing delegation, scores of laborers and , friends of the candidate w ill greet, him here. H. A. McCollem has been appointed appoint-ed i halrman of the Salt Lak- commlt-I commlt-I tee. Other members of the committee ar.- K w Cook, A M Jan Is, A J Wopdrow, Obarles A. Weaver and M P. Bales. In addition to his work on I the reception committee. Mr Cook Will be grand marshal of the parade |