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Show ? S g t gi gi PRISONER GETS SUPPORT FROM ALL SOCIALISTS This Is Fifth Time Debs Has Been His Party's Standard Stand-ard Bearer HE LANGUISHES IN FEDERAL PENITENTIARY Fight Now On To Obtain Can-1 Can-1 clidate's Release From Atlanta Jail NEW YORK, May 13. Eugene V. Deb's, federal convict number 2253, was nominated by acclamation for the I presidency of the United States at the Socialist party's national convention i here today. Cheer upon Cheer greeted the naming nam-ing of the Socialist leader, now serving serv-ing a ten years' sentence in the federal pententiary at Atlanta,. Ga., for' violation viola-tion of the espolnage act. Tho din was continuous as' all those who had been! ventTon "hill strained forward, eye? bent on the plalfdrm where was sot a life-sized portrait of Debs, framed in black. Eugene V. Debs, nominated today for president on the Socialist ticket, , now Is convict number 2253 in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. I Ho began serving a teu years' sentence sen-tence for violation of the wartime .espionage act April 13 1019. Debs. I ,..V.rt Sr. fr -.r. vl.t ,o r- Knoll irlvnn I the presidential nomination by his party four times previously. He was a Democrat before he became a Socialist, Social-ist, In the late seventies he served two terms in the Indiana legislature from Terre Haute, his home town. He ' was onco a Candida i for congress jfrom the fifth Indiana district. Jn 1891, from May to November, he served a sentence in jail for con- ! tempt of court in an Illinois' conspir- jacy case i Speech Causes Arrest. I His present imprisonment resulted from inve stigation of a speech in Canton, Can-ton, O., on June lfi, 'IS, which led to his j arrest two weeks later for opposing I the war and urging labor to cease all j activities which in any way tended to prolong it. Every atom of influence and energy in the" Socialist party went into the fight to keep Debs out of jail, but each appeal was turned down. The American Ameri-can Federation of Labor convention in June, 1919, voted down a resolution favoring fa-voring clemency for him. Name Round World. , The name of Dobs as "head of the ! Socialist party in America," has gone round the world. Soviet Russia sought i his release in appeals through diplo- malic channels. I j Seeks His Release. WASHINGTON. May 13. Attorney-General Attorney-General Palmer. Secretary Tumulty and Secretary Baker will receive the committee of the Socialist national committee which is to come here from Now York lato this week to ask for j the release of Eugene V. Debs, who is I serving a sentence in the federal pen-litentlary pen-litentlary at Atlanta, Ga., for violation of tho espionage act. Doth Mr. Palmer and Mr. Tumulty will receive the committee Saturday. nn |