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Show II CREST TUiLI " r MADE FOR DEBS Lock Step. Figures in Demon-M, Demon-M, , stration Which I akes Place ; as "Gene" Is Nominated K NEW YORK. May 13. During the K , demonstration for Eugene V. Debs. B i which lasted 21 minutes, delegates I; wcro marching in prison lockstep ! around the hall, with a red streamer H ; caried by the Illinois delegation well B j in tho lead. B I The galleries Joined with the dclc- H gates in a continuous rhythmic shouts Mi ' of "Debs, Debs, wo want Dobs!" ft Tho picture of Debs was brought B to tho front of tho platform before H 1 which red roses were banked. When tho tumult had subsided, H i Joseph D. Cannon, of New York, went B ' ( , through the formality of seconding iW , ' Indiana's nomination, which resulted K . . j-jtv in tho acclamation. s -" i Cannon declared that even as tho M -j cross had been glorified by tho crucl- i. ! fbcion of Chriflt, so would the federal Rv.J . penitentiary be glorified' in America j j through tho Imprisonment of Dobs, j L- " Cannon characterized Debs' sen- jfjg tenco as a national disgrace was "go-1 ing to send the administration into - i oblivion." I He referred to the time when Henry Thoreau went to Jail in Massa-3 Massa-3 , chusolts rather than pay taxes which j ho knew were to pay for the conduct (j 1 of civil war. Ho cited Toreai's state ment to Ralph Waldo Emerson, when II j thp latter vfcilted him "Waldo, Wal- f j -do; Waldo why aro you out of Jail?" as a proper thing for Debs to ask his fellow Socialists now. "The question Is not why is Debs InJail," he said, "but why aro so many of us not In Jail." The namo of Seymour Stcdman, of Chicago, general counsel for the party, . i was placed before tho convention for J tho vlce-presldoncy by Lena Morrow I -J Lewis, of Los Angele3, and seconded t ' I by R. H. Howe of Chicago. ' |