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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday May 25, 1919
Eugene V. Debs, No. 2253 of Moundsville Prison, for President
From the Appeal to Reason of May 24, 1919:
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[Debs for President, 1920.]
Since political power has put Eugene V. Debs in a felon’s cell, political power will place him in the White House. To test the power of the reactionary ruling class as against the power of the enlightened working class, the Appeal to Reason hereby formally places in nomination for the presidency of the United States to be voted on at the 1920 election Eugene v. Debs, a citizen of Terre Haute, and at present confined by a Democratic party administration in a federal prison at Moundsville, W. Va.
[O’Hare for Vice-President, 1920.]
Because the United States Constitution forbade Congress from passing any law that would interfere with the rights of free speech and free press, and because an enlightened jurist like Federal Judge Amidon has said that the espionage law should not have been used to interfere with innocent expressions of belief, the Appeal to Reason considers Kate Richards O’Hare as a martyr to the cause of liberty and therefore places her name for the nomination of the vice presidency of the United States to be voted on in the general election of 1920.
[Nominating Ballot.]
[Debs Thanks Upton Sinclair.]
[Emphasis in original article.]
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SOURCE & IMAGES
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-May 24, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587374/
See also:
Category: Eugene Victor Debs
https://weneverforget.org/category/eugene-victor-debs/
Appeal to Reason of April 26, 1919
No. 1,221, “Special Debs Edition”
“Spirit of Debs Cannot Be Shut up Behind Walls of Steel or Stone!”
-by Upton Sinclair
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587341/
Debs and the Poets
-ed by Ruth Le Prade
Pub by Upton Sinclair
Pasadena, Cal., 1920
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/Debs_and_the_Poets_Upton_Sinclair.pdf
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