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Hellraisers Journal – Friday October 23, 1908
Joseph Wanhope Comes Aboard the Red Special at Buffalo
From the Montana News of October 15, 1908:
ENTHUSIASM UNRIVALED
——TREMENDOUS ARDOR REMINDS OLD RESIDENTS
OF LINCOLN’S CAMPAIGN.
—–RED FLAGS FLYING
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People Greet Debs as Social Deliverer
-Huge Masses Pack Streets
-Capitalist Papers Break Silence Acknowledging
the Popularity of Socialism.
—–[Continued.]
Wanhope on “Special.”
Joe Wanhope and W. H. Leffingwell of Wilshire’s Magazine came aboard at Buffalo, and the expert work of Wanhope livened up the speech making during the day. Leffingwell made the collection appeal and literature talks. Wanhope came on his own trip, as the state committee of New York made no arrangements whatever to have him aboard, as requested by the national organization.
Thomas J. Mooney, a union iron molder who joined the special at San Jose, has been selling literature ever since and has made a record. At every evening meeting he is in the hall early and makes a “literature talk” that increases interest in the books offered and increases sales. He hopes to attend the University of Chicago this winter to add to his equipment as a labor agitator on the soap box and by writing.
While all of Buffalo, including our industrious friends the plutes, marveled at the big crowd assembled in Convention hall, we were disappointed. It was the second meeting during the thirty-two days that the hall had not been jammed. The building will hold 5,000. About 3,000 were present. Everyone paid from 10 to 35 cents. Lapworth and Chase were the speakers.
Chase Advance Agent.
The papers to day gave long but biased accounts of the meeting and of Debs’ speech. At a meeting of those on the “Special” in Debs’ hall bedroom yesterday afternoon it was decided to send Chase two days ahead of the train to confer with the local organization in each city where a night meeting is to be held. It has been found that the best results cannot be secured when arrangements are left till the train arrives. The local workers are not familiar with plans made on the train, and the traveling agitators do not know what the local has done. Chase having been aboard and handled arrangements from this end, is prepared to make complete and perfect arrangements.
He was in Rochester this morning and spent the day here. He will be ahead of us in Syracuse tomorrow. Results will be watched and if they are not good the plan will be changed. All familiar with the trip, however, are of the opinion that Chase will do effective work and add to the value of the train.
Drawn by Biggest Engine.
The “Red Special” was drawn yesterday from Erie to Buffalo by the largest locomotive in the world. H. I. Miller was the engineer and R. S. Spencer the fireman. The mighty machine weighs 130 tons and the tender weighed 88 tons. She is able to make a hundred miles an hour. It takes sixty-one gallons of water a minute to keep her in steam. The boiler will stand 200 pressure. Engineer Miller came near reaching the maximum speed when we [were] late a few minutes.
It has been cloudy and cold for two days. At this time it is cold and sunny. Twenty shopmen “knocked off” at Jamestown, N. Y., yesterday and met the train at Westfield, ten of them going on board as passengers.
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[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote EVD re Political Scabbing, AtR p2, Oct 3, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587465/
Montana News
“Owned and Published by the
Socialist Party of Montana”
(Helena, Montana)
-Oct 15, 1908
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024811/1908-10-15/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024811/1908-10-15/ed-1/seq-2/
IMAGE
SPA Joseph Wanhope for NY Governor, Wilshire’s 446, Sept 1908
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858037309105;view=2up;seq=446
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Thursday October 22, 1908
Eastern Tour of Red Special Met with “Tremendous Ardor”
From the Montana News: “Red Flags Flying” Debs Met in Buffalo with “Enthusiasm Unrivaled”
Tag: Red Special of 1908
https://weneverforget.org/tag/red-special-of-1908/
Tag: Joseph Wanhope
https://weneverforget.org/tag/joseph-wanhope/
Wilshire’s Magazine Volumes 11-13
(New York, New York)
Jan 1907-Dec 1909
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858037309105;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=9
Wilshire’s – Sept 1908
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858037309105;view=2up;seq=440
“Wanhope Accepts Nomination
Associate Editor of Wilshire’s Notifies Socialist Party”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858037309105;view=2up;seq=446
For more on W. H. Leffingwell:
ISR Volume 15
(search: leffingwell)
https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ko9AAAAYAAJ
Tag: Tom Mooney
https://weneverforget.org/tag/tom-mooney/
For more on John Chase:
The American Socialist Movement 1897-1912
-by Ira Kipnis
Pickle Partners Publishing, Sep 3, 2018
(search: “John Chase”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=A75sDwAAQBAJ
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