Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Visits with Eugene Debs at His Home in Terre Haute, Indiana; Debs Speaks on Populism

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Quote EVD, Socialist Ripe Trade Unionist, WLUC p45, May 31, 1902—————

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday September 3, 1903
Terre Haute, Indiana – Mother Jones Spends Day as Guest of Eugene Debs

From The Cincinnati Enquirer of September 1, 1903:

EVD crpd Nw Orln Tx Dem p3, Jan 26, 1900 Mother Jones, Socialist Spirit p19, Aug 1902

ECHO OF THE PAST
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Is Populism, Says Eugene Debs, the Labor Leader.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER

Terre Haute, August 31.-Eugene Debs, who has closed his Chautauqua engagement, spent yesterday at home, with Mother Jones as his guest. In regard to the conference at Denver to revive the Populist party, Mr. Debs says:

The committee on the exhumation of issues and galvanization of corpses reported both in a state of satisfactory preservation. There is no inspiration in a cadaver. Populism is an echo of the past, with gray whiskers on it. The Denver funeral procession and its Populist pallbearers present a sorry picture in contrast with the advancing, enthusiastic, confident, cheering, revolutionary hosts of International Socialism.

[Photographs and emphasis added.]

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SOURCES

Quote EVD, Socialist Ripe Trade Unionist, WLUC p45, May 31, 1902
https://archive.org/details/02OfficialReport5thConvALU/page/n44/mode/2up

The Cincinnati Enquirer
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
-Sept 1, 1903
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-sept-1-1903-ci/131151482/

IMAGES

EVD crpd Nw Orln Tx Dem p3, Jan 26, 1900
Mother Jones, Socialist Spirit p19, Aug 1902
https://www.newspapers.com/image/201767187/
https://books.google.com/books?id=wIcuAAAAYAAJ

See also:

Decatur Herald
(Decatur, Illinois)
-Aug 1, 1903
“Debs Speaks…on Opening Day of the Chautauqua”
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review-aug-1-1903-decatur-i/131151756/

From Appeal to Reason of August 26, 1905:
“The Chautauqua Platform and Its Opportunities”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1905/050806-debs-chautauqua.pdf

Chautauqua
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua

People’s Party (Populist Party) 1892-1909
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_(United_States)#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20the,to%20any%20anti%2Destablishment%20movement.

Take a virtual tour of the home
of Eugene Victor Debs
https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/visit-the-museum/virtual-tour/

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