And there’s Gene Debs—a man ’at stands
And jest holds out in his two hands
As warm a heart as ever beat
Betwixt here and the Jedgment Seat!
-James Whitcomb Riley
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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday June 12, 1918
Canton, Ohio – “Monster Picnic” to Follow State Socialist Convention
Eugene Debs will be the featured speaker on Sunday, June 16th, at Nimisilla Park where the Socialist Party of Ohio will celebrate the end of their state convention which will begin June 14th at Tigers Hall in Canton. “A good time all day” is promised.
From the Ohio Socialist of June 11, 1918:
“Monster State Picnic”
DETAILS
Picnic at Nimisilla Park
Donations Wanted
Games, Races, Prizes
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SOURCE & IMAGES
The Ohio Socialist
Official Organ of the Socialist Party of Ohio
(Cleveland, Ohio)
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/index.htm
-June 11, 1918
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/022-jun-11-1918.pdf
See also:
Afterwhiles
-by James Whitcomb Riley
(copyright 1887)
Indianapolis, 1891
https://archive.org/stream/afterwhiles02rilegoog#page/n10/mode/2up
“Regardin’ Terry Hut.”
(quote re Debs toward end of poem, page 150)
https://archive.org/stream/afterwhiles02rilegoog#page/n166/mode/2up
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