You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday September 7, 1904
From The Atlanta Constitution: Emblem of White Supremacy for Democrats of Alabama
"Workers of the World Unite"
Emblem of Alabama Democratic Party
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Today's edition of the Constitution notes, but does not condemn, the emblem filed by the Democratic Party of Alabama:
CARRY A NATION, THEIR EMBLEM
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All Parties in Alabama File Pictures Required.
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Montgomery, Ala., September 6.-(Special.)-The emblem of the democratic party has been filed with the secretary of state. It is a rooster with the words "White Supremacy" over him, and "For the Right." beneath. It was filed by H. S. D. Mallory, chairman of the state committee.
The emblem of the prohibition party was also filed, being hatchets with handles crosses. State Chairman Albritton, of Panola [?], who presented it, said it represented that which has proved instructive, and must "Carry a Nation." The republican emblem, a picture of the statue of Vulcan, now representing Alabama at the world's fair; the socialist, hands clasped across the world; the populists, a coal pick and hand saw crossed over a plow, have all been filed.
From today's New York Times:
DEBS ATTACKS CLEVELAND.
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Calls Pullman Strike Article a "Tissue of Misstatements."
The Social Democratic Party opened its National campaign in Carnegie Hall last night. Every seat on the floor of the house was filled and each of the four balconies was crowded to overflowing with men and women who wanted to see and hear Eugene V. Debs, the Socialists' candidate for President of the United States. Hundreds were unable to gain admittance to the hall and were entertained outside by spellbinders who talked from the tailend of a wagon.
Debs, who was the principal speaker of the evening, divided his address into two parts. The first part was a reply to the recently published letter of ex-President Cleveland, wherein Mr. Cleveland attacked the American Railway Union, of which Debs was the leader, for its course during the great Pullman strike in Chicago in 1894. The other part of his address was devoted to a discussion of the present campaign.
One of his statements was:
The article of ex-President Cleveland is made up of a tissue of misstatements and perversions of facts, and every conclusion that he arrives at is in violation of the plain fact of history.
Debs declared that the record of Theodore Roosevelt was one of "implacable hostility to the working man, and, he added, "I challenge contradiction of this statement."
In closing Debs touche upon the threatened strike of the elevated railroad employes and said:
I hear that some concessions have been made by the Interborough Company. If this is so, the concession has been made merely to tide the men over til after election.
SOURCES
The Atlanta Constitution
(Atlanta, Georgia)
-of Sept 7, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-of Sept 7, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Emblem of the Alabama Democratic Party of 1904
http://www.leftinalabama.com/...
Socialist Party of America Symbol
http://www.marxists.org/...
Debs for President
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Hellraisers Journal is on vacation!
Hellraisers will be on a vacation of sorts until September 22nd, and will appear in abbreviated form until that date. A complete vacation is not possible since the ruling class never took a vacation from their suppression and oppression of the working class.
There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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