You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday October 22, 1904
From the Appeal to Reason: Debs Campaign Dumbfounds Old Party Politicians
In this week's edition of the Appeal, Ryan Walker asks working people to choose which bullpen they prefer:
Old Party Politicians Dumbfounded:
The Los Angeles Times is circulating the statement that Comrade Debs received $100 for his speech in that city, and the statement is being extensively copied by capitalist papers in the west. Comrade Mailly has issued a statement to the effect that Debs receives nothing but his expenses. The excess collected at the door goes to pay the advertising, and after that is turned into the local treasury. The net receipts at some points has reached as high as $300. The old party politicians are dumbfounded at the spectacle of American working men paying from ten to fifty cents to hear a Socialist speaker when they could hear an old party spellbinder for nothing, with free beer and music thrown in. The local comrades know where the money goes to, but in places where Debs cannot speak workingmen are liable to be deceived by these campaign canards.
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Big Campaign Issue Promised for Next Week's Appeal:
Every Socialist worker in the United States has read with absorbing interest the reports which the old party press have been forced to print of the tremendous meetings which Comrades Debs and Hanford have been holding. It's a revelation and an encouragement to the Socialists to read of these signs of the awakening of the American people! Think of them paying to hear political candidates! Nothing like it has ever been witnessed in the history of American politics.
As you read these reports the thought came home to you-as it did to me-"If Debs and Hanford could but speak to all the American people it would men the emancipation of the toilers of America."
We can't spread our candidates over so much territory, but we can carry their message to every voter in the land.
It has to be done if we are going to win-and we might just as well do it now as to wait until next election.
No. 465 will be the last edition the Appeal will issue before the election that will be in time to reach the comrades.
Debs will write the "Final Word," and it ought, by all means, to be in every workingman's hands; it ought to go into every factory; every mine, every store, every farm house, and every railroad shop. It will arouse; it will enthuse; it will do more than that-it will make men ACT!
But this is not all-Comrade Hanford will tell "What Workingmen's Votes Can Do." I consider this the best thing Hanford ever wrote-convincing, logical, irrefutable.
It burns into a man's brain just the thing which you would say-but can't.
The edition-No. 465-will consist of either six or eight pages, and the Appeal staff will do its best to hold up the hands of our candidates and say the things necessary to clinch the arguments.
All state tickets, together with portraits of the gubernatorial standard bearers, will be a very valuable feature of that issue.
It is now up to the comrades to do the balance. The big press is just waiting the order to start. We will commence early-about the 20th-to print, which will give us seventeen day and night runs.
Your order should be in early, so that no one need be disappointed. If your order reaches us before the 1st of November, I will guarantee that the papers reach you in time.
All orders will be filled the day received.
It's our last shot this presidential campaign-let's make it ring around the world.
200 copies, $1.00.
500 copies, $2.50.
$1,000 copies, $5.00.
SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-of Oct 22, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Note: I believe the first person voice above
is that of J. A. Wayland.
http://spartacus-educational.com/...
IMAGES
Republican or Democratic Bullpen, Ryan Walker
& Watch the Polls
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Book Cover-Unionism and Socialism
http://books.google.com/...
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Thursday October 22, 1914
Belvidere, Illinois - Socialists Set Progressive Party Speakers Straight
We found the following articles in the Belvidere Daily Republican:
Reported yesterday:
PROGRESSIVES TOUR IN COUNTY
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TO WIND UP TONIGHT WITH RALLY AT ADELPHI HALL IN THIS CITY-HOLD MEETINGS AT VARIOUS OF THE SMALLER TOWNS OF THE COUNTY.
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Congressman William Hinebaugh, Representative F. S. Munro, and Mrs. Chandler Starr, the first two candidates for re-election and the latter a candidate for University trustee on the Progressive ticket, will speak at Adelphi hall this evening, the meeting opening at 8 o'clock.
Congressman Hinebaugh spent yesterday and today touring Boone county, and stopped at the Julien here today for dinner. Representative Munro was at the rally at Capron last evening, and ten came to Belvidere, remaining in this city during the day...
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[photograph added]
Set Straight by Socialist Today:
DENY CLAIMS MADE BY PROGRESSIVES
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Socialist Quotes Debs Platform of 1908 to Show That Most Important Planks
Claimed by Progressives Were Taken From the Socialist Platform-
Contrary to Statements Made By Speakers at Adelphi Hall.
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To the Public;-
At the Progressive meeting last night the speakers in their remarks, laid claim to the origin of certain measures that had always been planks in the Socialist party platform, one being for woman suffrage. The Socialists present took exceptions to this, and at the close of the meeting took occasion to remind them of their mistakes, Also informed the Progressives that the initiative, referendum, and recall had always been a plank in the Socialist platform, and was of Socialist origin, being first introduced into the law-making bodies of Switzerland by a Socialist.
Many years before the Progressive party came into existence "woman suffrage," "initiative and referendum" and the "recall" were planks in the Socialist platform. To prove this I quote from the national Socialist platform of 1908, on which Eugene Debs ran for the presidency.
"Program, Section 10-Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women, and we pledge ourselves to engage in an active campaign in this direction."
"Section 11-The initiative and referendum, proportional representation and the right of recall."
Anyone wishing to see a copy of the Socialist platform of 1908, I will be glad to show it to them.
W. G. HAMMOND.
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[photograph added]
SOURCES
Belvidere Daily Republican
(Belvidere, Illinois)
-of Oct 21 & 22, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
http://www.newspapers.com/...
See also:
Socialist campaign book
-Socialist Party (U.S.).
National executive committee, 1908-1912
National headquarters Socialist party, 1908
(search with "socialist party platform" & choose p.131)
http://books.google.com/...
IMAGES
Progressive Party Platform, 1912
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(United_States,_1912)
Socialist Party of America Button
http://www.marxists.org/...
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The Commonwealth of Toil-Pete Seeger
When our cause is all triumphant
And we claim our Mother Earth,
And the nightmare of the present fades away,
We shall live with love and laughter,
We who now are little worth,
But we'll not forget the price we had to pay.
-Ralph Chaplin
(with last line changed by JayRaye)
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