The morning call., 1894-07-06

Union, which was to include in its membership
! all classes of employees. The old brotherhoods,
the class organizations, he said, had passed The
| day of their usefulness. They were as the
stage coach compared to the modern vestibule
! train.
For fifteen years he had been travelling to all
! parts of the United States, meeting the local
labor leaders, on whom he made personai
! impression which stood him In good stead
when he launched his new union. Although
out Of active and official control OF the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Fremen, he has continued
to be leader among the men OF that organlZa-
tion While he and his ice-presdent, George
Howard, have been decrying the Drotnefnoou'
he has remained editor OF the magazine; thaV
there have been strained relations on This score
is true. although on The surface there appears
to be nothing of the kind.
In the Great Northern strike the Brother
! hood Firemen we're told they would be violat-
Ing the laws of their organization II they Joneu
In the strike, but all of them, with two excep-
tiopS followed Debs' leadership. They are
ready 10 do so in the present boycott strike
Its n common remark among his followers
that Debs ought to be President OF the united
States. and will be some day. In this union
are all classes Of employees. When he ordered
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and Evansville
and Terre Haute men at this point 10 strike,
and chief clerk in the freight office. Ii Is, no
doubt, the first time in the history of strikes
that cashier went out.
Debs until lately, was always Democrat.
| He was twice elected City Clerk by majorties
! far beyond that given for other candidates on
| the ticket, He has made some sperches III
| State and national campaigns. In 1888 he
spoke here against Harrison at time when
! the railroad men were recalling story that
! fIa I'd a said that
| "Sl day was enough for woTkingman."
Several months ago he appeared at meeting
| of the Populsts and being called upon for
| speech announced that he could be counted
upon from that time forward as Popullst, ana
| the leaders at once proclaimed him as their
! candidate for Governor in 1896. He possesses
| that Intangible quality OF personal attractive
ness called magnetism TO remarkable de-
gree. His friendships are in all classes of peo-
pie. Colonel Robert Il. IngersOll and lie are on
intimate terms ana James Whtcomb Riley Is
| his fast friend.
Debs has what a woman would call lovely
home. 1t is furnished elegantly aud with
! taste. Mrs Debs is a tall, stately and digni6ed
woman. They have no children. He has
several sisters and one brother, the latter hold
ing the position of cashier at the headquarters
OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Flremen. HIS
father and mother are both living. Mr.. Debs
| Both parents of the president of the American
| Railway Union were born in AlSace.
In a biographical sketch it is said, speaking
| OF the native town OF his father and mother
"Once province of France, where the love OF
liberty and independence characterized the
people, as il has for century, the great body
OF the French population" Therefore 1t Is said
that Eugene's boyhoOd home in this city was a
place where every lesson taught was well
] fnAt dar QFnp n
can ideas ard principles OF government.
| Debs was born in Terre HauTe November 5,
1855. He went TO the public schools, and after
! one year in the High School attended CONNER
cial eolleg.. When fifteen years old he en-
tered the Vandalia pain shop as an appren-
tce. In 1871 he became fireman on the van
dalia and continued in that capacity for three
years. When 10 years old he became clerk
in HUMAN & Co.'s wholesale house, where he
remained until 1879. when he was first elected
City Clerk. He became 4 member OF Virgo
| Lodge No. l6, Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen, February 81, 1874. In 1873 he was
made The editor OF the magazine by the con.
vention at Buffalo III 1880 he was appointed
| by the then grand master, f. W. Arnold, 10 the
| Office of grand secretary and treasurer, posi-
| tion Arnold himself now holds. Debs con-
| tinued IN this position until his resignation at
| Cincinnati.
he has an article headed Reminiscent" 10
which he reviews his fourteen years OF editor
ship, during which the circulation of the maya
zine increased from 1900 TO $4,000. In the
same issue the leading editorial discusses the
condition Of the county, In which 1t is held
that ''the great body OF the people have lost all
confidence In Congressional integrity. The
hope which animated the nation when Congress
assembled, that the conditions would be
changed for the better has faded out Of sight"
In conclusion he says that "If the ballot Is TO
change conditions; II the ballot is TO prevent a
recurrence Of such conditions as now af1ic the
country, it is time that workingmen should re-
nOunce their bondage 10 the old parties. to find
or found one whose representatives In Congress
shall so legislate that no President from this
time forth and forever shall be required to say
that the country is in the grasp of appalling
calamlties as the result Of Congressional leGis-
latfon. VIII the wOrklngmen be taught by ex-
perience? We shall see."