The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30
END HIS LIFE IN A Moose.
Do Before Giving Up His
Liberty.
Enthusiastic Reception By the
People at His Home in
Terre Haute.
In a Speech He Criticises Judge
Woods and Proposes TO AS
sert His Rights.

<'When Judge Woods says the courts are
not in effect restrain men from striking
I charge that he utters knowingly and
willfully {. falsehood. If this be contempt
to his conIamptible court, let him make
the most Of it. T. propose to assert my
rights, to speak the tiu-n and arraign in
iquity in high places, il / end my career
in a hangman's noose.' says a dispatch
to the Chicago Times Herald.
Eugene Y. Debs made the foregoing
meeting in the arnory given by his
friends on his return from Woodstock
Jail. He was alluding to an alleged in
tervieW with the federal judge. The a,i
dience cheered the def heartily and as
sured MIR. Debs that he was not born to
stretch hemp.
There could not have been a worse
night for the reception to Gene" pebs at
his home. 1T rainsd all day and when his
train arrived at o'clock this evening il
was still raining with a cold, strong wind
to chill the pedestrians who 'came to
town" 20 sec the parade. Everybody in
TeJre Haute knows Debs as Gene and
everybo knows of the exceptionally ai
fectonate character OF the Debs family
relations, SO that the announcement that
he preferred that no crowd meet him at
the depot because he wanted to hurry to
his residence was generally appreciated
and acted upon. Some Of the delegation
of labor union men from surrounding
towns, not aware Of the request, gather
ed at the depot. Among the 500 there
200 were miners, and the delegation from
Coal Bluff brought along its band
When Debs stepped from the car the
miners musicians played Home, Sweet
Home and several hundred men insist
ed on grasping his hand. lie declined
the use of 81 carriage and escorted by the
hand and several hundred men he walked
to Lis, home, a few squares away
There he found his aged father and
mother who believe Gene is the best
boy and the best man that ever lived.
They clung to him, kissing his cheeks
a&ain and again. 1t is family custom
of the Dehs family to kiss one another,
regardless Of sex, on parting and meet
ing. however short the separation. The
wife and a sister, Mrs. Selby, with the
wife Of Theodore Debs, his brother, who
accompanied him from Chicago, were
also AT the house.
While he was being TINS greeted and
atc light supper the members Of the Ia
hor unions were moving toward the an
nounced place Of starting the parade. All
were badges adorned with the picture OF
Dabs and they seemed pleased with the
idea Of facing the storm to evlnce their
fealty TO him. Arrangements had been
made for 4 march of two Or three miles
through the main streets to the aImory,
but when the two bands and an escort oil
800 men arrived at Debs' house TO 80 with
him TO the starting point the managers
OF tho reception decided to cut short the
parade and move directly to She armory.
AIong the route Roman candles si2zled in
the rain and the men cheered the more
,nssily to make known above he storm
their pleasure at greeting their old-time
friend and the schoolnate of many Of
the,n. There were trausparencics in the
PROCESSION, bnt the rain put out the lights
ana the crowds on the sidewalk could not
,er,d The words OF greeting Inscribed on
them Seats fer 800 OF 400 women had
hesn placed in the front part OF the hall
avid the policemen 1t the, door admitted
wives and sisters OF lNebs' friends among
+ he working men Of Terre HatlIe before
4he procession arrived.
After Dcbs had entered the lrmnry the
doors were opened to the crowd that had
been waiting; in the rain and that had fol-
lowed him. In Il few minutes 1900 per-
sous were crowded INTO the hall, filing 1t
to the doors. DeDs was very hOarse from
his experience III the Storm in Chicago
last night. nut Otherwise he was in per-
feet health Ia the trip bone today he
had but little rest, as railroad lnea along
rrlTi ~
Eis eye was clear. however, and the turn-
plES o. lis fellow citizens IN l'le Storm
made MS face beam with jay. President
George Purcell OF the United Mine Work
ers OF Indiana presided at tonight's meet
ing. Calling the meeting to order he said
they had mel 10 welcome Dabs home, not
from a European tour Or from an aristo-
cratic vacation resort, but from Wood
stock jail, where he had been confined by
the order of Il federal Judge whose .aleva-
ton to the bench was an insult to good
citizenship. The audience was there to
cheer and this started them. They shouted
their approval and when Purcell added
that Debs had stood for the doctrine Of
American liberty: and trial by jury, they
ahesred again and again. The starry
banner is floating lie,' ne said. when
it floats over a country that permits such
tfltrag ges as the imprisonment of Debs ans
his.fellow directors of the American Rail
way Union
AS Debs came forward the cheering be-
gan IN greater volume and continued for
several minutes. He said:
Ladies and Gentlemen. Neighbors and
Friends: How much / appreciate your
!. kindness, your sympathy, your devotion,
no language Of mine, however f1ttingly
I chosen, can express. In coming back to
ic1x I,
ness that you N-.o know me best know
[ that 4 did only hat I5beliered to be right
l ana my duty. Manifestly the spirit of
/ '7e still survives; the fires Of liberty have
not vet been totally extinguished. com
ss prehend the significance Of this magnifi-S
u sent demon strat atipn, and appreciate fully
4 the sh1nor that mn III possible for me 70
4 heae teni greet you as lovers
d sez greet despise