The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-10
EUGENE v. DEBS ACCEPTS
HE WILL BE STANDARD BEARER OF
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
He Was Unable to Resist the Pressure
of the Observation-Disclosures
for Vice President.

The Social Democratic party, which had
been in convention In the city since last
Tuesday. adjourned yesterday afternoon
after gaining the consent of Eugene v.
Debs to make the race for President. Job
Hartman, of California, was nominated
for the vice presidency. 1t was also under
stood before adjournment that the Social
Democrats and the Socialist Labor party
would amalgamate.
The chief pushes Of the convention yes
terday was the selection of candidates. On
Thursday Mr.. Debs steadfastly refused to
accept the nomination, but yesterday,
when the convention would not listen to a
refusal, n nominated him by acclama-
ton, he decided to accept. Shortly after
noon a committee brought him to Reich
veins Hall and he made his speech of &C.
ceptance. He spoke feelingly and was APP
p~arently greatly impressed with the situa-
ton which confronted him. In beginning
his remarks he said he had never been
more profoundly impressed with the con-
viction that there is a divinity which
shapes our ends. He said that on Thurs
day he left the hall with the determination
that he would not accept the nomination.
But now" he continued, with your
united voices ringing in my ears, with your
impassioned appeals burning and glowing
in my breast and your eyes searching the
depths of my soul, / am brought to realize
that in your voice there is a supreme COM
mand of duty" Mr.. Debs said he could
not disregard this without prov
ing himself unworthy of the confidence
that inspired 1t. He said he could not de-
cline this nomination rendered under such
circumstances without being guilty of
treason to the cause they all loved so well.
a nAh. n1c. fho r.En6 tho nnnNanffnn for
giving him as a colleague so true a So
cialist and so manly a man as Job Harri-
man. In conclusion Mr.. Debs said: 81 am
proud TO be a Socialist. i believe with all
my heart in the conquering and emanci-
pating power of socialism. With me it is
something more than a conviction. 1t
throbs in my breast, 1t surges in my soul.
1t is my very life, and without IL every star
that blazes in the horizon would go out for
ever; without IL the earth were simply a
jungle and men wild beasts %oevouring each
other. With it the earth becomes trans
formed-a veritable paradise and We are
almost gods. Again and again I thank
you. All hail to the United Socialist party
of America"
Mr.. Hartman also accepted the nominal
ton and a m was appointed TO
confer with a committee from the Socialist
Labor party in reference to the work OF
amalgamating the two organizations. This
joint committee held a meeting after the
convention adjourned and decided TO meet
again In New York city on March Is.
Eugene V. Debs, the nominee for Pres
ident, is forty-five years old. He lives in
Terre Haute and his career is well known
in this State as well as the country at
large. He is very popular in his home
city. Job Hartman, the nominee for Vice
President. formerly lived in Indiana. but is
now a resident of California. In the last
election he was the Socialist candidate for
Governor of California He was born in
Clinton county in 1861.
A number of the delegates to the conven-
ton went to Milwaukee last night. The So
cialist Labor party has some candidates in
the city campaign in that city and some OF
the delegates go there to make speeches
for them.