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oxAERKAx o. PEACE CONVENTION IN
INDIANAP0LIS.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July ss.-The leaders
OF the Social Democratic party, which
was split into two factions during the last
campaign. arc holding . convention hero
with Wow to healing the, differences and
adopting declaration Of principles upon
which all the dissatisfied elements OF the
country may stand In the next campaign.
The scheme Of union. which Is advocated
by Eugene V. Debs, Is to invite members
Of the Social Labor party and Populists to
unite with Social Democrats and TO incor-
porate trades unions by making them
political organizations whose battles with
capital the new party will shoulder.
As the Social Labor party is opposed to
trades unions, leading delegates do not
believe that the proposed union Is feasible
and expect the Social Labor party to re-
main out Of the organization.
The convention organized by electinG
George d. Heron, formerly Congregational
preacher and professor In an Iowa college,
as chairman. On taking the chair he said
he found nowhere nobler and less selfish
men than In the socialistic movement.
He said 1t did not need leaders to take care
OF the movement but men whom the move
gates had come to nationalize tho SOCIALIST
movement.
So far as he was concerned, he declared,
no matter what his personal views as to
organization or method were. no decision
Of the convention was final with him, and
he proposed to give all that he could OF
his life to 1t for the emancipation OF the
workingman.
The various convention committees were
then appointed and care was taken TO give
each faction equal representation upon
them. The Independents were placed on
all the committees and as they are is sym
pathy with the Social Labor party, 1t 10
hoped through them, moro than through
any others. to bring about the proposed
union.
Many delegates to the convention attach
great importance to the fact that the repre-
sentation Is composed Of American stock
In the proportion OF at least three TO one.
Socialism in America" said one dele
gate, lis stigmatized as an exotic, but the
representation here refutes this idea. So
cialism is the inevitable accompaniment
Of the highly developed capitalistic 30
ciety, and its advocates are those who are
devoted to the ideal Of democracy. We
hold that the full liberty OF the citizen,
essential to democracy, is impossible
In q society where the means OF production
are controlled by minority class, and
the presence in the Socialist movement
of vigorous young men Of good, old Ameri-
can stock Is evidence that they believe
that only through Socialism can the demo-
cratic ideal be realized"
One of the delegates is Leonard ID. Alb
bott, associate editor Of the Literary Digest
of Sew York job Hartman, who was
Vice Presidential candidate on the last
Social Democratic ticket, @. c. Clemens
OF Topeka, Kan, brother Of mark Twain
II. Gaylor Wiltshire OF Los Angeles, who
recently offered W. j. Bryan $4,000 for q
Joint debate, and A. 8. Edwards, editor
Of the Social Democrat Of Chicago, are also
present. Eugene v. Debs telegraphed
that he could not come because OF illness
in his family.