New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-07
SOCIALIST LABOR TICKET.
c. II. CoTegan and ". ". Cor
National STANDARD Bearers.

The national convention or the Socialist La Dor
party nominated candidates on its national ticket
in this city yesterday. The nominee for President
is Charles Il Corregan OF New-York. and the can
/ dldate FOR Vice President Is William W Cox. OF
Illinois The result OF the vote in each case was
received with enthusiasm and the candidates. both
members OF the convention, responded 70 demands
for speeches
Charles Hunter COrreGar. candidate for Presi-
dent. was born in Oswego December Il 1850. He
lived Syracuse. however. for the last twenty
years. and he stu regards that city his home,
although present he is the foreman IN the office
The People, the National organ OF the Social
ist-Labor party. which is published daily and
weekly in this city Mr.. Corregan took this Mace
because OF his trouble with the union in Syracuse.
which expelled him about three years ago Re-
Gently the Appellate Division OF the Supreme Court
Fourth Department. ordered the union 20 reinstate
Mr.. Corregan- IN Syracuse he has been foreman IN
various newspaper Offices. and ar times editorial
writer. Mr. Corregan has i've children His wife.
formerly Miss Margaret Watson, was born in Dunn
fries Scotland.
The candidate for vice-President. William Wesley
Cox was born in Efingham County, Ill, Febru-
airy g. 1864 but lived most of his life at Col
Iinsviue. Madison County. Ill he IL a coal
miner and has been a member of the Socialist
Labor party for seven years. He has been a candi-
date FOR various local Offices. He has large farni-
ly. His wife who is a native OF St Louis, was for
merly Miss Margaret Brennan
In his speech accepting the nomination, Mr. Cor
regan said:
We seek 10 gain control of the government in the
interest of our own class. and party has such
control of it's members that II any man elected by
be thrust down and out so far that never a bubble
would TO the surface. 1 stand fairly and
squareIy on the platform and principles of the So
ciast-Labor Party Those principles clear
that. while there may be a difference in ability 10
debate. l believe that any worfingman. standing
honestly those principles. could honestly ad-
minister the government properly
nv aid. because the interests Of my class Of my
aalF 81 nv m
our class. I cannot rise your backs. as is the
case in other parties. because our principles pre-
vent 1t.
dress because he to speak at the mass meeting
at Cooper Union IN the evening. lie merely ex-
pressed his thanks. and said the nomination came
to him as a complete surprise.
Mr. Corregan nominated by a vote OF 81 for
himself 10 for Michael T Berry OF Massachusetts,
William Bilsbarrow. Of ST. Louis. also was placed
in nomination, but he declined
report made by committee on the attitude OF
the party toward labor unions unequivocally con-
denned unions OF the Gompers type too capital
istic and conservative. while the Socialist Trade
was also somewhat cautious Endorsement of the
American Labor Union, which is strong In the
Rocky Mountain region. Mr. Corregan. who was
member Of the committee, said that this plank
had been put in tentatively to thorough dis
cusson. and he heartily opposed it. He declared
fake the American Federation of Labor and
that it's leaders no more Socialists than Debs
was a Socialist He also said:
Some OF those men have turned against capital in
tyrs, but they don't even know anything about the
principles Of Socialism. No Socialist should belong
lutely necessary. in order for him 10 make a living
that he should belong TO the job trust.