Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-26
MADE HOLES IN AIR.
Speakers Call Each Other Kangaroos
 and Fakirs.

Hartford. Sept 26.-When Henry lager, Connecticut organizer of the socialist labor party, opened his meet ing at the corner of Lawrence and Broad streets yesterday afternoon there was only a small number pres ent. but crowd gathered when the talk developed into n joint debate with view to showing which was the real thing in socialism, the socialist la Dor party represented by the New Yorker, or the socialists, formerly the social democrats, who had Samuel El- kin for chief spokesman
 |. MT Jager paid his respects to both parties and to President Roosevelt, whom he held responsible for a num- Der of wrongs. These remarks were not resented, but when one Eugene ". Debs was attacked there was trouble. The speaker declared that Debs had been hired by the democrats and that he had spoken for that party after de clardng that every democrat was cor rupt. He said Debs never spoke un- less he was paid for it. A man in the crowd shouted out that the statement was lie. After making this charge he started to move away, but re- mained when the orator of the day called him a kangaroo, saying that he could not stick to one spot.
 Then there came achievements for the socialist party, MT EllSin also say ing that the allegation was a false hood and asking MT lager why he didn't talk socialism instead of slan- dering Debs. Mir Jager reiterated hds charge against Debs and read from ''The Toiler." one of the organs of MT Elldin's party, which showed that $500 hoH haa,, x,fPoy,ad nohe %o of Youngstown, O., on Labor day.
 ''Did he take it?" asked Elkin.
 "No," replied Jager, because he had bigger offer."
 "Do you speak for nothing?"
 "N0, I get SIP week"
 H'It's waste of money"
 MT Jager hit the social democrats one or two solar plexus blows and El- kin asked to be heard from the plat form. Jager yielded the platform on condition that he prove a statement which he had made.
 MT Elkin devoted much of his i'm promptu address to the defense of Debs. who could 'have been million aire if he had only been n traitor" as charged He sadd Debs spoke twice in tfis city and didn't get a cent. al though dne had a family to support. w uSu MI lIlklu SIcppCQ udSh " Soi IAh there was some applause.
 Then Jager replied to Elkin. Elkin was called a kangaroo and the word "scab" was heard from both of the contestants James F. Carey of Hav- erhill was censured by Jager, and El- kin took up cudgels in his defense. At one time Jager said something about allowing Elkin the use of the platform again. but Elkin said that he didn't care to be on the same platform with Jager.
 After one of Ellxin's outbursts near the platform he started to move to the rear of the crowd and Jager urged him not to run away and Elkin said that he wouldn't from skunk" like him. There was other unparliamen- tary language, Fllsin saying that Ja- gers talk had about the same effect as hailstones on tin roof that simply made a lot noise. and Jager insinuat- ing that there were $3 sports in the crowd.
 Tn the evening MT Jager spoke for over three hours on Trumbull street, between Asylum and Pearl. The cap italist, he said, owned the working man, body and soul. They did not support the worlxingmen, but were supported by them and were of no more use to society than the potato bug to the potato.