The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-07
DEBS RAILS AT CLEVELAND.
CITES THE CHICAGO STRIKE IN
SUPPORT OF SOCIALISM.
star Performer At q Cooper Union Rau-
fcatiOn-Calls President Roosevelt n
Government Anarchist--CrOwd Out
10 Hear Him ana Yell Approval


10 Hear Him ana Yell Approval.
The Social Democratic party got together
last night to open the campaign and ratify
it's ticket and swat Grover Cleveland.
Eugene " Debs, the Presidential candi-
date, was the star performer. These are
strike times, and the announcement that
Debs intended to answer Cleveland's maya
zine article on the railroad strike OF 1893
drew mighty crowd of Socialists and
labor sympathizers.
Dr. George D. Heron presided. In intro
ducing Mr.. Debs he defended the custom
Of strikes.
Of the struggle on the part of the work.
ing class toward true and ultimate liberty,
toward the time when there shall be no
classes, or rather one class-those who
both produce and enjoy"
Governmental anarchy" he called the
action of Grover Cleveland IN dealing
with the strike Of 1893, and as government
anarchists he classed President Roosevelt,
the Corloado authorities and those who
have filled New York with armed thugs"
In anticipation of a strike on the elevated
railroad.
The audience howled amain when Heron
swatted Cleveland and Roosevelt, 1t was
up and shrieked when he said that the
Socialist millennium would be grander than
the widest dreams OF the widest Utopian."
Then he introduced Debs in sentence
five minutes long, and there was another
ovation.
Mr.. Debs got down to the Pullman strike
without delay. He said:
That was as righteous a strike as ever took
place, and the workers won. But they were
not to enjoy the fruits of their victory Al
the behest OF Grover Cleveland Zoo. zooi"
hooted the audiencel Federal troops were sent
to Illinois to crush the workers and hand
them over to the railroad company. And
they did IL.
The Pullman company had reduced wages
until it was all the workers could do to hold
soul and body together. They didn't strike.
but when they could stand it no longer COM
mittee went to Mr.. Pullman and asked him to
reduce their rent. You know. Pullman Is that
model village. Pullman said that he'd look
into the matter-and next day the whole COM
mittee was discharged. That very day $500
men and women walked out Of the shops.
They were perfectly orderly and law abiding.
The strike spread. Early in July the Pull
man company and the railroad companies
Y
move a car. SO they swore In $500 deputy
United States marshals. The official report
Of Michael Brennan. Superintendent Of Police
of the city of Chicago, says that they were
thugs, thieves and ex-convicts. In an hour
of profound peace this army Of thugs was
raised The very hour they were sworn in
cars began to burn in the city Of Chicago.
[Applausel. No Pullman palace cars were
burned, mind you. There were some in the
Il lad
in the company hospital did as well to make
a conhagration.
The minute those cars were set on lre by
the thugs of marshals hired to do it. an in
junction was issued in the Federal courts
with an order to arrest and Jail the strikers
for what they never intended doing.
III tell you. IN prove it, and in doing it
railroad commission to President Cleveland
When these $500 thugs fred The wrecked
assd onsd the WsGe4 q. lis
Chicago. Walker was attorney and chief
counselor of the Chicago. Milwaukee and
At his command Federal troops were
marched into Chicago: at his command the
injunction was issued. When the troops
Of the American Railway Union.
thus cutting Of communication and stopping
the strike After It was eyer IT. the rniIroad
Miles That Leader ssn 3 t6b1 Gss
that strike and did it,"
Mr.. Debs didn't state on what page OF
the official report with which he was going
to sauelch Cleveland this statement occurs.
Mr.. Debs then quoted at length testimony
TO show that the 5000 deputy marshals
were dr,inkards, thugs, insulters Of women
highway robbers and several other things.
He went on:
From the beginning TO the end. President
Cleveland was at the beck and call of the
railroad. That's why he's SO dear to the
a whsn he Wrs fes
on how to go into the White House poor and
come out rich.
real history is written IT will be CALI Elo-
rious victory. For when the strike was
over, realized that something more than
simple trades unionism is necessary. /
went to Jail union man and came out a
Socialist
Mr. Debs expounded Socialist doctrine
at length and dwelt on the coming social
revolution. He paid his respects to Roose-
welt as an enemy OF labor ana put Parker |
In the same boat.
when Grover Cleveland sent troops to |
Illinois, he said, Cleveland had no stronger
supporter in his course than Theodore
Roosevelt, AS President, Roosevelt has
served corporate capital as faithfully by
Cleveland did by sending them into ILL
nois And when Colorado is transferred
to New York, as 1t probably will be in a
year or two, Theodore Roosevelt will send
the United States Army to crush you
and those workingmen who voted the
Republican ticket may expect to be shot
down and have the consolation Of knowing
that it's what they voted for"
As for Judge Parker, Mr.. Debs said that
he's a Standard Oil tool that the Demo
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labor plank is a splinter
There's been talk, said Debs, of a strike
on the elevated roads. just now hear that
it has been averted that the employers have
yielded. And why2 Not to favor the
employees, but to tide over the next ma
tional election"
Emile Vandervelde, Socialist member OF
the Belgian Parliament, addressed the
meeting in French, Most OF the audience
didn't know what he was saying, but they
liked his gestures and applauded whenever
he gave them a chance,