The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-24
ROW AFTER DEBS MEETING.
RED FLAG STREET PARADE Or
CANNED SANS PERMIT.
Lone Policeman Said Dispense and Spero
Said No and Was Arrested-It Took
More Policemen Than One 10 Take Him
In-Reseryes soon Clear the streets.

More Policemen Than One 10 Take Him
In-Reseryes soon Clear the streets.
Eugene V. Debs candidate OF the Social
Democratic party for President, talked to
5000 men, women and children in the
Academy of Music yesterday. When the
meeting broke up at 8 O'Clock the crowd
poured into the street and formed parade
with Joseph Spero, cigarmaker OF III
East 1l2th street, at the head. Cheering
and shouting, they marched to Second
avenue and Second street waving red flags
decorated with a torch-bearng arm.
Policeman Doyle held them up and wanted
to know il they had permit to parade on
Sunday. Spero said they hadn't, but that
they were American citizens and knew
their rights Doyle insisted that the parade
disperse and Spero stood on his rights to
neglect the ordinance. and was arrested.
Then Jacob Panken butted in and or
dered Doyle to release Spero. Nothing
came of the demand, and Panken. Doyle
says, turned to tho crowd and shouted:
Down with the police!'
They charged Doyle. still holding to his
prisoner, and forced him against the side
of trolley car that had been blocked in
Second avenue. Doyle cut the air with
his nightstick, not wishing to break any
heads, and blew his whistle. More cops
came and both Spero and Panken were
taken to the Fifth street station.
The crowd followed, swarmed into the
station house and clamored for. the mems
release. The reserves were called out TO
clear the street. Poth Spero and Panken
were locked up. ..r.r
Debs was the leader of the American Rail-
way Union strike in Illinois in President
Cleveland's administration, and was SEN
fenced to jail for six months for contempt
in violating an injunction issued against
him and others restraining them from
combining and conspiring to hinder inter-
state traffic or the movement of United
States mails. Debs. as one Of the speakers
at the meeting put it, went to jail union
man and came out a Socialist.
When Debs entered the Academy Com
rade Charles Bach, nominee for Lieutenant
Governor Of this State. was speaking,
As the crowd caught sight of the bald
head Of Debs it arose, cheered and yelled
and screamed until it was actually out
of breath. Nearly every person in the
audience had a flag, blood red, on which
was the partys emblem. hand holding
a flaming torch. These the crowd waved
as the candidate came to the front of the
platform. until the whole place seemed to
be a moving sea Of red. Here and there
American flags appeared. while the DO xes
and walls were decorated with the red
banners Of trades unions. An admission
fee was charged, and men went about in
the audience with pamphlets crying.
"Music and Socialism, the Joys of the
Heart"
=, fra. ,,anr,la ciyilizad uatipn a real
republic on the earth. Human society
had always consisted Of masters and slaves,
and the slaves had always been and are
to-day the foundation stones OF the social
fabric. The 25.000,OO0 OF wage workers
in this country, he said, were $4,000, 900
of twentieth century slaves.
Although two in name. the Republican
and Democratic parties were one and the
same party, the party Of capitalism. The
Populfsts and the Prohibition party also
might be included with them, he thought.
The Socialist party, he announced, COM
prehends the magnitude Of its task and
has the patience Of preliminary defeat
and the faith Of ultimate victory. 1t will
not fuse with any other party and it would
rather die than compromise. But what
would it really do if Debs were elected
1T would overthrow capitalism, emanc-
pate the working classes, elevate woman
to her true place in the social world, re-
construct society, give employment to the
working classes by the working classes,
proclaim freedom for labor throughout
the world and build up superstructure
which would mean higher humanity
than the world has ever known
The party Debs said. was not party OF
reform but party of revolution, peaceful
revolution" and for it the capitalist move
ment, which had fulfilled its mission, must
make way.
Other speakers were DR.. Howard Gibbs
of Boston, John w. Brown one OF the or
ganizers Of the party and Morris Brown,
a member Of the Cigarmakers' Union OF
this city. Morris Brown gave it as his
opinion that there was a conspiracy among
the press of the city to keep the fact OF the
existence Of the Social Democratic party
from the public,
Comrade Howard Gibbs from Boston
thought that arbitration OF labor ques-
tons was merely a faxseed poultice on
fostering sore.
John Mitchell and President Roosevelt"
said he, may sit down to their seven course
dinners; Samuel Gompers and Grover
Cleveland may hobnob, and Archbishop
Ireland and Bishop Potter may rub their
ecclesiastical noses together, but the war
must 20 on and be fought out to the bitter
end" In Boston, he said, the capitalist
Lion and the Labor Lamb lay down to-
gether in the green fields of arbitration,
but the Labor Lamb was In the Lion
belly"
John W. Brown, who looks like Jim Cor
hett and pronounces Democrats Dimi-
Gratis. said that God in his Divine wisdom
said, Let there be light. but John d. Rookie
Teller said. Nit, not till you pay me-"