The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-13
WITHOUT HOPES OF ELECTION
OfBS REGISTERS HIS PROTEST
SociaIistlc Candidate for Pres.
ident Addresses Large Pay.
ing Audience and Takes a
Fling at Both Old Parties
as Well as CaDltaI-DecIares
Labor Has Not nseEnough
to Elect Him and Profit by
His Administration

''The present dominant political par
ties have reached the stage where their
usefulness is a thing of the past; where
their prolonged corruption of every
moral whereby the integrity of our
great country should be preserved is a
thing of the past, and the time has ar
rived when socialism and public own
ership of the vast wealth producing
faculties of our land is an aeknowl-
edged fact" said Eugene V. Debs, can
didate of the Socialistic party for the
presidency, before a large crowd at
Mozart hall last night.
Mr. Debs visited ST. Paul in the in
terests of his party and for the pur-
pose of furthering his candidacy in the
direction of the White house. An ad-
mission fee was charged, which prob
ably accounts for the fact that the hall
was filled to overfiowing, and every
individual stayed until the last word
was uttered, and Debs had rushed
away to address another meeting. In
the audience appeared large delega-
ton of the fair sex, and they listened
to the speaker with the closest atten-
tion.
i
One moment Mr.. Debs impassioned
utterances against what he hescharacter-
ized as the scourge of modern mankind
the capitalist-so worked up the
hearers that the appearance of a rep
resentative of the class would result
in an incipient riot. Then again the
earnestness of the man causes even the
most Stolid listener to lean forward in
his chair, and gasp out his wonder
ment at the glittering array of facts
with which Debs so freely intersperses
his speech.
In the next utterance Mr.. Debs is ex-
planning the conditions under which
the mine workers of Pennsylvania live
and die. The rich voice, containing in
every breath world of sympathy, as
the speaker pours out tales of fgthe suf-
ferings, the privations and the horrors
which surround the miners, brings
tears to the eyes of the crowd, and
strong men attempt to hide their emo
tons.
Waiting for the proper effect. Mr..
Debs will begin a TRADE of biting sar-
casm against individuals who are
known to be great industrial captains.
He places them in the most humiliat-
ing positions, draws SMILES which
convulses his audience with laughter,
and instantly makes them feel that his
cause is theirs. -ga
Impartial Roasts
Democracy is long ago forgotten"
he said last night. "The Democratic
party has ceased to exist. The Repub-
lican party is fighting in it's own ranks,
and the oldline Republicans, led by
Roosevelt, the tool of trusts, is fighting
the newly organized wing of the party,
heretofore known as the Democracy,
under the leadership of that peerless
trust protector. Parker. Multi-mil-
lionaire Fairbanks is on one ticket as
candidate for vice president and null
ti-millionaire Davis on the other.
ITO the victor belongs the spoils.
The Republicans win, and you, the
workingman, loses. The Democratic
Republican party wins, and you, the
workingman, loses. You cannot win.
You are in the wrong. But you will
continue to slave on, toiling out your
life blood that others may benefit by
your labor and that you may support
class of multi millionaire capitalists,
who own their private yachts, their
special cars, their mansions and whose
sole occupation is spending the results
| of your life work.
Il do not blame the capitalist. Al