The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-20
SOCIALISTS ARE
PREPARING PLANS
Will Place Presidential CandI-
date in the Field Again
This Year.
WORKINGS OF THE PARTY.
DECIDEDLY DIFFERENT FROM
OLD LINE PARTIES IN SEVERAL
IST PARTIES

New York, April 2o.-F'or the first
time every state and territory will be
represented at the Socialist party
convention this year II will be held
in Chicago, May 10.
There will be about 218 delegates
They will represent the members of
the party who have paid up and are in
good standing. To be in good stand
ing member pays dues amounting to
twenty-five or thirty cents a month
The old parties count as a member
every man who will vote the ticket
The Socialists count as regulars only
those who have a loyal and working
interest in the cause and assist in
keeping up the organization. II is
these men who will select the dele
gates to the convention.
The membership last February was
"9.915. A year ago it was 29,270 The
increase of over 10000 is credited to
the hard times. The Socialists say
that it is in the time of adversely that
WOrkngmen give most thought to eco
nOmic conditions and that as a result
of it they see the light of Socialism.
Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist can
didates for president in 1904 received
l0S, go votes. In 1900 the presidential
vote was 96,961. Socialists claim that
the vote this year will be at least
100000 and may greatly exceed that
number. 1t will depend largely upon
the action of the old parties. If
Roosevelt and Bryan should be nOmi-
mated. the effect upon the Socialist
vote would be depressing. With plu-
tocratic candidates on the Republican
and Democratic tickets, the Socialists
will expect to poll something like
100000 votes.
Debs has informed his friends that
he does not desire the presidential
nomination this year. VIM. D. Hay
wood, secretary of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners, who was acquitted of
the murder of former Gov. Steunen-
berg, now seems most likely to be the
nominee Members of the party who
would prefer that some other leader
should be chosen console themselves
with the thought that. after ALL it does
not make much difference: the big
CialiSm.
There are fifty or more Socialist
publications in the country. One is
magazine with a circulation of 100000
and another is a weekly paper with
over 900 subscribers. Tons of
leaflets also form part of the educa-
tional crusade.
Socialist Labor Party.
To fix the date of the presidential
convention was regarded by the mem
bers of the Socialist Labor party ma
tional committee as the limit of their
authority. They agreed upon July 3.
The choice of place was referred to
the members Of the party. They are
voting upon the question and the re-
suit will be known April 10. New York
is almost certain to be selected.
There are two Socialist parties in
the country. The Socialist Labor par
ty is more conservative. The latter
has much the larger. following.
The Socialist Labor party has the
distinction of being the only party in
the country to own daily newspaper.
1t is printed in English and has been
issued in this city since 1900. Other
recognized organs of the party are
Jewish. Swedish and Hungarian
weeklies published in New York, a
German weekly in Cleveland and all
Italian weekly in Providence.
The party is composed of "sections'
comprising seven or more members
each and these exist in thirty-twO
states One delegate to the national
convention may be elected for each
fifty members. On this basis there
might be 500 delegates at a national