The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-03


be a presidential candidate and hopes
to secure the socialist nomination over
William D. Haywood. Debs seems to
be the fayorite. with Haywood second
choice Debs halls from Indiana which
gives him an advantage over Haywood
The national convention of the social
lists is TO assemble in Chicago on May
TO- 1t is possible that Haywood may
be nominated for vice president. II Is
conceded that Debs will poll big vote,
drawn more from the democratic ranks
than the republican and still more from
Hearst's proposed new independence
party For this reason Hearst's hench-
man would like 10 prevent any NOM
nation by the socialists IL they can
They are doing their best to stir up a
row between the two factions of So
cialists and have succeeded fairly well.
Debs, however, is just as ambitious as
Hearst, and Will not be side tracked
Debs lives at Terre Haute, Ind,
where for many years he edited pa
per devoted to the locomotive ehgi-|
neers' union. His leadership of the
great railroad strike in Chicago doz-
en- years ago is too well remembered to
require an extended review OF that ex-
citing period. Debs is we'll known at
Terre Haute and throughout the mid
die west as brilliant writer and
speaker.
Terre Haute is also the birthplace of
Robert Hunter. the socialist, who mar
ried Miss Stokes, an heiress TO mill
lions Debs is of German descent, his
parents residing In Terre Haute also
The family Is eminently respectable
They are highly educated and religious
Debs, though a socialist and rabidly
anarchistic in some OF his ideas, is by
no means a low type of anarchist, as
popularity believed. He is q man Of
fine manners and good address His
eyes are keen gray, his smooth shaven
face clear cut and intellectual. He is
smiling and affable. In brief he has
the personal characteristics that go to
make up what we call magnetism He
is a natural leader. 1t is small wonder.
then, that the Hearst followers fear his
candidacy will draw thousands OF
voters from the independence ticket
At meeting of the socialist party on
Sunday night il was resolved that the
party should declare against any laws
excluding Chinese or any SPECIFIC race
or nationality 1t was also decided
that people from those countries whose
natives are prohibited from coming TO
the United States ought to be allowed
to come on the condition that the gov
eminent would guarantee TO them
American wages and the minimum
work day.
1t was also resolved that the party
ought to seek to extend the propa-
ganda of socialism and trades unionism
among the various AsIatic workers al
ready present in this country. and thus
help in averting future danger from
this source.
Leader Murphy of rammany is up IN
arms against the railroads. They pro-
pose to charge a fare of $50 to Denver
and return. instead OF the SIS that was
promised. Murphy. out OF spite, threat
ems to cut down the Tammany delega-
tion OF visitors TO minimum The $50
includes Pullman accommodations. The
railroad fare will amount to one and
a third fares, instead of a single fare
as formerly.
Murphy announces that II the rail-
roads make airy such rate the size or
the delegation will be cut down ac-
cordingly. Representatives of the roads
who have been trying TO contract for
trains to Denver have been told that
Mr. Murphy would see to 1t, personally,
that just SO many meN went from each
district, and that the railroads need not
calculate on the number being in
creased by Tammany men with big
bank rolls who didn't mind the ex-
pense, or, IN other words. Mr.. Murphy
would fix just the numhcf OF fares the
railroads would get from members OF
Tammany hall and would. II necessary.
give orders that not more than five
men should go from q district.
Mr. Murphy. through his representa-
tfves. has given the railroads TO under
stand that he believes they are trying
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