The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-18
SOCIALISTS
 NOMINATE
EUGENE V. DEBs FOR PRESIDENT AND EMIL sElDEL IS NAMED
 FOR SECOND PLACE.
Dan Hogan, of Arkansas, Run Close Race for Vice President--Women Wanted to Run on Ticket
 With Debs.

Indianapolis. Ind. May IT, Eugene 1 Victor Debs, of Terre Haute, Ind, was nominated late today as can didate for the presidency of tho United States by the national So- cialists convention.
 Emil seidel, former mayor of Mill yankee was named for the vice pres idential nomination.
 Mir. Debs was not in the hall when the result of the ballot was announc ed, but Mir. Seidel promised he would make the campaign "as lively as the capitalist parties had ever seen"
 Mir Debs was opposed for the nomination by MT. seidel and Chas. Edward Russell of New York. After the result of the first ballot which was: Debs 65; Seidel 56 and Rus sell 54, had been given out, Mir Sci del moved that the nomination be made unanimous and it was seconded by Mir. Russell Many candidates in- cluding Kate Richards OHair of St. Louis, and Anna Agnes Mahltv CT Seattle. were named fer the second r'ace, but three. Mir Se,dei. Iohn w Slayton, Pennsylvania, and Dan Ho- gan, Arkansas, remained to be voted upon. MT. Seidel on the first bal lot received 159 votes, Hogan 73 and Slayton 24 Mir. Hogan's motion to make MT Seiders nomination unan- imous was seconded by Mir Slayton
 Aside from the nominations, the only other business of the convention at the afternoon session, was the adoption of the constitution which places the party as taking decided stand against violence as weapon oi the working classes The ses sion was the most heated of the con vention and the section was not adopted until after several hours of debate which many times ran into personalities.
 The section reads; Any member of the party who opposes political action or advocates crime, sabotage or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in it's emancipation shall be expell- ed from membership in the party. Political action shall be construed to mean participation in elections for public offices and practical legisla- tive and administrative work alonr the lines of the Socialist party plat form"
 The section was opposed by the direct action forces who have Oeeh espousing the cause of the Indus trial Workers of the World and was favored by the so-called yellow or conservative faction in the party. Bernard Berlyn of Chicago denied hr was Hyelow" and concluded by say ing "I would go to hell if told to make Socialist speech there He said violence did not gain the work iLg classes anything.
 Congressman Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee declared those who oppos- ed the section belong with Emma Goldman and are trying to hide be- hind political action"
 There is no bridge between So- ciaIism and anarchy said Congress man Berger Those who stand for political action are not for the bomb thrower and the dagger wielder The trouble is there are anarchists in the party who are trying to hide under the guise of the I w w"
 A motion to strike out the section regarding violence was lost on ro'l call vote go to 19l and it was then lassed by a vive voce vote. Wm. D. hayaeol cember Of the executive board and a. | w ". leader in the Lawrence, Mass, strike, took no part in the debate On the measure, but after it led been pass ea i'd
 eTAat looks Ike it was aimed it s,o. ut it wi" hare to he nut to d referendum yo's before it is adopt ed said:
 lie the vote on The measdre was 
 he!nc tahulated the delegates broke into singing che Marseiles and The Red Flag. Many delegate- stood tpon the tablee cheering sne sing :os and the demonstration was kept 1 ID sor several mint'cs