Evening star., 1912-08-26

! TERRE HACTE, Ind. August 26.-1n
marked contrast to the notification cere-
monies practiced by other political par
| ties. the socialist presidential nominee.
| Eugene V. Debs. today accepted his
| nomination by simply informing the
newspapers that they were at liberty to
print his address of acceptance, which he
had sent them in printed form.
| No committee called on Mr.. Debs and
| there was an entire lack Of ceremony of
any kind.
| The extreme simplicity of the occasion
was marked further by Mr.. Debs' prep
| arations for a trip to Fergus Falls,
Mimi, where he will speak tomorrow
night. The address. in part. follows:
Nomination Was Unsought.
1T is with full sense of the response
bility it imposes and the service it exacts
| that / accept the nomination for Pres-
dent rendered to me by the socialist
party of the United States. Personally
do not wish the nomination. 1t came
service and not as personal honor.
''The socialist party Is fundamentally
| different from all other parties. 1t came
| in the process of evolution and grows
with the growth Of the forces which Gre
ated it. Its spirit is militant and its aim
! revolutionary. 1t expresses in political
terms the aspiration of the working class
/ to freedom and to a larger and fuller
life than they have yet known.
There are no boundary lines to sepa-
| creed from creed In the socialist party.
| The common rights of all are equally
| recognized.
''The infallible test of political party
/ is the private ownership of the sources
! or wealth and the means of life. Apply
that test to the republican, democratic
and progressive parties, and upon that
basic. fundamental issue you will find
| them essentially one and the same They
differ according to the conflicting inter-
ests of the privileged classes but at bot
tom they are alike. and stand for cap
| ftalist class rule and working class
| slavery.
The new progressive party is part!
OF progressive capitalism. 1t is lavishly
| financed and shrewdly advertised But Il
stands for the rule of capitalism all the
| same.
Old Parties for Capitalists.
! THE republican. democratic and pro-
gressive parties all stand for the private
ownership by the capitalists Of the pro-
| ouctive machinery used by the workers.
| SO that the capitalists can continue 70
Mich the wealth produced by the workers.
| The socialist party is- the only party
! which declares that the tools of labor
| belong to labor. and that the wealth pro.
| duced by the working class belongs to the
working class.
1 we appeal to the workers and 10 al,
who sympathize with them TO make tbeiy
power felt in this campaign Never be-
| fore has there been so great an onnor.
tunity to strike an effective blow for
| freedom. 80
| standing as 1t does for the emancina.
| ton of the working class from wa ase
| slavery, for the equal rights and onnor.
tunities Of all men and all women. for
the abolition of child labor and the con.
servation of all childhood for social self.
rule and the equal freedom of all IN.
socialist party is the party of progress
| the party of the future, and it's triumnt
| will signaliZe the birth of new ciyiliz..
tion and the dawn of a happier day fo,
all humanity"
British Socialist Coming.
! MONTREAL. August o6-Keir Hardie
the well known socialist member of par.
Lament, was in Montreal today for the
opening of twO-month speaking cam