Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-22
CROWDS LISTEN
( TO DEBS'S SPEECH
Socialist Candidate for Presi-
dency Raps Taft, Wilson
and Roosevelt.
CAPITALISM ATTACKED;
SAYS IT'S END GROWS NEAR
His Party Organized to Abolish
Great Evil" He Tells
Hearers.

So great was the crowd hat Wen
to hear Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist
candidate for President, last night
that he had 10 address two meetings
while local candidates spoke to a third
outside of the Colosseum. The can
didate was given an ovation on en-.
tering and leaving the halls. Hs
spoke for more than an hour in the
main hall and then addressed the
throng in the smaller one.
The meeting was presided over by
Henry Carless. who introduced the
speakers. They were, besides Mr..
Debs, Hugh Reilly, Socialist candi-
date for Mayor of Newark: T. Alex
ander Cairns, of this city, and T. J.
Lacombe, of Irvington.
Mr.. Debs did not mince his words
in wading into capitalism, which he
said is rushing blindly on to its i'm
pending doom, and that all the signs
portend the inevitable breakdown of
the existing conditions.
Masses Are Disconnected.
"Deep-seated discomfort" said the
speaker, has seized upon the masses
and they must indeed be leaf who do
not hear the mutterings of the ap-
preaching storm.
Poverty, high prices. unemploy-
nent, child slavery, widespread mis-
cry and haggard want in a land
bursting with abundance; prostitu-
ton and insanity, suicide and crime,
these in solemn number said the
speaker, tell the tragic story of cap
italism's saturnalia of blood and tears
and shame as its end draws near"
Mr.. Debs said that it was to abolish
this monstrous system that the So
cialist party was organized, and 1t
now makes its appeal to the intelli-
gence and consciousness of the peo-
pie. He told of the slow progress
that had at first been made and of
the rapid strides that was now being
made since the people had woke up
10 the true situation. He said that
several Congressman had been elected
M that more would certainly be
elected i'll November. "These condi-
lions will continue" said the speaker.
until the other political parties will
some day-and not a very distant
n at that-realize that the people
have really been aroused"
Rivals Raped Hard.
Mr.. pebs also paid his respects to
his rival candidates. in which neither
n of the three was spared He took
then n by one, to the merriment
of his hearers, who were amused at
his entertaining descriptions. Taking
the Republican national convention
at Chicago Mr. Debs said that IL
was composed of professional CAPT.
talists, 'boodlers and grafters. They
stopped at swell hotels and none
were out of a job" said the speaker.
"and all were supplied with a meal
ticket and did not bother over i'm
pending hard times. There were no
~wcrkingmen among that lot. for I
was there and looked for them in
vain"
The speaker referred to the Balti-
more and Bull Moose conventions as
repetitions of that at Chicago.
These were conventions of capital"
he said, land representatives of your
masters. Search their party plat
forms as you may and you will find
nothing in them that will benefit
you
In speaking of the rival Presidential
candidates Mr.. Debs regretted the at
tempt on the life of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Debs said that Mr.. Roosevelt
referred to him as an undesirable
citizen, while Mr.. Taft had paid his
respects to him by calling him an UNI
ambitious malcontent. He said that
Mr.. Taft was controlled by Morgan,
Rockefeller and Carnegie, the philan-
thropist, while behind Mr.. Wilson
were Thomas Fortune Ryan, August
Belmont, Thomas Taggart and
Charles Murphy. He paid his respects
to Mr.. Wilson by saying that he was
polite and lady-like and was the kid
glove on the paw of the Tammany
tiger. He referred also to Mr.. Will
sons public record, which, he said,
was not in any way favorable to the
working man.
Pleading for the support of his
hearers, the speaker said that the
Socialist party vas still in the minor
ity and advised them not to wait.
Don't wait until we get popular" he
said, "for we won't need you them"