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DEBS IS NOMINATED
BY SOCIALIST PARTY
Ovation Following Choice
Lasts 21 Minutes.
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LEADER TM FEDERAL JAIL
Committee rt Ht to Seek Amnesty
tor "Political Prisoners"
Tbrooshout Country.
WW TOKK. May 13. The national
coavenUon or the socialist party to
day acclaimed Eugene "V. Debs,, fed
eral convict No. 2253 in the Atlanta,
Ga., penitentiary, its candidate for
the fifth time for president of the
United States.
A. 21-minute ovation followed Debs'
formal nomination, as "the Lincoln
of the Wabash."
Seymour Stedman of Chicago, gen
eral counsel of the party, was nomi
nated for vice-president by unani
mous vote on a second ballot. The
first vote for him was 106 against
26 for Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare of
Kansas City, now serving a sentence
in a Jefferson City, Mo., prison for
violation of the espionage act.
Revolatlorinry Idea ICoIds.
la nominating Debs the socialist
party of America signifies its deter
mination "not to recede one inch from
our revolutionary programme," Mor
ris Hillquit of New York, leader of
the "conservative" forces, declared.
"Socialism in the United States has
not changed and does not intend to
change," he said.
Another ovation greeted this dec
laration. Tonight a special committee of
five, headed by Hillquit, will leave
for Washington, where tomorrow -it
has an appointment with Attorney
Cteneral Palmer to plead for amnesty
for all "political prisoners" through
out the country.
Saturday the same committee has
an, appointment with Secretary
Tumulty at the White House to pre
sent a memorial on amnesty for de
livery to President Wilson. On Mon
day. Secretary of War Baker is to re
ceive the committee to hear a plea for
amnesty for "conscientious objectors"
imprisoned during the war for failure
to obey the draft laws.
Today the convention adopted the
Hillquit platform virtually as sub
mitted several days ago, voting by
decisive majorities to wage the so
cialist campaign this year along "con
servative" political lines.
Debs is now in the federal peni
tentiary at Atlanta, Ga. He began
serving a 10 years' sentence for viola
tion of the war time espionage act
April 13. 1919. He is 65 years of age
and has been given the presidential
nomination by his party four times
previously. He was a democrat be
fore he became a socialist. In the
late '70s, he served two terms in the
Indiana legislature from Terre Haute,
his home town. He was once a candi
date for congress from the fifth In
diana district. In 1894, from May to
November, he served a sentence in
Jail for contempt of court in an Illi
nois conspiracy case.
His present imprisonment resulted
from investigation, of a speech in Can
ton, O., Jtjne 16, 1918.
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LABORER KILLS HIMSELF
Body or Man Who Cut Throat Is
Found by Searchers.
ASTORIA, Or.. May 13. (Special.)
John Backlund, a bucker, employed
at the Brix Logging company's camp
in the Grays River, Wash., district,
committed suicide Tuesday by cut
ting his throat, but his body was not
found until last night. Backlund, who
had been in ill health for several
days, disappeared shortly after break
fast Tuesday ana was supposed to
have wandered away.
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and found the body last night. He
is survived by a son, who is employed
at the same camp. His widow and
several children reside in the old
country.
Voong Girls Complainants.
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and Taylor streets early last night by
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SMITH OUT UNDER BOND
I. W. W. Attorney Accused of Mur
der at Centrulia Released.
CHEHALIS, Wash., May 13. (Spe
cial.) Late today Elmer Smith, Cen
tralia L W. W. attorney, was re
leased from the Lewis county jail here
on 15000 bail, where he was held on
the charge of killing Arthur Mc
Elfresh during the armistice day mas
sacre of ex-service men November 11.
William Guderyon and wife, who live
north of Centralia, and A. F. Thomp
son and wife of Hanaford valley,
signed the bond.
Judge Back of Clarke county ad
mitted Smith to bail after the bond
had been approved by Mrs. Cora
Black, county clerk.-
CANDIDATES EVADE ISSUE
Few Reply to Inquiry Regarding
Japanese Exclusion.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 13. (Spe
cial.) After sending out 307 circu
lar letters to candidates asking
their sentiment on Japanese exclu
sion and a law providing that no
unnaturalized alien be permitted to
holdl land, R. E. Scott, secretary of
the Hood River Anti-Asiatic associa
tion, says he has received 61 answers.
"With one exception," says Mr.
Scott, "the replies have been favor
able to the programme of the asso
ciation, which would not eliminate
land ownership by Asiatics and other
aliens, but would prevent the auto
matic citizenship of children born of
unnaturalized parents. Wallace Mc
Camant, republican candidate for
delegate-at-large to the national con
vention, say6 he would not discrim
inate against native-born Americans
on account of their parentage and
that they should not be refused citizenship."
Pullman Professor Visits Aberdeen.
ABERDEEN. Wash., May 13. (Spe
cial.) Frank Kreager, head of the
department of elementary science at
the Washington state college at Pull
man, will be chief speaker at the
regular weekly luncheon of the Aber
deen Kiwanis club. Mr. Kreager was
to have addressed the Aberdeen high
school students but was prevented be
cause of the closing of the school
on account of contagion.
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