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I was going to spend this week’s blog on The Mystery of 1909. Something really changed in that year for Gene Debs, a “blank space” between the gut punch 1908 election result — in which the Socialist Party’s nearly perfect … Continue reading →

DEBS AROUSES ENTHUSIASM IN DIXIE Appeal to Reason whole no. 755 (May 21,1910), p. 3. by George D. Brewer Fort Smith, Arkansas, May 7, 1910 Arkansas more than made good at the Debs meetings in Fort Smith and Texarkana on … Continue reading →

Well, I promised that weekly blog posts would be things of the past last week, and wouldn’t you know it, a perfect bit fell into my hands — a clipping from the Debs scrapbooks that won’t make the cut as … Continue reading →

The Socialist Party’s 1908 campaign train, the so-called “Red Special,” departed from Chicago on the morning of August 31. The rail effort would run continuously until its final termination in Debs’s hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana on November 2 — … Continue reading →

Throughout his life, Debs had little proclivity to participate in the day-to-day affairs of party politics. While his beloved brother and closest political associate, Theodore, had done a stint as chief executive of the Social Democratic Party based in Chicago, … Continue reading →