One year later this group split and Debs went with the majority faction to found the Social Democratic Party of the United States, also called the Social Democratic Party.

Debs went to prison on April 13, 1919.

Debs went to prison for violating a court order and his ARU disappeared.

During the summer of 1902, Hagerty went on a tour of mining camps in Colorado with Socialist Party of America ( SPA ) orator Eugene V. Debs, attempting to recruit the impoverished miners to the ALU and the SPA.

Debs went to prison ( for disobeying a court order ).

Debs went to prison on April 13, 1919.

After their defeat at the Convention, some members of the minority caucuses left: at most 200 members of the Coalition Caucus led by Michael Harrington went on to form the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee ( later becoming the Democratic Socialists of America ), some former members of the Debs Caucus led the formation of the " Socialist Party of the United States of America ".

Campaigning from a federal prison, Socialist Eugene V. Debs received 3 % of the national vote.

Eugene Debs after release from prison by President Harding visited the White House.

On December 23, 1921 Harding calmed the 1919 – 1920 Bolshevik scare and released election opponent, socialist leader Eugene Debs, from prison.

** Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

Debs educated himself about socialism in prison and emerged to launch his career as the nation's most prominent socialist in the first decades of the 20th century.

An estimated $ 80-million worth of property was damaged, and Debs was found guilty of contempt of court for violating the injunction and sent to federal prison.

After Debs ' release from prison in 1895, he started his Socialist political career.

Debs was sentenced on November 18, 1918, to ten years in prison.

Clifford Berryman's cartoon depiction of Debs ' 1920 presidential run from prison

Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while in prison in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

He received 913, 664 write-in votes ( 3. 4 %), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 %, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the U. S. His time in prison also inspired Debs to write a series of columns deeply critical of the prison system, which appeared in sanitized form in the Bell Syndicate and appeared in his only book, Walls and Bars, with several added chapters.

Debs leaving the White House, the day after being released from prison in 1921.

A year after the Act's passage, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908, and 1912 was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a speech that " obstructed recruiting ".

Debs was convicted of violating the court injunction, and was sent to prison for six months.

Young saw Eugene V. Debs as a man of vision, with a mission: " While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

The local United States Attorney secured a felony indictment of Pettigrew for suspicion of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, the same charge for which Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was then presently serving a ten-year Federal prison sentence.

In 1992, LaRouche became the second person in U. S. history ( after Eugene Debs ) to run for President from a prison cellalthough Debs was generally considered a serious candidate and was in jail for his political beliefs ( against World War I ) rather than for fraud.

The main character's name-sharing with Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States ( one of his candidacies occurred while he was in prison ), is explicitly discussed in the book.

The following quote from Eugene V. Debs appears several times: "... while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

* 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency.

" Debs spoke with pride of the devotion with which his " most loyal comrades were paying the penalty to the working class – these being Wagenknecht, Baker and Ruthenberg, who had been convicted of aiding and abetting another in failing to register for the draft.

Debs, a forceful World War I antiwar activist, had been convicted under sedition charges brought by the Wilson administration for his opposition to the draft during World War I.

Debs ' failing health was a contributing factor for the release.

In the US, Eugene V. Debs, one of the most famous American socialists, led a movement centered around democratic socialism and made five bids for President, once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.

This is demonstrated by the use of the word " tendency " in Schenck itself, a paragraph in Schenck explaining that the success of speech in causing the actual harm was not a prerequisite for conviction, and use of the bad-tendency test in the simultaneous Frohwerk v. United States and Debs v. United States decisions ( both of which cite Schenck without using the words " clear and present danger ").

In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.

Eugene Victor " Gene " Debs ( November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926 ) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies ), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

As a leader of the ARU, Debs was later imprisoned for failing to obey an injunction against the strike.

Debs was noted for his oratory, and a speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918.

Debs gradually became convinced of the need for a more unified and confrontational approach.

Debs was represented by Clarence Darrow, hitherto a corporate lawyer for the railroad company, who " switched sides " to represent Debs.

At the time of his arrest for mail obstruction, Debs was not yet a socialist.

Debs, along with Elliott, were the first federal office candidates for the fledgling Socialist party, running ( unsuccessfully ) for US president and Congress in 1900.

Debs received 5. 99 % of the popular vote ( a total of 901, 551 votes ) in 1912, while his total of 913, 693 votes in the 1920 campaign remains the all-time high for a Socialist Party candidate.

Haywood stated: " We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working class ...", and for Debs: " We are here to perform a task so great that it appeals to our best thought, our united energies, and will enlist our most loyal support ; a task in the presence of which weak men might falter and despair, but from which it is impossible to shrink without betraying the working class.

The rift presented a problem for Debs, who was influential in both the IWW and the Socialist Party.

In 1906, when Haywood had been on trial for his life in Idaho, Debs had described him as " the Lincoln of Labor " and called for Haywood to run against Theodore Roosevelt for president of the United States., but times had changed and Debs, facing a split in the Party, chose to echo Hillquit's words, accusing the IWW of representing anarchy.