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In 1912 the more conservative "gas and water" socialists (who did not want to destroy capitalism) adopted a platform calling for cooperative organization of prisons, a national bureau of health, abolition of the Senate and the presidential veto, and a long list of progressive reforms. They nominated Debs, who saw his mission as keeping the disparate units together in the hope that someday a common goal would be found for all socialists.  

In 1912 the more conservative "gas and water" socialists (who did not want to destroy capitalism) adopted a platform calling for cooperative organization of prisons, a national bureau of health, abolition of the Senate and the presidential veto, and a long list of progressive reforms. They nominated Debs, who saw his mission as keeping the disparate units together in the hope that someday a common goal would be found for all socialists.  

There was little money--his campaign cost only $66,000, mostly for 3.5 million leaflets and travel to rallies organized by local groups. Debs criss-crossed the country, His biggest event was a speech to 15,000 in New York City. The crowd sang the "Marseillaise," and "International" as Emil Seidel, the vice-presidential candidate, boasted, "Only a year ago workingmen were throwing decayed vegetables and rotten eggs at us but now all is changed....Eggs are too high. There is a great giant growing up in this country that will someday take over the affairs of this nation. He is a little giant now but he is growing fast. The name of this little giant is socialism." Debs said that only the socialists represented labor; he condemned "Injunction Bill Taft"; ridiculed Roosevelt as "a charlatan, mountebank, and fraud, and his Progressive promises and pledges as the mouthings of a low and utterly unprincipled self seeker and demagogue." Debs insisted that the Democrats, Progressives and Republicans alike were financed by the trusts. Party newspapers spread the word.<ref> Chace (2005)</ref>

There was little money—his campaign cost only $66,000, mostly for 3.5 million leaflets and travel to rallies organized by local groups. Debs criss-crossed the country, His biggest event was a speech to 15,000 in New York City. The crowd sang the "Marseillaise," and "International" as Emil Seidel, the vice-presidential candidate, boasted, "Only a year ago workingmen were throwing decayed vegetables and rotten eggs at us but now all is changed....Eggs are too high. There is a great giant growing up in this country that will someday take over the affairs of this nation. He is a little giant now but he is growing fast. The name of this little giant is socialism." Debs said that only the socialists represented labor; he condemned "Injunction Bill Taft"; ridiculed Roosevelt as "a charlatan, mountebank, and fraud, and his Progressive promises and pledges as the mouthings of a low and utterly unprincipled self seeker and demagogue." Debs insisted that the Democrats, Progressives and Republicans alike were financed by the trusts. Party newspapers spread the word.<ref>Chace (2005)</ref>

===Friend of workers?===

===Friend of workers?===

==Birth of Socialism in America==

==Birth of Socialism in America==

Debs, [[Socialist Party of America|SPA]] co-founder [[Frederic Heath]], and other SPA members wrote that with the book [[Looking Backward]] under the guise of "nationalism", socialism was fostered in the United States.

Debs, [[Socialist Party of America|SPA]] co-founder [[Frederic Heath]], and other SPA members wrote that with the book [[Looking Backward]] under the guise of "nationalism", socialism was fostered in the United States.

{{cquote|The first national convention of the Social Democracy of America pays tribute to the memory of [[Edward Bellamy]], first to popularize the ideas of Socialism among his countrymen and last to be forgotten by them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Frederic |year=1900 |title=Social democracy red book |publisher=Debs publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA64 |pages=64-65 }}</ref>}}

{{cquote|The first national convention of the Social Democracy of America pays tribute to the memory of [[Edward Bellamy]], first to popularize the ideas of Socialism among his countrymen and last to be forgotten by them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Frederic |year=1900 |title=Social democracy red book |publisher=Debs publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA64 |pages=64–65 }}</ref>}}

==In Modern Culture==

==In Modern Culture==

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==

* Almont, Lindsey. ''The Pullman Strike'' (1942)

* Almont, Lindsey. ''The Pullman Strike'' (1942)

* Almont, Lindsey. "Paternalism and the Pullman Strike." ''The American Historical Review,'' Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jan., 1939), pp. 272-289 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(193901)44%3A2%3C272%3APATPS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 online at JSTOR]

* Almont, Lindsey. "Paternalism and the Pullman Strike." ''The American Historical Review,'' Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jan., 1939), pp.&nbsp;272–289 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(193901)44%3A2%3C272%3APATPS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 online at JSTOR]

* Burwood, Stephen. "Debsian Socialism Through a Transnational Lens." ''Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era'' 2003 2(3): 253-282. Issn: 1537-7814 Fulltext: in [[History Cooperative]]. Shows Debsian rhetoric was similar to rhetoric of European socialists.  

* Burwood, Stephen. "Debsian Socialism Through a Transnational Lens." ''Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era'' 2003 2(3): 253-282. Issn: 1537-7814 Fulltext: in [[History Cooperative]]. Shows Debsian rhetoric was similar to rhetoric of European socialists.  

* Corbin, David A. "Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America, 1912-1914." ''Journal of American History'' 1978 64(4): 987-1009. Issn: 0021-8723 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(197803)64%3A4%3C987%3ABITWVC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 in Jstor]  

* Corbin, David A. "Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America, 1912-1914." ''Journal of American History'' 1978 64(4): 987-1009. Issn: 0021-8723 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(197803)64%3A4%3C987%3ABITWVC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 in Jstor]  

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