Eugene V. Debs

The fourth candidate was Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist who received six percent of the popular vote, the largest share in American history for a Socialist.

When Teddy Roosevelt was shot E.J. Dionne 2011

Freda and her husband, Oscar, were ideological allies with their friend Eugene V. Debs, but they worked closely with more moderate reformers in Milwaukee.

John Thompson: Education of the People, by the People, and for the People" John Thompson 2011

There was a fourth party candidate, Eugene V. Debs, who campaigned on a train called "The Red Special."

Ken Blackwell: Obama's Mount Gushmore Ken Blackwell 2011

He also defended anarchist bombers, socialists like Eugene V. Debs put in prison during World War I and kept there by a vindictive Woodrow Wilson and, most notoriously, Leopold and Loeb, the thrill-seeking Chicago intellectuals who killed a 14-year-old boy.

A Man in Search of a Lost Cause Carl Rollyson 2011

Freda and her husband, Oscar, were ideological allies with their friend Eugene V. Debs, but they worked closely with more moderate reformers in Milwaukee.

John Thompson: Education of the People, by the People, and for the People" John Thompson 2011

And there was also Eugene V. Debs, running on a still-respectable Socialist ticket, though in general "socialism" was still a national bugaboo and some Progressives defended their own programs as safety valves to relieve pressure towards the frightening revolutionary doctrine.

Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin Bernard Weisberger 2011

Increasing public praise for Eugene V. Debs and his Socialist Party following his arrest for sedition in 1918 ultimately led politicians to commute his sentence, which in turn led a handful of the same judges who initially upheld his conviction to hand down some of the finest rulings on free speech in American history.

Alex Green: The Royal Court: Elena Kagan in Perspective 2010

True, Jews did not become Democrats until FDR but that was because the Democratic party was too conservative and Jews preferred the likes of socialists like Eugene V. Debs.

MJ Rosenberg: Netanyahu: Gaza Blockade? Never Mind ++ Grayson on Israel 2010

True, Jews did not become Democrats until FDR but that was because the Democratic party was too conservative and Jews preferred the likes of socialists like Eugene V. Debs.

MJ Rosenberg: Netanyahu: Gaza Blockade? Never Mind ++ Grayson on Israel MJ Rosenberg 2010

Here at home, Eugene V. Debs, our most influential Socialist politician, took 6 percent of the vote for president in 1912 and called for a government takeover of our entire capitalist system, "expropriating the expropriators" in the language of Marx.

Van Gosse: Why President Obama Is Not (and Is) a Socialist Van Gosse 2010