Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — SUPREME COURT JUDGES FLAYED AS OLD FOSSILS [ARTICLE]

SUPREME COURT JUDGES FLAYED AS OLD FOSSILS

Cleveland, March -12. —In what may be his farewell public address before he begins serving a ten year sentence imposed by the federal court here on a charge of violating the espionage act, Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader tonight upheld the Bolshevist rule in Russia and referred to Lenine and Trotzky as the “foremost statesmen of the age.” Debs said the judges of the United States supreme court were “begowned, bewhiskered, bepowdered old fossils, who had never decided anything.” Referring to the prison term that he faces he reiterated his opposition to the law he violated while the war was in progress. Announcement was made of ; a meeting to be held here March 23 to protest -against the imprisonment of Debs ahd to organize to obtain the freedom of all political and industrial prisoners. A big crowd of police and agents of the department of justice were scattered through the crowd but there was.no semblance of disorder.