Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — DEBS FOR PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

DEBS FOR PRESIDENT.

Chicago Labor Congress Names the American Hallway Union Leader. Eugene V. Debs wan named for the presidency of the United States by the Chicago Labor Congress at its regular meeting Sunday afternoon. The resolution, introduced by Victor B. Williams of the printers, provoked a discussion which consumed nearly three hours; but it finally was adopted. It was recited in the resolution that as the corporations, syndicates and trusts are seeking to have presidential candidates nominated who are in sympathy with the existing order of industrial things, labor, organized and unorganized, should be equally sdlicitous that a man be nominated who is known to be friendly to workers and wealth producers. The congress expressed the belief that Eugene V. Debs is best fitted to become the leader of the industrial classes.