THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 50, 23 October 1912, Page 5

THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.

THE CAMPAIGN FUND. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) 'Washington, October 22. Perkins, examined by the Senate Investigating Committee, denied the existence of a lingo fund to finance Roosevelt’s pre-Convention campaign. The Harvester Trust and Steel Trust did not contirbute a single cent, towards the fund. The situation in Cuba is causing concern. With the Presidential election pending, there is great excitement throughout the island. THE SOCIALIST CANDIDATE. Eugene V. Debs, who has been nominated as Socialist candidate for the Presidentship, has issued his address, of acceptance. In conclusion, ho says • “Wo appeal to tho workers and to all who sympathise with them, to make their power felt in this campaign. -Never before has there been so great an opportunity to strike an effective blow for freedom. Poverty, high prices, unemployment, child slavery, widespread misery, and haggard want in a land bursting with abundance; prostitution and insanity, suicide and crime, these in solemn numbers tell the tragic story of capitalism’s saturnalia of blood and tears and shame as its end draws near. It is to abolish this monstrous system and the misery and crime which flow from it in a direful and threatening stream that the Socialist Party was organised and now makes its appeal to the intelligence and conscience r.f the people. The Socialist Party’s mission is not only to destroy capitalist despotism, hut to establish industrial and social democracy. To this end the workers are steadily organisingli and fitting themselves for the day when they shall take control of the people’s industries, and when the right to work shall he as inviolate a a tne right to breathe tho breath of life.’ ’