Debs ran for president as the Socialist Party's candidate every year from 1900 to 1912. In 1918, he gave an antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio that got him convicted under the country’s wartime ...

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. (AP Photo, File) By Associated Press ...

FILE - This is an undated portrait of socialist Eugene Debs. Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and current Republican front-runner Donald Trump has to wait to find out ...

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. The circumstances are obviously different.

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. (AP Photo, File) ...

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent.

Eugene V. Debs, the voice of the Socialist Party a century ago, and his connection with Canton are back in the national spotlight. Debs was the first man to run for U.S. president while in prison.

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. The circumstances are obviously different.

Drake documents the many ways America’s religious and political radicals collaborated during the 1890s and the 1900s. Eugene V. Debs’s Socialist Party relied on groups like the Christian Socialist ...

Eugene V. Debs, a champion of labor who, in the mid-1890s, became an avowed socialist, held Christ in similarly high regard. In the spring of 1896, Debs gave a rousing speech to workers in Chicago, ...