Debs and Third Parties Polls Show Socialist Vote Strength
Washington reports the Socialist Party reached its peak in 1920 with Eugene V Debs earning 919,799 votes as the party’s first long-shot candidate. The piece traces Socialist results across years, lists top state contributors, notes third party activity including the Communist and Prohibition Parties, and cites key figures like William Z. Webber and Robert M. La Follette amid broader U S political currents.
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Socialist Party
Eugene V Debs
Debs
Communist Party
William Z%rbster
New York
New Jersey
Ilinois
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Sormlist
United States
Prohibition Party
Baltimore
Millard Fillmore Ag
Divergent U.S. Party Candidates and Their Vote Totals
The field of the American or Know Nothing Party polled 874,634 votes. A few years earlier, in 1948, Martin Van Buren, running as a Free Soil Democrat or Barn Burner polled 291,263 votes. In 1892 James B. Weaver, long the candidate of the Greenback Party, polled 1,040,886 votes as candidate of the Populist Party.
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Martin van Buren
James B. Weaver
Greenback Party
South Ridge E L C Be Holds Meeting
Miriam Fowl hosted the South Ridge E L C E Society gathering at her home on Friday evening. Attendees included numerous local residents from Elyria, Townlina road, Murray Ridge, Oberlin, Henrietta, and Amherst. The event featured singing, devotionals by Glenn McMullen, a regular business session, social time, and refreshments.
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South Ridge
Miriam Fowl
E. L. C. E. Society
Glenn McMullen
Mary Wagner
Edith Saltuper
Helen Thompson
Donald Johnston
Ralph McDonald
William Belts
Kenneth Harden
Elyria
Lima
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