Although both Eugene Debs and Theodore Roosevelt never actually agreed publicly on any issues that I know of, there are positions which both of them took which were in basic agreement. read more
Labor organizer and socialist leader Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) began his rise to prominence in Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. read more