Seymour Stedman, and Eugene Debs shake hands and

Seymour Stedman, and Eugene Debs shake hands and kiss at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, 1920. Stedman notified Debs of his nomination as the Socialist Party's nominee for President, for which he ran from jail and won almost one million of 27 million votes cast. Leftist Labor Leader and Socialist politician Eugene Debs was serving a 10-year sentence for publicly opposing U.S. entry into World War 1. (BSLOC_2015_15_183)

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