For  President  the  nominee  was  Eugene  V.  Debs,  an
inmate  of  the  Federal  prison  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  hav-
ing been  convicted  and  sentenced  to  a  ten  years'  term
for  violation  of  the  Espionage  act  by  his  public  utter-
ances at  Canton,  Ohio,  in  July,  1918.  After  Debs's
nomination  a  delegation  of  Socialists  requested  Presi-
dent Wilson  to  pardon  him,  but  without  success.
For  Vice-President,  Seymour  Stedman,  of  Chicago.
