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Eugene V. Debs, according to his own account, is " a citizen of the world," because he is deprived of United States citizenship by being a paroled convict from the penitentiary at Atlanta. That did not prevent Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, from booming Debs for the Presidency of the United States.

At a mass meeting of 15,000 Socialists following the Socialist Convention in Manhattan, Mr. Hoan declared : " If the American people vote for their best interests. Eugene V. Debs will be our President in 1925. . . . The Socialist Party is the only party that took a 100% American stand during the war."

Thus did Daniel Hoan, one-time chef, self-made university graduate, self-made lawyer, self-made politician, open a boom for Debs. Milwaukee is a Socialist city, but Hoan by his own abilities has been in office (as city attorney) even when the Socialist ticket as a whole was defeated. In 1916 he became mayor of Milwaukee and carried the city for the Socialists with the slogan: "Public Ownership of Public Utilities."