Here is a very Rare Debs/Harriman campaign button/pin. So rare in fact, that I could not find hardly any information on their campaign. There are other Eugene Debs collectibles on Ebay and a lot of information on the net about it. I could not find anything on ebay and very little on the web. I only found the following historical information on the Debs/Harriman campaign. I thought I would share what bit of history I could find.
The button is in good condition. It measures just shy of 7/8" in diameter
Job Harriman a lawyer and politician initiated Llano del Rio. He was the Socialist Labor Party candidate for governor of the state of California. However, after having little success as a Labor Party candidate, Harriman began to align himself with the more mainstream labor movement. During 1900, he became the vice-presidential candidate to Eugene Debs. While campaigning with Debs, Harriman, though still loyal to socialist principles, began to believe that for the Socialist Party to gain success it needed to replace its political base with an economic one [3]. Socialism would eventually transform capitalism from within. Harriman also believed that for socialism to be successful it needed to be implemented economically as well as politically: ââIt became apparent to me that a people would never abandon their means of livelihood, good or bad, capitalistic or otherwise, until other methods were developed which would promise advantages at least as good as those by which they were livingâ
