A severely weakened Socialist Party opened its convention in New York" on 8 May 1920. Man) Many supporters had bolted the party after it took a strong stand against U. S. participation in World War I, a stance that resulted in repression by the Wilson administration during and after the war The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 had also led to party division, and members took different positions on the role of the party in the Communist Thud International of 1919 Despite internal dissent and external persecution, the Socialists united to nominate Eugene V. Debs of Indiana for the fifth time as their presidential candidate. Debs, however, was unable to attend the convention because he was serving a ten-year sentence in the federal penitentiary for his opposition to World War I. Seymour Stedman of Ohio, the Socialist vice presidential candidate, campaigned alone for the ticket, which .garnered-just...