As he exited the courtroom, “a girl pushed a bunch of flowers into [Eugene] Debs’ outstretched hands. Then she fell, half fainting, into his arms. Debs stooped down and kissed her.” This report from the New York Times portrays Debs as surrounded by a remarkable sense of bravado, a man who came to be known henceforth as “Democracies Prisoner.” On September 12, 1918 in Cleveland Ohio for the...