John Spargo was a Cornishman who came to New York in 1901 and became a political writer and late in life an expert in the history and crafts of Vermont. At first Spargo was active in the Socialist Party of America.
Spargo's position won the day at the 1904 Socialist Party convention and it was not until 1914 until the organization finally established a party-owned weekly newspaper. Spargo's first wife, Prudence, died of tuberculosis in March 1904. A year and 10...
