The Oklahoma effort was aided by Julius Wayland and his widely circulated weekly, The Appeal to Reason, which published a special Oklahoma edition in 1908.Green, Grass-Roots Socialism, pg. 74. The party's effort were rewarded, with Socialist candidates in the poorest cotton-growing areas of the state garnering the party's highest level of voter support.Green, Grass-Roots Socialism, pg. 78, fn. 45. In certain counties the Socialist Presidential ticket of Eugene V. Debs and Ben Hanford drew a quarter of the votes cast.Green, Grass-Roots Socialism. pp. 72-73. Statewide, the Debs-Hanford ticket won 21,425 votes — just short of 8.5% of the total ballots cast.Green, Grass-Roots Socialism, pg. 75. The final departure of the People's Party from the political scene after the 1908 election further broadened Socialist horizons.
