Debs declined to run as Socialist Party Presidential candidate in the 1916 election (he ran for Congress in Indiana) and the right of the Party was able to get Alan Benson as the standard barer. To disastrous effect; SP support was halved, losing 500,000 votes from 1912.

Socialist Handbook, Campaign 1916. Published by the Socialist Party of America, Chicago. 1916.

Contents: Socialist Party Platform, Socialist Party Membership Vote and Parliamentary Representation, Republican Party Platform, Democratic Party Platform, Old Party Platforms Compared, Findings of Industrial Relations Commission, What Share Does the Worker Get?, The Power of Unionism, Co-operatives of the World, Cost of Living, Militarism, The Progress of Popular Government, Proportional Representation, Woman’s Suffrage, Public Ownership, Recommendations of Industrial Relations Commission. 68 pages.

PDF of pamphlet: https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/downloads/gx41mk065?locale=en