For the answer to the questions above, Because they just made the middle class, lower class, and poor (the 99%) of the economy which represents Democratic Party represented while the Republican Party main supporters were the rich and famous they are the remaining 1% which are at the top of the triangle.
<span>B) Supported progressive reforms for the working class, including a minimum wage and an eight hour workday.
In an 1890 article in the Locomotive Firemen's Magazine, Debs said: "</span>The eight-hour question is up for debate, and the discussion will
proceed until the demand that eight hours shall constitute a day’s
work will he granted. It is a righteous demand." [Debs was organizer of the American Railway Union.]
Incidentally, Eugene Debs was in favor of women's rights and greater equality for blacks. In regard to the racial prejudice displayed by many white persons, Debs wrote: "M<span>y observation is that the less real ground there is for such indignant assertion of self -superiority, the more passionately it is proclaimed."</span>