Which of the following best describes why the socialist party disintegrated in oklahoma and around the us in the early a socialist leader eugene debs was asked to join the democratic ticket as vice-president b. the party's leaderwilliam jennings bryan, failed to win the party's presidential nomination socialists became more interested in supporting the urban labor movement than agrarian reform many socialists were labeled disloyal" and unamerican" during world war i, and many were targeted for arrest.