It was Woodrow Wilson who sent the Department of Justice to imprison Eugene Victor Debs (1855–1926), a political opponent in the presidential election who was anti-war.
Wilson used his speech against the Wilson administration for its support of World War I. Wilson was vicious and called Debs a “traitor to his country.” On June 16th, 1918, Debs made a speech in Canton, Ohio, where he urged resistance to the military draft imposed by Wilson.
For that, he was arrested on June 30th and charged with ten counts of sedition. Eugene Victor Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison to advocating resistance to the draft.