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CROOKEDNESS IN CHOTEAU CO. GIVEN LIE DIRECT BY RECORDS Gangs "Investigating Committee" Exposed P. J. WALLACE, LEAGUE CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATOR FROM CHOTEAU COUNTY LIBELED BY GANGSTERS OPERATING UNDER HIGH SOUNDING TITLE. SO CALLED CITIZENS INVESTI GATING COMMITTEE NOTHING BUT OLD GANG TAR-BRUSH DE PARTMENT. RECORDS SHOW WALLACE'S STANDING IN COMMUNI TY AND AT BUTTE EXCELLENT. B. K. WHEELER, J. SPEED SMITH, CHIEF NATURALIZATION EXAMINER, AND MAJOR GENERAL LIG GATT TESTIFY TO HIS PROBITY. They accuse Wallace of being a disturber and a menace to the country, while he worked in Butte and in order to prove this they bring forward an alleged facsimile of the enrollment records of the I. W. W. propaganda League.. The United States District Attorney B. K. Wheeler, gives them hth}rliidirect and he is the one man who is really well informed as to what has gone on in Butte these last few years, here is his letter. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR MONTANA Butte, Montana, September 24, 1918. Mlr. J. G. Crites, Big Sandy, Montana. Dear Sir: With reference to Mr. P. J. Wallace, who formerly lived in Butte, Montana, I can say that I was acquainted with him during most of the time that he was in Butte. and so far as anything that I ever knew he was an absolutely loyal, patriotic, hard-working man, and I believe that if he is elected to the State Senate that he will well and faithfully represent his constituents of Choteau County as well as the people generally throughout the state. I feel con fident that he will not be "handled" so to speak, by the big interests of this state, and trust that he may be elected. Respectfully yours, B. K. WHEELER. The gang then sprung the absolute falsehood that Wallace was not a citizen, nailed again-read this: U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-NATURALIZATION SERVICE Office of Chief Examiner. Room 404 Federal Building, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Mr. Patrick John Wallace, Big Sandy, Montana. Dear Sir: Call upon the clerk of the District Court at Fort Benton, Montana, and sign and receive your new certificate of naturalization issued out of the UI. S. Districts Court at Butte, Montana, in lieu of the original which appears to be lost beyond recovery. When you call upon the clerk at Fort Benton be prepared to de liver to him a postal money order in the sum of $1.60 to pay the clerk his fee for issuing this new certificate. The money should be made payable to the Clerk, U. S. District Court, Butte, Montana. Very truly yours, JNO. SPEED SMITH, S. Chief Naturalization Examiner As a matter of fact Wallace's father was naturalized as early as 1876 at St. Regis, Ohio, and Wallace himself six years ago, in June 1912 to be exact, before Judge Bourquin and the present secretary of the Butte Engineers was his wintness. Ed Lawlor can tell you all about it. A fire consumed Wallace's effects hence the gang thought to put one over, no doubt expecting that Wallace had not taken the precaution to obtain another copy of his papers. And'now for the final dispicable lie, principally circulated by Wal lace's immediate opponents. They accuse him of being a slacker. Well, take a good look at the deadly parallel below and find WHO is the slack er. Wallace offers himself to Uncle Sam freely, our friend Lewis. his opponent, is summoned to appear and INSISTS THAT HE SHALL BE PLACED IN CLASS FIVE. Lewis follows the strictly non-essential em ployment of an Abstractor. Wallace Farms. WAR DEPARTMENT Headquarters Western Department San Francisco 16th August. 1917. From: Department Adjutant. To: Mr. Patrick J. Wallace. Subject: Notice of non-acceptance for Second Series Reserve Officers' Training Camps. Your application for admis sion to the second series of Re serve Officers' Training Camps has been transmitted these head quarters by the Examining Offic er charged with selecting the quota of your State. and you are informed that you were not ac cepted for attendance at the sec ond Presidio Officers' Training Camp commencing August 27. 1917 and that you have have in curred no obligation for service in this connection. It may be of interest to state that in the Western Department some eight thousand made appli cation while only fourteen hun dred and"forty could be author ized to attend the second train ing camp. The Department Commander takes this occasion to convey to you the War Department's ap preciation of your loyalty and patriotism in making this appli cation for this War service, and to thank you for the desire you have shown to serve your coun try. By command of Major General Liggett. M. W. POWELL, Lieutenant Colonel, Cavalry D. O. L.. Asst. to De artment Adiotantn Verily the lie factory of the old gang must be working top speed these days. WAR DEPARTMENT Local Board for Choteau County State of Montana. Fort Benton, Mont., Oct. 11, 1918 To: J. G. Crites, Big Sandy,. Montana Subject: Inquiry as to Vernan E. Lewis. Replying to yours of the 9th isnt. in which you ask, whether S'or not Mr. Vernon E. Lewis was classified in Class IV-A and de manded that he be placed in Class V-A, advise: That Mr. Lewis, at the time of filing his questionaire made claim of Class IV-A. that is manl with dependent family; also for Class V-A, as a Legislative officer, member of the State Legislature. In making his classification, this Board placed him in Class IV-A. and upon receipt of no tice of such classification, Mr. Lewis called the attention of this Board to his claim for deferred class as a Legislative Officer, and INSITED THAT SUCH CLAIM BE CONSIDERED BY THIS BOARD. WHICH WAS DONE, AND HE WAS PLACED IN CLASS V-A. The ouestionnaire cover upon which claims were noted by him for classification is a record of this office: and I believe Mr. Lewis will admit the above con dition if asked. HUGH S. McGINLEY. Chairman LEAGUE ASKS FOR JUSTICE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION, ASKED TO GIVE SAME SPACE TO LESUEUR'S ANSWER THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIS LETTER. The Nonpartisan league has made a demand on the Minnesota Public Safety commission that that commis sion give the same circulation to Ar thu- LeSueur's statement that it or iginally gave to a letter written by Mr. LeSueur to William D. Haywood. The letter was written at a time when Mr. LeSueur was acting as attorney for accused I. W. W., before the war and before his connection with the League as one of its attorneys. As a political move against the League the commission spent taxpay ers' money to have hundreds of cuts of LeSueur's letter made. These, to gether with a very unfair statement regarding the letter, containing in sinuations that LeSueur was an I. W. W., disloyal and "dangerous," were sent for publication throughout the state at, public expense. For this "reasbn", the commission implied, the Nonpartisan league, which employs Mr. LeSueur on its legal staff, is al so disloyal and "dangerous." DEMANDS JUSTICE. IMr. LeSueur answered these charg es by the public safety commission. IHis statement, was published in the Minnesota Leader. The League pub Ilicity department then demanded, in the following letter, that the public safety commission give the same cir culation to LeSueur's reply that it originally gave to the charges against him. The public safety commission has to date refused to give Mr. Le Sueur the fair deal demanded, for the reason that if his reply was pub lished in the same papers as the orig inal charges and insinuations, the lat ter would he completely destroyed and the incident would rflect. on the com mission rather than on Mr. LeSueur. LETTER MAKES REQUEST Foliowine is the League's letter. September 19, 1918 Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. Gentlemen: We note that the pub licity director of the Minnesota Com mission of Public Safety, Mr. Charles W. Henks. has sent to editors throughout Minnesota for publica tion facsimile reproductions of a let tIor wiritten hvy Mr. Arthur L"Sueur to " P!!-. . F!ny,-"cd. W n"o that. the conmission culu'ts Lthe pul"iica tion of this letter throughout the press of Minnesota. In the footnote on the LeSueur let ter and in an item for publication ac companying the letter, the commis sion makes'reference to the fact that SMr. I.-Sueur is eonneuted with Non partisan league. We therefore have come to t1,e conclusion that the com mission. :n spending the taxpayer's money in an effort to obtain publica tion of this attack on Mr. LeSueur, also intends it as an attack on the Nonpartisan league. It is also im nossible to escape the conclusion that the conmission is taking this action for political purnoses, in an attempt indirectly- t.o reflect upon candidates indorsed for office in Minnesota by the Nonpartisan league and organiz ed labor. and to promote the interests of the opponents of these candidates: POINTS OUT DISTORTION. We desire to call your attention to the fact that in your comment up on the LeSueur letter you fail to state several important facts regarding the letter. which you have given out for publication, and this, together with the insinuations and inuendoes which you have asked newspapers to pub lish, constitute a very unfair attack on a citizen of this state as well as an organization which numbers over 50,000 members in Minnesota. It is a very serious matter when a public body supported by public funds takes it upon itself through the vast powers that it exercises to attack citizens of the state in his manner without giv ing these citizens an opportunity to state their side of the case. ASKS 50-50 DEAL We art, therefore, inclosing in this letter a copy of Mr. leSueur's answer to and explanation of the matter you have sent to newspapers for publica tion. It is incumbent upon you, as a public ,body supported by public funds, to give Mr. LeSueur's answer to your charges and insinuations the same circulation that you have giv en your charges and insinuations. We are, therefore. requesting that Mr. Le Sueur's statement be sent by you to all editors to who.n you originally sent yov :ohar.ge aainst Mr. Le Sueur, and to all other persons to whose attention you have called the charges against Mr. LeSueur. Your failure to give Mr. LeSueur's statement the same circulation that you gave to your charges against him would not only be unfair to Mr. Le Sueur, would not only deprive the people of Minnesota of both sides of the question to which they are en titled, but would reflect very serious ly on the motives of the commission in sending out the original charges, and would, warrant the conclusion, al ready unavoidable, that the com mission has made these charges for political purposes, using the taxpay ers' money therefore. Will you please let us know what disposition you make of the state ment of Mr. LeSueur? Yours truly, PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE . . . . . . . , . . . SAYS LESUEUR CLEANED MINOT (By C. F. Turner) He was elected mayor and Presi dent of the commission of Minot, N. D., while I was a resident of that city, on the platform "Clean up Min ot". Did he do it? In less than three months the tinhorn gamblers silent ly stole away. The sporting houses were closed, a bunch of negroes of the lower type without visible means of support vacated the hovels then directly across from Lexington Hotel and that black cloud varnished. Even dice boxes and dice were placed in leather caskets inside the cigar cases and the "bones" rattled no more Of course there was a private game going on here and there at least such was the report and here is one in stance, for sure, in which Art showed his hand and showed the kind of stuff he is made of, The stuff that makes real men. . The heretofor big political Boss (Big Jim) was in the game, he and his confedrate worked all of a Great Northern Employees pay for the prev icus month $8o.00 instead of the usu al one-half. All this time he had not yet been home to divide with his good wife. Hence she having nothing to pay grocery bill-could get no more provisions for the child ren, husband and self. She went to LeSueur and told her story between sobs and tears. LoSueur was mayor for :ll the people, lhe called on Big Jihl at once and here is the talk "Jim! You and your friend have $85.00 of Mr.--- - money and his little wife is over to my office crying because she can not get bread. Jim "Any your d--- business?" LeSueur "Yes that's all the busi ness I have just now and you are loosing valueable time." Jim-"Well y------- what are you going to do abou't it?" LeSueur--"Issue a warrant of course, your loosing time .lim. val uable tihe." Well there is a little more to it but it would not look well in print. Anyhow that was one month the little wife got the entire 1885.00 and it did not take 'L. 40 minutes to collect it from Big Jim and hand it over to the lady. Such was LeSueur, sacri ficing his big law practice and inci dentally his property to make Minot, a decent place to live in, much better than it was previously. I know, and it has been since if reports be true. A BUSINESS MAN MOBSTERS (Con"tinued fronl Page Six n't get through. And shortly the de puty's car roared past from the coun try-seat, bound toward the scene of the trouble. HOSE TURNED ON I.EAGUERS It seems that the fire hose. in fact all available fire hose had unlimbered immediately after out successful pas sage of the main street. The other cars had pulled i nand their occupants were just preparing to buy a liberal amount of candy and soda water when the local patriots got busy. Do you know the pressure behind the nozzle of the usual fire hose ? Do you know the iciness of that" water after its deep caverns have been drawn upon by a little runnin. . Doi you conceive a group of nlen, armed with axes, shotguns, and clubs. ranim mini those powerful streams of icy water into the faces of perspiring men and women and children, of women with babies in their arms, until they TOWNLEY WIll TOUR THROUGH TREASURE STATE " TEN MINUTE TALKS TO TOILERS FEATURE OF RAPID-FIRE CAM PAIGN. AUTOMOBILE PARADES, BANNERS AND BANDS TO GREET LEAGUE CHIEF. A. C. Townley, president of Na tional Nonpartisan league is to come into the state for a brief but rapid series of campaign speeches. It is expected that this tour will be epochal in its nature as Mr. Townley's ap pearance amongst the people of Mon tana has always been a signal for great gatherings and the display of tremendous interest and enthusiasm. His last appearance here in the east ern and southern portions of the state was more in the nature of a triumph al procession. People drove seventy and eighty miles to hear the most loved and the most hated man in thirteen states. This visit promises to be even more encouraging and vast numbers of people will hear the message of the League from the League chief himself. The parade feature is to be exemplified by the Kalispell committee who are arrang ing a monster procession from the city, to Missoula. Every auto-owner in the western counties should join this parade and accompany President Townley to the end of the trip. Following are the list of Townley dates: Brush Lake, Sheridan county, 2 p. m., Sunday, Oct. 27,. Havre, Hill county, 12 noon- Monday, October 28. Arrive at Kalispell 11:40 p! m. Speask at Kalispell Oct. 29, 10 a.m. to 11. am. Leave Kalispell 11:00 a. m. reach Poison 1:00 p. m., speak at Poison, 1:30 to 2:30 p. m., leave Poison at 2:30 p. m. arrive at Ronan, 3 p. m., thirty minute speech, leave Ronan at 3:30 p. m. reach Missoula at 5:30 p. m. arriving at Butte at 10:40 p. m., October 29. Leave Butte at 7 a. m. ect. 30, arrive at Idaho Falls at 2 p. m. Don't forget, attend these meetings in force. The opportunity to hear A. C. Townley does not come every day, and besides it will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the mobsters and tar and feather artists are for ever silenced. Townley comes to demonstrate Democracy. It is your duty to support him. were fairly suffocated, drowned while the women screamed vainly and chil dren gasped and turned their heads down any place to escape the fright ful deluge? That's what happened. And more. OLD MEN AND WOMEN AT TACKED. 0 An ex-constable, in the performance of his duty as representative of the law. attacked an old man, who was attempting to retreat into his car, attacked him with the butt end of an axe, until the old fellow was knocked almost senseless. Then our district manager, unarmed, jumped to the res cue, and the guardian and defender of the peace, went after him also bent on simple murder. The district organizer's wife leap ed from the car "with a gun to protect her husband. ,d both of them were promptly arrested for carrying con cealcd weapons! Our local paper (servant ,.f truth that it is) would hat'e it that the lady was under the influence of drink, and threatening to blow up an innocent anti harmless town. Ilad not this man been remov ed from the Inc?: jail to the country prison he would undoubtedly have suf fered the extreme penalty mobs in flict. WOMAN TORN FROM CAR One woman was torn from a rapid ly moving car and fell to the pave ment on her knees before her hus hand could stop. And while she lay there helpless and faint the townsmen called her names unimaginably foul. HIer husband went for the crowd with his tool hammer, and got her in to the ear again. ..Another old man was outside the protection of the cars was tortured by the water; they played it on him like boys will do with some small beast, until he got behind a telegraph pole amd could stand up again.