Shoshone journal. [volume], October 18, 1918, Image 6

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The Courts Are Open to You, Townley, LeSeuer, McKaig, Scholtz,
Samuels.
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I am Tearing Off Your Mask."—FRANK R. GOODING.
Can Prove Every Statement
I make—Read Facts About
tHe WaV tHe Nonpartisan
Leaders are Connected with
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DISLOYALTY
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T inn tearing the mask from tin* Non Partisan league l<*ail
am showing the connection between them and disloyalty,
ing these loader« down.
Take Townley first.
he discovered that the farmers were not inclined that way.
ers
I am trail
He openly worked with the Socialists until
Ever since
he has Imvii attempting t" promote Socialism through the Non Parti
Up is today as much a Socialist at heart as he ever was.
«an b-agup.
pro-Germans everywhere.
Arthur LeSeuer is executive secretary of the Non-Partisan league
LeSeuer directs McKaig
He has catered t*
and Townley'« most active right-hand man.
" 1 ^ i / a" I 1 !l,r " !l " r Non-Partisan league leaders in Idaho,
runk I W. W and has been interested it« forrhulating and ex
He is a
Read his letter to
nitiment in this country.
tending the pro German
Bill Haywood, printed
Socialist college founded by Debs,, who wa« sent to prison for twenty
LeSeuer is president of the
>n this page.
years for sedition.
cut to Idaho Horace Mann, who confessed that lie was
an I. W. AV r , sympathizer, rank Socialist and disloyalist and that he i
had been peddling Bolshevik literatim* in Idaho.
Mann's confession on this page.
LeSeuer
Rend tin* story of
ALL IN A STRING.
lien* we have Delia, Haywood, Townley, LeSeuer, McKaig, Mann,
Schult/., ami all the others who arc attempting to deceive the farmers
of Idaho, lined up together—whispering hot air in the farmer's ear
while pouring the poison of Socialism in his coffee.
March or this year LeSeuer, as executive secretary of the na
1 tonal Non Partisan league, wrote Governor Burnquist, of Minnesota,
asking him to address a convention of the league. Governor Burn
qubit declined. He branded the Non-Partisan league leaders as dis
loyal and LeSeuer as an I. W. W. and said, among other things:
"How under auch circumstances, the farmers of Minne
sota, who have been threatened with the loss of their farms,
who have time and again been compelled to appeal to peace
officers for protection against the members of this lawless,
anarchistic organisation can now join a league with promot
ers whose sympathies have been with this law-breaking, Bol
shevistic element of our society is well well nigh incompre
hensible. "
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CONDEMNED BY ROOSEVELT.
,1 ii the course of u liberty loan speech at Billings the other day
Theodore Roosevelt, the liest friend the farmers ever had, read
LeSeuer'* letter to liny wood and commented on it. Roosevelt de
nounced the Non Partisan league leaders as un-American and Bolshe
vistis Ami he said more He declared there was not a pro-German
in the country who was not praying for the success of the Townley
itr* with their routing Socialism. They want McKaig and Scholtz and
Samuels and the whole lot to win in Idaho. Do yout
Roosevelt admitted that the Non-l'artisan league leaders had
fooled him for a time, but at last he saw them in their true colors, so
he repudiated them, just as others are repudiating them.
READ THAT LETTER.
If you don't believe if, read the letter of Paul H. Allred, of
Blackfoot, Idaho, to the headquarters of the Non-Partisan league.l
He joined the league. He gives in this letter one
He is a farmer
rea.son for quilling the crowd
SAMUELS FAILED IN DUTY
There is another article on this page I want you to read—the
telegram from Bartlett Sinclair to me It tells the story of how H. F.
Samuels, who is the Non-Partisan league candidate for governor,
showed the white feather when he was prosecuting attorney of Sho
shone county during the Coeur d'Alene riots.
He failed to perform hi» »worn duty in the greatest cri»i» in the
history of Idaho. Could such a man be trusted to enforce the law in
Idaho? Would not such a man he mure apt to stand in with disloyal
ist« and rioters than to attempt to enforce law and ordert
I can prove all tin* statements I make. The courts are open to
Haywood, Debs. Townley, LeSeuer, McKaig, Scholtz and Samuels
The fight is on against (he plan of the Non-Partisan league to set
up a Bolshevistic government in Idaho.
Mr. Citizen, which side are you ont
I Am Fignting Disloyalty and the Agents of Disloyalty Are Fighting Me"-Frank R. Gooding
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Arthur Le Seuer, National Secretary of the League, Wrote to Bill Haywood
About "The Damned War," and Against Legislation to
LEAGUE LEADERS' CON WITH IDE I. W. W
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Curb the German Spies.
KUOENE V. DEM. Chaaaellor.
ARTHUR LE SBUER, President.
The
ALVA A. GEORGE,
Vic« President.
LAURA L. REEDS,
Secretary.
People 9 s College
F. A. M' CLÄREN,
MARIAN WHARTON.
Editor Colle*. New*.
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FORT SCOTT. KANSAS
•TOR THE EDUCATION OF THE WORKERS BY THE WORKERS"
April 5, 1917.
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Mr. Wm. D. Haywood,
164 W. Washington St.,
Chicago, 111.
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: Fellow Worker:
Have just returned from Des Moines, Iowa, and am very glad to be able to report that all of
the caaea there are disposed of favorably and the boys at liberty. I think the Defense Committee is
satisfied with the handling of the case. Of course, it was not one in which any labor principle was
involved, and, therefore, the fight was simply made to get the boys out.
My expenses for the trip were $34..'10 and if you will send me a check for that it will clean the
matter up.
of
How are you coming with the Minnesota proposition? I hope you don't start anything until
the year has expired. This damned war business is going to make it mighty hard to do good or
gaujzation work or good radical work of any kind, but I think the fight should be now centered
against spy bills and conscription.
Have you heard from Pennsylvania and Powers of Attorney?
Yours for industrial freedom,
(Signed)
ARTHUR LE SEUER.
AL:Y
The above letter, which is a facsimile of one of the Government's exhibits introduced in evi
dence at the recent trial in Chicago of 100 members of the I. W. W., was written by ARTHUR LE
SEUER and shows his connection with William D. Haywood and the I. W. W.
Haywood with ninety-two of his associates, was convicted of violating the espionage act, in
terfering with conscription, hampering the Government of the United States in the prosecution of
the war, and was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and fined $20,000. In his testimony Haywood
identified the above communication as genuine.
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ARTHUR LE SEUER is also SECRETARY of the NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE.
If the above letter had been written after the espionage law wa* enacted, Le Seuer would be T
1 h prison today with Haywood. .
CONFESSION OF HORACE MANN
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You have all read the confession of
Iloraec Mann. He admitted under oath
he had made statements in defense of
that lie had t>cen sent to Idaho by Arthur
LeSeuer, secretary of the Non-Partisan
league, to work among the farmers for
the league; that he had hen wo-king
under the direction of Ray McKaig, the
field secretary for the league in Idaho.
He confessed that he was a Socialist and
a sympathizer with the I. W. W.; that
the acts of Haywood; that he declared
the draft law unconstitutional and that
he was against the war; that he had told
s number of people that the Bolsheviki
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Read This Letter. It Gives One of the
Reasons Why Farmers Are Disgusted
With the Nonpartisan League
Leaders
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Blackfoot, Idaho, R. F. D. No. 2, Oct. 5, 1918. Headquarters Non-Partisan League, Boise, Idaho.
Dear Sirs: Some time ago I gave a deferred check to your organizer to pay a membership fee in
what the organizer pledged me was a clean, legal and loyal beneficial organization of farmers. To
day I am ordering payment upon said check stopped because I refuse to support any organization
that so plainly bears the earmarks of being under a leadership whose highest ambition it is to sling
mud ami malign the character of men who have stood as bulwarks of the loyal citizenry of our
The first circular ever mailed me from your headquarters contains a letter signed by Tro
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country.
naas and Freneh and published by you as a light of literature, when every honest farmer must see.
if he would take time to read it. that the vituperative language used against Governor Alex ander
is too vile for publication even in the dirtiest of political sheets. And then, when Roosevelt, an
other foremost citizen was being bemoaned through the columns of your paper, his sous, at his
solicitation were paying out their heart's blood for you and me. And when the Non-Partisan leaders
have been backing the president, their national secretary was writing seditious love letters to big
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Bill Haywood, the arch-traitor of modern history.
Where was this party's leaders when F. R. Gooding, another state and national leader, was
risking life to bring to much-merited justice the same traitor ere he had yet struck at the heart of
his country t When farmers choose to organize, they will not need to stoop at the dirt contained
publication to win their cause.
m your
1 Respectfully,
PAUL H. ALLRED.
(Signed)
government was the highest type of do
mocracy that the world had yet produced.
He also admitted the uuthorship of a So
cialist l>ook containing rabid statements.
When Mann was arrested letters and
documents were found on him confirming
his confession. Among them were letters
from Ray McKaig praising Mann's "good
work"—his damnable Socialism, I. W. XV.
ism, pro-Germanism.
Before Mann confessed, affidavits of
reputable citizens were published in Boise
and all over the state reciting the dis
loyal statements he had made. McKaig
was fully advised of these affidavits, but
he did not stop Mann, but sent him back
to peddle pro-German propaganda, and
when he was arrested McKaig took steps
to defend him.
But the evidence was overwhelming
and Mann confessed everything.
Many incriminating letters were found
on Mann and were taken over by the sec
retary of the Gooding county council of
defense. Later the secretary's office was
burglarized and alt the Mann letters that
were there then were stolen. The more
ini|K>rtant ones had been placed in a bank
vault. Who burglarized the secretary's
office? Maybe McKaig knows why this
was done? Tell us, McKaig.
10 FACE OF DUÏÏ 10
As Prosecuting Attorney During
the Coeur d'Alene Riots He Re
fused to Attempt to Uphold
Law and Order.
TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF
IDAHO :
Read this telegram from Bart
lett Sinclair with
care. In the
greatest crisis that ever came to
Idaho this man Samuels, who now
asks you to honor him as
your gov
ernor, failed to do his sworn duty.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Oct. 7th,
1918. It is a source of great satis
faction to the law-abiding citizens
north Idaho to learn that
you
'have accepted the challenge of the
■Non-Partisan league and that you
fighting against the scheme to
substitute a condition in our state
bordering on anarchy for one of
government.
In this contest now going on in
Idaho you have a record which
gives your assertions great value.
From personal knowledge I know
you gave the late lamented Stenn
enberg personal and official aid in
his war against anarchy*. He lost
his life as the result of that war,
but I pray that no such end awaits
'your defense of established society
in Idaho.
"When the unspeakable riots of
the Coeur d'Alene of 1899 occur
, red I happened to be state auditor.
(The extent of these bloody out
| breaks necessitated the declaration
Governor Steunenberg of mar
tial law. I
He saw fit to appoint me under
our state law his representative in
the disturbed district in orderto
re-establish normal conditions.
At that time H. F. Samuels, the
Non-Partisan candidate for gover
nor, was prosecuting attorney of
Shoshone county, the scene of the
insurrection. .He had personal
knowledge that murders had been
committed and that the great mills
of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan com
pany had been destroyed by the
rioters and that hundreds of work
men thereby had been thrown out
of employment, nd yet he took
no action to punish the offenders.
As administrator of martial law
I appealed to him to do something
to vindicate the state and the law.
He refused.
Samuels was then forced to go
before the courts and disqualify
himself in all trials growing ont of
the Coeur d'Alene riots.
To perform the duty he had
sworn to perform other attorneys,
at great expense, had to be retain
ed by the state. Senator Borah,
James H. Hawley and J. H. For
ney were three of the attorneys so
retained.
In the prosecution Samuels took
absolutely no part.
To again entrust him and his al
lied Non-Partisans with the high
est powers of government at this
time of our country's trials is dan
gerous in the extreme.
Re assured that your championship of
iloeent and sane state government will
receive the support-, not only of the Re
publicans of the north, hut the Demo
crats as well.
r.t this campaign the only
issue in Idaho, as we view the campaign,
is between the forces of law, patriotism
and established society on the one hand
and the forces of anarchy und discontent
on the other.
Before resorting to these extreme
methods with Samuels I had wired Gov
ernor Steunenberg that Samuels was cow
ardly and incompetent and an obstruc
tion to the restoration of orderly and
constitutional government in the Coeur
d'Alenes. Copy of these telegrams »re
part of th estate records.
(Signed)
BARTLETT STNCLAIH.