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VOL V. HKLKNA MONTANA. THURSDAY, MARCH 28 1907. NO. 20. Court at Butte Caldwell Campaign Judge Grants ]hange of Venue Argue for Change of Venue—Richard• Socialists Showing Great Strength— son Gives Prosecution Sledge —Trial Will Take Place in Prospects Bright for Election of Hammer Blows Boise—Date Will Be Set on Mayor and Aldermen V The election of a socialist mayor of long to the Amalgamated to nominate been present dariag the week are Haw- Caldwell, Ida., March 21. the city ef Butte now appears to be a a candidate and declared brutally in ley, Stone and Vaa Day a, proeeeuting The U|UMDU by counsel oa the April First foregone conclusion. The registration reepense to their protests "the busi- aeestioa of removing the trial of attorney for Oanyoa voeaty, for the is about 7,700, of this it is safe to say aeee ef thia convention is to vudorse Muyer, Haywood and l'ettibone to prosecution, and Biehardaon, Nugent, that not more than 6,700 will vote, Henry Mueller for mayor." MM other -county beeidee that of Fred Miller, aad Walter and Henry Special ho the Montana Ifews. They returned in twenty-five minutes indifferent and the illegal registered. A Servile Tool. Canyon, where the erime was commit• Oriffith of UaldrweU, for the defenae, CaldweJJ, Idaho, March 20, 1M7 and Mr. Nugent atatcd that since they In times past illegal voting was suc• George M. Iiourquin, now judge, was ted, cloaed In Judge Wood'a court this L. O. Whiteell of Wardner, Ida., who Moyer, Haywead ard Pettiboae were had beer given no alternative and has been employed by the defenae on cessfully carried on against the social one ef those who refused to be muzzled afternoon about 3 P. M., and the judge all in court hie seeming to hear Jadge since it was dangerous to go to trial tok tha motion under adviaement until the caae, was sJao preeent. Fred Miller ists for the reason that the party never and took the platform in spite of Wood's deeiaiea ea the ehange of in Canyon county they would abide by Monday morning next. Thia motion did the first of the reading of the clip• took the trouble to place checkers ia Corby and delivered an impassioned venue motion. The eenrt roem waa the judge's decision, and go to Ads the different wards. This time ener- speech denouncing the action of the •a a chaaga of venue haa coniumed 4 pings, but aboat the middle of the af• getie steps are being taken to weed out chairman. day*. Tha aourt room haa bean crowd- ternoon Tuesday Henry Oriffith took crowded. The jadge said it was not county. He called attention to the his place. the fraululent vote and the scoundrels The convention was however packed ad at every aaaaion. It is a remark- necessary te rehearee the facte con• advantage* of Washington oounty and bid fair to go to jail when they try to by the Amalgamated and Mueller was agle fact that the onlookers are com- Class Struggle Evident nected with the caae, that he had eosse to the faet that Mr. Steunenberg had caat their ballots. endorsed with the result that tha re- poeed ,'ilp ott entirely of the working Nothing coald have more plainly to the decision that the trial should resided for four years in Boise. The Witb a vote of 6,700 which will be publicans revolted and Mueller, who elaae. Tiny have nn expreaaion on brought the great economic class strug• go to Ada ceawha. With the concent judge replied that Wasbirgton county divided between three candidates, was himself a popular man and capable their as though to aay, "Here is where gle involved in this social war than the of the defendants er to over rule the was in no wise fitted for the trial. Mr. Gardner does not count for the reason of putting up a good race as a straight wa have an intereat. Our class ia on reading of theee clippings. Th capi- that he is campaigning for the repub- democrat, was badly snowed under be• trial. Here ia where we become a so- motion. There were certain eorditiona Hawlt-y then asked the judge if it was list sees only the plausible reasuns for ll cans in the hope of being appointed cause of the dirty methods of the Am aial factor.'' The jury venire sum• existing at Calwvll that were differ• understood that the prisoners were its own attitude and acts, and knows to a soft snap. algamated republicans. moned for Monday morning, March 18, naught of a great counter formative ent from thoae elesrwhere but a large forced to remain at Boise no matter Accepting three, then, as a divisor, Union Record. haa been present nt the opening of force arauud it. This was brought out part of the showing would pertain what the conditions were. The judge it will be seen that less than 2,250 will each session but dismissed by the Corby registered another black mark in the bitter deouciatory terms used equally to all other eountiec in this replied that he did not intend to take elect. The socialists cast a larger vote jadga. W. .1. Scott of Cripple Creek, concerning the activities of the work• against bis name in the engineers' portion of the state, that there was a any rights away from the prisoners than these figures at last fall's elec W. T. Bradley of Boise, and Easterly . ,• , MS. .L- union at a time when the Amalgamated ing class. The Ooldfleld miners were tion and the socialist vote, unlike the auwigamarak a/ Bilver City, Ida., have been present large portion ef the county outside ef that the law allowed them. The mo• was seeking to disrupt the Wecter> called "wild savages of the desert." democrats and republicans, was prac• aa proletarian representatives at the Caldwell where a jury could be ob•tion was allowed and the oaee changed Federation of Miners. When the The same accaaatione seemed to be tically all inside the city limits. ami The prisoners have all three time for the election of delegates from | made against the socialists as against tained. Attorney Nugent for the de•to Boise. In addition Is the regular socialist boon in court. The exercise and change the engineers' union arrived Corby Christ—that tbey were stirrers-up of fense asked if providing the caae vote the party will poll a big dis• a/ scene they are getting seems to be Next Monday in Boise court a spec• found tbnt his crowd was not in the strife; und the muef atrocious misre• changed to Ada, whether they were gruntled republican ami democratic doing them all good, and they all aeeni ific time will be set, Mr. Nugert said majority and to prevent the election presentations were continually set vote Independent republicans will m excellent spirits. Tbey are brought suppoced to stay there ro matter what they would like special trials for each ot independent mer he adjourned the forth by these venal sheets, tools of not stand for the Amalgamated < audi down on the "pony" every morning condition might be revealed. Oa get• meeting in the face of the majority. the administration. In one place they defendant which he was told would be ilate Corby. Old line democrats will from Boise in charge of the sheriff and ting a reply in the affirmative he aaid His1 labor and political record is a swere claesified as professional social granted, and he would be informed not stand for Mahoney. The labor three guards. At noon they take their record of subserviency to the Amal• ists, tool socialists, ami anarchists. thai would have to have time for de• which would be tried first. The trial party men do not take Gardner serious dinner at a boarding house just auross ly ami most of them will vote the so•gamated. If elected he will continue Kven in Oermany. after all these years liberation. The judge aaid they should will he about the first of May. the street from the court house, airs. cialist ticket. AintI trus t democrats te serve its interests. In the lcgis of public prominence, the same idiotic have all the time they wished, and a Moyer and Mra. 1'ettibone also come Mrs. Mover was not in the court have been trying to swallow Mahoney latare he trained with Seallon, the thing «•!- heard, where it was laughed half hour waa earned as sufficient.. down on the train every morning. room having been taken to the hospi• but he has insulted them by hie brag• man who at* president of the Anaconda at openly in the Reichstag the other They are with their husbands in the Prisoners aad attorneys then retii->d. gadocio and tliey are freely admitting blacklisted over fit MI men in Anaconda day. tal for an operation. intervals of the court sessions in a the election of the socialist ticket. because they were Socialists. Mince his nomination he has been small side room where the men are The «uue thing occurred in the Ida The prejudice against socialism is fendants were implicated, acd that the , . , . .. , called oa to explaiy n to republican »• kept. While a guard is with each ho court room. The crowd frequently them; that he haa been a reeident of being down rapidly in the present cam- irj.uoi.-u *•> ti utbfulness of said Orchard's confes loon keepers, cigar dealers and others prisoner wherever he goes .there is no laughed openly at the ridiculous state• Canyon county, Idaho, for more than paign. Men who a few years ago siuii had been proven beyond all ques bow it was that he voted to make a •ndae display of harshness or author ments, and it was plain the prosecution ... years last pact and is now a res• lamned the socialist movement in tion to those familiar with his story; man or woman who played an innoc. nt ity. The men move around the court did not relish the ludicrous situation ident of precinct in said strongest terms are today saving that that during the political campaign last game ef whist as much of a violator room, talk to their friends, counsel in which tbe\ were being placed. county. many of the socialist contentions are fall The Statesman published a tele• of the law as one who ran a regular with their attorneys, and no better Their grand tragedy was degenerating "Affiant further says that one well founded and that the Roosevelt graphic dispatch from northern Idaho gambling house. His naive explanation treatment could t>e asked for under into a fnree before the very eyes of Frank Steunnenberg waa murdered at attitude of today was regarded as the to the Fffect that the said Frank has been that he could not "amend the circumstance. the public. It was so evident that the Caldwell in said Canyon county, on height of radicalism by the republicans U Uooding, governor as aforesaid, bad the bill." The deputies at the court plan bad bees to heap ignominy of theo r about the 39th day of December. of a few years ago. Exklblt of Press Influence. stated in a political speech that the house, many of whom are republicans, grossest kind upoa the socialists, and IMf| that at the time of his death ha The working class are getting a After the over ruling of the motion said Orchard bad made said confes• have refused to contribute t i the cam then connect the trial and the defense was an ex governor of the state of better grasp of the situation, thev uti for dismissal on Monday, in presenting sion, and that there was no doubt with them. Idaho, and one of the most prominent » • ,,„, , .•„.-, * ,, paign fund, because Corbv as a member concerning the truthfulness of his lerstand that a socialist iniivor it 1 " ' its esse for a change of venue, the rest Statements Scored. citizens of said county, in which he of th vot. statements; that the said Frank R. elected, cannot inaugurate the tS oper legislature vot. d against the of the day was spent in presenting has resided for mnay years; that the bill t. raise their salaries. Wednesday morning's Statesman had deeding, as governor of said state, ia ative commonwealth in Butte. They the carefully compiled exhibit which murder of the said Steunenberg creat Wants Three Jobs. such a particularly vile attack on the a message transmitted by him last also realize that the election of tht tha defense ha prepared to show that ed intense and widespread excitement methods of the defease that Attorney .lauoary, to the legislature of said socialists would be a more cttcctivi Corb\ is still a member of the legis the minds of the community were so throughout said county; that almost Kichardsou asked to place this vomit notice t<> the authorities who arc tr\ lature. He has also been offered a poisoned that a fair and impartial trial state, stated, among other things, that immediately after the assassination of ing to hang Moyer, Haywood that the pfe... ,„ ffj e of the state auditor in the exhibit. The puper shrieked that said Orchard and said Adams had fMV () r waa impossible. The excerpts were said Frank Steunenberg, the news limit had been reached than would a \,, intent with two positions be now it had been contending all along for a made said confessions involving said t principally form the Idaho Statesman, papers, particularly the Idaho Dailj fair trial, while the socalists had work defendants and that upon said sonfes- cad load of resolutions from comiuuui spires to a third, not so much because aad the Capital News of Boise, and Statesman and the Evening Capital ties than continue to vote the repub ed tirelessly ever sinse the inaugura• sion he had concluded the ssid state he wants the place, but beai use his the two Caldwell weekly papers. The News, published at Boise, Idaho, and liean and democratic tickets. The lee tion of the case to prejudice the minds should take upon itself the expenses ( owners, the Amalgamated, wanted him Idaho Statesman is looked upon as having a general circulation in said tion of the socialist ticket cannot be of the people of that county and entire and relit-M said Canyon county there• to make the race and with Corby to Uovernor Gooding official organ, and Canyon county, published articles iu aeepted as a proof of Butte's accept state against the prosecution. Their of, and that the president of the hear is to obey. haa been particularly vicious in its which the responsibility for the mur ance of socialism but it can be taken assertions had been proclaimed from I nited States had sent a personal Mantle's Scheme. eutragcouH utterances. The Caldwell dor of said Steunenberg was laid at as an evidence that the working class loproseiitativo to Idaho to investigate The name of Corby was presented to yelpers have followed tis lead. the house tops and the gutters. The the door of an organization known as are wsking up Is the fact that the so the convention l>\ Lee Mantle. Mantle attempt to prevent a fair trial had said cases, and that since the suhinis the Western Federation of Miners; cialist party is their party. It can sion of his agent's report, the said is iion persona grata to the Amalga• From these clippings evidence was been notorious; it bad been scandalous. that said articlea were read by the also be taken as a further evidence mated and his action in supporting given that the mine owners had finally president has by his word and action, The socialists had caused the officials citizens of said county generally, and that the community as a whole has shown himself in hearty accord with their sworn tool is peculiar. The ex• despaired of obtaining any convictions of crimes. I'rejudice had been worked accepted by them as being true: that gotten over the notion that socialist planation is simple.' According to against the Western Federation in Col- the state in the prosecution of aaid de- up against the state by the upostles of shortly after the arrest of the defend• rule is mob rule or the triumph of tcndants;that at different times since minor Mantle is anions to make the arado and had decided to shift the anarchy. The agitation never had ants above named, eharged with the greed and injustice. the arrest of said defendants, as afore• Amalgamated as unpopular and he seenc of their nefarious attempts to been excusable. The people of Can• murder of said Steunenberg, certain said, and the present day, said above "Collective ownership of things col• conceived the idea that the most ef• Idaho where tbey though more congen• yon county were intelligent and fair- other articles were published in said mentioned newspapers have published lectively used in order that we mayfectiv e way to make the company a ial soil might be found among juries minded, and the socialist emissariea in• papers published in said county, in the articlea to the effect the defendants have private owrership of things pri- stench in the public nostrils was to at* farmers, that were unprejudiced said Statesman, Capital News, and vaded that section to poison their are responsible for the aseaeeination twenty ueed" is taking the place of cast*, a man who would do their bid- through synipntby with the great mm others papers, all having a wide eircu minds, and flood the community with of said Steunenberg. 'dividing up" as a definition of so- ding in everything during the next nag organization. lation in said county, to the effect that seditious publications. Mr. Richard• cialism. two years. It is safe to say that Corbv Taft's "Uw and Order" speeches one Harry Orchard, then under arrest son read the entire article, said it waa "Affiant further says that all of Formerly only working men were ,|1 not poll more than 40 percent of were given and the power of executive for the murder ef aaid Steunenberg, W an insult to the coart daring the very said newspaper articlea , the tele• qualified to talk on the principles of the republican vote. Influence brought to bear to arouse sen- had made a confession, in which he progress of the trial te claim that the graphic dispatch, the interview of thecollectivism . Now merchants, lawyers, masent against the defendata. admitted having committed said mur• Jerry Mahoney. defense was corraptiag eltisene for said Oooding, and the said Qooding 'e doctors and preachers are beginning The moat painstaking evidence oa der and implicated and connected said The democrats have nominated one jurors, while they were making per message to the legislature, above men• to wrestle with the subject in a hazy defendants therewith and with numer• .lerrj Mahoney, a man who before thi •very phase of the situation waa ex• tioned, were widely and extensively sort of a way it is true but they are •(intent efforts for a shaoge of venue. ous other murders; that shortly after couvention met was regarded as an im posed before the public gaze in thia circulated in aaid Canyon couaty, and beginnirg to study nevertheless and Affidavits Presented the publication of said last' named possibility He owes his selection to vast maas of the stuff that the tools were read and discussed by tan citi- such is the power of truth that when The reading was finished during the articles, said newspapers published spite on the |Xirt of delegates who had ef the master class have deluged tha zens of said county, generally one once starts to investigate it he is other articles to the effect that one sup|K>rted other candidates. In the country with. It waa plainly evident morning by Walter ttrifflth, and in the doomed to stay with it until he un• Steve Adams had made a confession "Affiant further aays that he ic ac di mo< ratio convention were old line that the stuff circulated has been of so afternoon the defence took up the affi• derstands anil once understanding he in which he implicated and connected quainted with a large number of citi• democrats and former anti trust demo• vieious and outrageous a character davits that had beea gathered to shew will sooner or later fall in line. said defendants with said murder and zens of said Canyon county; that since crats. The old line democrats chose that no jury in its senses would ever the prejudice that existed in Canyon The future of the socialist party with other murders that shortly after the arrest of said defendantas he has for their candidates John Holland, a eonvlct men on so manifestly unjust county against the defendants. Six- was never so bright us it is today the arrest of said defendants on said conversed with a large number of said busiaess man on North Moin street, aad malicious attacks. Hundred of these affidavits were pre• charge, one Frank R. Oooding, gover• citizens, residing in different ceetions and .1. II. Mi'tjuvcny, also a business The showing was also plain that ac• sented. They were arraaged in differ• nor of the state of Idaho, gave to said of said county, concerning the assaasi PVVORABLE TO SOCIALISM man. The anti trust delegates sup• cusations of every sort have been made ent claeses, one ef each class being Idaho Daily Statesman an authorized nation of said Steunenberg aad the ported Jerry Mullins, a saloon man. against he methods of the defense. No read, and only names ef affiants of all The political lineup in Butte has interview, whieh was published in persons responsible therefore, and that The anti trust crowd WHS strong matter what step was taken some mal• the rest, with time ef recidenoe in been completed. The republicans have said paper and copied by other papers he had heard the said matters dis• enough to defeat Holland and M icious motive was impugned to it. county, and name ef voting precinct. eirculating in said Canyon county, in cussed by a considerable number of selected Joseph Corbv known to fame (^ueeny but net strong enough to nomi• The frequent allusions to socialism and Only names of votere yero need, aad of which said interview the said Oood• people who were ctrangers to him, and as the man who compelled a republi• nate Mullins when the Holland and socialists throughout the progress of those who had resided in the county that the persons with whom he con ing, in his official capacity as such can convention four years ago to nom• McC^ueeny men flocked to Mahoney, the case testify to the power the so more than a year. The following is governor, said, among other things, versed and those strangers whom he declaring that they were going "to eialist party has already become In inate a democrat, Henry Mueller, when the long form - that the said Barry Orchard had heard express themselves, were, with job the thing good ami proper." American polities. few exceptions, of the opinion the de•the Amalgamated was moving henven Totally Unfit. Affidavit For Defense. made' a full confession as to the man• . .Adjourn for Steunenborg Funeral. ner and motors for the assassination fendants were guilty of the crime with and earth to defeat the socialist can• Mnhone\ is probably a good ,ngi The court was adjourned Tuesday M betag fret daly which they were charged. of said Frank Steunenberg and had didate P. A. Loamy and the fusionlst neer but the avsrage voter takes the aiornlng on account of the funeral of sworn deposes aad lays: implicated defendants In said position that it takes morn ability to sail "Affiant further says, because of Tat Midline. A. K Steunenberg, the brother of the "That he ie a cltiaea of the United murder ,*nd that the said Orchard the matters herein alleged, that a run the city government Mian to run Corby who was doing the worh of former governor, and the man who eue- Statos over the age ef SI years aad Is hsd sold the scary of M murders, the strong prejudice exists against do an engine. The democrat o- candidate, •eeded him aa the leading business man not related to either ef said defend• resales sf scasrparasisc ha whieh da the Amalgamated refused to allow the ct Caldwell. ants nor acquainted with eithr ef Continued on fifth page. republican delegates who did not be Continued en sixth page. The attorneys ia the ease that have