The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-18

/ appearances count for much I was
dirty My face was unshaved. Ny
clothing was wrinkled and unclean.
For four days | had lived amid filth.
! wanted "A bath and rub down as
used to have in my old athletic days.
Everything was denied me. They
wanted me to go into court looking the
mad man. Then they could sketch me
for their lying papers.
mot until my lawyer, Comrade
HUSKY, got busy did I get a chance to
shave and some clean clothing. As
to the bath the civilized deputy in
formed me that it was entirely un-'
necessary as he himself never took
more than one month. Not only did
want to feel the holy sense Of per
sonal cleanliness, but I wanted to stir
my now sluggish blood for the ordeal
in court. | knew that | was being
railroaded to the asylum simply be-
cause they wanted to get me out of
the way while they cleaned up Sin
clair and the other Socialist teachers
I knew that the Arlington crooks were
in on the deal as was later shown up
in the trial. But ! wanted that bath
for l wanted my fighting power back
again. But l got no bath.
The Witnesses.
Prosecuting Attorney Fausset had
not been idle. When they decided
that insanity was the proper caper,
this honest public official slipped out
to Arlington to gather evidence Here
he was about to summon a lady with
whom I had boarded. But when he
found that she would not go into the
plot with him he told her he did not
want her. But he picked up Roy
Beels, chief marshal of Arlington
under the Ford bunch of honest poll
ticians Beels is anxious to get me
across. He it was who slugged me
while arresting me in the former
frame-up.
ON the court this Beels swore to
warned him not to lie. Whereupon
this laundering Beels informed the
judge that Attorney L. N. Jones of
Arlington who collected the lies about
Sinclair had told him this lie.
"Thus do plots run together.
"In the court also Mrs. Moore, as
sistant county superintendent of
schools for Snohomish county in the
office of Lizzie Jones, furnished
amusement by showing her utter in
competence and inability to under
stand even good English.
"Mr. Lampson, one of the Fortson |
directors, got caught lying also. He
said that he did not decide to fire me
until he saw that l was crazy. He |
was afterwards compelled to admit
under oath that he lied.
Plot Failed.
Under the circumstances there was
nothing left for the judge to do but
turn me loose on a suffering world.
"Thereupon these patriotic souls
who had been trying me for insanity
asked me to apologize to Lizzie Jones
for writing her in a vein that she
seems to consider harsh. l have no
apology to offer but she has an apol-
ogy to make to the people of Sno-
homish county, an apology that may |
not be accepted"
1 have written this story down al
most verbatim from the lips of the
comrade whom had to coax into tell
ing it. 1t is a story that | think every
working man should know and ponder
upon Over and over again | have
said that they have abolished the con-
stitution here in Washington. l have
said that the workers had no rights
that the masters were bound to re-
spect. Here we have the proof. Had
the Everett and Arlington comrades
not got busy Comrade Buchanan would
now be in the insane asylum.
This diabolical plot is on par with
the rest of the program to clean out
the Socialist teachers. Comrade Blu
chanan and myself are both cited to
appear before the state superintendent
to show cause why our certificates
should not be revoked. Neither of us
at this writing has been furnished /
copies of the charge against us.
]. e. SINCLAIR.