The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

posed and vested in me by virtue OF
section of article of the city char
ter. do hereby assume control for the
time being of the police force of the
city of Seattle
MAYOR TO BLAME, SAYS EDITOR
Clarence B. Blethen. managing edi-
tor of the Times, issued the following
statement:
In order to clear his skirts of his
responsibility for last nights riots
Mayor Cotterin in sheer desperation to-
day attempts to suppress the Times
He has issued an order closing sa-
looms and stopping all street meetings
today and tomorrow and suppressing
all editions of the Times today and to-
morrow unless proofs of all matter in
all editions are submitted to him ana
receive his approval
Colonel Blethen notified Mayor Cot
terill that he was enforcing that order
at his own peril
Mayor Cotterilrs responsibility for
last nights riots is very definite. He
permitted and fostered the display OF
the red flag and the spread of anar-
chistic principles. AS a result follow
ers of the red flag attacked United
States sailors and soldiers. The sailors
and soldiers retaliated last night as
result of this attack"
SAYS TIMES INF'LAMED PUBLIC
Mayor Cotterin made the following
statement to the Associated Press:
I feel deeply concerned that such an
incident as last nights riots occurred
I ordered the suspension of publication
of the Times because of an incendiary
article published yesterday.
The Times printed a garbled ac-
count of the address of Secretary Oh
the Navy Daniels, representing him as
discussing the Industrial Workers OF
the World and as attacking me, where
as he did not refer to the local sltua-
tion in any way.
The false report of Mr.. Daniels ad-
dress was linked with a lurid and un-
truthful account of a trifing incident
in the saloon quarter, where two sail
ors got into street row in the neigh
bOrnood of meeting addres 5ed by
woman. who was distributing woman
suffrage literature and who has no con-
nection with the Industrial Workers
of the World. The Times article then
went on to incite the sailors and ma
rines of the feet to do just what they
did last night
at was represented to them that the
secretary of the navy wished them to
attack the Industrial Workers. They
were also given to understand that
their comrades had been attacked and
were in peril.
TRGE on RIOTERS
The naval men were urged to clean
up the city Near the close of its
article the Times said:
The former soldiers of the Spanish
American war; as members of the Mill
tary Order of the Serpent lead to-
nights Potlatch parade across Wash
ington street and past the scene of the
attack
IF they start anything with US
one of the leaders of the organization
asserted. they will meet something
they never did before. Our men will
be armed with everything from bolos
to head axes. and we will be ready for
them
1.-THE police were notified through
underground channels late last night
and again this morning that a large
force Of enlisted men in the city on
leave would circulate about the !. w.
w headquarters this evening. The
prediction was freely made that any
stigma cast on either their uniforms
or the flag will meet with speedy and
decisive answer
LOCAL LEADERSHIP FOR MOB
The course of the mob indicated a
local plot and local leadership. The
men were led to the widely separated
places where the socialists and Indus
trial Workers had their offices and
property.
THE outbreak was shrewdly timed
a the time of shifts of the police. Ad-
vantage was taken of the scattering of
the police to keep open the lines OF the
Potlatch parade the crowds on the
streets being enormous
''Tf the few police at any point had
attempted to stop the mob of many
hundreds of men there would have
been shooting, in which the people on
the sidewalks would have been the
worst sufferers. / rejoice that there
was no bloodshed to add to the city's
disgrace.
L discussed the situation fully with
Governor Lister and Secretary of the
Navy Daniels last night
Il am determined as mayor of the
city that quiet shall be restored After
peace has been assured the question of
compensation of those who suffered loss
of property will be taken up"
DANIELS EXPLAINS SPEECH
The following message was received
by the Associated Press from Secretary
Of the Navy Daniels at National Park
inn on Mount Rainier:
National Park Inn, Washington,
July 19.-The reference I made to the
flag and my statement that the red flag
meant danger was the same as origi-
nally made by me at banquet of the
Railroad Mems Y. NJ. G. A in Wash
ington few days ago
1T had no reference whatever to To-
cal conditions in Seattle I believe in
free speech and free press as the bull
warks of our liberty. Every evil that
exists or that threatens our country
can be righted by appeal to the judg-
ment of the American people. The
weapon is the ballot.
The man who resorts to violence to
redress evil is bringing more evil into
existence than he can hope to cure by
violence.
obedience to lawful authority and
respect for the flag must precede any
reforms. The man who takes the law
into his own hands imperils American
institutions and jeopardizes the hope
of securing real relief from conditions
against which he complains.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS"
AATTrY OATOyUyD