The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-20
POTLATCH RIOTS HAVE
STIRRED UP THE CITY

| POTLAICH RIOTS HAVE
STIRRED UP THE CITY
soldiers, passing an anarchist orator
permitted on the street by Mayor
Cotterill were assaulted by a mob Of
In. w. w. At the instance of q soap
box orator they were brntally beaten
and stabbed The same night Secre-
tary Daniels publicly proclaimed IN
our leading club his belief that the
red flag should be eliminated from
American cities. The Times was the
only Seattle paper which displayed
Daniels utterances and 1t condemned
the I. W. w. mob. The next night,
Friday, group OF soldiers and sail
ors, absolutely sober and earnest, de-
stroyed the contents and decorations
of every red flag hall in the city.
TN that vain attempt to save him
self from the disgrace of his un-
American record and rs results the
mayor attempted to place the city I'M
der riot law and issued orders clos.
ing saloons and forbidding the Times
to publish this afternoons and TO-
morrow mornings issue on the
grounds that the paper had melted
the riot of Friday.
This notice was served upon US
i shortly before noon today and we
promptly secured an Injunction from
Judge John E. Humphreys OF superior
court, who quickly brought the mayor
and his staff of police. Claud Rannick
before the bar to explain their reluct>
ance in complying with his order,
Judge Humphries bitterly denounced
the mayor and ordered him to raise
the police embargo placed around the
Times or go to Jail for contempt. The
order was telephoned to police head
quarters, the embargo raised and the
Times regular editions went to the
people on time.''
Mayor Coterill when seen late to-
night said there was nothing he cared
to discuss regarding the situation
further than to say he was greatly
1 disappointed by Judge HUMPHREYS in.
junction which he was forced to obey.
Daniels Makes Statement
TACOMA, Wash. July 1s.-The
United Press tonight received spec.
ial dispatch from Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, from National Park
Inn, Mount Rainier, about 80 miles
from here, in which the secretary de-
clared that the reference to the In
dustrial Workers OF the World was
not intended In his speech at ban.
quet at the Rainier club in Seattle,
the publication of which by the
Seattle Times Is alleged by Mayor
Cotterill OF Seattle to have caused
last nights riots. Secretary Daniels
4 message follows:
The reference I made to the flag
and my statement that the red flag
meant danger was the same as orig
inally made by me at the banquet OF
the Railroad Mems Y NJ C. A., al
Washington City few days ago. II
had no reference whatever to loca,
conditions In Seattle. | believe il
free speech and free press as the
bulwarks of our liberty. Every evi
that exists or that threatens oul
: country can be righted by appeal tc
the judgment of the American people
THE weapon is the ballot. The
: man who resorts to violence to re
dress evil is bringing more evil into
? existence than he can hope to cure b,
4 violence.
Obedience to the law, authorlt,
a and respect for the flag must pro
9 cede any reform.
:, The man who takes the law int
n his own hands imperiIs American in
II situations and jeopardizes the hop,
of seeing real relief from condition
e against which he complains"