The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-08
members of the. party which elected

members of the. party which elected
Governor Frazier.
Nor can the rank and file of the
league nor the people Of the state as
a mass be held responsible for the
cffugcnt praise which Governor Fra
zicr showcrcd upon the Tottens while
Mrs. YOttcn was facing Indictment
and removal from her position as post
mistress for having entertained in her
home at Bowman and publicly ac
claimed this seditionist.
The great church whose district su-
perintendent sits at the same table
with a defender of sedtion cannot be
made to suffer for the political aspira.
tons of one Of it's hOnOred servants.
These incidents are exceptions. They
are found in rather high places in
North Dakota, but they are not typical
nor representative. That fact was i'm.
pressed upon the nation yesterday
when that federal court jury of IL
average American citizens devoted
less than half hour to making up
its mind about Mrs. O'Hare and the
professional politicians, office holders
and reformers who rallied to her de
Tense.
1t is true that Mrs. O'Hare was
laboring in the interests OF, or at least
cooperating with the Nonpartisan
league organization. But that organ
cation at the St. Paul sedition fest;
in its opposition to the first liberty
loan and in it's support of Senator La.
Toilette, has shown that it does not
represent the rank and file of it's mem
bership. And the fact that the Tot.
tens placed on the stand in defense
of their seditionist friend a Nonpar
tisan Lacquer from Bowman county is
not an indication that any large per
centage of the Nonpartisan league
members, even in unfortunate Bow
man, approve of Mrs O'Hare or Sen
ator LaFollette or Emma Goldman o.
Max Eastman and the things the!
stand for.
North Dakota is right, and the ma
ton in the press reports on million.
Of breakfast tables this morning, fount
concrete evidence of that fact in the
verdict of the O'IIare jury.
Kate Richards O'Hare, soap-box ora
tor, agitator and writer of the extreme
socialist cult, stands convicted in the
federal court, of this city for seditiou
and treasonabie utterances. The jury
composed partially of farmers, spen
two days in hearing the evidence AM
80 minutes in reaching the conclusio,
of guilty.
The woman, by her own admission
made use of language of which sh'
stood accused and the purpose o
which was a wanton and slatternly
insult to American mothers. And il
the same connection she referred tt
the young men enlisting in the armies
,yrn11 EftD1 IN fnrtiIivn thp fD1I
of Europe and as appropriate food 70
cannon. In the court room, to be
sure, shc2Sought to change the contex'
and implication of her words, ant
there were witnesses willing to give
'tiieiif AZ 1iidsual meaning, but no i'm
preston reached the jury box, no,
did the plea that ;LaFollette and 9th
ers had uttered greater treason fal
with any effect.
Mrs. O'Hare is woman of tho
Emma Goldman stripe, quite as ard
ent as she in seeking near-crimina:
notoriety, and intimately connected
with the revolutionary element of the
socialist party, leaning toward, If no,
belonging to the l. w. w.. and othe,
fire.brand branches Of the organiza
ton.
Previous to her indictment at Fargo
and since that time the field of Mrs
O'Hare's circulation has been in Mon
tana and North Dakota, and in this
state in particular she has been touted
by leaders of thought and politics, par
ticularly the latter, who have ap
proved her sentiments, if that may be
judged by the manner in which they
have stood by and defended her down
to tho hour of her conviction. She
was an agent of the German spy sys.
TEN when the intimacy began and the
extent Of her reform since the United
States joined the allies is subjec:
on which there is no light.
Periodically inclined leaders of the
public mind do not enter into such
associations, and fellow-feeling TO,
such as Kate Richards O'TIare is not
a thing to boast of by any whose sym
PATTY is untainted of the disease that
has afflicted her.
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