The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15
ALLEGED WOMAN.
S%EDlTlONIST IS
DECLARED GUILTY

Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, social
istic crank and alleged seditionist,
was found guilty in federal court at
Bimarck last week. Sentence viii be
passed later.
During the trial Judge Carmody
argued that Mrs. O'Hare's own ad-
missions had clearly established the
intent of her lecture at Bowman to
discourage and obstruct enlistment in
the United States army. "She select
ed a good place to deliver this lecture,
a hot-bed of dissension, where, as the
witnesses for the defense have testi-
fed, a great many people were pre-
pared to receive with sympathy and
applause her remarks.
N"Mrs. O'Hare stated that President
Wilson, after being reelected as the
man who kept America out of war,
stepped down from his pedestal and
plunged this country into war to pro
tect Morgan's millions. That state
ment was made for only one purpose
to create dissatisfaction with the
administration. By her own words
Mrs. O'Hare stands convicted. AS
a woman she comes into this court en-
titled to no less consideration than a
man charged of the same offense. and
no more. Mrs. O'Hare, as her wit
nesses have said on the stand. Is en-
titled to a square deal, but so is YOUR
government entitled to a square deal"
George Totten Talks
George A. Totten, Frazier member
OF the state board of regents and
president of Townleyis Northwest
Service bureau, which furnished league
newspapers with canned editorials and
cartoons, was the last witness on the
stand for the defense. He knew Bow
man and the people of Bowman very
we'll. He knew all of the witnesses
for the government. They all, he
stated, belonged to a faction opposed
to his brother, Judge Totten. "They
represent the faction that has been
opposing President Wilson and his ad-
ministration which we have been sup
porting" said Rev. Totten sententious-
ly and Judge Wade found it neces-
sary to s the gavel again.
He ordered Totten's political decla-
ration stricken from the records; in
structed the jury to ignore it, and
ordered the witnesses and the counsel
for the defense to stick to the case.
OOu1Qn SC8Q0 IL
Mrs. A. Olson of Bowman, testify
ing for the government, stated early
Tuesday afternoon that she stopped at
the side door of the Cosy theatre in
her car while the lecture was in pro-
gress; that she sat within 20 feet of
Mrs. OHare and heard what she said
and that after standing it as long as
she could she drove IN. She heard
Mrs. O'Hare say that the mothers of
soldiers abroad were given no more
privileges than brood sows.
Hanson Heard It
Ole Hanson, grain buyer at Bow
man, attended the O'Hare lecture. He
said he knew of several boys of draft
age, whom he named, who were there
and who heard Mrs. O,Hare lecture
which appealed to him as being Of a
nature to. discourage enlistment.
"Mrs. O'Hare said that her boy
wasn't old enough to go, for which
she thanked God, and that if he was
old enough he wouldn't have to go.
She said that the boys who are enlist
ing for the army r nothing but the
scum of the soil and fit only for fertil-
izer for the French SOIL" said Hanson.
Friendly to Defendant
Mrs. E. B. Totten, postmistress at
Bowman, whom Senator McCumber
sought to have removed after she had