The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-30
Editor of "Social Revolu-
ton" Brought to Fargo
Sunday Afternoon
NOT GUILTY
BEFORE AMIDON
Indictment Returned Sat
urday-Prevented from
Making Lecture

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returned by the federal
grand jury Saturday, and a
bench warrant issued late
that afternoon, Mrs. Kate
Richards O'Hare, twenty
years a chautauqua lectur-
er, and for the last seven
years editor of "The Social
Revolution, " published at
st. Louis, formerly known
as the rip Saw" was ar
rested at Devils Lake Sun
day morning.
The bench warrant for
her arrest charged violation
of the act of June Is, 1917,
in obstructing enlistment
service. She was taken in
to custody at the Great
Northern hotel in Devils
Lake before she had a
chance to deliver a lecture
in that city. The indict-
ment was returned largely
on face of evidence from a
recent address she made at
Bowman, N. ID. It is said
that in her speech she re-
ferred to the volunteers in
the United States army as
only fit for fertilizer, I" and
that American women
who did not resist the tax
Ing Of their sons into the
United States army we're
no better than brood sows. "
Pleads Not Guilty.
United States Deputy Marshal G.
r. Wattles made the arrest and
brought the prisoner to Fargo Sun
day afternoon. Arraigned before
Judge Charles F. Amidon of the fed
eral court at IL o'clock this morning,
she entered a plea of not guilty
through her counsel, Attorney b. q.
Tenneson. Bail was fixed at $1,000,
which she says she will furnish. Two
attempts to get an interview from
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Tenneson instructing his client not
to talk, and that he did not care to
try the case in the newspapers.
Mrs. O'Hare is an elderly woman,
very talkative and seems little con-
cerned regarding her experience with
the law, and the federal officials. She
declared to the deputy marshal at the
time of the arrest, 1t Is said, that she
expected to be arrested after leaving
st. Louis. Mrs. O'Hare is the mother
of four children who. with their
father, are in Florida.
Mrs. OHare left st. Louis on May
q on a speech making tour. She
visited FL Paso, Tex, other cities in
the south, swung around to Los An
geles, gave talks at other cities on
the western coast, and then started
home. Friday, June 29, she was at
Sunday she was scheduled to speak
at Devils Lake, but federal officials
McCumber Makes Charges.
United States Senator Porter ].
placed charges before the
senate last week, alleging that Mrs.
Lillian Totten, postmistTess at Bow
man, N. D., and wife OF E. p. Totten
was disloyal to the government.
OF the charges were
by Postmaster General Hugh
l.. Burleson and United States Dis
trict Attorney Alfred Jaques of Min
nesota. Complaints to the federal
officials were also made by the navy
officers Of this district.
The charge was made to the senate
that following her alleged seditious
address at Bowman, Mrs. Kate
O'Hare was entertained by
Mrs. Totten and her husband at their
home.
Gov. Lynn J. Frazier and Attorney
General william LANCER wired TO
Postmaster General Fl. L. Burleson
last week holding that Mr.. McCum-
Oer's charges against Mrs. Totten
we're purely political.
Hildreth 10 Silent.
United States District Attorney NJ. |
A Hildreth, questioned on the O'Hare |
this morning, refused to give
put any information. stating that 1t
vas out Of place to touch on matters |
which the grand Jury has before 1t.
The case against Mrs. O'Hare was |
before the federal |
grand jury by four witnesses from |
Bowman, including J. r. Phelan.