Arizona republican., 1917-08-19

while those who deprecate the depor- tation do not go back of the incident of July 12.
 Sheriff Wheeler calls attention to the fact that days before he had given
 warning of conditions at Bisbee and predicted riot and bloodshed unless the matter was taken in hand by the au- thorities. He says that the conduct Of the I. W. W. was treasonable; that they had given utterance to the following sentiment:
 "The Red Button above the Liberty l Bond to hell with the draft law They had insulted women and as- saulted and threatened men and were l evidently preparing to deport men who i insisted upon working. One of them
 remarked after they had been placed l in the cars for deportation: You have only beat us to it." In conclusion the sheriff said: T dodge no responsi- | bility and make no excuse
 |, Mayor Erickson in his statement cor roborateS much of that of the sheriff
 and said that the reply of the l. w. w. to himself was: ITO hell with your ! proclamaJions. Tomorrow we will show you who is running this town l md every other Scab.'
 | J. c. Ryan, who assisted in entrain- ing the I. w. w. said that they could
 not complain that they had been ex- pelled from the camp, for that was l what they were preparing to do to the | workers; they would have fired them i out as the workers and managers of | he mines were fired out of Clifton , by them at the time of the strike 1 there. Many who were deported from 1 Bisbee need not have gone; they were given their choice of remaining and | behaving themselves. One man who i had been given permission to remain elected to go against the entreaties of
 his wife. When he refused to leave the
 car she cried after him: Then don't come back to me; you can go straight
 to hell"
 ! A. L. Huie, who had room 12 at the
 Philadelphia hotel adjoining that of
 Room II. the headquarters of the l.
 W. w, said he had heard the adoption of resolution which proposed outrages upon men working Hugh Farren, one of the deported, said that he wanted to take vacation anyhow, and might as
 well spend it at Columbus after he was told that he could remain in Bisbee
 The statements of many of the wives of the deported men were bitter. But the most interesting and comprehen- sive statement was that of Rosa
 Mckay, member from Cochise county in the legislature. She was on the scene from early in the morning until the departure of the train and then she afterward went to Columbus As soon as she learned what was hapDeniney on the morning of July 12, she sent tele-
 grams to Governor Campbell. former Governor Hunt and President Wilson
 in which she represented that there was danger of the women and children
 being burned up as they had been at Ludlow, Colo. Later, as she was in
 weighing against the loading of the men into the cattle cars, she said that
 a woman was struck in the face by a gunman, and she telegraphed that fact | to Governor Campbell and the presi- dent. Whenever anything unusual
 happened on that unusual day she tele- I graphed to the president about it. If
 President Wilson had opportunity to read all of those telegrams and had
 nothing else on his mind, he must have
 been the best-informed man in tn, | united States on the Bisbee situation
 from Mrs. McKay's point of view. 1 The report of the attorney general | offers no recommendation to the gov
 ernor who last night mailed his views
 Of the situation to Sheriff Wheeler The nature of the communication was
 not made public and will not be unti
 a sufficient time had elapsed to brine
 It into the hands of the sheriff