The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-03-21

the Interpretation of American
destinies of this organization is the
right to shoot in cold blood anyone
who does not knuckle to their mas
ters--the A. C.. M.--we are perfect
ly willing to have the issue such as
they have made it.
Among those present last night
was Herman Gillis, A. G. M. gunman
who is out on $4,000 bail for killing
Hugh Carroll, a miner; Dan NJ. kel
ley, attorney for the A. c. NJ, con-
victed in the federal court of jury
bribing; F. A. Bigelow, discredited
labor fakir and a faithful stool for
the A. c. M; "Dirty-Water" Carroll
of the Butte Water company, owned
by the A. c. M; William Meyer, who
introduced the bill to deprive moth
ers of their pensions; all of the gun
men and stool-pigeons of the A. c. NJ
who could be spared from their
pressing duties, such as shooting
women for picking up coal; and a
few decent citizens who were disgust
ed with the entire proceedings.
The meeting was presided over by
one John Berlin, whose multi
farious activities in anything that
promises dollar and q chance to
pack gun, are too we'll known to
need an explanation.
Judge Witty spoke and adopted a
portion OF the l. W. W. preamble by
advocating "direct action" in dealing
with a certain element in Butte who
are violating the principles of the
thug element by trying to get elected
to office honestly.
The judge is getting quite revolu-
tionary.
Mort Donoghue, who is slated for
the discard at the next election of the
federation by the outraged coal-min
ers whose interests he has betrayed
he has been playing the A. c. M.
game for some time now-also de-
nounced Dunn. Dunn and Donoghue
parted ways at the last session of the
legislature, as soon as Dunn found
that Donoghue could never be found
except in the company of Dan NJ.
Kelly or Roy Alley, sometimes both.
They always denounce Dunn as
soon as they find he has their num-
Der, and he has an embarrassing way
of always getting it.
We also noticed a goodly number
of those pale-faced young gentlemen
who live on the shameful earnings of
the poor females whom they force to
walk the streets for them, and who
are also doubtless interested in pre-
serving Butte from the menace of
bolshevism, meaning a mayor who
would put them to work or in Jail.
A reward of $500 was offered for
the apprehension of the murderers of
David Thomas, the A. c. M. gunman
but no fund was raised to prosecute
the gunman who shot Mrs. Plase for
picking up coal.
We are in favor of the reward,
however, as We don't like to see even
a gunman murdered. We would
rather see them in jail, making little
ones out of big ones.
1t was agreed that a committee OF
60 should be appointed to prevent
fraud at the polls. Some humorist
must be responsible for this charm
ing bit of irony, because everyone
knows by this time that the Cults
forces have abandoned. every hope ex-
cept that of stealing the election out
right by running through all the fake
absent voters ballots they can mark
between now and the primaries, and
by purloining every vote they can get
away with.
The committee of 60 is a commit
tee of gunmen to intimidate voters
at the polls and to prevent Dunn sup
porters from voting.
These fervid exponents of Ameri-
canism do not intend to let little
thing like the constitutional right oi
American citizens to cast their bal
lots for whom they choose. in peace
and safety, stand in the way oi
swinging the election the way the A
C. M. wants it to 60.
This is the real meaning of the
meeting of the Put Crimp on Ameri
cans association held last night in the
high school auditorium, in defiance
of the ruling that the auditorium
shall not be used for political pur
poses. We do not blame them yer.
much, at that.
If w. f. Dunn is elected mayor, {
large percentage of the membership
of the Gunmen's club, who get theil
living by graft and thugging, vii
either have to go to work, leave towl
or go to jail. lslt. }9t Aio 81