Arizona republican., 1919-07-09
pensmore Smoked Out

The fire in the house of representatives started and kept burning by Mir Banton of Texas. has driven J. B. Densmore out with statement regarding his report on the Mooney MT Densmore, who is a nephew of Secretary Labor Wilson is the head of the United States Employment Service, and he went tc San Francisco at the expense of the government presumably in the of his duties as the head of the employment service. He conducted an inves- tigation of the Mooney and prepared a report copy of which the secretary of labor and a copy given to Fremont Older, friend of Mooney and editor Of the Call. Densmore then left the state, and the following day the report printed by the Call. Densmore by that time was at Portland Ore9 where he gave out an interview in which he said;
 A man has no chance if they start out to get him in San Francisco They can jostle a man off the street kill him, and dozen witnesses to testify that pulled gun and started the fight It is worse than New York ever was. I have been in practically every city in the United States, and it's conditions than any of them.
 The report of Densmore which on Monday in reply MT Blantons attack upon him and Secretary Wilson, he said not intended for publication but fell into the hands of the publisher of local paper, who published it without any authority what ever" was a vicious document, attacking the character of District Attorney Fickert the of Mooney and all who had part in the prose- cution had testified against the bomb thrower.
 A grand jury summoned and a subpoena issued for Densmore, who declined to appear A sub poena however, was served his assistant William Armstrong who refused to testify "on the ground that he might incrminate himself. But the presence of Densmore could not be secured and Secretary Wilson refused to order him to go within the juris dction of the state.
 The following is from the report of the grand jury:
 It is most regrettable that the secretary of labor would lend himself such proceeding, and alone repudate his promise to Gov. William D. Stephens place Densmore and his assistants his disposal in the investigation but through the department of jus tice assist in deliberately blocking it. Through his
 orts the United States district attorney directed by the attorney general of the United States appear in and offer in defense her client the plea that Mir Densmore's operator-Willam Armstrong; empIoye of the department of labor and justice could not answer any questions pertaining to the Densmore report, on the ground that he might in crimnate himself. Most investigating bodies are assisted in their deliberations by the government. This grand jury has found itself in the peculiar position of being opposed and hampered and blocked in it's efforts by officials of the government par icularly by the very officials gave pub licity to the charges.
 Another document submitted by MT Blanton and which printed in the Congressional Record of June 21, set out among other things, the record and activities of Densmore:
 After District Attorney Fickert had shown him. self to be fearless prosecutor who against all threats and cajolery and had refused play into the hands of the anarchists, John B. Densmore sent by his uncle, Secretary of Labor Wilson apparently for the purpose of playing the game. Densmore in former years a supporter of the McNamara murderers and agitator their behalf. His relations with various reds close. He went out at the expense of the United is said to have had in his employ 30 detectives including of the friends of Anarchist Mooney. Densmore himself had been associated with the Mooney defense, but the people supposed to swallow his so-caled investigation impartial affair. He and his gang tapped the wires between the district attorneys office and the United States Naval Intelligence office the Army Intelligence office and the United States marshals office, and stole various documents and gave the information so ob- tained to reds and disloyalsts who subjects investigation and prosecution by United States and state authorities. Then choosing the Call, edited by Fremont Older. who is a friend of the reds and had publicly entertained Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, he published scurrilous attack upon Dis trct Attorney Fickert bolster this up by stating that certain people authority for certain statements Some of these people have appeared before the grand jury and stated that they the statements attributed them Then after Dens- more was subpoenaed witness in the United States court and wanted by the grand jury he fled the state and spite of efforts on the part of the and the district attorney to get him back he is still fugitive from justice in California Yet Secretary of Labor Wilson puts nephew of his forward to the people of United Statest
 witness before the grand jury that Fremont Older supporter of Mooney and other reds had sent representative to the witness say that if District Attorney Fickert would join Judge Griffin in asking for trial for Mooney the scurrilous Densmore report would not be made public but otherwise they would continue after District Attorney Fickert until they got him.
 After submitting this documentary evidence Mir Blanton said
 If Mir. John B. Densmore is guilty of the charges preferred by MT. Welsh he has business being ir charge of United States Employment Service Auaator Burroughs Of thezs nites States Shppine Board has charged him vii