The sun., 1919-11-02
OLE HANSON SEES
SOVIET PLOT IN U, S.
Former Mayor of Seattle De-
clares Some of the Leaders
Are Busy in New York.

After ole Hanson, the former Mayor
of Seattle, who knocked the Pacl1,
coast BolsheviN for a series OF goals
finished telling reporters last night wha
he and the country thought of radicals
strikes, the high cost of living. the
League of Nations. President Wilson
the United States Senate and the future
ne made public his idea OF how he woult
run for the Presidency If he became Z
candidate.
"If I run for the Presidency" he
said, "Ill do all the running, Therel
be no politicians behind or beside me
i may not get far, but It will be ole
Hanson. Mind you. I'm not declaring
my candidacy. / don't know what I'm
going to do after the close of this lecture
tour.
You can bank on this, however: My
platform would be anti Bolshevst. II
would be--. But let me tell you Just
what l have seen and heard in the last
FIVE DAYS
MIR. Hanson arrived in New York last
night about O'Clock. lie should have
been here earlier, according to his lee
ture schedule He was late because the
railroads were running bahind schedule
and that gave him an opening
'"Fhe railroads are about ten years be-
hind in their equipment" he said AN
over the country people are demanding
that the Government return the rail-
roads 10 their former managements
because il is quite obvious that the Rail-
ROAD Administration is not getting away
with its job. ] don't know how many
cnaprhRc I've 10 fu ct 4
or how many people 1 have talked to-
But this l know; Folks are tired of
this League of Nations pow-wow. They
want something, and quickly. They
don't give hoot whether the Senate
adopts the league or discards it, What
they want is to have done with inter-
national matters and get busy on do
mestic affairs. They want to know why
they pay $50 for pair of shoes.
They are unanimously opposed to the
coal strike. They say, and 7 say that
1t is unjust, unwarranted. outrageous
At one time the interests--the capital.
ists--controiled this country The peo.
pie revolted. The Reds are in the sad.
die now and again the people are golne
to revolt I've covered twenty States
and l find that the people VIII burn corn.
stalks all winter rather than consent e
the Governments surrender to the Reds
DO you know there are 400 Pacific
coast Bolshevists roaming this country
working overtime TO overthrow this Gov.
| ernment?
Il have the most sincere admiral or
for my old friend Sam Gompers. ant
| am his friend. But he knows. and we
know, that even the good labor leader.
/ are being dragged down into the gutter
! by the Bolshevists Organized labor
must cast the Reds from its ranks. II
it doesn't 1t is doomed, or else the Gov
ernment of the United States is doomed
81 have come to tell you that thor,
is an absolute and concrete conspiracy
to establish Soviet government in mi,
country. Some Of the leaders are right
Prove it? I'll say I can.
"Do l know william u. Foster? why
Bill Foster was one of the busiest soaI
boxers in Seattle He was one of tn,
men we had to fight to keep Seattle from
becoming a Moscow. No group of en-
ployers or group of employees shoult
have the power to keep the necessitie,
of life from the people. They tried il
out in Seattle. We beat them - {
standstill
"I have heard no candidates for N,
Presidency talked OF to any extent 1
is the household problems that ar,
uppermost in the minds of folks jus
now. They want to know why they
can't get sugar and why they have tS
pay so much for meat"
Mr.. Hanson is scheduled to tall: or
domestic problems at Carnegie Hall TO-
morrow night