Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-13


that they were present.
Whsn asked who he considsred
responsible for the class hatred N
Idaho, the former governor quickly
retorted, "Ray Mckaig."
The witness testified he felt he was
doing a real patriotic service in expos
ing Ray McKa.g and declared he felt
his advertisements awakened the citf-
zeps of Idaho and helped save the state
Kessler then asked the witness II he
considered himself the Saviour of Ida
no, which was objected to as improper
cross examination and sustained by
the court.
Through questions next asked. the
plaintiff sought to find out just where,
over Idaho. the witness had found the
class hatred to which the witness had
testified asking that counties be
named The witness named long list
of counties. The plaintiff then wanted
to know in what parts of the counties
1n CITES INCIDENTS.
Mr. Gooding cited incidents at Kuna
lin Ada, at Caldwell in Canyon and in
his own county of Gooding. The plain
tiff then sought to show that 1t was
advertisements by Gooding. which had
stirred up the trouble, rather than the
preachings of McKaig and the organ
izers of the league. This he attempted
to do by proving that the trouble arose
after advertisements were placed by
Gooding in local papers.
North Idaho was next invaded by
the plaintiff, the witness being asked
to name the I. w. w. precincts Of the
north, which he was unable to do He
was then asked what precincts he
carried in the north and was also I'M
able to state. Under an objection,
Kessler announced the purpose of the
examination was to show that Gooding
had carried all the I. w. w. precincts
Of the north. An objection to this line
of questioning was made by the de-
PENDANTS counsel, which the court took
under advisement during the noon re-
cess.
CASE DRAGGED.
The $4,000 libel suit of Ray Nc
Kaig against Frank r. Gooding and
1.-THE Statesman Printing company
dragged Wednesday afternoon. The
testimony was principally confined to
the so-called libelous advertisements
published by Gooding in the States
man, introduced in evidence by the
| plaintiffs.
| II. F.. Abend, managing editor Of the
Statesman, occupied the stand most of
the afternoon under cross examination.
| The plaintiffs attorney, seeking to
learn from him concerning the adver-
| tisements and upon what assumption
he based his authority that the state
ments contained therein were true.
Portions of the complained of adver-
| tisements were read by the attorney,
who asked upon what authority they
were printed as facts.
To these various questions Mr.. Alb
| end advised the attorney that the
! advertising manager of the Statesman
Mr.. Durham, had informed him that
Mr. .Gooding had letters and kilograms
dealing with the matter contained
therein and he took his statement that
! they We're facts, based upon the many
news items he had handled for months
concerning League leaders, organizers
etc.
| The witness was asked II he believed
McKaig was disloyal. He replied that
| it was matter of doubt with him as
] his connections with the League and
| its activities and those associated with
| it caused him to gravely doubt his 10y
atty.
John G. Durham, advertising man.
ger of the Statesman, followed Mr.
Abend to the stand. His testimony
was to the effect that he never So
licited political advertisements, that
| the rates given the Nom Partisan
| League We're the same as those given
| Mr.. Gooding and that McKaig often
! iolied about the advertisements. He
cited visits to the Statesman office
made by McKaig and Scholtz during
| the campaign concerning advertise
ments and testified that Mckaig otter
sso,ne alane and seemed to have the
last say concerning the copy and any
i 44.5 ,,..ssreu in it. He stated Nc
Kaig often seemed greatly pleased
with what he termed his come
backs" to the Gooding advertisements
The witness stated he had been
shown letters and kilograms which
caused him to believe the truth of tht
advertisements given for publication
/ by Mr. Gooding, which were mostly
submitted by Guy F1enner.
Mr. Durham was the last witness
on the stand during the afternoon.