Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-06

knew the first state manager for Ida
no WAS socialist, and stated the mar
had 80 informed him. He was asked
Il when he came to Idaho to tell thu
! story OF the North Dakota Nom Parti.
san league, II he told them that TT
organizer. A. c. Townley, was a SO
lcialist, to which the witness answered
In the negative.
To show that McKaig really had the
say SO or not as to whether mar
should be hired or fired as an organ
Izer Mr.. Bissell asked him IL he ever
recommended that any man be hired
or fired, that It was not agreed to by
Scholtz, the state manager The wit
ness thought that in most instances
that Scholtz agreed with him. Asked
If he did not have the power to stop
q man working in the field as an Or
eanizer IL he felt he was not doing his
duty, the witness replied that he did
temporarily, but he had to take the
matter up with Scholtz, after SO do
ing.
The witness was then asked concern
ing quite lisr of Non Partisan league
organizers and asked concerning their
POLITICAL affiliations. He admitted
that a majority of most of those asked
about We're or had been Socialists but
did not know OF any of them who We're
1. w. WIS.
CALLS 1T POLITICAL FRAME UP.
The witness was asked If he knew
whether or not the Non-Partisan
league carried an advertisement in the
appeal to Reason" Socialist pub
LEGATION, for organizers. and admitted
he did not.
Queried concerning a Mr.. Mann, an
organizer for the Nom Partisan league,
Mckaig was asked whether or not
he had made the following statement:
II may have made a mistake and
slipped up on Mann. II l had known
what kind of a man he was he would
not have been hired. As to the north
Idaho men. that is a political frame
up. can vouch for those men," Here
the witness desired to make an ex-
PLANTATION before answering the ques-
ton direct. but direct answer was
insisted upon by the defense and upon
being assured that he would be able
to make an explanation upon re- direct
examination by his attorney, McKaig
answered that he had made such a
statement.
Several times the attorney for the
defendant took the witness over his
meeting with Kate O'Hare and of his
statements made there in connection
with that meeting, until finally upon
an ODJeCllOn Oh Tic painful attorney,
the court held the matter had been
thoroughly gone into.
The witness was asked concerning
enc Phil j. Purl, whom he admitted
knowing, but stated he was not an or
ganizer for the N. p. L., but was sec
rotary of a labor organization at Lew
iston, who had invited him to come
up there and speak in connection with
a labor meeting. Upon going to Lew
iston, he testified, he found Purl in
Jail. He was asked If he knew that
Purl was an l. w. W., and replied he
did not and understood that he had
Lroven himself innocent.
Taken back again to the Kate
O'Hare meeting, McKaig was asked If
he did not show sympathy for the
and contended he did not, that
he was sorry for her, as he was sorry
for anyone accused of crime and
rot convicted and he drew a fine dis
tinction between being sorry for the
woman as an individual and alone and
between extending sympathy for her
' Jews. The noon hour came with Nc
Eaig still on the stand and under fire
Of cross examination.
CORRECTS TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Patterson, upon his request. was
recalled as the first witness this morn
Ing to correct some testimony given
Wednesday, He stated he had misun-,