Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-04-02

Ray Mckaig. organizer for the
nonpartisan league at SIG per head
In his address here Sunday after
neon told of the great love the
league has for the ex-soldiers and
o. the great loyalty of the league
y embers. He pointed out North
Dakota as the shining light in pa
t7iotism and love for the ex-soldiers
lie stated that North Dakota's leg,
islature voted lone million dollars
TO give the soldiers who returned
from across the water, bouns."
1t is too bad that Mr.. McKaie
did not have more time for there
are many items Of interest he could
and probably(D would have told
had time permitted him to do so
AS Mr.. McKaig did not have the
time to tell these things we Will
tell them for him.
He failed to tell the audience
that the state of Washington, where
the nonpartisan league is about as
popular as the smallpox, voted
eleven million dollars bonus to the
soldiers.
MIR. McKaig told how loyal and
patriotic the nonpartizan league OF
North Dakota is and always has
been. But he did not have time to
tell his audience that the legis-
lature which voted lone Million
Dollars" (of the farmers money!
to the soldiers. refused to pass a
Nbill introduced at the request of the
American Legion, composed of ex-
service men, forbidding the carry
ing OF red flags in parades in the
state of North Dakota and the dis
play of the red flag within the bor-
ders of the state. He failed to
state that at the request of the
American Legion such a bill. which
also provided that the American
flag. only must be displayed. was
prepared and presented to the non
partizan league legislature which
killed the bill in the last few min
utes of its session and adjourned
as soon as the vote was taken
Here lie the story of this loyal
and patriotic" legislatures last act
rs it was published in the press at
the time and has never been
denied:
''One of the last things the non
partizan league majority in the leg
dslature did in the recent special
session, was to kill the anti-red flag
bill The news of this action was
telephoned down town to the hall
where the American Legion was
meeting. The effect was electrical
The eX-service men piled out and
marched to the state capitol in COM
pany formation; two companies OF
husky ,enraged patriots. But word
of their coming had been tele-
phoned to the legislature which ad-
journed a few minutes before the
sx-soldiers reached the capitol"
McKaig did not have time to tell
his audience that A. c. Townley
$500 per month president of the
league. who testified under oath
that he draws a salary of $500 per
month and is allowed $1,000 per
month for expenses land no ques-
tions asked as to how it is spent"
was convicted of disloyalty and in
terfering with the draft and is now
under sentence for that crime.
McKaig did not tell the ex-ser-
vice men. whom he processes TO
love, that Kate O'Hare, who is
serving time in prison for disloyal-
ty and interfering with the draft.
stated in her lectures while oppos-
ing American men enlisting to
fight the kaiser. that 1.-The mothers
Of American soldiers are no better
than brood sows" He did not have
time to tell the soldiers that he
(McKaig had attended Kate O.
Hare's trial and had placed his
arm around her and called her
Sister" and told her he sympa-
thiZed with her and he had mes
sage for her from a notorious radi-
cal in Idaho.
1t is really too bad that Mr.. Nc
Kaig did not have time to go more
fully into details and that he had
10 omit these important matters
: hich would show how the league
leaders, Townley, McKaig. Kate
ct al really feel. The
''sons of American brood sows" as
Kate O'Hare termed the soldiers
ought to know all of the facts