Evening star., 1924-03-26
G. @. P. ORGAN FLAYS
WHEELER AND GANG
Sedition and Treason Charged
Against Senator for Work
in Montana.
CITES STATE COUNCILS ACT
Alleges Legislator Was Condemned
as Unpatriotic Citizen.

Scdition and treason are charged
against Senator Wheeler, prosecutor
of the Daugherty investigating COM
mittee. .tand his Montana gang" by
he republican national committee in
L detailed attack issued from it's news
bureau last night. The attack was
headed: what Everybody Should
Know About Senator Wheeler and His
Montana Gang"
The statement is based on things
Senator Wheeler did or permitted to
he done by others while he was
United States attorney for Montana,
and it openly. charged that during
his term ''the state became the hot
bed of treason and sedition, the lead
srs in the reasonable and seditious
Xovement being friends of Wheel
as" Senator Wheeler, it is charged,
1fused to interfere.
state Council Acted.
Finally" says the statement, the
decent patriotic Americans of Butte
took the matter in hand, hanged one
Of the leaders, ran the others out OIL
Butte and then called a meeting or
the Montana state councll OF oeleRse
Tor the purpose of trying Wheeler for
niS actions.
The Montana state council of de-
fense consisted of the governor,
eight other men and one woman. 1t
was evenly divided politically. being
democrats. The governor was a
democrat Wheeler was put on trial.
During the trial Big Bill Dunno and
a. number of other radicals charged
suit of the trial was Il unanimous
verdict deciding Wheeler was guilty
and he was condemned as an un-
patriotic citizen.
Democrats Condemn Walsh.
"A meeting of the democrats of the
state of Montana was held in April,
1918, and resolutions were passed
j. Walsh for allowing Wheeler 20
longer fill the position of United
States district attorney, because OF
his failure to represent the govern
ment and his open sympathy with the
radical, anarchiStiC and SeditiouS ele-
ments of Montana"
The charges. contained in the week
iy news sheet" issued by the public
lty bureau of the republican national
committee, described Senator Wheel
Nolan, an attorney for the l. w. w.
As the 'tFiumvirate" of "the nom
partisan radical outfit in Montana"
statement to Radicals"
Coupled with the attack on Senator
Wheeler. the news bureau statement
reprints what purports to be state
ment 10 radical workers and SYM
pathizerS" hv c. T.. Ruthenberg. en-
ecutive Secretar. of the national
workers party. who is described as
friend and intimate Of Dunno" and
j. {. Dorman. "a notorious radical,
one of the leaders, in the Minot y. d.
ysfl
porter Of Senator Wheeler
It quotes Ruthenberg as saying
Our GroUaganda must make it clear
that the Teapot Dome scandal is not
a case Of individual corruption, that
1t is inSeparahy bound with the eS-
sense Of the capitalist government
We must eXDlain that it is not case
of kept men in the government, but
that the United States has a kept
government. We shall arrange. as
every big city and industrial center
We must prepare the mass meetings
80 carefully that they shall be reaI
ma IS meetings. --.i
We must show that what we did
IN the Lenin memorial meetings We
AN do also against the American gov
-rnment."
Attacks Witnesses' Character.
At the same time, the news bureau
issued blast at the proceedings OF
the Daugherty Investigating commit
tee, making an attack on the char;
acter of the witnesses
"If the innovation of proving hon
est men and public officials guilty OF
high crimes and misdemeanors by in
Producing testimony of conviCtS and
eX-convictS. crooks, forgers, brlbe
takers, murderers. train robbers and
other criminals is to be followed
says the pronouncement, then there
is no end in sight of the present in
vestigations until all the inmates OF
our penitentiaries have been put on
the stand"