Show WHEELER HEELER HEADS I TREASON GANG G. G 0 D. O P CHARGE Republican Nati National naJ Committee Committee Com Com- Com I News Bureau Issues Issues Issues Is Is- sues Statement Classing Montanan as an I. I W. W W. W W WASHINGTON March 26 Un Un Under der Jer the caption What Everybody Should Know About Senator Wheeler and His Montana Gang I the Republican national committee news bureau last night Issued a detailed detailed detailed de de- de- de tailed attack on the prosecutor of the Daugherty investigating committee com com- The gist o of or many charges Is that while Senator Wheeler was United States attorney for Montana the state became the hotbed of treason and sedition the leaders in tho the treasonable and seditious movement move move- ment meat being friends of Wheelers Wheeler's and that Mr Wheeler refused to In interfere in- in re ment Bays Bays- stat statement ther-statement the decent patriotic Americans of ot Butte took the matter In l hand liand nd hanged one of the leaders ran the others out of or Butte and then call called d da a meeting of of the Montana state council of ot defense for the purpose of trying Wheeler for his actions WHEELER CONDEMNED The Montana state council of defense consisted of 01 the governor eight other men and one woman It was evenly divided politically be being being belag be- be ing lag composed of oC five Republicans and five Democrats The governor was a Democrat Wheeler was put on trial During th the trial Big Bill Dunne and a number of oC oth other r radicals radicals rad rad- charged with treason were heard The result of the trial was wasa a unanimous verdict deciding Wheeler was guilty and he was condemned as an unpatriotic citi citi- ze zen zenA A meeting of the tl Democrats of the state of ot Montana was held In April 1918 and anI resolutions were were- passed condemning United States Senator T. T J. J Walsh for allowing Wheeler to longer fill th the position of United States district attorney because of his failure to represent the he government and his open sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy with tho the radical anarchistic and seditious elements of ot Montana RADICAL The charges contained In En the Weekly News Sheet issued by th the publicity bureau of the Republican national committee characterized Senator Wheeler Big Bill Dunne and Timothy NOl Nolan n an attorney for tor the I. I W. W W. W as the triumvirate triumvirate triumvirate rate of the nonpartisan radical o outfit outfit out out- t- t fit in Montana Coupled with the attack on Senator Senator Sen Sea ator Wheeler the news bureau statement prints what purports to tobe tobe tobe be a statement to the radical workers and ana sympathizers by C. C E. E executive secretary of the National Workers Workers' party who is described as friend and Intimate Intimate- of Dunne and D. D C. C Dorman a notorious s radical one of the leaders leaders lead lead- ers era in the Minot N. N D. D I. I W W. W. W riots and an ardent supporter of Senator Wheeler SUPPORTED BY REDS It quotes as saying Our propaganda must make it clear that the Teapot Dome scandal is not a case caso of ot individual corruption corruption corruption I tion that it is inseparably bound with the essence of of the tho capitalist government Wo Yo must explain that it is not a a. a case of kept men in the government but that the United States has a kept government a a aWe We Ye shall arrange as soon as possible possible possible ble mass meetings in every big city I Continued on pa page e 5 5 WHEELER HE HEADS DS TREASON GANG G. G O. O P. P CHARGE Continued from page 1 1 and industrial center We Va must mua prepare the mass meetings so carefUlly care care- carefully I fully that they shall be real mas mass mass' meetings We Ve must show that wh what t tWe we did in the Lenin memorial meetings meetings meetings meet meet- ings we can do also against th the American government At the tho same time the news bureau bureau bu bu- reau issued a blast at the proceedings proceed proceed- ings of ot the Daugherty investigating committee making an attack on the character of or the witnesses CROOKS AS WITNESSES If tho Innovation of proving hOnest hOn hen est men and public officials guilty or of high crimes and misdemeanors misdemeanor b by ay Introducing testimony of ot convicts convicts con con- and ex-convicts ex crooks forgers forg forg- ers era bribe tatters takers murderers train robbers and other criminals' criminals Is to be followed says the pronouncement pronouncement pronouncement pronounce pronounce- ment then there Is no end in sight sigh of the present investigations until all ill the Inmates of ot our ies lea have been put on the stand BUTTE Mont l March 26 The 26 The hanging of ot a man here several years I ago which was referred to in a statement issued in m Washington last ast night by the Republican n national national na na- na- na news bureau occurred during dur- dur during ing ng the progress of ot the World war A man named Little who had been speaking in Butte and who ap appeared appeared ap- ap to be considered a radical was taken from irom his bed during th the night and hanged to tea railroad a tres tres- tie tle Who Vho did it has remained a mystery to this day although i It appeared from the allegations o of oC persons In the neighborhood ot of o where he roomed that only olly a few Cew persons were Implicated In Jn the af affair af- af fair air The deed was so quickly and quietly carried out that persons person persons persons' less than a block away iud had ud n no inkling of ot it if and the tho news of ot Ufe finding rinding of or f the mans man's body nex next I morning astonished the city I |