Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-14 | Page 1 | Governor Declares War on Reds Washington Executive Issues Plea

GOVERNOR DECLARES WAR YAR ON REDS I R Jl I WASHINGTON EXECUTIVE ISSUES PLEA PLEAS O EATTLE Wash Vasil Nov 14 Governor Governor I Louis ouis F. F Harts Hart's announcement announcement an- an S that he would inaugurate a campaign to rid the state of radicals reads in part as follows The death of these young men at Centralia can only be avenged by the successful prosecution of those in any way connected connected connected con con- with the commission sion of this atrocious crime crime and to to this end the state pledges its every agency and all its power and andI I resources to the local authorities in the arrest and prosecution of said criminals I That the fair name of Washington may not be further smirched that this state may be a safe place for all law abiding people that our government may not be weakened by a cancerous growth fostered and nourished or even permitted here I admonish and request all to whom this is is addressed to stamp out Bolshevism I. I W. W and all other seditious doctrines Influenced by the spectacle of self-control self and unyielding i I loyalty to law lar and order as exhibited by the returned soldiers of Centralia in m protecting from an an outraged and irate public the l prisoners who had so SD wantonly violated the highest law of God or orman orman man man let us renew our allegiance to the constitution and the law lawand lawand lawand and go go forward with a determination to speedily and lawfully rid this state of these enemies of society and enemies s of constitutional constitutional constitutional l g governments verl r