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Show Believes in Killing Public Officials and Destroying Destroy-ing Governments. FAIRMONT. W Va., Nov 19 Federal Fed-eral and county officials will invoke the red flag act adopted at the recent Special session of the West Virginia legislature to apprehend radical agitators agi-tators in Mai ion county, i was an- Inounced today in connection with the bearing of nlleced radicals gathered up in raids recently in the Fairmont dis ! tract. i Decision to invoke the act was I hed yesterday by Inspector O'Brien, of the bureau of Immigration, and Judge Scott C. Lowe of the criminal crim-inal court. Inspector O'Brien continued his infringe muaj one youm wnen arraigned, ar-raigned, tearfully presented to Inspector In-spector O'Brien hl-v honorable discharge dis-charge from lhe United States army and exhibited a scar which he has carried rdnce the battle of Canttgnv He disclaimed nnv Intent to suppoit radicalism. But another testified "Yes 1 am an anarchist. I believe in the killing of public officials and the forcible destruction of government." This man and a number of others taken in recent raids, it developed from Inspector O'Brien's questioning had been active in circulating rabic literature among the Russian element Tho circulars translated, were entitled, en-titled, "Drops of Blcod." if is said. LEGION RAIDS RADICALS. CINCINNATI, . Nov 19 Members of the American Legion, numbering more than 300, led b their offcers, descended de-scended upon Socialist headquarters in this city last night and threw hundreds of pounds of radical I'terature into th-1 streets where it was burned. Carry ing out their plan wth secrecy, word was passed that mi member should assemble !n the vieinity of the Socialist headquarters at 10:80 o'clock At the appointed time they "aine from surrounding doors acd h?Uwavs an-.! proceeded to invade ihe bui'ding Most of the literature burned had been printed for the communist labo.-parts labo.-parts of America. C ther pamphlets I were issued by the Socialist publication publica-tion society, Brooklyn, and by libera i tors' headquarters, Cleveland Ona. jwas a purported , epi oduction of a le1 iter to 'the American worklngmen from jthe Socialist soviet republic of Rue eia," written by Nikolai enlne. I Police official? ..aid the,- had taken no names, nor had rhey recognized nny of the raiders. ,itiM |