The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 1

RUTH ABOUT *f PRISONER AND WARDEN GIVE STAR STATEMENTS An American Paper That Fights for Americanism et Tides in Seattle Entered as Mecond Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffte At Moattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Weather Forecast: 727th, (uitic morthely wind TEMBER, 13, 1919. NO. 170. ) THRONG PACKS | CITY TO GREET WILSO } TREATMENT AT TNEDL CROWDS EAGER TO GAIN | _ISLAND INVESTIGATED PEEK AT THE PRESIDENT : What is the truth about Hulet M. Wells? Eager, straining thousands of solid packed s Is Hulet M. Wells being evens b p Aa humanity were massed in a mighty throng thumbs at McNeil’s Island? Is he being at King st. station and along First and Sec- singled out for cruel and unusual treatment ond aves. Saturday to greet President and by a brutal warden who has it in for him, or Mrs. Wilson. not? Their special train, with their private car & ? . ba How about the dungeon, the lack of food? “Mayflower,” was due to arrive from Ta- , Is he getting a square deal or is he getting a coma at 1:30 p. m. * dirty deal? : x h Hours before, the crowds began to gather. Many The Star thought it worth while to get the carried cameras hoping to snap a picture of the pre | e Wells case. street at | ident as his auto passed along the route of the short} truth about th 4 i blished Tieme baaa , | t n ished; parade. oa ys aod ah but not all of it. : While the crowds were forming, Police Chief War err be a. 1 4 blic has an interest in ren ordered out from headquarters every available And the —- oe Dae s * policeman and detective on the regular force, as well the government’s treatment of its prisoners. a platoon of special plain-clothes men. If needless brutality, useless cruelty, At the same time Captain T. . ie chief of the local ss . :. $ in i ecret service office, was vii is last instructions to his Ricious spleen, is being indulged in it should rape ‘i Earvive deoaiehed’ to ths Kineset caution 10 ae j stop, no matter who is the victim. the president's special body guard, consisting of seven see = So yesterday a Star correspondent went service agents who have accompanied him from Washington. to McNeil’s Island. A ‘ cree The correspondent secured the warden’s a aa PROGRAM SATURDAY 10100 &. m—Wild West parade downtown for men aboard and Wild Weat | a | AN police, detectives and secret) ———— Wilson Got Record immediately arrest, and question afterward, any person whose actions statement, the version of the prison doctor, looked Im any’ way muapicioun. Tha and the statement of Wells himself. [ent ‘ngninat”positie. vodity harm Vote in Seattle tizens who maased the line of from pickpockets and other President Wilson broke even on the state of Wash- ington in his two presiden- tial campaigns. In 1912 he lost the state to Theodore toosevelt and the progress- ive ticket. But he didn’t need Washington's elector- al votes much that year, as he had several score to spare. In 1916, when the race was much closer, Washington gave Wilson a plurality of 16,000 over Hughes—and Wilson cer- tainly welcomed those sev- en electoral votes. Seattle gave Wilson 11,000 major- Th rrespondent saw the records, was) : fe asus iameail facility to discover the plain H 1s t ory I S truth; was frankly given the facts by all) a ae ee parties concerned, and he was the frst ver- Boing Made Lator driegates appeared on the ‘son to whom all the Preah aie co given,| vores, ; as the and the only person from the outside world who has pa Wells except the attorney and H ere Tod ay t doctor of Wells. To no person before has the warden made _ Fourteen thousand men snap P" ped out of their hammocks Sat a opera i, to no one has been given access ee Jovy hap neg Mme to the records. | revellle aboard the battleships at‘ . 7 it in Elliott bay—the da f What follows is a plain statement of the) [yr cfistmt day inthe history of || thelr ma bea out cary and srour case written without bias, or comment, ex-) Pacific feet fs crowds were aasembling. President Wilson was on his Srhtle Geeta ieiated te cept such as seems necessary for a true UN-) way for the first presidential re | |S)" “oumnds Releane chines out 4 ground derstanding of the facts as given. | sew of the fleet in ite own home |unabie to find standing room alone | ity in 1916—the most any . 1 jth e streets where he was le cratic party 2 lidg te - fo vd bi 5 democra' party canc a | The Star went out to discover the truth; Keir ermnatigede to hundreds ever sot hers. it got it; here it is: First, what the prison record shows. _ It shows that Hulet M. Wells was received June 10. % That he gave as his occupation, “farming, woodsman. That he was assigned to the wood camp and worked there »* erlook the harbor and the f which the president was to review at 3 p.m. « ee oe — he refused to work. rye 5 : ‘ weve wn | PRES, WILSON GREETINGS MR PRESIDENT eae The Warden’s Statement _ gk | No Politics in League, He| b] ig Wlaaiae pecgeara fos | Asserts | th afternoon and ever The warden says: “We assign convicts to work according to their card; ban ance a sue | after a short parade, a review of the| ARMORY, TACOMA, Wash A ° . that is, we try to give them the work they say they can do. jackets came ashore with amnion, kd fest at 8:'D.' t., af linner at) Sept. 13.—President Wilson to. Greetings, President Wilson. Welcome to Seattle. You So we assigned Wells to the wood camp, where the prisoners with smiles were greeted, until the | Hippodrome at 6 o'clock. a tay “read the riot act” to ans- | will find here a city that was with you 100 per cent during the . reeta became a m nin wh 16 peace pact and le on ho tried to make * . * * ot out, fol for the prisen. dormed the work: he at no| it”, ,milor hate bobbed and navy | na at the Arena at 8 o'clock. | league of mations fight reget war—a city that is American to the core. It gave without ells is able-bodied; he orme| york; blue predominated 1 it wns reported there we fer” 1 x Atal ; shar time complained that he fee ic ill health, or unable to do jut the harbor scurried swift declared. there shealé be me stint that civilization might triumph over Prussianism. It tics in the debate; that repuub- | suggested the idea of a | gave money—and it gave lives. It set the pace for the world in shipbuilding. It stood four-square behind the commander- in-chief of our army and navy. And now it is reeking counsel, according to the best AMERICAN lights, on the great questions involved in the peace treaty. Seattle is not 100 per cent with you today, Mr. Wilson, on the league of nations, on the Shantung settlement, and on other great problems. But Seattle wants to hear you; is eager to hear you; is anxious to learn the exact course of action true Americanism requires in this trying period. this work. I have had prisoners urge me to send them to “ the wood camp because it is outdoor work, and keeps a man in better shape than inside confinement, and Wells is the first man ever assigned to this work who refused to do it. “The men are not worked hard. The chart shows that. they average six hours a day, and that they have been ac getting out about half a cord a day per man. When it is), considered that these trees are already down you can see) that no unusual work has been performed, or has it been aaah © president passes. Mrs. Wilson's bedroom has for its| woman should weep for the child required. 5 “I'd like to see the admiral, 1|dominate color note a beautiful old|at her breast, who when he grows “No man is forced to do work here that he is unable to) jaye a note from a friend of his." |rowe; the furniture is of Circassian to manhood will have to go forth do, and I have never had a man before refuse to work in orry, sir, but the admiral Just| walnut, the curtains of white lace. |to fight.” the wood camp for any reason, arging I naking that kind ad the riot act eo a on the rhae eks to make this} zanine floor, and comprises two bed a breakfast room, a dainty r for Mrs, Wilson and a large ateg | Parlor for the president, Paysse Busy guns ” was th @ party matter Wilson named Taft and Wicker sham as republicans who were working for the treaty 4 by| Can View Bay | “If it falls,” he warned, “every was the oft-repe ity-one guns fi left to « oard the Wyoming A profusion of flowers, gifts of civic| The president began his address Well t t A t 17 I nted t And | time the inquisitive | organizations, will add to the attrac-|with a d ation that the nation “Wells sent me a note Augus 7 saying he wanted to} weitor 5 the Wyoming, tiveness of the room was fa one of the most mo + 7 7 gee me about a change of work. I didn’t get to see him|tearnea the admiral had retur The di as gt te ob iinanine |rnenteny Gesalanee liven Kenta Your cause will be heard by a city that wants to be right! for four « and August 21 he refused to work in the (CONT'D ON PAGE FIFTEEN ae read the conclu ling passage wood camp any longer. F 4 we gies et i?) consrees “IT saw him, asked him if he had considered the conse- Presidential * rs Maal accant omme z © bay and mountains. |1 Brings His Valet | ould not be attained | Pa fe oiony |Goes to See Fleet, WRECK, NOT AMEND, |Shidehara to Be Minister to U. S. quences, told him to think it over and let me know next morning. In the morning he again refused, and since that time hag persisted in his refusal. PARADE fs agen, hie ae ER | iran | er ga with her a| He reada ist of the war costs! Loses His,Ticker| LEAGUE, SAYS BORAH ae oe ells ag 1 would, and will, any pris King st. station at 1:45 || maid, ar 4 a valet, [of the varic ntries. The allies'| Cart Stocke, of the Urton Machin-| OMAHA, ppt. 18.—Wreck-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—(United who refuses to do his work, or who refuses to observe the d proceed north up Sec- || He is n but | totaled $123,000,000,000, the Central| ery Co,, Jental ave. and Connec- | tn ndment of the | Press.—Kijiuro Shidehara has been digcipline of the prison to Stewart Powers, $63,000,000,000; a total of ticut at., left his place of business | le ns covenant, is the| chosen as ambassador to the United i) Put in Dark Cell ‘irst ave. rite House : $186,000,000,000 |riday to watch the fleet come in or Borah. Bore tes from Japan, it was announced Pay, t tricted diet.” (A sli tt ‘ Down Virst o Yesler |b ervant to several preal:) This money was spent to saveland during his absence a thief stole today to the trail of Pres-|at the Japanese embassy here yes+ “He was put on a restric iet.” slice of bread way. dents, His name is Arthur Broc Jelvilization, he sale 1e question | his watch, he reported to the police t Wilson, He referred to the | terday, three times a day and water) “for two weeks. He has been Down Yesler way to pler 1 aoe ee known to two generatio: ss N te "P Keep it or Saturday, ales a nn a Mi 3 and He was formerly vice minister of : #6. We : A | Sear Bose ke ferry to battleship Ore- || of Washingtonians uttle deaths in this war totalec . a tool, to whom England need only| foreign affairs in the Japanese gov+ on regular diet for a week now. He was placed in the soli- salty of Maathe fiet, | The presidential party numbers 62) 7,460,000; In all other Wars from] Many a woman smiles inwardly |make suggestions to secure com-jernment and succeeds Viscount (Continued on Page Twelve) (CONT'D ON PAGH FIFTEEN) (CONT'D ON PAGH FIFTEEN) while crying outwardly pliance”* Ishi, \