LEAGUE LEADERS ADMIT DISLOYALTY
TARTARITIS was
BROUGHT OUT AT TRIAL OF
M. KAIG LIBEL CASE
BOISE. —The most sensational
evidence given in the libel suit of Ray
McKaig, non-partizan league leader,
against Frank R. Gooding and the
Statesman, was furnished by George
H. Stoll of Pocatello, who was one
of the league's organizers employed
by McKaig, as he testified. He made
a complete review of the organization
work of the league in Idaho, using data from letters and his diary,
"I am telling this as a voluntary
duty to the public," said Stoll. "I am
forced to do it by my conscience."
Stoll related that men of admitted
socialistic tendencies, sympathizers
with the Bolshevik, I. W. W. members
and disloyalists, who camouflaged
their feelings through cynical lip
loyalty, were paid non-partisan
league organizers in Idaho in 1917
and 1918 and worked under the direction
of Ray McKaig.
Stoll testified that McKaig had told
him: "We are more or less all socialists and I. W. W.'s. Most of the organizers are socialists and I. W.'s. They make the best arguments and others.
Why McKaig Used Them.
"McKaig told us that he thought
the Russian Bolsheviks had the solution for industrial and political problems. He said he thought they would sweep the world and that some of them were here already."
Their Loyalty. 