your head so they
wont know you.' But when I got to town everybody knew, because there was
blood still running all over my face after I washed up."

Henig endeavored to prosecute McRae for his illegal and unwarranted
assault but all attempts to secure a warrant met with failure. Lumber
trust law operates only in one direction.

In this raid upon the meeting McRae smashed citizens right and left,
women as well as men. He was even seen to kick a small boy who happened
to get in his path. Deputy Sam Walker beat up Harry Woods, an Everett
music teacher; another deputy was seen smashing an elderly gentleman on
the head; still another knocked Mrs. Louise McGuire, who was just
recovering from a sprained knee, into the gutter; and Ed Morton, G. W.
Carr and many other old-time residents of Everett were struck by the
drunken Commercial Club thugs.

Mrs. Leota Carr called up Chief of Police Kelley next morning, the
following being an account of the conversation that ensued:

"I said, 'What are you trying to kill my husband for?' and he kind of
laughed and said he didn't believe it, and I said, 'Did you know they
struck him over the head last night and he could hardly go to work
today?' He said, 'My God, they didn't strike him, did they?' and I
said, 'They surely did!' And he said 'Why there isn't a better man in
town than he is,' and I said, 'I know it.' It surprised me to think that
he thought I didn't know it myself. And then I said, 'These here
deputies are making more I. W. W.'s in town than the I. W. W.'s would in
fifty years.' And he said, 'I know it.' Then I said, 'Why do you allow
them to do it? You are the head of the police department.' He replied,
'McRae has taken it out of my hands; the sheriff is ahead of me and it
is his men who are doing it, and I am not to blame.'"

At the city park four nights after this outrage, only one arrest for
street speaking having occurred in the meantime, the aroused citizens of
Everett met to hear Attorney E. C. Dailey, T. Webber, and various local
speakers deal with the situation, and to view at first hand the wounds
of Ovist, Henig and other towns people who had been injured. Thousands
attended the meeting, and disapproval of the actions of the Commercial
Club and its tools was vehemently expressed.

This remonstrance from the people had some effect. The Commercial Club,
knowing that all arrests so far had been unlawful, took steps to
"legalize" any further seizing of street spea