Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-11
JUDGE GARYS STRONG EMOTION
Renders the Sentence Of Death Scarcely
Audible.
THE ANARCHISTS MUST HANG
On the Third Day Of December
Next.

VA Lo Innu 10y
Next.
CHICAGO, October 9.-As the concluding
scenes in the great trial of the Anarchists
approach a close, more interest Is taken,
and the suppressed excitement becomes
more marked. Hundreds of people this
morning wendell their way toward the
Criminal Court building, each one DESTROYS
of listening to the conclusion of the speech
of Anarchist Parsons, with the expectation
of hearing the death sentence pronounced.
Parsons resumed his speech as soon as
Court was opened. He created something
of a sensation by declaring in a very dra-
matte and impressive manner that they
had positive proof that the bomb which
created such destruction at the Haymarket,
was thrown by an agent of the New York
capitalists and monOpolists, who sent the
man out here to take this means of break
ing up the eight-hour movement.
Following is the text of
PARSONS SPEECH:
Your HoNOR-I concluded last evening
at that portion of my statement before you
which had for its purpose the showing of
the operations and effects of our existing
social system, and the evils that flow from
it. | sought in this connection to show
that all the evils that aflict society flow
from the economic dependence of the Ia
borer upon the mooopOlizers Of the means
of their subsistence.
The same influences are among the farm
ing classes, end the man who q few years
ago owned the soil has to work it to-day as
q tenant ut will. A mortgage is placed
upon This SOil-he whose hand tills the
earth and causes il to blossom IS the rose
and bring forth its richest fruit, even while
it is asleep interest upon the mortgage con-
tinues TO grow and increase. We don't
want to 90 to Ireland to find landlords and
landlOrism. Look at Bridgeport. See how
the Irish people are forced to live rs tenants
at will. They live as they do in Dublin,
Us they do in Limerick, huddled together
like rats in their holes as the States At
torney would pvt it,"
Having dwelt upon this subject ut some
further length, Parsons went on to charge
the counsel for the prosecution and tn
legal authorities with having violated the
rights of free asscmblage, free press and of
Self-defenSc.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
A daughter was born in West Polk
street yesterday ut the same hour that its
father, Samuel Fielden, In Judge Gary's
cOurt, began giving reasons why sentence
of death should not be passed upon him.
but few who listened to Fieldcn's plea
guessed the cause of the added bitterness
in his speech. The knowledge OF the
scene being enacted ut his little home made
his burden harder to bear. The mother
was heartbrokcn at the thought of the
improbability of her babe ever seeing its
father.
As proof of his assertion that there was
A GREAT CONSPIRACY
on the part Of capital against labor, Par
sons quoted the expressions of three Sena-
tors on the floor of the United States
Senate in which all agreed On the follow
ing theory: There is q conspiracy to In
crease the value OF 4 dollar, and decrease
the value Of labor the world over. Parsons
claimed again that nc and his colleagues
were victims of this conspiracy. He
asked: "What are the real facts of the
HayInarket tragedy, Your Honor? Mayor
Harrison has caused to be published his
opinion rs to the matter of conjecture III
the New York World, which was copied in
the TriJURe of this city, and in which he
said: 81 do not believe that there was any
intention on the part of Spies and those
men to have bombs thrown ut the Hay
market. Ifthey had,
WHY WAS THERE BUT ONE THROWN?
1t was rs easy to have had a dozen or fifty,
and to have them thrown in all parts of the
city Us to throw one. And again
if it was intended to throw bombs
that night the leader would not
have been there at all, but
in my opinion, like COmanders-in-Chie
would have been in q safe place. No, it
can't be shown that there was any inten-
ton on the part of those individuals to
have that act perpetratcd ut that particu-
lar meeting" Now, your Honor, the
Mayor of chicago is "a sensible man. He
is in n position to know what he is talking
about. He ought to be able TO form
an intelligent opinion, and one that
is worthy of respect. He knows
more abOnt this thing than the jury. ]
expect that the Mayor knows more about
the methods by which this evidence, and
this testimony has been manufactured.
Your Honor, there is toe much ut stake
to take anything for granted. Mayor Har-
rison thinks so, and your Honor, too
should not destroy seven lives as a species
of light amusement" Parsons maintained
that
TIL AMERICAN GROUP
were justified in bearing arms; that the
Constitution gave them that right. But
that question was not raised so far rs Par
sons was concerned. 1t WAS not sought
to prove that he was violating the law
while a member of this organization.
Judge McAllister had held that the pO-
lice could not invade their meetings with
out legal process. But the police in 1877
did break into the Turner Hall on Twelfth
street uuIlnS Il HtSlLuS vi INC iuihituiN
workers which was being held, and killed
one man, and Judge McAllister said that
if every policeman i'll the crowd was kill
ed, those participating in the meeting
could not he held responsible. Were Par
sons and his friends then to be blamed be-
cause they followed Judge McAllister'sad
vice, rs contained in his decision, which
meant that the American group could bear
arms? Why then was it construed as illegal
when an eminent Judge said it was ac-
cording to constitutional law?
PARSONS GROWS TIREsOME.
Parsons said his physical condition was
not so good rs it had been once and he felt
exhausted. He was told to go on and no
limit as to time would be placed upon him.
Parsons resumed but, though ut times,
dramatic, his speech was in the main pure