The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-13
TRIAL OF THE ANARCHISTS.
Mr.. Zeisler Opens the Argumen tfOr the De-
fense, Denouncing the Police as Cowards.

fense, Den0uncing the Police as CoWards.
CHICAGO, Aug. I2.-It was pretty hot outside
this morning, but the sunny side of the street
was refrigerator by comparison with Judge
Gary's court The Judge had the windows
opened, and there was a slight current Of air,
not enough, however, to relieve the perspiring
audience of the necessity Of waving palm-leaf
fans, which nearly everybody carried. Mr..
Walker began his speech this morning by charg
ing that Fielden had premonitions of danger
that he knew it was coming, and told the Anarchs
lists to stand together Then the speaker said of
Fischer: 'Was this man in this conspiracy for
murder2 this man with his revolver foot long
and his ile-dagger with groove9 What is this
groove for9 1t is for prussic acid. Was this
man in the conspiracy Mr. Walker then read
q passage from Most's Revolutionary Warfare"
telling how prussio acid could be applied to
grooved daggers. making them more deadly.
MR.. Walker waved the dagger before the eyes of
the jury and pointed out Fischer with it, Then
he transferred his attention to Linge, and asked
If he was in the conspiracy. The speaker dwelt
upon the similarity between the Haymarket
bomb and those found in Lngg's room.
Mr. Walker, after reviewing the evidence at
great length, said, in conclu sion: ."The most
cruel thing in this whole case is the violent and
unjustifable attack made on the police by the
defense. They attempt to prove that Captain
Bonfeld and his officers were guilty of most
horrible design upon the lives of innocent men.
should have thought that the blood of those
seven dead men would have cried out against the
- zho hat o%a1
night as firm as a rcck, who never trembled, and
who exhibited as much sublime courage as the
pages of history ever showed, are traduced by
Socialists and Anarchists. 1t is even charged
that they fired frst Did they2 Ask Barrett, and
Snehan, and Mueller. and Hansen. Ask all those
wounded heroes. Gentlemen, it is for You to
decide. You stand now for the first time be-
tween anarchy and law. The foundation stone
of the Republic shall stand. The police did
their duty at the Haymarket. They shed their
blood for the law, and in their martyrdom an
archy was buried forever
Mr.. Zeisler then began his speech for the de-
fense. Mr.. Zeisler said the attorney for the
State had distorted the facts in the case. He
ehen began an attack on the police. He inquired:
"Who are the principal witnesses? The police
through we will show that these men were not
heroes, but knaves. led on by the most cowardly
knaves who ever held public position" The
speaker said this 70 a loud tone.
Court adjourned at o'clock.
When Mr.. Zesler resumed his address In the
afternoon there was q perceptible decrease in the
size of the audience. The atmosphere of the
courtroom was as oppressive AS on any day
since the opening of the trial. The jury has had
hardly sufficient energy to make use of the fans
pied himself at times with the perusal Of the
morning papers, and the defendants apparently
soothed by the pleading Of their attorney.
ounged carelessly in their chairs, the attitude of
1ns~ m~fra ~&wn~A &I~~~ -
tarily assumed yesterday during Mr. Walkers
delivery of some Of the startling points of his
argument
Mr.. Zeisler took considerable pains to impress
upon the jury that the calls to arms referred to
by the State were only intended TO signify that,
II employers protected their interests by re-
course to arms, the workingmen had a right to
protect themselves in the same manner. 'sThe
social revolution that Spies referred TO-" said the
speaker, is not revolution to be suddenly
consummated by force, but that social revolu-
lion which is inevitable" The eight-hour move
ment was part of the general plan of revolu-
ton, and no one had intimated that this move
ment was in. defiance to law and order.
explained to signify "Stand by your
nnion. In union there is strength. and
the time will come when your strength
will right your wrongs. Arm yourselves;
organize and stand together, and you will get the
recognition which will come tosyou in no other
poyers said, we will use force, and the papers
advocated the use of hand grenades upon refrac-
tory wage-workers. This is why they were ad-
gissd to keep their powder dry" Mr.. Zeisler
then pleaded as excuse for the more ''ener-
Eetic utterances" OF Spies, Parsons and Fielden,
that their hearers were often of that class of la
boring men who were ignorant, because the
amount OF time required to earn bread for them
selves and their families left them none in which
to gain knowledge. In order to have the desired
affect upon such an audience, ordinary language
would not sufice 1t was necessary to use en-
phatic figures OF speech. This explained the re-
marks Of Parsons that Marshal Field, in accumu-
lasing his vast fortune, had robbed the poor,
aud that his hearers would do nothing
criminal II they marched to Marshal Fields store
and took what they required for their comfort
Or. Zeisler belittled "the attempt to turn the
Arbeiter Zetung Office into an arsenal" The
reporter who testified for the State, he said. had
been openly shown o couple OF empty shells, q
bit OF fuse, few Illuminating caps, and couple
OF dynamite cartridges; and when he returned
again with two detectives the exhibition was
again made, and Mr. Parsons took pains to ex-
plain the manner of using the articles As to
the package Of dynamite found in the Arbeiter
Zietung ofiice by the State a witness had proved
that no such package was there prior to the 9th
Of May, and 1t afterwards transpired that it had
been found on another floor of the building.
Mr. Zeisler maintained that conspiracy implied
secrecy. ard there had been no secrecy
about the speeches OF the defendants. nor
regarding the specimen bombs, fuses and caps
:cund Ia Spies's ofice. The speaker created .