Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-14

THE AFTERNOON ARGUMENT.
Mr.. Zeisler resumed his address in tn
afternoon. There was a p%erceptible Dc
crease IN the size Of the audience. The at
mosphere of the room was as oppressiv
as on any day since the opening of the trial
Zeisler took considerable pains to impress
upon the jury that the calls to arms re
ferred to by the State were only INTENDED
to signify that if the employers protecte,
their interests by recourse to arms, tn
workingman had the right to protect them
selves in the same man ner. The Socia
revolution that Spies referred to is not
revolution to be suddenly consummatet
by force. but that Social revo.
luton which is inevitable. The 8
hour movement was a part OF q genera
plan OF revolution and no one had intimat
ed that this movement was in. defense Il
; law and order. "Organize and arm your
selves Zeisler explained to signify ''stanl
and the time will come when your strength
will right your wrongs-arm yourselves
organize and stand together and you vii
get the recognition which will come to 70,
in no other way. What alternative wa.
there when employers said we will us,
force and papers advocated the use o
hand grenades upon the refractory wage
~orkers. This is why they were advised te
keep their powder dry"
THE ARGUMENT CONTINUED,
Zeisler belittled the attempt to TURF the
Arbeiter Zeitung Office into an arsenal
The reporter who testified for the State
he said. had been openly shown a couple o.
empty shells, a bit of fuse aid a few fulmi-
mating caps and u couple of dynamite cart.
ridges, and when he returned with two de.
tectives the exhibition was again made,
and Parsons took pains to explain the
manner OF using the articles. As to the
package of dynamite found in the Arbeiter
Zeitung office by the State, the victims had
proved that no such package was tn re
prior to May, and it afterw ard transpired
that it had been found on another floor
OF the building. Zeisler maintained that
Conspiracy implied secrery, and there had
been no secrecy about the speeches of the
defendant nor regarding the specimen
bombs, fuses and caps found in Spies.
Office. The speaker
CREATED \ SHALL SENSATION
when, in laundering tones, he pointed to
the seats Of the defendants and said: off
the Haymarket riot is the result OF con-
spiracy, then Grinnell, the State Attorney;
is the first man who should be placed there.
Next Mayor Harrison and the municipal
authorities OF Chicago who have allowed
these things to go Oil should be charged
with the only charge which has any pos
sible hold upon the defendants. If the
is not guilty OF conspiracy. then you must
acquit these defendants OF that charge"
Zeisler said tonight that he would finish
his speech in about an hour tomorrow
morning. He will be followedby Insham,
for the State.
CHICAGO, August 13.-In Judge Gary's
court this morning. Z-isler resumed
his address, and began by impeaching the
testimony of the witness, Waller, which, he
said, was paid for, and second, because the
conduct of the conspirators was not such
as it would have been had the word "Ruhl"
meant what he said it did, or if the prison
ers were aware of its alleged significance.
There might have been a grain Of truth, the
speaker said. in what Waller had testified
to, but most of his stories were concocted
by him. Zeisler concluded by declaring that
the States attorney was blinded by malice
and Influenced by police conspiracy to send
the speakers client to the g~allows. He
urged the jury not to be indu:ed by the
attempts which would be made to arouse
their passions.
At the opening of the afternoon session,
Assistant States attorney Ingham, stepped
quickly into the open space in front OF the
jury and in a clear ringing voice commenced
his address in the following words:
MGHAM's PEE
".There are verdicts OF juries which make |
history. Your verdict in this case will
make history. 1t is of great Importance |
that your verdict be right. We live in |
Chicago, the metropolis OF the great North.
west, and the very center of civilization OF
the West. This is the thirteenth day of
August, 1866, in the latter half of the nine
tenth century, and we are investigating |
an offense-as great as ever disgraced
humanity. Seven men were killed; sixty
were wounded. But this crime pales into !
insignificance besides the point at
issue which you arc to pass upon. Mat.
thias J. began, on the fourth of May left !
Desplaines-street station full of life and |
hope and without malice toward any living
creature. He never harmed q hair in the
head OF any one OF these defendants. Be-
tween him and them there could not posi-
bly, have been any ill-will. Now he lies in
his grave because he defended the law.
These defendants struck at the law. The
great question which you are to decide is
whether the law OF this State is strong
enough to protect itself, Or whether it is to
be trampled upon by these eight men, not
of whom i. a native OF this soil"
Ingham defined the meaning ofthe offense
called Conspiracy as given in statutes of
this State and said: WAS the bomb
throwing on the night of May 4th, the
result of Conspiracy? If SO, these men
gre guilty and the law is strong enough to
ITSELF" From the opening OF Iug-
address, till his arrival at this
point, it did not appear that a single ear
in the room had lost a word that had been
from the Judge on the bench to
the Jury, Counsel, Defendants and each
spectator. Every attitude be-
tokened most earnest attention-and when
the speaker began to pour out |.
OF ORGANIZATIONS
Upon the heads OF departments and upon
their doctrine the keenest interest was de-
picted on nearly every countenance with
The exception Of Spies, who continued to
smile insolently- II know, said Ingham,
that Jno. Most OF New York is the &C.
head OF the Anarchists in this
country. 1 know these defendents are his
,ocialists. as Jno. Most does in New York.
out l know that at the congress of social
SITS in Europe, pot long ago, Jno. Most was
There were only q few
,otes cast in his favor. Here Ingham's
Emphasis became terrific. He continued:
Just q as turkey buzzard spews his vomit
,pon fair fields, so Europe spewed John !
dost upon these shores, and just as the
,omit OF a turkey buzzard testers and corr
upts whatever it touches, so John Most .
lefles his associates" The speaker said !
hat were European leaders Of Socialists to
ee these defendants and hear them call
themselves Socialists they would spit
pom them. In answer to an argument OF 9
dr. Zeisler that the ignorance of their a
carers demanded that Spies and Parsons
use violent language, he said it wa i