The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-14
TALK FOR THE PROSECUTION
Mr.. Ingham Speaks for the State in the
Anarchists Trial at Chicago.
His Address Produces Profound Impression
Upon All His Hearers-Unmercifu Denun-
citation of the Dynamiters' Methods.

ond because the conduct or the alleged con-
spirators was not such as IL would have been had
the word 'Ruher meant what he said it did, or
If the prisoners were aware of its alleged signif
canoe. There might have been a grain of truth,
the speaker said, in what Seliger and Waller tes
titled TO- but most of their stories were concocted
by them. He continued "We have now come
to the Haymarket meeting proper, which was
called by circular. A witness for the State, q
member of the firm which printed the circular.
testified that after 1000 of them had been
printed man came to him. took them away and
asked to have the words Working men, come
armed" removed from the form, and detective
testified that he found these circulars, contain
ing that line, in the Office Of the Arbeiter
Zeitung after May 4 The speaker said the line
cluded by declaring that the States attorney was
blinded by malice and was influenced by the
police conspiracy to send the speakers clients to
the gallows. He urged the jury not to be in
fusnced by the attempts which would be made
TO arouse their passions.
Judging from the crowd which sought in vain
to gain admission to the courtroom this after
noon, Mr.. Ingham is one of the most popular
among the counsel engaged in the Anarchists
trial, for, MIR. Zeisler having finished when the
court adjourned at noon, it was understood that
the next sieaker would be Assistant States At
torney Ingham. When order was called. Judge
Gary insisted that ten or twelve persons who
could not find seats leave the room Extra chairs
had been brought into the inclosure occupied by
the attorneys and reporters and every foot of
space was occupied. Mr. Ingham. who has the
most graceful presence of any OF the lawyers en-
gagged in the case, stepped quickly into the open
Snqc n Of 1urV a
ing voice commenced his address in the follow
ing e.w words; :, ...,.. .oo Ut, :. - i.
tory. Your verdict in this case will make his
dict oe right. We live in Chicago, the metropo
lis of the great Northwest. and the very center
Of the civilization of the West This is the 18th
day of August, 1886. and in the latter half Of
the nineteenth century, and we are investigat-
ing an offense as great as over disgraced hu-
mainly. Seven mec were killed. Sixty were
wounded. But this crime pales into insignif-
canoe beside the point at issue which we are to
pass upon. Matthias j. began, on the 4th of
May, left the Desplaines street station full of
life and hope and without malice toward any
living creature. He never harmed hair on the
head of any of these defendants Between him
and them there could not possibly have been
any il-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 tramrled upon by these eight men, but
one of whom is a native of this SOIL"
Mr.. Ingham said that the evidence in case
should not be illustrated by the symbol of a
chain. When one link in chain was broken,
the chain completely severed. Evidence in
case could more properly be likened to a cable,
one, two, three or more strands Of which could
be broken and the cable still perform its Office.
The jury must not discard the whole cable of evil
hoe or tvyn mr.
to be faulty. The case should not be decided
upon part, but upon the whole of the evidence
presented. Mr.. Ingham defined the meaning Of
the offense called conspiracy as given in the
throwing on the night Of May the result Of a
conspiracy If so. these men are guilty, and the
law is strong enough to protect ITSELF"
From the opening of Mr.. Ingham's address till
his arrival at this point, it did not appear that
single ear in the courtroom bad lost a word that
to the jury, counsel, defendants and each indi-
vidual spectator every attitude bstokened the
most earnest attention When the speaker
began to pour torrent of denunciations upon
the heads of the defendants and upon their doc
trine, the utmost interest was depicted on nearly
every countenance With the exception Of
Spies who continued to smile insolently, the
defendants listened with solumn countenancea
ST know, said Mr.. Ingham. that Johan Most
of New York, is the acknowledged head of an
archy in this country. / know that these de-.
PENDANTS are his ardent followers They try to
pose here as Socialists, as Most does in New
York, but know that at the congress of Social
lists in Europe, not long ago, Johan Most was ex-
PEELED. There were only two votes cast in his
favor"
Here Mr. Ingham's emphasis became terrific
when he continued: "Just as the turkey buzz
Yard spews his vomit upon fair fields. so Europe
spewed Johan Most upon these shores; and just
as the vOmit of the turkey -buzzard testers and
,.v,+c rhoto fn1aa 1oho MnS Ia
files his associates The speaker said that were
the European leaders of Socialism to see the de-
PENDANTS and hear them call themselves Social
lists they would spit upon them. He then de-
voted some time to the reading of articles writ
ten by Spies and Parsons and published In the
Arbeiter Zeitung and the Alarm, to show that
the writer's, far from being disciples of Social
ism, were Anarchists Of the most virulent type
"You have heard this called by Mr.. Zeisler. !"
said the speaker, harmless braegadocio. Was
it harmless2 Ask the orphan sons of Matthias J.
Degan."
Mr.. Ingham devoted some time to showing
that the public speeches OF Spies, Parsons and
Fieden and the editorials published in the Ar
better ZeituDg and the Alarm were part of dis
tinct purpose to put those teachings into prac-
t1ce. Then, In answer to an argument of Mr..
Zeiser's, that the ignorance Of their hearers de-
manded that Spies and Parsons should use vic
lent language he said it was their design to prey
upon the troubles and poverty of laboring men
uuth tuoy WcE0 0ACltcu To frenzy. his was now
they got their power Their doctrine of anarchy
could not be made to thrive among prosperous
people-even the comfortably situated laborer
was loath to listen toit The defendants wanted
power and ultimate plumber. Their only way
to get this was through magnifylng the wrongs
suffered by the poor, excite them to the point of
madness. arm them, and turn them against
the law. The speaker cited the fact that
the Legislature had passed law prohib-
ting such organizations as the Lehr and
Weir Verein, from arming and drilling
Thereupon that organization met in secret.
armed with the best of modern weapons. One
of the defendants had, in reply to the speakers
question. stated that the American group num-
bering in it the only English speaking persons
who were members of the armed section of the
Anarchists, had a membership of barely hun
dred. A detective witness who had attended
meetings of this group. said the attendance did
not average over fifteen or twenty persons. This
was the English-speaking contingent in a secret
armed organization which Spies had described
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