The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-06

eousness in defense of a Hessian, who sells
his self-proclaimed abilities at s. day
and expenses.
NO QUARREL WITH LEAGUE.
I'VE have no quarrel with the Citizens
League. The very first instruction 1 got in
this case from Mr.. Logsdon wasA I have no
quarrel with those gentlemen; / have
quarrel with the men who tried to put me
in false light 1t has been clearly dem
onstrated by the evidence in this case that
Mr.. Duncan and Mr. Smith had no right to
fight in this case behind the breastworks
of the Citizens League, because Mr.. Day.
than whom there is no better citizen in this
community, and Mr.. Griffith tried to
make a little fun of him an aside-who
is also good citizen. said that this kind or
thing had been voted down by the League
therefore. you are stripped, sirs, or your
false pretense, and you are appearing mere
for Brown, who pays you your fee: Mr.
Griffith said upon the witness stand that
the Citizens League frowned down ana
voted down just such a scheme as this. be-
cause they believed it would come to just
what 1t has come to- These gentlemen OF
the Citizens League that 1 made little
fun OF are sitting in confusion, and the
public is judging them falsely because GER
tain men were trying to act for them. and
because you and your partner are 1alsely
pretending to represent them. That Is the
situation, Mr.. Duncan. Denunciation and
sarcasm do not belong to only one side or
this case There are adopts upon the other
side. Mr.. Smith kept saying TO me that
was bowling against the Citizens League
and calling them the Holy Alliance Well,
well. if the court please, in the rush and
hurry and confusion of the case did speak
at time of the Holy Alliance, but 1t
was with a benign accent, Mr.. Duncan, that
would have made the hair of the angels
curl in pride. You have got no right to
hide behind the Holy Alliance, so called,
and you have got no right to grow indig-
na,s 80 oIn 1dny tJ, H. per uniu HIiance
You do not represent them. They have re-
pudated this action. They never gave their
consent to it. You have got to defend here
the stool-pigeon. Stahl, and nobody else.
Don't lift yourself by the straps Of your
boots into the clouds.
FOUR MEN INVOLVED.
'In this case 1 have charged and main
| tanned, with reference to future editorials,
that there were four men engaged in this
conspiracy-don't look weary, John-and
only four. Mr.. Brown, acting for the News
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Duncan both took oc-
casion to say that / had attacked the
character of Mr.. Brown. Mr.. Duncan, you
were not generous when you said that.
Then you forgot that large generosity upon
which you pride yourself or else you had
| forgotten my speech and the evidence. l
did not reflect upon Mr.. Brown as an ind-
vidual- criticised him, and L expect to do
| II more, upon his connection with this
| case. That is all / have got a right to
do, and ! invite either Mr.. Browns enmity
| or his friendship upon doing it, and 1T
| makes little difference to me which Ii
| brings about. 1 have got to defend my
client just as you are doing when you are
| jumping on to Logsdon, and / will come to
| that directly. l agree with you that Mr..
Brown has and does bear fair name in
| this community. Nobody said otherwise
| except your pretended quotation of my
| Il is
his conduct in this case and L proclaimed In
my opening statement and l proclaim it
league against Mr.. Logsdon, but it is the
case of the Indianapolis News against
| Logsdon. with the minor satellites, Hunt
and Noel, revolving in circumscribed orbits
around the News. There is the pith and
| marrow of this situation. There is no Citi-
zens' League in 1T and you cannot fight US
t thog naV this ai Kind of never proceed
| ing and had voted it down, and 1 know
| frem conversations with those men, even
since 1 made what you are pleased to call
my virulent speech, that they don't agree
with you upon that proposition. Nobody
Duncan, and they are paid TO get mad
| and / don't blame them for doing what
| they are paid for. Remember. John. that
you and your friend Charley are practicing
law just like the rest of us. There is no
| halo around your head nor around Char
ley's: not a bit; you just ordinary,
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that has got fee in it, and don't get up in
| the clouds, please, and don't call me a
| criminal lawyer and knock all the glass
| out of your own house.
| MOTIVES OF EACH MAN.
"Mr. Brown was acting for the News.
Mr. Hunt was disappearing the League.
| Noel ministering to his own overween-
| ing self-importance and desire for notoriety,
and Stahl, the stool pigeon and Hessian and
| peripatetic reformer, was for sale to any
man that would give him 50 a day and
perks They are the people we have to
| deal with in this case. / will again try to
make the proper distinction between the
names the defense assumes TO fight in this
| case. First, as to Mr.. Brown. and l have
said as much upon that subject as prob
| ably ought TO. Mr.. Brown has always been
| a personal friend of mine-a man for whose
| ability have admiration, and a man who
began life as poor boy and has worked
himself up as a power in this community.
| l have no quarrel with him, and L have no
| criticism of him except as 1 am justified
| In making 1t In connection with the evidence
| as any man. The only one that will not
| admit 1t is the lawyer who is trying to get
| the stool pigeon off and fighting behind
Browns back. Brown knows an honest
| statement when he hears it, and he
| knows an honest man when he sees
him. AS I have said before, he bears
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my opinion, under the evidence. does
| not shield him from criticism for his
| conduct, as it has been defined by the evil
| dence before this court; and 1 would be
| recreant to my duty as a lawyer If 1
| afraid TO refer to it because he controls a
| public paper that may come out in editorials
| in n way that would reflect upon me. No
| other mans conduct ever Injuries the man
| himself. 1t is his own conduct that does
| ii, and the lawyer that is true to his client
| and will fight for him, if the court please,
| against the powers of hell, If need be, that
man need not be afraid but what he will
| get employment in the next case. and pos
sibly from the very man who criticised him
before. But let that go. With the evidence
| in this case against Mr.. Brown l am con-
| that, Mr.. Duncan, then am subject to crit
| icism, and not before. II may be that, in
| my blind way, do not see its drift. 1t may
be that / give 1t a wrong construction. 1t
| may be that | have a savage tongue and
| say things trifie too bitter, but / have the
| same excuse that Cassius made to Brutus:
| 1T is my mother that chides, not l.
ACTED FOR THE NEWS
MIR. Brown was the melting of sending
Martin and Noel to st. Louis after Noel
| had proclaimed to Ensley, which is not de-
MED, want your Honor to remember that
| there evidence against this much
maligned man. Well, haven't / a right to
| refer to that. and haven't a right to criti-
| else him. What are we living in a republic
for If 1t is not that our acts may be criti-
cised by others and that should not hide
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