Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
Chicago Attorney Resumes Ar,
gumens Today After Talk
ing Five Hours Yesterday
Holds Steunenberg
U nju st
DEFENDS THE.FLlGHT
OF JACK SlMPkJNS
Says That Sentiment Of Idaho
Against Federation is Such
That Prisoner Would
Not Have a Chance

Boise, Idaho, July 25-Clarence Oar
row. who Is having the last word for
the defense, resumed his address to
the Haywood jury this morning. He
took up the defense of Jack Simp-
kins' flight after the arrest of Or
chard Darrow's voice was very
hoarse as the result of his five hours
and forty minutes Of speaking yester-
day He spoke today with the great
est effort.
barrow Defends simpkins.
barrow confined himself more close
ly today to a review of the evidence,
but throughout his theme there con-
tinued strong note of abuse of Or
chard and condemnation of the Pink
ertons He rose to even greater
heights than yesterday in his assault
upon the existing order of the past
and present.
Casts Reflection Upon Jury.
barrow defended the action of Jack
sipkins in disappearing. He argued
to the jury that at the time OF Steun-
enberg's death no man accused OF
the murder would have been given
a fair trial. He commended Simpkins
for remaining in hiding during the
present trial and brought a bold &C
cusation against the jury. He was
addressing them when he said:
Possibly a year hence every man
who has not been hanged can get
fair trial in Boise"
He explained the action Of the West
ern Federation of Miners in reflect
ing Simpkins as member of the exc
cutive board upon the ground that as
"brave men and brothers, we should
stand by him until he's tried and con-
victed."
barrow will conclude this after
noon.
Mr.. barrow sneered at the universi..
ties. "And what is q cultured man =,
he cried, Shut a cruel tryant always?"
Mr.. Darrow's support of labor unions
and of union men was passionate, ana
his eulogy Of the Western federation
eloquent. Lovingly ne touched on
the beauty of the self-sacrifice found
in the struggle for humanity where
only the workingman Is found" nnd
in the bitterest sarcasm, his voice
pitched in its highest note and his
arms upheld, he heaped abuse upon
selfish rich and upon the admsnistra-
ton of the state of Idaho.
Turns TRADE on Mcfarland.
Mr.. Darrow described MCFARLAND as
lying, deceitful scoundrel-the very
life of detective, he declared. was
a living lie.
"This man, who had spent his life
in bounding down his fellow man,
suddenly turns evangelist and would
have you believe that Orchard is mira
culously transformed into new man.
Orchard tells you how he talked to
/ him about King David, ST Paul, and
Kelly the Bum MCFARLAND quoted
the scriptures in one breath and lied
in the next
Passing finally from his TRADE upon
Orchard and MCFARLAND. Mr.. DarroW
began to discuss some of the evidence
in the case. taking up the troubles IN
the Occur d'Alene district OF Idaho in
1889. when he declared that Governor
Steunenberg sowed the seeds OF more
strife and struggle than Wits ever
sown by the governor of any state
down to the present time.
Condemns Steunenbero's Actions.
There was no justification for it,
exclaimed the attorney. when such
course is taken By a chief executive
of a state. it is high time that all
government shall be submerged and
| the only law be the law of might.
There is not a man living who can de-
! fend it. Doubtless Governor Steunen-
berg felt that what he did was the
only thing he could do. | am not here
to discuss him or his motives. but |
know that both inside and outside of
labor unions, in ali walks of life, there
we're those who denounced the acts of
| Steunenberg so long as we pretend
to have a government by law in these
United States"
Defending the articles printed in
the Miners Magazine denouncing
Steunenberg, Darrow said they were
written by Ed Boyce. the first presi-
dent of the Western Federation of
Miners-a graduate of the smelters
and not of the colleges, but an honest
man for all that, and man who had
a right to express his honest views OF
the unwarranted herding of men in a
bullpen, surrounded by lice, Pinker-
ton detectives, and other vermin
| With flaming words the attorney
pictured to the jury the differences
/ between the owners Of the mines and
smelters, who rolled up their wealth
and brought their way into the United
| States senate in the blood of the men
who worked for them. and the min