Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
THOUSANDS WELCOME
HAYWOOD IN DENVER
FEDERATION OFFICIAL CHEERED
WILDLY ON RETURN HOME
Arrives at Union Depot to Find Great
Crowd of Enthusiastic Supporters
Gathered to Meet Him-Streets
Ring with joyful Shouts
BY Associated Press.

Dy <AbSOCldIeQ ITeSS.
DENVER. Colo, Aug. 4.-Celebration
of the return home of William D. Hay
wood secretary treasurer of the West
ern Federation of Miners, who was ac-
quilted at Boise, Idaho, of the charge of
conspiring to murder Governor Steunen-
berg, was considerably curtailed tonight
by reason of the lateness of the hour at
which he arrived.
Several thousand persons gathered out
side the main entrance to the Union sta
ton, while within the gates leading into
the yard platform were a hundred or
more persons, including newspapermen,
committeeman and employees of the sta
tion.
AS the Denver and Rio Grande train
bearing the Haywood party rolled into
the depot at 10:45 o'clock, five minutes
behind the schedule, those inside the gates
quietly walked toward the train and
along the side of the cars until the car
occupied by Haywood and his friends
was reached.
Haywood cou.d plainly be seen
through the car windows, but no cheer
ing was indulged in until after the news
became circulated that Attorney Murphy
was in as good condition as could be
hoped for, and then the privileged few on
the depot platform began to move rest
lessly toward the steps of the car occu-
pied by Haywood.
| number who personally knew Hay
wood entered the car and were cordially
welcomed by him.
| He shook hands with all newspaper
men, many of whom he recognized as
old acquaintances. Across the aisle from
| the seat in which Haywood was sitting
| lay his invalid wife. Immediat tely next to
Haywood, in a section with curtains
drawn, was Attorney Murphy. reclining
upon bed softened by pillows.
AS the people began to move through
the car to greet Haywood, Murphy drew
back the curtain of his berth and with
careworn expression gazed intently at the
little group gathered in the aisle of the
car. Soon some one recognized Murphy
and called him by name Immediately
he was the center of interest as we'll as
Haywood. and the cordiaity with which
the crowd addressed him seemed to give
Murphy new strength and life.
Carries Wife from Car
When all were ready to leave the car
Haywood gathered his wife in his arms
and left the car, followed by Acting Sec
retary Kirwan of the Federation, who
met the party at Colorado Springs, and
others, AS he dismounted from the steps
of the car a number of those standing
them in his direction, accompanying the
gesture of welcome with a ringing cheer
Mrs Haywood was placed in an invalid
chair and then all started toward the
gates leading out of the station. Two
women carrying banner on one side of
which was the inscription "Fellow Work
er, Welcome-Injury to One Is Injury to
All' and on the reverse side a picture of
Haywood above an emblem of the Indus
trial Workers of the World preceded the
party. rumber of men wearing the red
badge of the socialists followed immedi-
ately afterward. Haywood. wheeling his
invalid wife, appeared under the glare of
the electric light directly opposite the
main gate.
The crowd caught sight of him and
burst into cheers. A rush for the gates
was made and people in their eagerness
to get look at the principal in the
famous Boise trial packed into a small
space just outside the gate, and the police
were compelled to use force to make them
step back so that the gate could be
opened.
space less than three feet wide could
be opened through the crowd, barely
large enough to allow the chair In which
Mrs Haywood was riding to pass. AS
Haywood walked up this aisle hundreds
of hands were outStretched toward him, |
but his solicitude for his wife caused
him to resist the evident desire to grasp
the many hands extended to him. The
continued cheering that greeted him kept
his face wreathed in SMILES. and when
he finally reached his carriage and saw
his wife safely seated inside Haywood
abandoned himself to the spirit of the
occasion.
Standing on the rear seat of the open
carriage he repeatedly shouted cheer
after cheer as he waved his hat. The
crowd of several thousand people Joined |
with him and for several minutes the
roar of cheers continued. Half hundred
enthusiasts started to unhitch the horses
from the carriages and attach long
rope so that the crowd could drag the
conveyance up the street to Haywood's
hotel. Haywood requested that they fore
go this expression of regard and they de-
sisted. 1t was several minutes before
the streets could be cleared, and when
an opening was broken through the
crowd the horses pulling Haywoods car
riage started up Seventeenth street at a
brisk trot.