The Springfield herald., 1907-06-28
ORCHARD A Liar
AND A MONUMENTAL ONE, SAYS
BARROW.
DEFENSE OUTLINES PLANS
Charges Are Made That Orchard Was
Hired by Pinkertons and
Mine Owners.

Haywood is on trial TO hear the speech
of Clarence Darrow of Chicago outlin-
ing the purposes of the defense in
combating the evidence put in by the
state. The formalties of opening the
session at an end, Mr.. Darrow at once
took up his place directly in front of
the twelve solemn-visaged men in the
jury box and began in the SLOW mellow
drawl characteristic of him to state
the theory and plan of the defense to
be offered for his client.
Mr.. Darrow reminded the jurors of
the instruction given them by the
court that they are to keep their
minds entirely open as to the guilt or
innocence of the accused man until all
the evidence from both sides had been
introduced.
You have listened to the theory and
the evidence of the state" Mr.. Darrow
proceeded. MIR. Hawley has covered
a wide ground in his opening for the
state, and we will have to meet him
step by step. The defendant here is
charged nominally with the murder of
former Governor Steunenberg. There
had to be some nominal charge. But
the state has told you the case rests
upon a giant conspiracy of which the
defendant among others is part.
Murder a Part of Conspiracy.
THE states attorney has told you
the murder of Governor Steunenberg
was but an incident. They have told
you the Western Federation of Miners
was an organization TO commit muir
der, to control politics, to hire lawyers
and other criminal things.
Part of this is true; part of it is not
true. 1t is true there is labor organi-
zation known as the Western Fedora
ton of Miners. 1t is true the Western
Federation of Miners has spent money
for lawyers. 1t was unfortunate. but
most people have to employ lawyers at
some time or another.
This organization was really born
in 1S92-1S93, right down in a cell be-
meath this court room, where Ed.
Boyce, the first president, was a pris-
oner, and where now the three men
charged with this murder are awaiting
the judgment of this jury.
ITO start out with, they hired law
yers and they hired the. best they
could. They hired Mr.. Hawley, now
the leading counsel for the state. Mr..
Hawley laid out the plan of their Or
ganiZation for them; he advised thgDl;
he was the godfather of the Western
Federation of Miners and the men who
formed the organization thought 1t was
an innocent undertaking. Mr.. Haw
ley was their first attorney and contin
ued as their attorney for a long time.
If there was anything criminal in their
appropriating money for a lawyer the
miners did not know it.
The Western Federation of Miners
is an industrial. not murderous or
ganization. 1t has from time to time
Ira, IN, hut ,pt
going to hang every organization
which has done such thing. If we
did no corporation would be safe. The
western Federation of Miners did all
it could to pass the eight-hour law in
Colorado, Utah and Montana. 1t tried
to elect friendly United States sena-
tors. 1t tried to elect Mr.. Hawley, but
unfortunately failed"
MIR. Darrow went On TO say that
there was no claim that the Western
Federation of Miners was an organi-
Zation of angels.
angels Do Not Work in Mines"
Angels do not work in the mines,"
declared the attorney, they are the
mine owners.
I'VE are not here to apologize for
anything the Western Federation of
Miners has DONE" declared Mr.. Oar
tion from the first. and If it dies 1t will
die fighting organization. 1t has had
a troublous career; it has been op-
posed by every device of the l.,ine own
ers. but it has prospered.'
Mr.. Darrow went at some length to
show the trouble and opposition the
union had had since its inception. In
some communities, he declared, the
president of the organization, when he
went to visit the miners. was refused
both food and lodging by the mining
companies.
Arrests have come thick and fast"
the attorney continued Some of the
charges were purely imaginary and in
ninety-nine cases out of one hundred
the men have not even been given the
grace of a trial.
AS soon as the Western Federation
of Miners was born the mine owners
went about to destroy it. and as the
chief means of destruction they hired
the Pinkerton Detective Agency with
one Mcfarland at its head. We will
show you that this agency has been
busy sleuthing, following. working and
lying to get these men. We will show
that they have hired detectives and
placed them in positions of RESPONSE
bility as secretaries and presidents of
local unions; that these men con-
stantly advised the miners to strike
and that when a strike was on they
counseled violence, dynamite and mur-
der. They did it at Telluride. they
did ii at Cripple Creek, and at many
other places"
Pinkertons Chief Factor.
I'VE will show that the Pinkerton
Detective Agency has been chief fac
tor in this case from the very begin
ming. 1t has organized itself into a
band to spread calumny against the
Western Federation of Miners. We
Will show that in one case, where a
cage fell because of defective machin-
cry and sixteen men were killed, it
was laid to the Western Federation OF
Miners.
THE burning of the Moscow Uni
versity was laid to the leader of the
Western Federation of Miners Every
illegitimate child born west of the Mis-.
sissippi has been wrapped in its
swaddling clothes, hurried to Denver
and laid on the doorstep of the West
ern Federation of Miners
Rightly or wrongly. Steunenberg
called for troops. Jack Simpkins was