The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-25

row 8 IaIl the attorney declared he had
the most profound respect.
But. gentlemen, 1 have never asked
for the life of human being, and never
snail to the end of my days. do not
ask for Orchards. If he stood con-
yicted today and no one else would say
a word for him, my petition would be
there praying for his life. because do
not believe in taking away. the life of
my fellow being. 1t is not for us to say
what, If we were born, If we were
moulded, If we were surrounded as
orchard was, we would have done.
| But II Orchard has religion, men OF
THIS jury, l say to you that never
want 1t. Before he made his confession
Harry Orchard was bad enough, but 1t
remained for religion, and am careful
~ weighing my words, to make him
totally depraved.
Before he got religion there was
! some spark of humanity, some spark OF
manhood left in the creature, but AFTER
MS conversion there seems to have peen
none. What show of renorse, or pity
or regret, did this man make as ne ap-
peared before you to tell this awIul
story?"
barrow declared that once before in
his life Orchard had been conYerLeu-
had become superintendent of SUNDAY
school-and he could not say the SECOND
dose would be any better than the nrs''
His Growing Infamy. i.
had protected the name of his family
from infamy and disgrace. IL was
the one sparksof goodness in his GRIM
inal breast. Other criminals had shoI
through the trap door to danBie al
the end of rope, but they kept lock-
ed within them the secret OF their
family name to protect those whom
they left behind.
It remained for Orchard, after his
conversion. to reveal to the world his
ma 20 ho olx 70 HOTSl6X
family in Ontario stories of his wild
career so that people driving by the
graves of two old Quaker parents
might point to them and say, There
lies the father and mother of the
greatest monster of modern times.
The attorney also told Of the dis
grace which this act had brought
upon the deserted wife and daughter
back in Canada The blowing up of
the independence depot was a sacra-
ment compared to the stabbing in the
heart of that little 9-year-old daugh-
ter with the knowledge of her faith
er's shame.
orchard, barrow claimed, had been
told by a miserable Pinkerton detec-
tive that if he told his real name his
story would have greater weight with
the jury, and would help to tie the
rope about the neck of Bill Haywood.
''No man, save Hawley; I might
say no sane man." declared the attor-
ney "can ever think of Harry Or
chard with anything but loathing."
In a burst of oratory, Darrow said:
"You men of the prosecution, you
men of the Mine Owners association,
you men who are seeking the life of
Haywood, not because he is Haywood,
but because he represents class,
don't be so short-sig1ited, so foolish
as to believe that you strange the
Western Federation of Miners when
you tie a rope around Bill Haywood's
neck; don't be so blind as to believe
that when you make three fresh new
graves here in Idaho that you have
world. When Bill Haywood is gone.
millions of other willing hands will
carry on his work to victory in the
end"
Attacks MCFARLAND.
The attorney begged the pardon of
the jury for dwelling SO long upon the
character of Orchard. but he said it
was necessary in order to point out
just what sort of man it was who was
condemning Meyer, Haywood and Pet
tibone so that the jury might deter
mine whether it would be safe even to
whip a dog on such testimony as he
gave, much less to hang a human
being.
Mr. barrow described MCFARLAND as
a lying, deceitful scoundrel-the very
life of a detective, he declared, was
living lie.
"This man who has spent his life
denly turns evangelist and would have
you believe that Orchard is miracu-
lousy transformed into a new man.
Orchard tells you how he talked to
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
1899, when he declared that Governor
sowed the seeds of more
strife and struggle than was ever
sown by the governor of any state
down to the present time.
There was no justification for it,
exclaimed the attorney. when such
a course is taken by chief executive
of state, it is high time that all gov
eminent should be submerged and the
only law the law Of might. There is
no man living who can defend it.
Governor Steunenberg felt
could do. I am not here to discuss
him or his motives, but L know that
both inside and outside of labor
in all walks of life, there were
those who denounced and always will
denounce the acts of Steunenberg so
long as we pretend to have a govern
ment by law in these United States"
Defending the articles printed in
the Miners magazine denouncing
barrow said they were
written by Ed Boyce. the first presi-
dent of the Western Federation of
Miners graduate of the smelters
and not of the colleges, but an honest
man with all that, and a man who had
a right to express his honest views of
the unwarranted herding of men in a
bull pen, surrounded by lice Pinker-
ton detectives and other vernin."
With flaming words the attorney pic
b. -
tween the owners of the mines and
METERS who rolled up their wealth
and bought their way into the United
States senate in the blood of the men
who worked for them. and the miners
and smeltermen who when their days
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