Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-06-27

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The prosecution rested its case to-
day, amid probably the fattest at
tempt that ever was made to create
something out of nothing The fail,
ure of the prosecution to make a case
against Haywood specifically and the
Western Federation of Miners gener-
ally is town talk.
From the reports sent out by the
correspondents at Boise, members of
the capitalist press are commenting
very openly on the fzzle that is made
by the state.
For a week the lawyers of the pro-
seeution have been looking depressed
and have gone at their work in life
less sort of a way. Borah sits look
ing down his nose, and the whole sit.
uation has the aspect of a collapsed
balloon.
Talk is rife of the mess in which
the capitalist conspirators are plunged.
IL is said that all the big push on the
prosecution has been deceived and
jobbed by the Pinkertons. They re.
presented to Gooding that they had
sure thing against the Western Fed.
Grafton, and that they were going to
put them through the way they did
the Molly Mcguire business, and the
anarchists of 1857. On the strength
of these assertions Gooding got his APP
preparation of 100000 from the legis-
lature by stating that they had a cinch
against the union men. The claim was
even made that they had evidence
enough to hang forty different men.
But all this boasted array of proof
has not materialized. With the ex-
ception of Orchards, the testimony
given by the witnesses has been tame
and unimportant.
Every one of their witnesses, with
out an exception, has testified that he
was summoned by the Pinkertons. The
entire combination is a Pinkerton ease
pure and simple. The Pinks have got
their money for the job but they have
not delivered the goods and there is
wailing and CONSERVATION in the ranks
Of the oppressors. Gooding is wonder
ing how he will square himself with
the people for the enormous sums of
money that have been expended.
Report has ii that these would.b
exeeutioners of the working class are
quarreling with and blaming each
other. Gooding lays the fasco on to
Mcfarland and he in turn states that
the witnesses did not have the inform
alton they claimed to have. It is said
some fifty witnesses have been sent
back home without appearing at all
When they got into the Offices and
Borah and Hawley b,gan to question
them, IL was found that theiy didn Y
have anything to tell that was of the
slightest consequence in the case. A
number Of the witnesses have been
peculiarly pitiful failures.
For instance Governor Peabody has
boasted TO the reporters all over the
country Of what he coulo tell against
the Federation men, and he Travelled
thousand miles to say that after his
term of office was over he hal gone
back from Denver to Canyon City, and
was repairing his home. The whole
thing was so trivial that the defense
refused to cross,examine him. His
daughters testimony was equally in.
consequential. She got out Of her car
riagc one evening and some men were
standing near It.
There has not been the slightest
show of connecting Haywood with the
Steuncnbore crime outside Of Or
ehard S testimony, that of an uncor,
roborated aeeomplice.
There have been several money
transactions shown-such ms any Of
feer of a similar organization might
have with men at work under him.
Haywood still sits untouched by the
evidence.
And then the low estimate in which
these bristling and imported gun men
are held by the local authorities as
brought out in the trial Of Mel lrum
and Bartell has taken about all the re.
naming wind out Of the sails of the
prosecution. The thug, Meldrum was
left completely alone by his friends
when he appeared in the police court.
He had the appearance Of man in
the most painful position of embar.
rassment. He event TO pieces" as
the saying Is. When no was fined his
hundred dollars, he was held until he