The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-25
Clarence DarroW Reaches Climax of DenunCiation in the
 Haywood Case
STRENUOUS APPEAL FOR
 LABOR AGAINST CAPITAL
Haywood's Defender Runs the Gamut of lnvective In His Address to the
 Jury and Makes a Bitter
 Attack on Prosecution.


 Boise, Idaho, July 24.-Tht career of Frank Steunenberg. the ID dered gov- ernor of Idaho. was discu sed at some length this afternoon by Clarence Dar- row In his plea in behal. of William D. Haywood. Justfylng Il articles pub lished in the Miners Mag ;ine the official organ of the Western Fe leration of Min CTS, MT. Darrow said th action of Steu- nenberg In asking for Urtted States troops to quell a riot and th establishment of martial law in 1899 VI uniustilable and had properly stirredrs intense feeling in labor circles agans1the governor
 Mir Darrow's ar .Iment, unfinished to- night, developed into an appeal for labor as against eapito and a denunciatlon of all opposition to the unions. He held his audience startled and open-mouthed, as one after aihother of the sentiments poured from his llpes. His attack on Orchard was expected and in this respect he fulfilled and surpassed the limit of sensation"
 Three hours were given to Orchard, and 1t was when Vituperation, physical force and words were spent that Darrow turned to J. II. Hawley leading counsel for the , sssate. and the Pinkerton detectives for something on which to pour the lesser vol ume of abuse.
 | The state of Idaho came in for large 1 share of MT Darrow's denuaciation xnr l the partit has pleynd Il the rfoseeutlAn 1 T,ltire, education tea s4st{tta, sacn ia turn. Wer4 1ssSrihizd as constituting d cotrhination against the working man; the l uneducated and the poor must be pro- 1 tected
 1 Reaching the climax of denunciatlon and sympathy for the working class and hatred for the rich, he assailed the con stitution of the country and cried; "The constitution; the constitution; it is here only to destroy the laws made for the benefit of the poor"
 MT. Darrows support of labor unions and of union men was passionate and his euogy of the Western Federation of Min CTS eloquent Lovingly he touched on th5 beauty of self-sacrlhce found in the strug- gle for humanity, where only the working 1 man is found. And in the bitterest sar- 1 easm, his voice pitched in its highest note
 and hls arms upheld. he heaped abuse on
 selfish rich and upon the administration | of the state of Idaho.
 Clarence DarroW Begins.
 Boise, Idaho, July 2.-Clarence Darrow of Chicago today began the closing ad- dress for the defense to the jury in the Haywood case The court room was crowded to It's capacity. In opening MT. | Darrow impressed the chief case upon the twelve men in the box. and de- clared the defendant Is in Idaho as an
 alien. brought 1500 miles from his home
 into community and before jury
 which does not view life or industry as
 the men accused of the murder of for
 mer Governor Steunenberg have been
 taught to look at 1t.
 The defendant in this case and the
 men in the jail below.S declared MT. Darrow "haVe been brought to trial in the home of a man who was Killed Tn l the most cowardly, the most brutal way l that any man was ever sent to death. Many of you men on this jury voted for 1 Governor Steunenberg. One of you had business relations with him, while in the house of another, he made his home for two years. You are almost the family circle of the murdered man, and none ot you ras ever had any community ot 1 interest with these defendants. Under l these circumstances I can but ask you i to lav aside as much of the passion and 1 prejudice as you can and look at us as l if we were one of yon. Give us the fair i and impartial trial you would give If you 1 had not known the deceased You men ! for more than year passed nave had 1 your minds poisoned by lies in the local l newspapers. but now that you have sat ! here for more than two months and have i heard the testimony, you know you have l been fed upon poison and lies. Lay 1 aside as much as you can of this poi sonous stuff, try to get your mind free l and be guided only by the evidence.
 Before Hostile Jury. .'The prosecution in this case knows if cannot convict on the exact evidence. but relies upon the strained forced cIr- ! cumstauces to get a verdict from you 1 This defendant was taken by force to 1 be tried for his life.
 "Imagine yourselves, men. taken from vour farms and set down before a jury l in Chicago to be tried for your lives. i and then you can in some way feel as this i man does in tirs case. I believe that 1 under these circumstances you will hesi- i tate to act on the rotten testimony given i in this case to take away the life or a 1 fellow citizen.
 "3nt some of you will say perhaps. i that while there is not enough here to warrant sending a man to death. there i Is perhaps enough of evidence as to 1 crimes having been committed in the l western country to vote to put Bill HaY- wood ir jail-to compromise on ver- dict for manslaughter or murder in tho second degree. You have that right. gentlemen of the jury, but I want to say i Chat whatever Bill Haywood may De, 1 he is not a coward I would not thank this fury if 1t returned a verdict of as- sault and battery and assessed fine of 8 against this defendant.
 CoWardly Murder.
 "This murder was cold-blooded, delip-
 crate and cowardly In the extreme. If
 this man. sitting in his office in Denver
 15OO miles away. employed an assassin to
 do this cowardly act. then you ought 70
 hang him by the neck until he is dead. | For God S sake. men, do not compromise.
 If you believe the story that has been told
 against this man beyond all reasonaols | doubt, then take him and hang him. rle