The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-27


was 1t? Was it an accident? Jim
Shayne was killed; oh, yes, but he was
scab, Darow tells you. The Bunker
Hill mill was blown up. Oh, yes, but
it employed non-union men.
Darow says that whenever you
get thousand men together to go and
do thing it is something that ought
to be done. That may be the rule in
Chicago, but it does not go in Idaho.
''Darrow has painted Harry Orchard
to you as a veritable devil, and l agree
with him.
Senator Borah declared that Attor-
ney Darrow in his address to the jury
had offered subtle justification for ev-
erything charged against the defense.
He set himself up in defense of all the
laws of public decency.
Takes Fling at Richardson.
"If the doctrine that Darrow
preached to you be true, am surprised
that these men committed murder,
said Senator Borah, who then turned
upon Attorney Richardson and de-
clared that If Harry Orchard is crazy
it was no compliment to one of thh
greatest lawyers in the West that the
maniac did not disclose any of his in
sanity in a weeks cross-examination
1.-The counsel for the Defense" said
Senator Borah, tell you that Orchard
was caught red-handed in the act of
killing Steunenberg; that he confessed
to save his own neck and that if he
hadn't confessed the daisies would
have been blooming on his grave for
year past. oh, no, gentlemen of the
jury, if Orchard had not confessed the
attorneys for the Western Federation
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defending and eulogizing him as a
brave man, a member of the great
working class, and friend Richardson
would convince you beyond a reason
able doubt that Orchard could not be
guilty of the killing of Governor Steu-
nenberg because he was in his room at
the Saratoga hotel when the. bomb
went off.
'Darrow says my associate has Or
charditis.' Well, maybe he has, but he
got it from the depths of Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. They had Orchard
it's first. He was one of them, dele
gate to their convention, a visitor to
their homes. But the difference is that
we have him tied up in the peniten-
tiary, while they were sending him
broadcast through the country on his
evil missions.
Orchards Religion Not An Issue.
Much has been said here in de-
rision of Harry Orchards religion"
continued Borah. whether he has re-
ligion or not, | do not know, and it
has nothing to do with his testimony
one way or the other. But remember,
gentlemen of the jury, that the ques-
tion of Orchards religion or non-re-
ligion was not matter imposed by
the state upon you-it was brought
into this case by the cross-examina-
tion of the Defense
Dwelling upon Darrow's views of
Christianity, Senator Borah exclaimed
eloquently that it was too late in this
morning of the twentieth century to
write upon the brow of Him upon Cal
vary, ''impostor'; too late to brand
false prophet" upon Him who said:
This day thou shalt be with Me in
Paradise"
IF Harry Orchard, poor devil that
he is, with his hands red with the
blood of twenty innocent men and his
soul stepped in the very fumes of hell,
had grasped the doctrine and accepted
the beliefs of Christianity, he would
not be the one to take that solace from
him.
81 don't know what your verdict will
be in this case" he went on, "and
don't believe anybody knows. There
is enc thing l do know, and that is you
will never get twelve men in the state
of Idaho to free Harry Orchard, and
you will never get any man as gov
ernor to turn him loose. Orchard has
been promised no immunity, and If |
should ever have anything to do with
such a bargain as that | should want
the great God to wither my right arm
till it fell from its socket. We are not
asking for vicarious atonement in this
case, like the defense, but we want no
compromise. We know one man is
guilty; it is for you to determine
whether there are others.