The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
NO COMPROMISE.
Clarence DarrOw in Pleading
the Cause of Haywood
Declares the Accused Is Either
Guilty or Innocent.
HE ATTACKS HAWLEY
And Hurls Unstinted Vitupera.
tiOn at Orchard.
Says His Testimony Is Wholly
Without Confederation.

Bolse, Idaho. July 24.-Clarence Dar-
row Of Chicago, for two hours and a
half of the morning session of the fIay-
wood trial today, proclaimed .he !nno-
cence OF his client and the impossibility
;; OF his conviction upon the uncorrobor-
ateo evidence of Harry Orchard
j. ii. HaWley, leading counsel for the
state and Orchard were the figures
around whom most of the storm of the
morning centered. Throughout the ten
weeks of testimony taking Hawley and
Darrow have clashed almost daily and
there have been frequent exchanges cf
angry words until during Hawley's ar
gument the lie was passed. This morn
ing DarroW vented his accumulated
finement of attack. It was straight
V1tuperation and angry denuncia tion
For two hours and a half Darrow rang
the changes on Orchards past. his
present and his future, ard on Orchard
he heaped every word of abuse and con-
tempt that the least possible show of
respect for the court would permit.
The court room, crowded to its limit.
was hot and the atmosphere heavy but
the Chicago lawyer held his audience to
close attention throughout the morning.
He pleaded with voice and gesture. Not
qu1escent for moment he paced to
and fro before the box addressing each
of the jurymen in turn ami always
pleaded that an Idaho jury should
never find a verdict against Haywood
upon the testimony of Orchard who, he
said. was "corroborated only by a dog,
wall-eye horse and ]. H. Hawley.'
Mr.. Darrow, in closing the argument
of the morning session, said that if
the jury should hang Bill Haywood,
the banner of liberty by the open grave
and bear it on to victory"
Clarence Darroyy Opens.
In opening Mr.. Darrow impressed
the chief case upon the IL men in the
box and declared the defendant is in
from home to a community and be-
fore a jury which does not view life
or industry as the men accused of the
murder of former Governor Steunen-
berg have been taught to look at it.
The defendant in this case and the
men in the jail below, declared Mr..
Darrow have been brought to trial
in the home of a man who was killed
in the most cowardly, the most brutal
way that any man was ever sent to
death. Many of you men on the jury
voted for Governor Steunenberg. One
of you had business relations with
him, while in the house of another of
you he made his home for two years
You are almost the family circle of
the murdered man and none of you
has ever had any community of in
terest with these defendants. Under
these circumstances I can but ask you
to lay aside as much of the passion
and prejudice as you can and look at
us as if we were one of you. Give US
the fair and impartial trial you would
give if you had not known the de-
ceased. You men for more than a
year past have had your minds
poisoned by lies in the local newspa-
pers, but now that you have sat here
for more than two months and have
heard the testimony you know you
have been fed upon poison and lies.
Lay aside as much as you can of this
poisonous stuff; try to get your mind
free and be guided only by the evil
dence.
Can't Convict on the Evidence.
1.-The prosecution in this case knows
it can not convict on the" exact evil |
dence, but it relies upon the strained !
forced circumstances to get a verdict
from you. This defendant was taken |
by force from his home. brought L 500 I
miles and set down before hostile |
jury to be tried for his life.
Imagine yourselves men. taken from |
your farms and set down before a jury |
in Chicago to be tried for your lives
and then you can feel in some way as |
this man does. I believe that under |
these circumstances you will hesitate to |
act on the rotten testimony given in |