The Washington herald., 1907-06-03
BORAH AS PROPHET
Cbargesby Ex-senator Paralleled
in Haywood Trial.
SIMILAR TO THE CHEYNE CASE
In Murder Hearing Eight Years
Ago He Accuses "Weird, Secret
Hays of Anarchy" of Milking Out
laws of Honest Working Men.
states Theory in Present Trial.

Boise. Idaho, June I'm the town Of
Wallace, In the northern part Of this
State, on July q, eight years ago, W. E.
B5rah made the closing address for tho
State to the jury that was trying Paul
Corcoran for the murder Of James
Cheyne, a crime that grew out Of the
riots in the Coeur d'Alene district IL was
an address memorable i'm the annals Of
the Idaho courts for its irresistible logic,
for its analysis Of the circumstantial evil
dence upon which the prosecution relied,
and for the feryor and the fearlessness Of
the man who made IT, In that address
MI Borah after declaring heartily for
the decent labor union, made the follow
ing declaration:
But l am speaking 20 you to-day Of an
organization which has been wrenched
from its original purpose and turned into
the channels of crime. which would con-
vert the man who labors into a secret,
masked. and trcacherous outlaw, sepa-
rate him from his home, make him a
fugitive from his State OF "a suspect in
the bosom OF his own family. an orgaui-
cation which uses the American flag as a
mask 10 conceal the cowardly face OF the
lurking assassin, and which strikes at
the very foundation Of our whole system
of government by openly destroying prop
erty and taking human life. an organi-
zatlon which shrinks from the open light
Of day. which in darkened rooms and
..1a ta
conscience-smiting power Of even single
vagrant ray, gives TO its adherents 70
drink OF the blood from the skull Of the
last victim and renders him who takes
il an IShmaelite Of the social world. an
outlaw with humanity. a stranger To the
nOhler and higher impulses Of man S
moral being
b. the prickiug Of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
And the weird. wild. and secret bags
Of anarchy hold high carnival over the
fallen and forfeited manhood Of the
sturdy but misguided workman. l say
10 you that the organization which hides
from the open light Of day. whose mem-
bers fee before the dawn, like a guilty
thing upon a fearful summons. is not an
organization which can represent the
dignity the manhood. and the patriotism
OF American labor or the Western miner
What Prosecution Would Prove.
Should Senator Borah. in the opening
address TO the jury that will next week
begin 20 hear evidence in the trial of
William d. Haywood, secretary-tr
Of the Western Federation Of Miners,
elect to repeat these words verbatim, it
is almost certain that they would fore
shadow with curious exactness the things
that the prosecution expects to prove
against Haywood and the other members
Of the inner circle Of the Western Fedora
tion Of Miners.
Paul Corcoran was convicted OF murder
in the second degree That the verdict
was not murder I'm the first degree is un-
doubtedly accounted for by the fact that
the State could not prove that Corcoran
actually pulled the trigger Of the gun
that killed Cheyne
There Is a curious parallel between the
CorcOran case and the Haywood case
Here, as there, conspiracy viii be the
charge. II Is not contended that Hay
wood. Meyer, OF Pettibone actually plant
ed the bomb that killed Steunenberg. II
is not even contended that they were in
the State Of Idaho when the deed was
done. But it is contended. and the State
is confident of being able to prove it. that
Haywood, Meyer, and Pettbone concoct-
ed the plot and urged and hired Harry
Orchard 70 carry it out. II Is, Of course,
a question whether this Ada County jury
will vote to hang Haywood, even if the
State establishes its case.