Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-06-06

Jim" HAWLEy
DANGEROUS man
Special Correspondents Es-
innate Of IdahO'S Vet
cram Prosecutor

| BOISE, Ida, June "a special to
the Portland Telegram by a staff cor
respondent says:
For the first time in his long and
successful career as criminal law
yer, James H. Hawley, leading coun-
sci for the state in the prosecution of
William d. Haywood, prepared in the
rough his opening address, which pre-
cedes the introduction of evidence.
Belonging to what is known as the
'old school, of lawyers, Mr.. Hawley
always heretofore had depended upon
his memory and his eloquence, with
what remarkable success is attested
by his professional history.
And what an audience! Seldom have
men played to one so great. The whole
American people fill the seats Of that
vast auditorium, extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf. L
Nor was the audience disappointed.
James H. Hawley is essentially an
orator in the true sense-not pol
ished public speaker, not q post pran-
dial talker, but man who seeks to
move his hearers by the logic of his
utterance and the force with which 1t
is delivered, whose torrent of elo-
quence flows spontaneously from the
spring of honesty and conviction. 1t
is said of him that he has never taken
a case unless convinced Of the right
eousness of his clients cause. Few
men he has ever defended have been
convicted, and where there have been
convictions he has never lost faith
in their cause, but has devoted him
self afterward to get the justice he
thought their portion. Few men he
has prosecuted have ever escaped
without punishment.
He is not a Cicero, this representa-
tive citizen of the sagebrush, the irri-
cation and the mining region. He
studies little as to exordium and pc
roration, climax and trope. No tricks
of rhetoric abound in his system of
moving mems hearts and souls. Now
and then he even deals Lindley Muir
ray resounding whack. Rather
might he be compared to the oratori-
cal school of which Demosthenes was
! the father-he deals In philippics and
he handles a verbal sledgehammer
Men who have heard great politica,
orators say: Give me Jim Hawley
: when 1t comes to prosecuting or de.
Tending man.
Farmers All Know Him.
This may be hyperbolical and II
NAV not If mn hn d,xA t.
to the unconscious influence Of warn
friendship, but friendship may cut q
very small figure In their estimate OF
Hawley's ability as a courtroom ora
tor. There can be no question that in
this particular field the noted LAWYER
. comes under the head of 'spellbinder,t
TN the first place, Mr.. Hawley is in
tensely democratic. He knows almos,
everybody in Idaho, and he knows
most Of the men by their first names
\ With him it is BIZ and Jack and
Tom Everybody knows him as
jim 1t would be hard task to Sc
lect jury of farmers in this state
not personally acquainted with Jim
Hawley.
He dresses carelessly, his clothes
MT loosely and his shoes are seldom
polished, half the time his cravat is
awry; he has been known to go hall
a week without shaving. When he
talked to the jury 1t was not as At
torney James H. HawIey, special
prosecutor employed by the state OF
Idaho; 1t was as Jim Hawley, their
old friend-as one of them.
That is why the defense fears Haw-
ley. When the learned counsel who
represent Haywood came to Boise. II
Is said they breathed freer when they
were informed that professional talent
was not to be imported to represent
the state; that 'sagebrush lawyers
were to conduct the prosecution. Not
quite a month has elapsed since the
trial began, but occasionally symp-
toms OF asthma are developed among
the cohorts defending the secretary
treasurer of the Western Federation
\ of Miners on the charge of numbering
former Governor Steunenberg. They
: have discovered that the western
product is virile, active, truculent and
: resourceful. And then they have
n heard disquieting rumors. This mar
v has told them of what Hawley did In
y such and such a case down at Poca.
Il tello,' and that man has posted them
II on his performance in such and sucf
Il case Way up at Wallace They
have learned what happened when h,
n went against professional giants her,
4 and there. from the eos up to tn,
nresento