The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-25
VENOM OF HATE IS
 SH0WERED ON ALL HEADS
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AOOEN IN O lsb -~~-~----~----~-~- has fought many a fight against the DOT secutors who are bounding him into this court He has fought them on the open battlefield, and he is not a coward. If he has to die, he will die as he has lived with his face to the foe. Bill Haywood is either innocent or guilty. If he Is guilty I have nothing to say. But men, this case is a case of Orchard from beginning to end. There Is nothing at all left in the evidence without him.
 HaWley Denounced.
 Mir Darrow here launched into a lengthy, bitter. vituperative denunciation of Attorney James IT. Hawley, the lead ing counsel for tho state. Te assailed him as hired man actuated by no other mo- tive than to get the money of the state /of Idaho that he might build another ad dition to his house. He denounced him as ''bug house,, and said that he had been friend of labor organizations, as he pro- claimed, only when they got their cash to his office first
 Tt is too bad the old man could not have ended his career before he took the case and told the fool things he mas told this jury. What was there in Mir. flaw ley's argument but Orchards story? Ac- cordng to his theory everybody lies tha. that scoundrel may be be11eved, Hawley
 
 would be a better term"
 Darrow dismissed Senator Borah, asso- ciate counsel for the state, with a few words. 'I don't mean to inslnuate," he declared, that Senator Borah is any more honest than Hawley, but l do believe he is sllclIer"
 MT. Darrow said he did not believe Sen ator Borah was as overcome with the truthfulness of Orchards story as was Hawley.
 'In fact" he went on, T am inclined to think that if Senator Borah believed Orch ard was going to heaven, he'd want to go the other way"
 The attorney told the jury that if their verdict showed that they believed Harry Orchard they would be ashamed to go home and face their wives, their sons and daughters.
 Motive for Crime.
 Turning to the question as to whether the butcher had motive for butehering Steunenberg, MT Darrow said there were many witnesses who showed Orchard was trying to sell his interest In the Hercules mine up to the time he was driven from the Occur D'Alenes. There were others who went uncontradicted and unirn- peached in testifying as to the threats they heard Orchard make against Cover nor Steunenberg.
 "Hawley would have you believe that Orchard cannot lie since he got religion. shall have something to say as to that religion later on, but what l want to say now is that if Hawley has not got re- ligion, he had better go and get it if there was any left after Orchard got his
 Darrow warned the jurors that if they convicted fellow-beng upon the word of an assassin like Orchard, man caught with his hands dripping in the blood of his victim. they would place staln upon the state of their nativity and ot their adoption.
 'It is better" he exclaimed, that you should let thousand guilty men escape; better than that you should let all the criminals ever brought to the state of Idaho go free, than to have 1t said you took away the life of a man on such testimony as has been given in this court"
 MT. Darrow declared that Orchard had been so contradicted by witnesses that there was no truth left to his story
 Challenge to Convict.
 "Why." he said. "if George Washing ton with all his great reputation for ve- racity, had come here as a witness and had been contradicted as Orchard has heen. the Father of his Country would have gone out of this court room dis graced and accounted the greatest An nanias of the age. But if you men can 
 convict Bill Haywood on Orchards testi- mony, why go ahead and do it. l have sat here with you men for two or three months and I have tried to read you. have laid awake at night thinking of you. There may be some hideous plan deep down in your souls--I cannot see them but somehow or another I have never felt that there was any danger of your belieV- ing that perjured monster. But, if you do believe, if I am mistaken as to that, if you must have the life of this man on such testimony as this, why gentlemen of the jury we will furnish you the victim with a glad and cheerful heart Reviewing the crimes confessed by Or chard, MT Darrow said that each of them showed the man to be snealSing, craven coward. who had never taken a chance that would endanger his miserable hide It was logical to believe, he ar gued that Orchard now had turned to lying to save his neck. He said he had been promised no immunity whatever, but neither Governor Goodng nor Detective Mcfarland had taken the stand to cor roborate him.
 Reward for Orchard. "Is he to get anything? Has he got anything for delivering