The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-24
HAYWOOD. A GOOD MAN
Claims the Federation of Miners is
Not Murderous Organization, but
Has Done Much Goodwill Prove
Orchards Story to Be Untrue.

| crowd gathered this morning in the
wood is on trial to hear the speech
of Clarence Darrow outlining the pur
poses of the defense in combating the
| evidence put in by the state. Darrow
began in slow, mellow drawl, char
acteristic of him, to state the theory
ald plan of the defense.
The states attorney has told you,
said Darrow, that the murder of Gov
ernor Steunenberg was but an Incl
dent. They have told you that the
Western Federation of Miners was
an organization to commit murder, to
control politics, to hire lawyers and
do other criminal things. Part of this
is true, and part is not true
Darrow mentioned the fact that
States Attorney Hawley was the first
lawyer employed by the Federation,
and that Hawley laid out the plan of
organization.
The Western Federation of Min
ers," said Darrow, lis an industrial,
but no murderous organization. 1t i1as
from time to time taken a nand in
politics, but we are not going to hang
every organization which has done
such thing. If we did, no corpora
ton would be safe"
Darrow said there was no claim
that the Federation was an organiza-
ton OF angels angels do not work
il mines,'' declared the Attorney
they are mine owners. We are not
here to apologize for anything the
Western Federation of Miners has
done. 1t has been a fighting organiza-
ton from the first, and if it dies it
will die a fighting organization. 1t
has had troublous career. 1t has
been opposed by every device of the
mine owners, but it has prospered.'
Darrow detailed the benefits the
organization had brought to the min
ers, and said the Butte Union alone
had paid more tnan million dollars
to the widows and orphans of mem
bers
Darrow said that as soon as the
Federation was born, the mine own
ers set about to destroy it, and as the
chief means hired a Pinkerton detec-
tive agency with McPharland at its
head. I'VE Will show you" he said,
that they have hired detectives and
placed them in local unions, tnat
these hired men constantly advised
the miners to strike, and that when
the strike was on they counseled vio-
lence, dynamite and murder. They
did it at Telluride; they did it at Grip
pie Creek, and at many other places.
We will show that the Pilkerton de-
tective agency has been the chief fac
tor in this case from the very begin
ming.
Darrow said that probably many
foolish and Incorporate things crept
into the Miners Magazine; but that
the editors had no college education,
and Meyer and Haywood paid little
would read matter from the magazine
showing that it did not advise vio-
lence, but counseled wise administra
ton and discussed economic condi-
tions temperately.
He said the defense would snow
that Jack Simpkins was thrown into
the '-bull-pen'' in the Occur D'Alenes
and maltreated. He was stood up at
a post by a negro soldier and bayo-
net driven into his breast. The de-
tense would show, Darrow asserted.
that Orchard was a shoe-string gam
bier, who had never done a days
work in his life and that he was not
at the Bunker Hill aad Sullivan mines
as he had testified when they were
blown up, and did not participate in
most of the crimes of which he has |
boasted.
Il don't like to take any bloom on |
aspeach like that said DarTow, but |
while we will show that he is not the |
murderer he boasts himself. we will |
compensate him by proving him to be
the most monumental liar that ever
existed. Before our first witness mas
left the stand. gentlemen, we will con- |
vince you, and we will even convince |
Mr.. Hawley himself that this man
Orchard has He'd in the most essen