Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-05-23
A Grand
Reception
Held in Idaho Penitentiary for the Pur.
pose of Creating a Sentiment in Favor
of a Self Confessed Murderer


the penitentiary and driven to the
warden g office where the guests were
requested to register. The party con
sisted Of Governor Gooding; the gov
ernor's secretary, Charles Elmer; c. N.
London of the Cleveland Press; John
Fay, New York World; Luke Grant,
Chicago Record. Herald; J. S. Dunno
gan, Hearst papers; f. G. Leipheimer,
Butte Evening News; j. f. Nevins,
Seripps. McRae service; b. Phillips,
correspondent; John Tierney, Denver
News; J. III. McLennon, Denver Repub-
lican; Joseph Waldeck, Newspaper En-
terprise Association; H. l.. Crane,
Statesman; J. r. Kennedy and Martin
Egan, Associated Press; A. X. Davis,
New York Times; A. f. Thomas, New
York Sun; Hugh O'Neill, Denver Post;
J. w. Carberry, Boston Globe.
The correspondents of Wiltshire 8
ami the Appeal to Reason, the two
most widely circulated political period
icals in the world, are here, yet they
were not invited to this distinguished
interview.
Warden Whitney and the governor
Conducted the reception. Harry Or
ehard was dressed to kill in a new
gray suit, fat and dapper AMI groomed
like the plutes he is serving. Easily
and self fconfident he got of his little
piece. All had been instructed not
to talk about 1.-the case. The obe-
dent reporters to the bebest of King
Capital have flled their papers with
most flattering accounts of this low
est of human brutes "a degraded
wretch who would commit the most in
sensate murders, and then seek to
throw upon his fellow working men
his inhuman crimes. They speak of
his "open countenance' his "easy
and graceful Manners his "intelli
gent use of words.''
Why shouldn I he show the alvant
ages of trainIngi He has been hob
nobbing with royalty all this time. He
statements he had made, he had made
of his own free will, and that he had
not been promised any immunity.
That sounds good. Nothing could
have been fixed up any better to make
the public think he was pretty good,
and real nice sort of fellow. But
the grand central act was the religious
part of the play. This human brute
has been made to pose as religious
devotee, a constant reader of religions,
and so repentant of his monstrous
crimes as TO entitle him to complete
sympathy and forgiveness.
Never was there a greater corrobor-
ative example of the historical part
that religious institutions have been
made to play in the subjection Of
those who do the work.
In the first place this weak-minded
tool takes readily t. his religious mas
querade. And in the second place the
wealth and power represented by the
Mine Owners Association know too
well the powerfully suggestive effect
il will have upon the minds of the
great unwieldy ignorant mass to learn
that Orchard is casting himself upon
the alleged "sacred'' ideas of the hu-
man race, for the remission of his sins.
So this simpering ninny babbles of
religion, and plans to send his brothers
to their death.
Great game TO aid the dangling halt
ersl Rivers of working class blood
have been shed in the past under the
same cowardly cover. That hunter of
working men, and perpetrator of al
most every known crime, goes relig-
iously to the Catholic church every
morning.
Orchard gave out a pat statement
that the press reported as his own
language. Here it is:
"I have nothing in particular to
say but I might say that anything I
may have said, said Of my own free
will and accord after taking plenty
of time to deliberate. There never
was any force or coercion used Mt any
time or any threats by word OF deed.
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