Imperial Valley press., 1911-12-04

the truth out, and he kept going back
to the certainty that Jim, as he called
j. B. Mcnamara, would be convicted
and might hand.
Il never had a man hang that
undertook to Defend" he said, "and
l can't bear to thing of it," Then he
told me to go ahead and see what
could be done.
Those of us who we're at work there
fore went on seeing other men. They
all protested, of course, and some Of
them seemed to cite insurmountable
obstacles. There was the East" for
example, and they meant the Erectors
Association and others, who were hot
on the man hunt in Chicago, Indian
apolis and New York No one doubted
for moment that, if these men could
be told what the plan was and what
the spirit was that moved US, they
could be got to come in. And, by the
way, il is to be put up TO them later.
But they We're telegraphed to and they
telegraphed back and most people
think they can't say much in a tele-
gram, SO they didn't get a clear sense
of anything and telegraphed back, pro
testing against any compromise. This
had it's effect. For these men not only
replied to the kilograms they received,
~ l~o ~,
Angeles and we were afraid there
would be a leak. The business was
hurried and the terms against the Nc
Namara boys were hardened.
For it must be understood that what
everybody here in Los Angeles saw
was that if it was to De done at all it
must be done handsomely. The first,
the local, proposition, was that James
p. Mcnamara, the boy on trial, was to
plead guilty and that everybody else
was TO go free I can't speak for Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks; didn't see
him personally; but everybody else
wished that as few individuals as pos
sible should be punished Mr. Edwin
T. Earl expressed the highest concep-
ton of it all.
Lets have done with punishment" ;"
he said; lets get through with all
vengeance.
NJ. Earl is far in advance of his
day; his view did not prevail. There
had to be one victim, at least, and by
and by it appeared that there must be
two.
Meanwhile Darrow was being Kept
informed Of these changes, one by one,
and you could see him age under it all.
He carried il alone at first. / think
it must have been a week before he
had faith enough in the outcome to
talk with his colleagues about it. And
when he did, he took them one by one,
and not more than one a day Like
everybody else, they all protested at
first, but when they were asked to con-
slider what the case was and what the
chances were of getting labor and the
labor philosophy rightly understood,
they came in; all except Job Hartman
Nobody had the heart to tell him. He
is the Socialist candidate for mayor,
and it was expected that the plea of
guiity and the attitude of business
men in Los Angeles toward labor
OH off he
was kept in the dark of the plan afoot
until he got it when the public did. He
had been neglecting the case, very
naturally, on account of his preoccu-
patton with his campaign, SO he knew
nothing, either of the hopelessness of
the case or of the negotiations
Business Men Meet
When the negotiations were ap-
preaching settlement it was deemed
advisable to take the matter up with a
larger body of representative business
men. Some twenty or more men were
hurriedly invited to Mr. Llssner's Of
fee Wednesday evening, November 90
Those that responded were Stoddard
Jess, the leading financler of Los An
geles; j. O. Koepfli, former president
of the Municipal League and a large
employer OF labor; r. w. Burnham,
local manager for r. G. Dun & Co.. /;
Edwin T. Earl, proprietor of two
newspapers; Fred Baker, of the Baker
Iron Works; M. p. Snyder, banker
former mayor of Los Angeles; T. E.
Gibbon, leading lawyer and member
of the harbor commission; Paul Shoup
vice president and general manager OF
the Southern Pacific's electric lines in
Southern California; James Slauson
president of the chamber of commerce;
II. w. Frank, prominent merchant
former United States Senator Frank p
Flint; w. j. Washburn, prominent
banker and member of the city cOun
Gil, and Meyer Lssner. Here again
the same comedy was gone through
with, only in exaggerated degree. II