Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
After the Cash Providers,

| DoeS ANYBODY suppose for a minute,
inquired the lawyer. that the McNamara
brothers supplied the money for their ne.
| farious work out of their own pockets:
1 know that during the period of their de-
structive activities $1,000 was deposited
each month at the Columbia National
Bank in Indianapolis. to be drawn upon
| by j. j. Mcnamara"
When pressed for the names Of the per-
sons who deposited this money Mr. Drew
| refused to give them.
THAT Will all come out in time" he
said
I'm Its national significance the mat
ter already has passed into the hands
of the federal authorities" he declared.
Our investigations showed that dyna-
mite and nitroglycerin were carried in
common suit cases and handbags on
| the railroads from one end of the
country to the other. and this evil
dence was taken up by the federal grand
! jury at Indianapolis three weeks ago.
The investigation there is in charge of
| Charles Miller, the United States at
| torney, an able, aggressive and clean
man."
| Mr. Drew was reminded that Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, had asserted a short
time after he learned of the confessions
| of the McNamaras that the case was
cerned. and. that the connection of that
organization with the case also was end
| ed by the confessions.
Trend Of Investigation.
1.-THE case Is not closed by a great deal. -
Mr.. Drew responded with grim smile
"It has just begun he added. "In plead
ing guilty the McNamaras have said they
were sent out there and acted for a
principle Mr.. Drew continued. 'It is
obvious that the men representing this
| principle have kept them well supplied
with money. It is to find out who these
| men are that Is now the important work
to do. Compared to this the prosecution
Of the McNamaras is merely a side is
sue. The National Erectors' Associate
is not composed of lot of Indians. We
have no personal malice against the Nc
Namaras and we hope that clemency
will be extended to them. We, too, are
fighting for a principle. just as they were.
The big principle behind it all, on our
part, is the prosecution of the men who
paid the McNamaras for their terrible
work and who countenanced and insti-
to believe that the federal authorities
will continue rigid investigation Of the
| matter. Our association. will, of course,
give every aid possible"
Cheney Expresses Similar Views.
Secretary Cheney of the National
Erectors Association talked in the same
| spirit as that of Mr.. Drew. THE Los
Angeles authorities have attended to
their end of the case excellently," he
said, but 1t will not stop there. The
| Los Angeles crimes were only two in
series that stretched across the con-
alx{lr xuyoS Lost -,
| of the other dynamite outrages perpe-
trated by the McNamaras. Our asso-
citation will not cease it's activities I'M
| til every guilty man has been caught
and punished"
Director Eidlitz declined to state who
are under suspicion in New York as con-
| spirators with the McNamaras. Their
number is considerably more than a
said to a reporter. II dare not give
their names now. for by SO doing I
might defeat the ends of justice.
Their Names Known.
But rest assured that their names
and guilt are known, and that every one
of, them will have to suffer at the hands
of the courts for what he has done.
Moreover, after we have closed up the
dynamiting cases the federal government
will then have in its possession vast
amount OF material upon WHICH IL Will
be bound to institute wholesale pro-
ceedings against the labor unions for
violating the Sherman antitrust law.
THE Standard Oil Company and to-
bacco trust have just been convicted of
violating that law. and have been pu.,-
ished. Neither of these concerns resort
ed to murder, blackjacking and other
forms of terror. as have Deen done here
| in New York for years by the labor
unions Crimes of this sort in plenty
will be developed right kers in this city
when the government takes vigorous hold
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