Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-11-10

also the Los Angeles district attor
ney. And, as between these AFRO
CANT and dominating corporation
trusts on the one side, and organized
labor on the other, you truly say
that they are striving for every ad
vantage and Judge Bordwell's diff
fcult task is to serve his masters
and establish the advantage that will
hang these labor representatives un-
der pretense Of fairness.
How many, Mr.. Editor, see the
covert plan of the prosecution being
carried by Judge Bordwell to hang
these accused menf In the Haymar-
ket trial in Chicago in 1886, eight
men were put upon trial for their
lives under tortuous indictment of
SO counts, endless, voluminous and
unintelligible. The statute in Him
ois in 1886, in a criminal trial, gave
each side 20 peremptory challenges.
Now these eight accused asked sep
arate trials. Judge Gary refused,
and compelled the eight accused men
to be joined in one trial for their
lives and then, because of this join
der, Judge Gary multiplied the
state s challenge by eight, making
100 challenges, while plain statute
says it shall have but 20. Thus by
the ruling of the trial judge, a stat
ute vital to the accused is enlarged
from 20 to 100 against them.
Now, in the trial of the kidnap-
ped Federation officers at Boise,
Idaho, the accused were held for
more than two years in dungeons,
while, Roosevelt, (Morgan) sent
Secretary Taft to Idaho to campaign
in state election, electing legis-
lature that doubled the challenges of
the state against them when they
were then put upon trial.
Now the Los Angeles case: The
temper Of the people won't stand,
in this trial, the Judge Gary plan.
Neither will they await an election
and new legislative enactments
against them before trial. In Cali
Pornia each side has II peremptory
Judge Bordwell is not to
challenges against the ac-
,used as at Chicago and there will
be no doubling them by Legislative
action. However, Judge Bordwell /
has plainly disclosed the prosecu-
ions purpose in the men he holds
IN the jury. When talesmen under
oath say that they are opposed to
abor unions, that they fully believe
hat dynamite destroyed the Times
and that they believe the
IcNamaras guilty and will so be-
ieve until the accused prove their
are held on the jury, it
Oudly speaks and disclosese a pur-
'ose. No accused could safely go to
rial before such jurors. 1t would
'e certain doom and death to them.
Then the purpose: To rob the ac-
used of their challenges by cOmpell- !,
ng them to waste them upon such no.
unfit jurors that the prose-
ution may render the accused alb
Olutely helpless while the prosecu-
ion packs the jury to murder them.
larking words: The Trust conspi-
acy is to rob the accused of their
eremptOry challenges and, by court :
llings, repeal and abrOgate the guar
nteed right of the accused to
oice in the selection of men to pass a
pom their guilt or innocence. Gen.
It's sOn-in-law, by interest and by
,lation connected with the prosecu-
on, and though he be under sub
Oena to testify for the prosecution "
nd against these accused, is good, :
Ire material to rob these accused of "
lie of their twelve challenges. Mr.. n
ditor, don't overlook the purpose W