The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
CONFESSION
BY NJ NhMARAS
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Continued from page L.,
"Of course / know nothing of the
immediate cause or incidents leading
up to the confession. ! have not yet
recovered from the shock Of the
news Of their confession. 1t would be
impossible for me to give detailed
statement now. When / get back to
Washington, possibly Tuesday, will
go over my papers there and make a
lengthy statement
Gompers said that the telegram At
torney barrow sent him at Atlanta
urging him to send representative
OF the American Federation of Labor
TO Los Angeles, did not intimate why
Darrow wished him to do so.
There was nothing strange about
his request and thought nothing
more Of it," said Gompers. ED Mock
els, secretary of the Chicago Fedora
ton OF Labor, was one of several men
barrow suggested send. Not at that
time or at any time since, did /
dream of what might happen.
This idea that the confession was
brought about by the working out of
the Golden Rule'-well, the McNa-
maras are guilty. Confession is a
matter for each guilty person accused
OF crime to settle for himself
Would Have Kent SiIent
Had you known of their guilt,
would you have urged them to con-
fess?' Gompers was asked.
No. he Numbered.
Has their confession and the fact
that Attorney barrow urged them to
confess, shaken your confidence in
Darrow?'
Gompers looked into the eyes of
two other labor men seated with him
before answering. Then he said
I'D hate like - to lose my conf
dence in Clarence barrow IL don't
want anything to happen to make me
lose faith in him.
Gompers said the Mcnamara case
would be discussed by the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor at its next meeting in Washing
ton, January 8.
But what can the executive coun-
Gil do?" said Gompers. "The McNa,
maras have confessed They're no
longer of us. There's nothing we can
| do
| Printers Scheme.
| HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 2.-Walter
Maui, formerly of the Houston Chron-
icle composing room, leader in the
typographical union. and a Mcnamara
fund contributor, suggests that the
uneXpended balance of the fund be
distributed among the widows or
orphans resulting from the Times
building explosion.
An Interview With jim,
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2.-Late this
afternoon reporter succeeded in Sc
curing an interview with Jas. B. Nc
Namara with the aid of one of his
jailers. Mcnamara is quoted as in
defiant terms, answering the com
ments by labormen upon his confes-
sion of guilt. He is reported to have
said
Let them call me yellow. Let them
say was an impostor. I fought in a
cause that Gompers and every man
who contributed cent to my defense
was interested. I made my fight for
life and when saw had chance to
save my life, took it. l suppose
would not have been yellow If I had
gone to the gallows.
II did nothing unfair to Gompers. |
suppose he wanted me to tell him that
was guilty, when l thought | had a
chance to get away with my life and
my liberty. | wasn't telling my
secrets to anybody. l was glad to get
their money for my defense. I had a
right to get it. For | staked my life
in a fight that was the fight of every
one of them. / helped the cause in
my own way. Let them repudiate me.
did as much as anyone in the fight
for union labor. But the end came.
took the long chance in the open, but
when it comes to putting a rope
around a mans neck, felt that had
a right to look out for myself, no mat
ter what fix left them all in | know
they are sore, but | did my hest and
I made my fight. That's all I've got
to say"
Earnor TaIkc