The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-15
DARROW MAKES
 ELOQUENT PLEA
FORMER COUNSEL OF M'NAMARA BROTHERS ADDRESSES JURY
 IN HIS OWN DEFENSE.
Says He Is Prosecuted Because He Is the Friend of the Weak and
 the Poor.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 14.-Clar- enee $. Darrow, regarded as one of the foremost champ.vns of organized labor and defender in the courts of it's leaders and principles, toda, pleaded his own case in his trial for alleged jury bribing.
 At the outset he informed the iur- ors he would not appeal to their sympathies and there was no note of supplieatlon in his opening remarks. Instead, he denounced those who had. he said, plotted to destroy him.
 Assistant District Attorney w. l. Ford, who sat near him, was made the object of many invectives; Dis trlct Attorney Fredericks and De- tectiye w. J. Burns were termed the tools or the steel trust; the National Efectors Association, designated as the arch conspirator against him be- cause of his labors for the working man, was bitterly assailed as an en- emy of society.
 Collectively all were called "as cruel band of cut throats as ever pursued man since world was bornr
 The spectacle of the accused attor- ney pleading for himself attracted hundreds to the court room. There was rush when the doors opened and men and women were roughly handled
 Darrow declared he was not being prosecuted for bribery, but because he had led in the battle for organized labor.
 T have committed one crime" he said, which is like the crime against the Holy Ghost. which cannot be for given. l have stood for the weak and the poor. I have stood for the men who toll"
 The enemies of labor, he charged, had long sought to get him out of the | way.
 'I have stood against them" he said. Now is their chance They woulds stop my voice which from the time l was babe my father and mother taught me never to raise ex- ] cept for justice and freedom and in the cause of the weak and the poor. They would stop it with the peniten- tiary.
 "Oh, you wild insane members of the steel trust and Erectors' Associa- | ton. Oh, you mad hounds of detec- tives who are willing to do your mas | ters' will. Oh, you district attorneys. You know not what you do Let me say that if you can succeed in plac- ing me behind prison walls there will breed a silence more omnibus and eloquent than any word that my poor lips could even frame"
 Enumerating all to whom immuni- ty had been extended in the effort to convict him, MT. Darrow asked why it was his associates in the McNa- mara case had not been prosecuted. The answer, he saI. was because Davis lived in Los Angeles, and it was not the intention of the authori- ties to prosecute any one in this city.
 Bert H. Franklin and John M. Har- rington, former employees of Darrow and the states chief witness against him, Darrow declared, committed perjury to gain freedom for them selves. Evidence of other alleged of lenses, he said, was introduced to poison the minds of the jury against him. He defended his acts as chief counsel for the McNamaras and de- clared he had violated no law in pre- pairing that case.
 Referring to Attorney Fords de- nunciation of him as being morally responsible for the Times explosion, Darrow again excoriated the prosecu- tor.
 Darrow will conclude his argument