Arizona republican., 1912-08-15
All the Hate Engendered by Weeks of Assault Upon Him Broke Forth in His Argument in His Own Be half
NOBODY SPARED
 OF THE PROSECUTION
He Himself He Held Up as a Martyr to the Cause of Labor and Humanity and the Champion of the Op- pressed
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LOS ANGELES, Aug 14.-Clarence S Darrow, regarded for years as the foremost champion of organized labor and the defender in the courts ! of it's leaders and principles, pleaded l today for his own liberty, reputa- tiCn and possibly his life. in the trial for alleged jury bribery. It was the most dramatic moment
 Of the long court trial, replete with | thrilling incidents, when Darrow faced 1 the jury this afternoon at the con- l clusion of Attorney Rogers argu- ment, to make his final plea in his l own behalf There was no note Of i supplication in his opening remarks | in fact he informed the jurors that l he would not appeal to their sym pathies. against which they had been l warned by the district attorney-but 1 rather his first cry was that of one harassed, trapped and turning upon l his tormenters.
 Weeks of enforced repression were shaken aside as the Chicago lawyer i poured his torrent of wrath and de-
 nunciation upon those who he de- l clared had plotted against him. From i the arraignment of his enemies, Dar- row went briefly into his career as the friend of the working classes. | thence into an analysis of the evil | Gence produced against him to prove l the charge that he had bribed George l N. Lockwood, a prospective juror in 1 the McNamara case.
 i Throughout the three hours con- l sumed by him today he touched upon every phase of the case and ran the | whole gamut of emotions in his dra-
 rnatic plea. No man or organization
 involved in his prosecution was inn
 mune from his denunciation.
 Ford who sat within his reach made 1 objection to the repeated floods of in- | Vective
 l They would stop my voice which from the time I bade my father and
 mother goodbye I have never raised except for justice and freedom, and | in the cause of the weak and poor. l They would stop it with the peniten- tiary. Oh, you wild, insane members | Of the steel trust erectors' associa- 1 tion. Oh, you mad hounds of de- l tectives who are willing to do your 1 masters will. Oh, you district attor- neys, you know what you would do
 in placing me behind prison walls. | within the gray dim walls of San | Quentin. There will be a sentence
 more ominous and eloquent than any word my poor lips could ever frame. And do you think you could destroy the hopes of the poor and oppressed 1 if you did? Don't you know that from my persecution and destruction there would arise ten thousand men
 abler than I've been; willing to sac rifice more than I have sacrificed in the righteous cause and these meE l would carry this banner to the end?" Enumerating all to whom immunity
 had been extended in the effort to
 G nvict him. Darrow asked why it
 was that his associates in the Mc- Namara case have not been pros ecuted The answer, he said, was be- cause Davis lived in Los Angeles and it was not the intention of the authorities to prosecute any one of this city Franklin and Harrington, former employees of Darrow and the states chief witnesses against him
 were assailed with invective. Darrow said that they had perjured them
 selves on the stand in order to gain
 freedom for themselves. Evidence of
 ether alleged offenses, he said, had
 heen introduced.
 FrederickS and Burns were desig-
 mated as tools of the steel trust and
 the National Erectors association was designated by Darrow as an arch consprirator against him be |
 cause of his labor for the working nan He bitterly assailed it as an
 enemy of society Collectively all were denounced as cruel band of cut
 throats.
 The unique spectacle of the bril-.
 liant noted lawyer pleading for him.
 self attracted hundreds to the court-
 room During the noon recess the
 bailiffs were forced to ask for as
 sistance There was mad rush inta
 the room when the doors were open : ed Men and women alike were
 roughly handled by the officers in an effort to restore order
 Darrow declared that he was not being prosecuted for bribery but be- cause he had led in the battle of organized labor T have committed ere crime" he said. which is like the crime against the Holy Ghost. . which cannot be forgiven. I have l, stood for the weak and poor I have stood for the men who toll. There fore I have stood against them, and