The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-16
GLASS DARROW
 NATURAL BRIBER
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FEEDER IckS SCORES CHICAGO ATToR.
 NEY IN HIS PLEA.
Says by His Teachings He lncted Class Hatred and Dispar-
 aged Integrity.

word portraits of Clarence S. Darrow, wholly different. were held before the jury in the Darrow bribery trial to- day The first. by Darrow himself at the close of remarkable plea in his own behalf painted him as the lifelong friend of the poor and op- pressed, ready to sacrifice himself to better their condition. The other, drawn at the beginning of the final argument by District Attorney John D. Fredericks, presented Darrow as an enemy of society, "inciting class hatred and shedding maudlin tears of sympathy for murderers and dyna- miters.
 The prosecutor will continue all ot tomorrow in concluding. Hundreds thronged the court room at the after noon session to hear Captain Fred ericks make the closing argument for the prosecution in the trial which began it's fourth month today He said he would not attempt to compete in oratory with Darrow, whose per. suasive eloquence and pathetic pleas had caused jury, court officials and spectators to weep.
 "You have listened" said Freder- icks, ito one of the most marvellous addresses or orations ever delivered in any court room when you heard MT Darrow. But that only reflects upon the ability of the man and has mighty little to do with his guilt or innocence. His story teaches us that the most brainy men have gone wrong. His insidious hand entered into brfb- cry from the very beginning of the Me Namara case; bribery is in his very nature. He had the idea that there was no integrity that could not be bought"
 Fredericks declared no one but Darrow could have provided the bribe money Scouting the theory that the Times dynamiters did not intend to do murder, he quoted from state ment said to have been made by J. B.. McNamara in which he was reported to have expressed regret that he did not kill Harry Chandler, the general manager of the Times.
 Referring to John R. Harrington, the prosecutor sad the actions of Darrow's former employe might not have been ethical but they savored of honesty.
 "I believe Harrington's duty to the state,' he said ito have been fully as great as the concealment of the criminal acts of his friends" Fred ericks confined himself principally to the evidence, many extracts of which he read to the jury.
 The MsNamara case figured strong ly in tn closing argument of Darrow.
 q know" he said, 'I could have tried that case and a large. number of people of America would have hon estly believed if these men had been hanged that they were guiltless. And could have saved myself had l done 1t and I could have made money. know if you had hanged those men and ether men you would not have changed the opinion of hardly man in America, except to settle in the hearts of d great mass of men a ha tired so deep, so profound, that It would never die away
 80 it would have ended and what could have been the result. Men would have taken their lives in their hands to avenge wrong to thelf class. And, l took the responsibil. ity, gentlemen. Maybe l did wrong. took it and the matter was disposed of and the question set at rest Here and there I got praise for what was called a heroic act, although l did not deserve the praise. l followed the law of my beng-that is all. But where I got one word of praise, l got thousand words of blame and stood under that for a year.
 This trial has helped to clear 1t up. It will be cleared up; if not in time for me to profit by it, in time for my descendants to know 1t. Some time we will know the truth, but l have gone on my way as q always have gone, regardless of this, with out explanations. without begging, without asking anything of anyone, and l will go on that way to the end.
 II know the crowds and, in way, I love them; in a way l despise them. I know the unreasoning, aching mass. l have been their idol and l have gone down into the depths of the valley and heard them hiss at my name, but | have summoned some devotion and such courage as God has given me, and | have gone on my path.