Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-26
JUDGE dayton RAMPANT IN
RULINGS AGAINST UN|ON|STS

Pates was on the stand under cross
examination five and half hours.
Frank Ledvinka was cross examined
for five hours. Sixteen witnesses, in
all were heard: All were subject to
the. merciless gruelling OF john A.
Howard, who is associated with the
coal company's prosecution. Not one
defendant was allowed an interpreter,
and the one sided BATH went on in
CHASTITY farce, on the one side a mine
worker, perhaps foreigner who could
understand but the u asst scraps Of
English, uneducated, d deliver in the
bowels OF the earth-a1ld on the other
John. A. Howard, keen witted, educa-
ted, experienced, merciless. And
Judge Dayton permitted this, and did
not allow an interpreter to the for
eigners, although he would have been
more at sea than they were If he was
In their position before a foreign
court.
Mention Majority.
Half a hundred times the Majority
and its editor was mentioned and
Howard wanted its editorials placed
in the record, but Judge Dayton, in
childish discrimination, said he would
not dignity the Majority by that atten.
ton. But he continued to dignity the
alleged utterances of poor foreigners
who could not understand the English
of his own decisions, and barked and
snarled at them for all the world like
a dog whose bone was being taken
away.
Searched ,LedNinta.
Two incidents show the depth to
which the court allowed the prosecu-
ton to descend in an abortive effort
to attack the characters Of the defend
ants: One was the searching Of Frank
uedvinka. In the court room the I'm
tied States Marshall approached the
Labor organizer and said:
I'VE have been informed that you
are carrying a concealed weapon and
we are ordered by the court to search
you"
go ahead" said Frank; OF course,
found no weapon.
'fNow," said Frank to the represent
tatives of the majesty Of the law: 1--WE
are convinced that there are men in
this court room who have not only
one but two concealed weapons in
their posession-these Baldwin thugs"
and he pointed them out, land we de-
sire you to search them"
BUT THEY WOULD NOT SEARCH
THEM. i.
Howard Attacks Fannie Selllns.
Another instance permitted by the
court was Howard's attempt to attack
the character OF Fannie Sellins by &C
cusing her of having eaten dinner in
the Antler, at Wheeling! The insin-
cerity and hypocrisy of this charge is
shown by THE fact that Howard is
himself a patron Of the. place, and
that it also numbers among its Glen
tele the name Of the great Judge A.
G. Dayton himself! And yet Judge
Dayton allowed this question to be
asked Miss Sellins, knowing that
among people who did moi. know that
the place was a dining room, patron
izedd by even himself, their predpdic-
es might be aroused by Howard s
charge that it was a wine room. u
and disrepuRable.
Ewald informs Howard.
Constantly throuhout the case the
court permitted Howard to draw com.
PARSONS Of his own wages in Europe
and America and tauntingly ask the
strikers "why they did not go back
to the old country. The idea seemed
to be that II they were dissatisfied
they should have gone back to the
old country instead of joining . un
ion. Nobody asked Howard why he
did not go to Ireland instead Of join