The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

franchise. II was Gilman who de-
feated the action OF the franchise
hackers when they asked the council
To pass snap Judgment on IL in octob-
er. II was Gilman who fought the
franchise before the people"
! Mcnamara displayed a cartoon Is
shown the important part that Gin
nan took in the fight.
! sAnd they knew at that time that
Gilman was a candidate for mayor"
he continued
The very day after the franchise
had been voted on another cartoon
appeared IN paper 1.-THE cartoon was
displayed).
DO you mean TO say there was no
intensified feeling after the defeat Of
the franchise. The political fortunes
OF those who backed the franchise
was at low ebb when IL was defeated.
Politics makes strange bedfellows and
also brings about strange enmities.
Mr.. Green knew that Gilman was
strong factor In the franehiee fight I.
Here Mcnamara read letters TO
Gilman from Green In which Green
tells his friend" that he Is sorry that
the Alderman does not see the same
side OF the fight that he (Green) does
McNamara then read a letter TO
Gilman from Green after the fight in
which Green tells Gilman Aas he
does not think It's defeat good thing
for the people.
Now. what was Burns brought here
for! Tom Gilman was the only man
they wanted to get. Thompson work.
ed under cover Of Van Dyke. Green
told brennan that he would be q can.
didate for mayor az early as June.
Now he was q candidate for mayor
until when? Let US analyze his pa
triouc motives. But Just as soon as
he got telegram from his employers
that his salary would cease his pa,
trtotism oozed out Of the ends OF his
hngers As soon as Green Jumped
out. Thompson jumped in.
Now did they have In mind Tom
Gilman, whose political star was rails
ing at that time? Mr.. Burns was
brought here for the purpose OF get
ting $4,000 from Andrew Green for
debauching and eliminating Tom
Gilman.
What Thompson said to John Harp
fer the day after the arrests, when
he said to him: It's the big fellow
we want. and we've got him. indicates
the mayors attitude toward Gilman.
Thompson was not there In the
room on July &c. He had his repre-
sentatives there. but like Nero, who
added when Rome was burning,
Thompson supped that night In the
Pontchartraih with Smiley, q Burns
operative. while Gilman was eating
his heart out In the prosecutors Of
fice.
why was Thompson not brought
here? It's no answer to say that We
could have brought him here He
was one of the main men in this in
vestigation from start to finish In
the lower court Thompson was hos
tile witness. IL the prosecutor wanted
to be fair he could have placed Thomp-
son on the stand to give US q chance
TO examine him.
IF the local police department. here
under city pay, was not capable OF
making an Investigation. then Il was
Thompson's duty to lay. the matter
before the police commissioner and
the prosecuting attorney. Why was
this not done? Because Mr.. Croul aud
no member Of the police force would
sanction such methods as were used
In this case. There Is no civil oficer
In any city In America that they could
have gotten to do the dirty work
Burns undertook. That's why william
j. Burns was brought here.
Why didn't Burns report to the
mayor instead Of Van Dyke?
They nettled Burns by telling him
at the very start that he could not
get Glinnan-that the alderman was
too slick for him.
Now comes Brennan to start the
investigation and as time goes by he
does not find any graft. He doesn't
hitting any crimes. The thing drags
alons, Burns shadow men drawing
pay from Andy Green, are stepping on
themselves. Then Burns becomes Inn
patient and he comes to Detroit. The
investigation was stopped.
Mr.. Burns arranges with the Wa
bash to use the name of the railroad
for a cover The Burns men had
failed to find crime In Detroit and he
proposed to create II.
why gentlemen Of the jury, you
saw the stiffness of Burns on the
witness stand. You heard his tricky
answers-an old witness who had
been on the stand over 100 times.
"On July rs Burns was In Green's
home-the hostelry OF Burns people.
They held their meetings there. You
heard McGurn testify that II was part
Of his duty to shadow Green's house
while conferences were going on in
side.
And the prosecutor has attempted
to tell you that we have tried to de-
stroy Mr.. Burns, this wonderful man
who is so hated by crooks all over the
country. Il
"Frem Seattle to Atlanta the pa
pers have denounced Burns as a per-
petual menace to law and order.
, II charge William J. Burns with
being an assassin of character. Not
content to destroy the Preside and
family of poor Tom Gilman and ruin
him personally and politically forever,
he comes into this court with the reck-
less venom OF an adder TO poison the
character Of everyone who dares to
criticize his lawless methods. Great
which have criticized HIS
actions and charged him with being
a menace 70 law and order, are venal;
but no has never had the courage 10
sue one OF them for libel Heads OF