The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
COLORADO VS.. THE
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

COLORADO VS.. THE
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
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hibition campaign by the one hundred
and fifty people, among others, turned
out from the Office of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company, and a new
judicial district was created, and this
supposedly representative of the peo-
pie, Governor Carlson, selected, out Of
the splendid bar of Colorado, man
who had occupied petty local posi-
ton upon the staff of the lawyers that
were prosecuting these unfortunate
men, growing out of this strike, one
CRANKY Hillyer. He proceeded to try
the men, in similar cases to which
he had acted as attorney for the Fuel
Company, in the early days, particu-
larly in the application for the change
of venue. Now the proof is undisputa-
BILE that the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company hired lawyers, that they con-
trolled courts, that they controlled ad-
ministrative officials such as JEFF
Forr, but want to say, that the limit
of shame was reached in the Lawson
case, because in that case they hired
and paid for the witnesses upon
whose testimony, mainly, John R..
Lawson was convicted.
Witnesses and Prosecution.
| The chief witnesses in the attempt
to connect John R. Lawson with the
crime of murder of the deceased Mr..
Nimmo were two men who, upon cross
examination, were compelled by that
splendid champion of the Colorado
workers, Horace N. Hawkins, who is
defending these men, to confess that
at the time of the alleged occurrence
they were pretending to be with the
United Mine Workers of America, but
as matter of fact, they were spies,
hired by the Baldwin-Feltz Detective
Agency, and paid by the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company and other iron COM
panies. At the very time these cases
were being prepared and were testi-
flying, they were upon the per diem
of the detective agency and were b.
ing paid for by the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company and the other COM
panies.
Mr.. N0rthcutt, of whom I have
spoken, after telling how these COM
panies dominated the entire state of
Colorado, as is the case many times,
I blush to say, among the members of
my profession, was hired by the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company, which he
had denounced, and upon the witness
stand, before us, in, in shamefaced
way said, eyes, that was the situation
in 1912, but / went to work for them
in 1913, and they don't act that way
any more" This same man, North
cult, as attorney, represented the
state, or misrepresented, rather, in the
case of Mr.. Zancanelli. He testified
before the Congressional Committee
that it was SANDER to say that the
sheriff went out and picked up jurors
/ off the street; that he never did so;
that it could not be done without the
consent of the defendant and likewise
the state; that they had been drawn
from box and selected from all the
voters of the precinct. With the
memory of that fresh, he himself sue
cessfully insisted that the court
should send the sheriff out upon the
street to pick up the jury that was to
try Zancanelli. From that jury which
convicted Zancanelli (his first trial
resulting in mis-trial and the hand
picked jury afterwards convicting and
sentencing him for life) came sixty
six men that went on the panel which
afterwards tried the case of John R.
Lawson, and which he had to accept
as jurors or exhaust a peremptory
challenge in getting rid of.
| Conclusion.
Now, my friends, concerning the
trial of John R. Lawson-I don't speak
to you as public official; l don't
speak to you as a lawyer; I speak to
you as an American citizen and say
that in the trial of John R. Lawson
the honor and the integrity of the ju-
dietary of the United States is alb
solutely on trial. And whether that
portion of our system goes forward in
honor or must be compelled to should.
er an unreasonable disgrace, de-
ponds upon what becomes of John R,
Lawson.
FRANK p. WALSH.
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