Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-19
r FORD CASE SHO WS MI
 SIGN IF END
Atty's Lead Plaintiff Through M age of Varied Questions.
FOrd'S Attorneys Characterize Defense Questions HInhuman And Brutal"

1 MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, July 1S.- Although Henry Ford today completed a week on the witness stand in his libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune Elliott c. Stevenson. for the defendant who began questioning him last Monday showed no signs of reaching a conclu- | sion.
 The questioning of the witness on the contents of the alleged libelous editorial in the Tribune on June 23. 1916, headed Ford Is an Anarchist" was the import ant feature of the day. Alfred Lucking. senior counsel for the plaintiff character ized the examination as 'brutaT' and the | witness. pressed to admit the editorial charge of being an ignorant idealist'' and reminded that on previous occasions he had admitted it. remarked: You are a good enough attorney to get me to say this or that but 1t would not be in my mind"
 Haven't I tried to be fair with you, Mir. Ford?"
 absolutely" "No. sir"
  charge of brutality, adding:
 You take modest witness, Mir. Stew enson, and try to pound him into saying that he is an ignorant idealist. It seems to me that this should be left to argu- ment"
 Have I been pounding you. Mir. Ford?" asked Mir. Stevenson; MT. Lucking is talking through his hat, isn't he?"
 fa1kiDP fbaf1Oh xyo,, raox. % was the way the stenographer caught the reply of MT. Ford. who speaks in so low and muffled a tone that his own law yers rarely hear him. In tsking up the editorial. Mir Steven son said:
 What is the office of the headline Of an editorial. Mr. Ford?"
 T don't know what you have reference to?"
 Mir. Stevenson explained a headline suggests what is in the body of the ar ticle under 1t. and reminded the witness that in previous testimony he had de- fined an anarchist as bomb thrower or one who seeks to overturn government. What was said In the editorial about bomb throwing. MT. Ford?"
 Nothing that know of. only in the headline"
 The lawyers then began reading the editorial.
 Mir. Stevenson had asked Mir. Ford to stop him if he came to anything about bomb throwing or overturning the gov ernment and after reading about 75 words reminded the witness that he had not been stopped
 You have read the headline, Mir. Ste Venson?"
 ''Yes, MT. Ford"
 "Well. you can stop right there"
 ''The headline. Mir. Ford. you said was to indicate what was in the articlye. I am reading the article so you can com pare 1t with the headline. You don't find anything about bomb throwing or overturning the government?"
 "Only in the headline
 The lawyer continued to read the edi- torial. making after each paragraph the negative reply.
 MT. Ford said to MT. Stevenson:
 T will give you a little explanation of the way I felt. I. myself, very seldom read anything else except the headlines Of any article. that is one of the ob- jects of this case. to try and have peo-
  hind their headlines"
 MT. Stevenson made another attempt to get the witness to confess that he was an ignorant man. as the lawyer said wss shown by his inability to answer questions concerning cardinal points of American history. the army and navy and similar matters. Mir. Ford turned to the judge:
 Q n T know anything about government"
 The court remained silent and Mir. Ste venson continued:
 ''I have asked you a number of ques- tions. and I do not want to press you as to whether you are 6 well informed man. competent to educate the public. or an ignorant man. who ought not to under take to educate the people. but in view of what you have said. you would not question that ignorant is a proper characterization of your"
 Mir. Lucking jumped to his feet and said:
 That is objected to as brutal and in- human"
 MT. Ford ignored this and remarked:
 "As I said. Mfr. Stevenson. I am ig- norant of most things."
 In one comment on the editorial Mir. Ford said he considered the whole ar ticle as bad. When Mir. Stevenson read the statement that He takes the men who stand between him and serv- Ice. and punishes them for the service which protects him." Mir. Ford said that it was not true.
 Do you claim that you did not dis charge men from military service?"
 Yes. sIr.'
 But you boasted that as a result of your anti-preparedness efforts only ten of your 10000 employees attended militia encampment?"