The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-08-20
JURY GIVES FORD
SUM or SIX CENTS
Chicago Tribune Loses Big Damage
Suit. Word Anarchist Used.

chicago Tribune Loses Big Damage
Suit. Word Anarchist Used.
Mount Clemens, Mich, Aug. I1.--A
jury tonight awarded Henry Ford 6
cents damages against The Chicago
Tribune for calling him an anarch-
ist
Orvy Hulclt, foreman Of the jury,
said that they took nine ballots that
III can remember" the first one. ac-
cording to Leonard ,sAIcasel, another
juror, standing eight to four in favor
Of awarding Mr.. Ford some damages.
Attorney. Alfred j. Murphy for Mr..
Ford said:
THE important issue in this case
has been determined favorably to the
es would be a defeat for his client"
Money damages were entirely sub
ordinate and were not sought by Mr..
Ford. He stands not only vindicated,
but this altitude as an American
citizen has been justified after trial
which raised every issue against him
which ingenuity and research could
present. His friends are entirely sat
isfied."
Weymouth Kirkland OF counsel for
the Tribune, said:
"We consider it a victory for the
reason that Attorney Alfred I.ucking,
in closing for Mr.. Ford, stated that
anything less than substantial damag-
cs would be a defeat for his client"
The jury was out ten hours.
1t was on June %, 1916, after Mexi-
can bandits had raised Columbus, n.
NJ, and military preparedness was a
burning issue, not only because of the
Mexican menace but because Of the
conflagration in Europe, that The
Chicago Tribune printed it's famous
editorial headed Ford is an Anarch-
ist."
Editorial writer's Of the Tribune
testified that they had followed Mr..
Ford's pacifistic propaganda, but had
not recognized it as a real danger to
the country until a news item was
received from Detroit that Mr.. Ford
was trying to discourage the recruit
ing OF the guard which had been or
dcrcd to the Rio Grandc. The item,
authenticity Of which was denied by
Ford witnesses. stated that the Ford
Company would not pay the salaries
Of employees who went to the border,
hold their places for them nor care
for their dependents.
1t was then that the editorial was
ant idcalist" and remarked that his
views on disarmament might be diff
fCrCnt if his factories were on the Rio
Grandc instead Of the peaceful can
adiah border.
Counsel for the manufacturer at
first filed suit in tho federal court at
Chicago, but later withdrew it and in
stitutcd proceedings in the State court
at Detroit. Here the Tribune applied
for change Of venue and Judge
James G.. Tucker OF the circuit court
VI .lt'oillb NSphlllS at VI. NyltilltliS, " do
agreed upon to hear the case Sclcc-
ton OF jury began May -. 1t con
sisted Of eleven farmers and one road
builder
\ feature Of the case was the pro
ductiOn by the defendant Of more than
20 Witnesses from the Mexican border
to testify to raids, murders and other
acts which, to the mind Of The Tribune
counsel, established the fact that
there was a condition Of anarchy along
the border.
Counsel for the defendant argued
that government exists only so far as
ii can enforce its dccrccs and protect
the lives and property Of its citizens,
that without force there can be no
government and that whore there is
no government there is anarchy.
Therefore, they sought to establish
that in opposing the recruiting Of SOL
dicrs, Mr.. Ford opposed government
itself and, by the same token, sought
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