The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-19
JURY GIVES FORD
SUM OF SIX CENTS
Friends of Manufacturer Consider
Verdict Satisfactory, Says At
torney Alfred J. Murphy.

Mout Clemens, Mich, Aug. IA
A jury tonight awarded Henry Ford
6 cents damages against the Chicago
Tribune for calling him an anarch-
sit.
Orvy Hulett, foreman of the jury
said that they took ''nine ballots that
can remember" the first one, ac-
cording to Leonard Measel, another
juror, standing eight to four in favor
of warding Mr. Ford some damages.
Attorney Alfred J. Murphy for
Mr.. Ford said:
s'The important issue is this case
has been determined favorably to
the plaintiff. He has been vindl-
Gated.
money damages were entirely
subordinate and were not sought by
Mr.. Ford. He stands not only vindi-
Gated, but his attitude as an Amer
lean citizen has been justified after
a trial which raised ever issue
against him which ingenuity and re-
search could present. His friends
are entirely satisfied"
Weymouth Kirkland of counsel for
the Tribune, said:
eve consider it victory for the
reason that Attorney Alfred Luck
ing, in closing for Mr.. Ford, stated
that anything less than substantial
damages would be defeat for his
client
The jury was out ten hours.
Offending Editorial.
It was on June %, 1916, after
Mexican bandits had raided Coium-
bus, N. NJ, and military prepared
ness 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 Anarchist"
Editorial writer's of the Tribune
testified that they had followed Mr..
Ford's pacifistic propaganda, but
had not recognized it as a real dam
ger to the country until a news item
was received from Detroit that Mr..
Ford was trying to discourage the
recruiting of the guard which had
been ordered to the Rio Grande. The
item, authenticity of which was de-
MED 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.
It was then that the editorial was
written. 1t called Mr.. Ford an zig
norant idealist" and remarked that
his views on disarmament might be
different if his factories were on the
Rio Grande instead of the peaceful
Canadian border.
Counsel for the manufacturer at
first filed suit in the federal court at
Chicago, but later withdrew it and
instituted proceedings in the State
court at Detroit. Here the Tribune
appealed for a change of venue and
Judge James G. Tucker of the cir
cult court of Macomb county at Mt.
Clemens, was agreed upon to hear
the case. Selection of jury began
May IL. 1t consisted of eleven farm
ers and one road builder.
A 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 condition of an
archy along the border.
Professor Reeves of the University
of Michigan, appearing as an expert,
testified that many of the Ford ut
terances corresponded with the
teachings of well recognized anarch-
lists. He gave definitions of the
word "anarchist" which contained no
reference to bomb throwing, but
which denoted one who works to
overturn the government.
Counsel for the defendant argued
that government exists only so far
as it can enforce it's DEGREES and
protect the lives and property OF its
citizens, that without force there can
be no government and that where
there is no government there is an
archy.
Therefore, they sought to estab-
Iish that in opposing the recruiting
of soldiers, Mr.. Ford opposed gov
ernment itself and, by the same