Show DENVER STORY UP Governor Gooding of Idaho Did Not Issue a Pro Proclamation to the Labor Unions Ida liI or of what purported to be a proc proa proclamation addressed by R H Gooding To the labor Jabor unIons of the United States in relation to the pros prosecution prosecution of Moyer Haywood and PeW Petti Pettibone bone was denied today by Governor Gooding In an Interview tOday GO Gov Governor Gooding said uIn In an interview with a newspaper writer yesterday I suggested that if the labor organizations In place of passing inflammatory resolutions in which the prosecution is denounced and a vote of confidence In the innocence of the men menis menis is adopted would endeavor to Investigate investigate gate the charges against these men and suspend action until that time a better understanding would prevail and a bet better better ter feeling exist I said that if proper committees were appointed to make these investigations and the men were wen acting In good faith I should favor their being given every opportunity to satisfy themselves as to whether or not the state was justified in holding these men accountable for the crime commit committed ted even to the extent of letting them meet Orchard J H Hawe Hawley chief counsel for the prosecution states that under no con consideration consideration will anyone any one be shown the I or any other testimony Goodings Statement I Governor Gooding has made the fol following following lowing statement respecting the allega allegation allegation tion he had offered to permit a delegation delegation tion to see Harry Orchard and hear him tell his story U My Iy attention has been called to a In a Denver paper sent ent out by bya a reporter of a newspaper syndiCate stating that I had issued a proclamation tion addressed to the labor unions of the United States requesting them to send delegations to this city and that I would be leased to allow those dele delegations delegations to meet Harry Orchard person personally ally aIly and have him tell his story as he told It to Detective I am quoted as sa saying You can remember that I shall have the power as governor to hear your grievances and to prevent any miscarriage of justice Said No Such Thing r I have Issued no pro proclamation l mation and no such statement was ever made b by me inc What I did say was that I 1 regret regretted regretted ted very much that some seine of the labor unions had decided to pass such radi al resolutions cODies of which have been sent me I stated to the correspondent as I have to many others that In iii my opinion the labor organizations of the country were vitally interested In thIs tbs Idaho guaranteed to the accused men as well as to aU all others charged with crime a fair trial an and that if they would appoint a committee to come here and investigate they would fin find d as high a standard Of citi citizenship here as In any other ulace in inthe Inthe the United an attempt on the part of anyone any one to prevent a fair trial would he be met by Indignant and effective opposition on the part of the state government and of th the people at large I 1 stated th t if a committee of Ja Ia boring men was sent here to meet tile the state authorities and they came in a spirit of fairness and of honesty seek seekIng seeking Ing only the truth that I wo would ld go so 0 far as to arrange for them to meet Orchard and Adams In l my lY presence arid and In the presence of their attorneys and let them hear from Orchard and Adams own Ups lips that they had made a confessIon Implicating Moyer Hay Haywood Haywood wood Pettibone Simpkins and St S1 John in a number of murders and that n nO promise of reward or of clemency had been made them by anyone any one I wish to state now very ery positively that the story of these confessions will never flever be told until it is repeated b bOrchard bOrchard Orchard and Adams in the trial of these I cases Signed F R B GOODING J |