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Show THREAT AGAINST THE LIFE OFjfSIffT District Attorney Charges Conspiracy Upon Part of San Francisco Anarchists. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18. That President. Wilson's life was. threatened by an anarchistic organization known as the li Blasters; of which Thomas J. Mooney, ou trial hero for murder, was a leader, will be shown hy evidence to be presented in Moeney "s trial. Assistant District Attorney vKavard A. Cunha declared de-clared today in Superior court in his opening address id the jury. 'I will prove. ' said " Mr. Cunha, " that three menf plotted revolution against the government. I will prove tnat they said in an edition of the Blast, "The weathercock in the White house had better watch out. Suppression of the voice of . discontent leads to assassins assas-sins tiou. ' ' ' Beginning his address in court, Cunha outlined the history of the bomb explosion explo-sion here last July, in which ten persons per-sons lost their lives and in which it is charged Mooney had a part. "1 will show a motive for Mooney 's participation in this crime and that he advised and encouraged it," said Cunha. Cun-ha. ' T will prove that prior to January, 1 Ft 16, Mooney, Alexander Berkman, Miss M. E. Fitzgerald and others entered into a conspiracy to bring about an uprising up-rising against property owners, the confiscation con-fiscation of private property and the destruction of government and that they called themselves ' the Blasters ' and publicly announced in the Blast the objects ob-jects of their conspiracy. T will connect Mooney with this conspiracy by letters in his own writing and by articles he wrote in the Blast. I will show that they planned to create a prejudice against and to betray the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. I will show that .before .be-fore the parade Mooney declared 'Preparedness 'Pre-paredness must be thrown back into the teeth of its advocates.' Mooney declared de-clared that it' the government had a large army their revolution would be nipped in the bud. ' ' Cunha said that Mooney and the other conspirators in their campaigu against preparedness declared that the first one of them to be approached by a recruiting officer would shoot him down. The Blast, an anarchistic, publication, is printed in San Francisco. Berkman, its editor, at last accounts, was in New York City raising funds to aid in Mooney 's defense. Miss Fitzgerald is assistant editor. The office of the Blast was raided recently by the district dis-trict attorney. In anoth?!-' paragraph of the same edition edi-tion of the Blast. Cunha charged Mooney and Berkman with joint authorship author-ship of the followine: "There is too mueh of this mushy talk. especially among- radicals. Not greater love, but greater hate we need. A strong, ! rtxl-hloodil hatred of every tiling that I niakfs for injustice and oppression. ! Hatred of every factor, social and human, 1 t hat upholds aud pei-petim tes the love of slavery and chains. All government is cowardly. It possesses only the - courage of the bully to oppress the weak. I f you realize your st rength and have the cmtrnge to manifest it, the government govern-ment bully will slink away." I The first witness c;itlrd by (he prose-i prose-i ciition. Dr. YV. P. Stafford, autopsy sur-; sur-; seen for the coroner who examined the hodies of the vi.-tims after the explosion, ' declared under cruss-exnmination by At-; At-; tnrney YV. Bourke Co- k ran. leading Moonoy's defense, that "in his opinion I the hnmh could not have exploded from j the sidewalk because many of the, vic- urns received wounds in the head." , He declared Inter that he did not mean exactly what ho said and he asked fun-; fun-; ha to be allowed io tke the stand" to-; to-; morrow and clear up his statement. The i pi-o.-ecntinn contends that the bom'h was j contained in a. suitcase and that Fillings 'and Mooney let-t it on the sidewalk. Cuniia. in his address to the iurv, sni-l I the r ra graphs in the Blast on " vhi--h he based his charges of conspiracy I against the president were :is follows: j ""The :dera! government ha? o-Tp-i press.-d The A'n rm of Ohu-a co and The Kevok of New York. We are not. Eoing to say tlnit it is an outrage. Win- should Ithe government not commit outiases? n-asion n-asion of person si liberty, supnivssinn of free speech and free pres. silencing , of non com for mists ;nid Protestants, j shooting down rebellious workers all of this is the very essn-'e of govern nen t . j We d'n"I complain- We 'mdrstand I Wilson's position. lb- nmst do ins nias-I nias-I i.-r'.s bidding. This is the -sane pohc.' i.-it u wan! to warn the weather cm k m ill-- While House that it may uol or.no s.ij Suppression of i:f voice of discmi-i,.,:t discmi-i,.,:t ,-..df-- io as- agination. Vide (i': ia." |