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Show EDITOR OF MASSES DENIES CONSPIRACY NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Arguments in the case of Max Kaptman and his associates in The publication of Ths Masses, on trial in' federal court hero on charpes of conspiracy con-spiracy to hamper the war preparations of the nation, were completed this afternoon. after-noon. Eastman, who had testified at length In his own behalf, surprised the court by a request to be allowed to plead his own case. The request was granted and Eastman spoke for nearly an hour vigorously vig-orously denying an intention on the part of himself and his associates to Interfere with tils government's prosecution of the war and denying that he was an anarchist. He clased his address with the request to the jurors that they consider "the antiwar anti-war sentiments expressed in The Masses as having- been written "before a single soldier had put foot in the trenches and before a single sailor had cone aboard a battleship," and that th.-v exercise "judicial restraint" when the "overn ' menfs attorneys "attack us as Bolshevik!, Bolshe-vik!, anarchists and pacifists." |