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Show THE GREAT CASE IN IDAHO. No case that ever occupied the attention at-tention of a local court was more widely watched and more studiously considered than the above. The pro-cecdings pro-cecdings against the Western Federation Federa-tion of Miners with Moycr, Haywood and Pettibonc as the personalities, outgrew its legal environments long ' fl before it came to trial, and the dc HJ vclopmcnts which the hearing makes HJ every day arc eagerly looked for and , HJ carefully considered throughout the l H world. The greater jury outside the j H court room, outside the State of Idaho ) H and even outside the United Statc3 111 will render a verdict perhaps ahead 1 H of those who hold wwithin their , fl hands the lives of one of the Individ- H uals named, and it is quite possible if 1 fl not likely that the verdicts will not H agree as to the general or any parti- fl cular issue. This kind of thing has ,' H often been the case and it goes to fl show the "circumscription and con- H fine" which hedge in the courts and ( fl their methods of induction and aualy- ' fl sis in a way not to be mistaken. Nor ', H is this a calamity or something to HJ be regretted. Wc all know what the fffl trial of a person, accused, with some flfl apparent reason, of a heinous crime, LH by a rabble or even a tolerably order- ft ly multitude, would be; wc have the 1 H first great exemplar as a victim of I such proceedings always before us ij fl with the shouts of "Crucify Him! Cm- 1 fl cify Iliml" Still echoing down the fl corridors of time. . The restrictions j, I and limitations of the law, adminis- jfl tcrcd by capable and judicious men, jfl arc among our best and most needful 1 I safe-guards. H As previously hinted at, the trend , H a't this writing is toward acquittal of H the accused, Haywood. That he Is 1 B not innocent seems to us so plain a H matter as to make discussion useless; . fl but that sufficient guilt has been or jfl will be shown to justify the jury in I jfl finding a verdict to that effect when jfl the penalty is death is another matter. 'fl Of course he did not directly partici- jfl pate in the brutal assassination of flj Governor Steuncnbcrg; it was never jfl thought that he did, or that he was flj anything more than an accomplice be- HJ fore the fact or principal in the first flj degree with the backing and approval (fl of his organization, which if true jfl would make him and all concerned H with him viler murderers than Orchard jfl if such a thing were possible. The 'fl establishment beyond a legal or rea- 'fl sonable doubt of a chain of circum- jfl stances directly connecting the con- jfl coctors of a crime with its consumma- flj tion, when all distances are measured 9 beforehand and ajl steps are covered fl as far as possible, Is one of the most fl difficult tasks with which prosecuting M officers have to do, especially when, fl as in the present case, the defense I w'lflVl 1, H fund is ;i tuple and t lie lawyers fpr the Hjj accused arc the strongest to be had B for money. So that, as things stand Hi wc look for a verdict on the part of H ; the triers of "not guilty," on the part H of half of the public of "guilty," and B f the other half making up a composite l finding running alt the way from in- H noccut with doubts to guilty with U J modifications. B 1 A significant fact in this connection- Hl is the subdued tone of the anarchist H) papers and their conductors. BV Previous and up to the earlier Hj stages of the trial they were nnnicas- B tired in their threats of vengeance Bdirc and deeds disastrous if the attempt at-tempt were ever made to execute the men on trial or either of them. While 1 t it is not wholly the case that the moil- Hh cy-bought advantages so far gained v in the hearing arc the cause of the Hw subsidence on the part of the Dcbscs 1 and the Waylauds of the country, it tfj is so to some extent; undoubtedly Bf the indifference shown to their ranting j and roaring is entitled to a full share H of the credit, and this is the most 1 gratifying thing of all. Mi The question is frequently asked as M to what will become of Orchard. It Hj is not easy to answer. Every state i has secrets which it may not divulge BM even after the time when the were HT of practical advantage has passed K The rc)re.sentativcs of the conimon- B, wealth in such matters have very B! broad privileges and use them in ac- 1' cordancc with their own views of Bj ' propriety and usefulness; thus it is H difficult to reach satisfactory con- Hl elusions as to what final disposition H will he made of the chief actor in BJ; the awful tragedy. The equity which Bj ' is not that of the books but asserts ImW itself in the minds of those who arc bluntly honest is that if the paymaster paymas-ter has done no wrong as the law goes, neither has the servant. Apart from this, getting a noose around Orchard's neck by any legal means H'J seems to be a difficult matter. Ifc BJf'l has pleaded not guilty, cannot be re- l quired to testify against himself and Bj cannot be convicted on an unsupport- BJ !' cd confession given in another case. BJ ' Wc suppose there could be means BJ found for accomplishing the ends of I; justice in his case, but it is doubtful BJ f if they will be. BBj |