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Show TbeaUaywood Trial and Verdict. i Tho jury in tho Haywood case brought in a verdict of not guilty. There could bo but one j explanation o it. The jury must have felt that : the tostimony of Orchard was not enough cor- ,1 robrated to hang a man on tho evidence of so depraved a criminal. The verdict of courae is final and so far as Haywood i concernod he stands, so far as tho verdict of a jury can mako it so, vindicated. I But the trial was a wonderful one, and some features of it may be profitably reviewed. The prosecution of the case was able and strong and was relieved of all semblance of vindictiveness. J And Judge Hawley's handling of it was abso- 1 lutely without flaw, save when, onec or twice, he . gave way to the natural indignation aroused by the blackguard tactics of Attorney Darrow. I Senator's Borah's closing speech was a superb 1 one, and lawyers all over the land may study ! it as a model. Judge Woods' bearing through all j tho long trial was that of a righteous, fearless, j able and sensitively conscientious judge. Idaho has a right to be moat proud of tho prosecutors ; of tho case and tho judge who presided. Hi For the defense Judge Richardson is called "a great criminal lawyer." He may be, but wo 1 H look in vain for any evidences of it in his man- 1 H agemont of the case, while Darrow's whole course H revealed that ho must have graduated from HI practice before a police court and took a higher B placo solely because he was known as a black- H guard in its coarsoBt sense, a blackguard and bull- H dozer, and if not an out and out anarchist it Is H because ho can do better ir profession than ho H could by playing the role o xferr Most, of baleful H memory. That he has any real sympathy with H the poor or tho cause of the distressed, his face H and his words forbid. H His opening address, wherein he portrayed the H , conditions of tho poor miners before the Federa- H. tion of Miners was formed, was strained, unmanly Hi and untrue, and was, moreover, an insult to the Hf . whole west, for thirty-five years before tho for- Hj mation of that federation, minors' hours wore Hf-' reduced to lower hours and their wages advanced H to a higher figure than over miners before in Hf this world received. In his closing argument he Hr more than once gave away tho fact that down Hi doap in his perverted nature ho has no regard H; for the restraints which tho laws are supposed H to draw around and protect society; in his rof- H ' erences to the murder of the non-union men at H' the depot in Colorado, he made clear that he l thought they were served right, and in his rof- H- erences to Judge Hawley, he showed that ho had, H been brought up in that school where a blaok- guard can, behind his attorney's role, ply his . calling without fearing to be held personally re- sponsible for his words. As to the effect of tho verdict, it Is too soon to give a positive opinion. If it emboldens the Hj federation to new exactions, it will close many prosperous enterprises; it will give to many firey men who have always felt that tho laws should be supreme, an idea that, after all, It is right to appeal, in a crisis, to the old law of self-preservation. In tho meantime Governor Steunenberg, for performing his duty under his offloial oath, is dead, and it Is the fixed belief in thousands of hearts that no such an embruted wretch as Orchard Or-chard could, unaided, have carried out hiss- assassination, assas-sination, and tho assassinations In Colorado. The west coast has held its breath while this trial has been in progress. Now each man has his own views, and in thought is peering into tho future and be he an employer or a wage-earner is considering what he will do if over in future ho is forced to meet such a situation as was in the Coour d'Alones or at Cripple Creek. |
