the skin and the bone?
-Billy Bragg
Hellraisers Journal, Friday June 28, 1907
Boise, Idaho – Clarence Darrow Opens for the Defense
From the Montana News of June 27, 1907:
Darrow’s Statement
—–Address to the Jury Outlining
Plans of Defense
—Orchard Spends Sunday Auto
Riding in BoiseSpecial to the Montana News—
Boise, June 24.
At the call of the defense attorneys the Federation men who are to appear as witnesses have come pouring into Boise the last few days. It seems good to see them here—all the old stand-bys that have so valiantly fought the struggles of the western labor for the last ten years. D. C Copely, formerly of the executive board, now a mine owner in Nevada; A. H. Floaten, candidate for governor of Colorado on the socialist ticket; Deportee from Telluride, a merchant who has been through the fiercest of the fight for his convictions; J. C. Barnes, who was up in a tree in Telluride, while the militia were hunting him underneath; John M . O’Neill, W. F. Davis, M. E. White, one after another. The very backbone of the Federation, fine, able, brainy men, more than a match for any capitalist prostitute that can be marshalled against them.
And they are here with the goods, the truth, the eternal fight against the injustice of employers, and the reasons for that fight. As one of them said:
We are here to go to the river, our cause is right and we’ll stay with it.
