Is it not possible, or rather probable, that the long list of crimes with which the Federation has been charged during the last ten or twelve years is made of the same cloth as the lying accusations and charges which were disproved in the Cripple Creek district?
Is it not more than probable that the alleged confession which James McParland, of the Pinkerton Agency, secured from convict Harry Orchard, and upon the strength of which he would like to hang President Charles Moyer, Secretary-Treasurer Wil-
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Ham D. Haywood and George A. Pettibone, of the Western Federation of Miners, for the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idado, is on a par with the confession of Charles McKinney?
Let the reader judge for himself for the present. We will soon study and analyze those matters.