Taught by their failure to "make good" in the Burton case, more caution was employed in the case of the Federation leaders, and this time they were successful.
And now, let us for a moment stop to observe the tool of Manager McParland and the mine and smelter interests, Harry Orchard, whose confession is going to play such a prominent part in the trial of Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone.
As Orchard's confession charges, and as Manager McParland would have us all believe, Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone not only had hired him to assassinate ex-Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, but had also commissioned him, on behalf of the Federation, to murder Justices Goddard and Gabbert of the Colorado Supreme Court and ex-Governor Peabody. In addition, Orchard's confession implicates the Federation officers with any number of other dreadful outrages and murders.
The reader remembers the degenerate Charles McKinney, who was the star witness of the prosecution in the Florence & Cripple Creek derailing case. As we have already stated, the present case is almost identical, in many of its details, with the Colorado case. The main difference is, that in this case the prosecution is fighting for far greater stakes.
Orchard may well be compared with McKinney, than whom he is craftier and baser. McKinney was a degenerate, mentally. Orchard is a degenerate, morally. The former scarcely realized what he was doing
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when he attempted to swear away the LIBERTY of three men, while the latter, in the full possession of his senses (though it is lately reported that