Whitelaw Reid, July 29, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt papers, Library of Congress; Cobb to Alford Cooley, Oct. 3, 1907, quoted in Lukas, Big Trouble; Haywood, Autobiography.
CHAPTER 10: FRAILTIES
1. Darrow had to defend his remarks for years. He had never “urged cruelty or that the working man should be exempt from the law,” he wrote journalist Mark Sullivan in 1930. What he said was “that regardless of how many wrongs they commit, or how many brutalities they are guilty of, their cause is just.” Letter to Sullivan, quoted in Our Times; Darrow to Whitlock, Nov. 29, 1907, BW; Darrow to Debs, Oct. 1907, ALW; Chicago Tribune, July 29, 1907; New York Sun, July 27, 1907; New York Times, Aug. 7, 1907; Idaho Daily Statesman, Aug. 2, 1907.
2. Adams was tried one last time in the summer of 1908 for the 1902 murder of a mine manager in Telluride and found innocent. Darrow, Story of My Life; Ruby letters to Stone, CD-LOC; Adams trial transcript, CD-UML; Darrow to Wood, Dec. 26, 1907, CESW-HL; Idaho Daily Statesman, Oct. 11, Nov. 8–27, 1907; Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 14, 1907; Chicago Tribune, Oct. 5, 6, Nov. 14, 25, 1907; San Francisco Call, Oct. 20, 1907; Washington Post, Oct. 27, 1907; Spokane Evening Chronicle, Nov. 24, 1907; New York Times, Nov. 25, 1907, July 16, 1908.
3. Idaho Daily Statesman, Nov. 27–Dec. 31, 1907, Jan. 1–7, 1908; Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 27, 1907; San Francisco Call, Dec. 15, 29, 1907; Salt Lake Herald, Dec. 27, 1907, Jan. 5, 1908; Boston Globe, Dec. 28, 1907, Jan. 5, 1908; Los Angeles Herald, Dec. 29, 31, 1907; Los Angeles Examiner, Jan. 5, 1908; New York Times, Jan. 2, 5, Aug. 2, 4, 1908; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 21, Feb. 11, 1908; McClure’s, June 1908; Noah D. Fabricant, MD, “When Clarence Darrow Had an Earache,” The Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Monthly, Dec. 1958; Jean Strouse, Morgan (New York: Random House, 1999) and Walter Lord, The Good Years (New York: Harper, 1960).
4. Masters, unpublished autobiography, ELM; Darrow to Edgar Lee Masters, Nov. 29, 1907, Masters to WFM, Jan. 4, 1908, Jan. 22, 1908, Jan. 28, 1908, and WFM to Masters, Jan. 6, 1908, Jan. 24, 1908, Masters to Carter Harrison, Mar. 21, 1938, ELM; Ruby Darrow letters to Stone, CD-LOC; Masters, Across Spoon River; Darrow, Story of My Life.
5. Masters, unpublished autobiography, ELM; Ruby letters to Stone, CD-LOC; Darrow to Brand Whitlock, Dec. 13, 1910, BW; Darrow to William Walling, July 14, 1910, NAACP; Chicago Tribune, Apr. 7, 1908.
6. New York Sun, May 30, 1909; Chicago Tribune, June 4, 1899; Mark Sullivan, Our Times; Stone notes, CD-LOC; Carole Merritt, Something So Horrible: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, 2008); Ida Wells-Barnett, Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899); Darrow, “The Problem of the Negro,” transcription of remarks in the International Socialist Review, Nov. 1, 1901.
7. Darrow’s talks on race earned him public censure. At one point in his Cooper Union speech he predicted that just as time and intermarriage had eroded the enmity among European immigrant groups, the problem of race relations “will undoubtedly some time far in the future be worked out by race amalgamation.” Darrow “Advises Negroes to Marry Whites,” read the headlines across the country, and for several days he was the target of anger and ridicule in white America. He caused another stir, and was booed and jeered, when he addressed fifty thousand union sympathizers in San Francisco on Labor Day in 1909—and urged them to move past racial prejudice and ease restrictions against Chinese and Japanese immigrants. Evening American, Aug. 19, 1908; Chicago Tribune, May 13, 17, 19, 20, 1910; Proceedings of the National Negro Conference, May 1910, NAAC; New York Times, May 13, 1910; Michael Kazin, Barons of Labor (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).
8. Darrow’s failure in another case had long-lasting repercussions. In 1907, Fred Warren—the editor of the Appeal to Reason—had been incensed by the Haywood trial. No prominent capitalist would be kidnapped like the Federation leaders, Warren claimed—and to illustrate his point he offered $1,000 to anyone who would abduct William Taylor, a former Kentucky governor, and return him to the state for trial on an outstanding murder charge.
Federal prosecutors indicted Warren for misusing the mails, and Darrow was among the lawyers who defended the editor. “The government offered to take a fine of $25, in case of a plea of guilty,” Darrow recalled. But Warren wanted “not an easy way out, but advertising