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must do—you must make Minola’s husband a perjurer, and
that would be terrible.

You know sbout that Minola McKnight affair. It is the
Dlackest of all. A negro woman locked: up from the solici-
tor’s office, not because sho would talk—she’s given a state-
ment—but becanse she wonld not talk to suit Starnes and
Campbell, and two white men, and shame to them, got her
into it. Where was Chief Beavers? What was he doing that
he hecame 6 party to this crimet Beavers, who would en-
force the law; Beavers, the immaculate!

Believe Frank was in the factory if you can at 1:30; throw
aside all the respectable people and swear by Conley. Well,
I know the American jury ia supreme, that it is the sovereign
over lives; that sometimes you can sway it by passion and
prejudice, but you can’t make it believe anything like this.

Neither prejudice, nor passion, wrought by monsters so
vile they ought not to be in the court room, could make them
believe it. They said that thera was a certain man, named
Mincey, whom we called as 4 witness but did not use. Well,
the only use we would have had for Mincey was to contradict
Conley, and 2s soon as Conley got on the stand he contra-
dicted himself enough without our having to go to the trouble
of calling on witnesses to do it. If we had put Mincey up there
would have been a day’s row about his probity, and what
would have been the use—Conley said time and again that he
had lied time and again.

Gentlemen, I want only the straight truth here, and I have
yet to believe that the truth has to be watched and cultivated
by these detectives and by seven visits of the solicitor general.
I don’t believe any man, no matter what his rate, ought to be
tried under such testimony. If I was raising aheep and feared,
for my lambs, I might hang 8 yellow dog on it, I might do it
in the daytime, but when things got quiet at night and I got
to thinking, I’d be ashamed of myself. You have been overly
Kind to me, gentlemen. True, you have been up against a
situation like that old Sol Russell used to describe when he
would say, ‘‘ Well, I’ve lectured off and on for forty years, and

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