In order, the principal causes in which he played a leading part were: the defence of Eugene V. Debs after the American Railway Union strike in" 1894; representing tne United Mine Workers of America in ihe Pennsylvania anthracite coal strike arbitration in 1902; defence of Moyer, Haywood ani Pettibone against charges of murdering Frank Steuneberg, former Governor of Idaho, in 1906; defence of the Mc-Namara brothers after the dynamite ing of the "Los Angeles Times" build-jing in 1911; defence of Loeb ana Leopold for the slaying of Bobby Franks in 1924; defence of John T. Scopes in the. Dayton, Tenn, evolution trial in 1925; defence of Mrs.
Roland Granville' Fortescue, · Lieutenant Thomas H., Massie and two [sailors in the Honolulu "honour slaying" in 1932.
Mr. Darrow ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket in 1896 and was defeated. Just before he went to Pennsylvania to sit on the arbitration board in the anthracite strike, lhe was elected to the state legisla-tare, in which position he fought all measures designed to increase the number of crimes listed in the code, or to make penalties more severe.
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