ny acts of violence.

"These people wrote to Governor Lister calling his attention to the
violations of the law on the part of the officers of Everett; they wrote
to Mayor Merrill, enclosing a copy of that letter and calling on him to
restore the order that had been violated by the officers of the law;
they scattered handbills all over Everett, among its best homes and in
its business streets, calling upon the good citizens to come to their
meeting on November 5th at Wetmore and Hewitt, to come and help maintain
your own and our constitutional privileges; they mailed to the citizens
of Everett on October 30th, seven or eight hundred copies of a little
pamphlet calling upon them to intervene and stop the brutality of
officers of the law; they questioned Governor Lister at a public meeting
and again called his attention to the conditions in Everett; they called
in the reporters, called the newspapers and notified the editors that
they were going to Everett and asked them to have representatives
present: Are these the acts of conspirators?

"You know how that meeting was called and why it was called. You know it
from ministers of the gospel, you know it from the lips of those whom
you cannot help but believe. And it was called for Sunday, the day when
people ordinarily resent disorders of the kind that had occurred there.
It was called for the daytime, when ordinarily abuse and violence are
not attempted. And this big crowd went up there on this fine Sunday
afternoon because in number there is strength and in numbers there is
protection against brutality.

"At first the deputies had taken out one or two and abused and beaten
them; then they had taken five or six; they had taken eighteen; finally
they had taken forty-one. But I ask you, would you believe it possible
that they could take two hundred or three hundred people in broad
daylight and do to them what had been done to the others? Yet the
evidence in this case shows convincingly and conclusively they intended
to do substantially that thing. They intended to run those men into a
warehouse; they didn't intend to let one of them get away. And had they
gotten them into that warehouse you don't know, I don't know, nobody
knows what would have happened!

"That is the evidence of conspiracy in this case. They have claimed no
other conspiracy; they have offered no other evidence of conspiracy,
either to set fires or to incite violence, or to override all opposition
on No