Moyer and Haywood.

I entirely agree with you that it is improper to endeavor to influence the course of justice, whether by threats or in any similar manner.

For this reason I have regretted most deeply the actions of such organizations as your own in undertaking to accomplish this very result in the very case of which you speak.

For instance, your letter is headed "Cook County Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Conference," with the headlines: "_Death_--cannot--will not--and shall not claim our brothers!" This shows that you and your associates are not demanding a fair trial, or working for a fair trial, but are announcing in advance that the verdict shall only be one way and that you will not tolerate any other verdict.
Such action is flagrant in its impropriety, and I join heartily in condemning it.
But it is a simple absurdity to suppose that because any man is on trial for a given offense he is therefore to be freed from all criticism upon his general conduct and manner of life.

In my letter to which you object I referred to a certain prominent financier, Mr.Harriman, on the one hand, and to Messrs.