GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO GO ON WITH THE CASE. Every proposition to continue the case was fiercely resisted by Edwin Walker, special counsel of the government and general counsel of the railroads. Clarence S. Darrow objected to Mr. Walker’s appearing in that dual capacity, representing at the same time the government and the railroads—the supposed justice of the one and the vengeful spirit of the other—but Judge Grosscup overruled the objection. The trial was postponed again and again, the interest in it gradually subsiding, and many months afterward, when it was almost forgotten, the case was quietly stricken from the docket. JURORS GREET DEFENDANTS. When the remaining eleven jurors were discharged by the court, Edwin Walker extended his hand to them, but they rushed by him and surrounded the writer and his co-defendants, grasping their hands and assuring them, each and every one of them, that they were convinced of their innocence and only regretted that they had been prevented from returning their verdict accordingly. The details appear in the Chicago papers of that time. At the very time we were being tried for conspiracy we were serving a sentence in prison for contempt, the program being that six months in jail should be followed by as many years in penitentiary. For a jury to pronounce us innocent in substantially the same case for which we were already serving a sentence would mean not only our complete vindication, but the exposure of the Federal Court that had, at the behest of the railroads, sentenced us to prison without a trial. And so the trial was abruptly terminated on account of the alleged illness of a juror and they could find no other to take his place. These are the facts and I have all the documentary evidence in detail, and only lack of space prevents me from making the exhibits in this article. If President Cleveland or the Railroad Managers doubt it I stand ready to meet them face to face in discussion of the issue upon any platform in America. THE GREATEST INDUSTRIAL BATTLE IN HISTORY. The Chicago strike was in many respects the grandest industrial battle in history, and I am prouder of my small share in it than of any other act of my life. Men, women and children were on the verge of starvation at the “model city” of Pullman. They had produced the fabulous wealth of the Pullman corporation, but they, poor souls, were compelled to suffer the torment of hunger pangs in the very midst of the abundance their labor had created.