INDEX
Clarence Darrow is abbreviated CD. Page numbers in bold refer to the main biographical information for individuals. Three subentries precede all others: “CD’s letter(s) to,” “letter(s) to CD,” and subentries for photos or other illustrations (which are numbered plate 1 through plate 56). Darrow’s written works are gathered under his name (e.g., Darrow, Clarence, WORKS [BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS]) and are not listed as separate entries. The following are not indexed: the places from which Darrow’s letters were written; letterhead information; the unnumbered notes at the end of each letter; newspapers cited in footnotes.
Abbott, Leonard Dalton, 203, 203n143
Abbott, Willis J., 315, 315n29
A. C. McClurg (Chicago), 212, 295
Actors’ Equity Association: represented by CD, 41
Adams, Henry, 238; The Education of Henry Adams, 238n78
Adams, John: alien and sedition laws, 379
Adams, Stephen (Steve) W., 14n44, 137n23; trials of, 36, 37, 139–40, 139n28, 140nn29,30, 141. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Idaho cases
Addams, Jane, xiv, 75n1, 436n104, 467; CD’s letters to, (1901) 99–100, (1932) 441–42; and the arrest of anarchists in Chicago, 99–100; and Christian Rudovitz’s case, 147n4; The Excellent Becomes the Permanent, 441–42; peace efforts during World War I, 212n13; Twenty Years at Hull-House, 99n28; and the Women’s Labor Committee of World’s Congress Auxiliary, 67n13
Adelman, Abram E., 467; CD’s letter to, (1933) 448–49
African-Americans, 36, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 149–50, 410, 431; CD’s use of derogatory slang for, 54; CD’s support for Edward Morris, 281–82. See also Darrow, Clarence, ATTITUDE AND PHILOSOPHY, race; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Ainslee’s Magazine, 88n26, 94n8, 98n26
Akin, William E.: Technocracy and the American Dream, 443n117
Alexander, George, 167n60
Allegheny College, 33, 303–4, 502
Allen, Arthur: Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver, 247n16
Allen, John, 51n5
Allen, Juliette, 51
Allis-Chalmers Company, 35
Altgeld, Emma Ford, 101, 101n36
Altgeld, John P., 35, 62n1, 120n72, 442, 454, 454n137, 461, 467, 498, 508, 517; death and funeral of, 101–2, 119; friendship with CD, 13; and the Haymarket defendants, 58n25, 58n27, 58n31, 72n23; raising money for Altgeld’s widow, 101–2; refusal to commute sentence of Patrick Prendergast, 72n23
Altgeld’s America (Ginger), 129n4
American Association of University Professors Bulletin, 79n4
American Book Company, 85n17, 86nn19,20
American Book Co. v. Gates, 85n17
American Book Co. v. Kingdom Pub. Co., 85n17
American Civil Liberties Union, xxvn17, 211n10, 374–75, 450n132, 468, 486, 487, 514; Scopes trial, 312–13, 312n22. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Scopes, John
American Club (London), 338
American Club (Paris), 44
American Commission on Irish Independence, 257n35
American Federation of Labor, 87n21, 483, 500
American Foundation for the Blind, 368n149, 491. See also Keller, Helen
American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (Davis), 212n13
American Law Institute, 377, 377n175
American Railway Union, 10, 34, 73n26, 478, 511
American League of New York City, 433n97
American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, 8, 272n79, 305, 305n9, 314–15, 340n100, 347nn106,107, 349n109, 369, 371, 375, 400–403, 411, 416–17, 419–20, 421, 435–36, 479, 505; Leopold and Loeb trial, 505, 511. See also Pierce, Vivian
American Medical Association, 41, 90, 90n1, 92n3, 493
American Medical Liberty League, 41
American Mercury, 1, 290n116, 291n118, 306n13, 318n32, 321n43, 328, 334n83, 339, 366n144, 405n35, 498. See also Mencken, H. L.
American Political Science Review, 271n75
American Populism: A Social History, 1877–1898 (McMath), 131n5
American Protective Association, 257n36
American Protestant Association, 257n36
American Railway Union, 10, 34, 73nn26,27, 478, 511
American Socialist, 224n44
An American Tragedy (Dreiser): censorship of, 44, 332, 332n77
Anarchist Voices (Avrich), 99n28
Anarchy and anarchists, 7, 35, 56–61, 64n6, 66, 67nn15,16, 68, 70, 189n111, 218, 225nn47,48, 264, 323, 340, 371, 489, 492, 499, 508, 515, 516, 519; arrest of anarchists after shooting of William McKinley, 99–100
Ancestry Magazine, 269n69
Andover, Ohio, 54
Andover (Ohio) Citizen: CD’s letter to, (1884) 53–55
Ann Arbor (Michigan) Courier: CD’s letter to, (1877) 52–53
Anti-Saloon League, 43
Antivivisection, 246n15, 456–457, 456n141
Appeal to Reason, 140n31, 153n19, 478, 516
Arc of Justice (Boyle), 28–29, 29n99
Arnold, Benedict, 44, 413, 415n57
Arthur, Chester A., 448n128
Ashtabula (Ohio) Democratic Standard, 7; CD’s letter to, (1887) 56–60
The Athena, 30n107
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 421
The Autobiography of Mother Jones, 267, 267n61, 504
Avrich, Paul: Anarchist Voices, 99n28; The Haymarket Tragedy, 264n54
Ayres, Clarence Edwin, 354n119; Science: The False Messiah, 354
Baehr, William A., 168, 177, 386, 468
Bailey, Forrest, 314, 468; CD’s letter to, (1925) 312–13; letter to CD, 312n22
Bain, Robert D., 14–16, 168n65, 175n81, 184n100
Baker, Abby Scott, 278, 278n89
Baldwin, Neil: Henry Ford and the Jews, 258n39
Baldwin, Roger, 224n44, 401, 468; CD’s letters to, (1925) 299–300, (1929) 374–75, 377; letters to CD, 299n1, 375n169, 377n175
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Wilde), 32, 371
Balzac, Honoré de, 251
Barnard, Harry: Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld, 101n36
Barnes, Harry Elmer, xiv, 10n33, 468; CD’s letters to, (1928) 361, 362–63, 367, (1930) 397, 398, (1931) 412, 413–14, 423, (1932) 431, 432; letter to CD, 412n51; photo, plate 50; The Evolution of Penology, 367n147; letter from Ruby Darrow, 423nn74,75; Living in the Twentieth Century, 367n147; The Story of Punishment, 362–63, 397; The Twilight of Christianity, 398
Barnum, Gertrude, xxivn14, 203, 468; CD’s letter to, (1930) 390
Barnum, Harry Hyde, 390n4
Barry, John D., 166, 216, 216n28, 469
Bary, Charles: and amnesty for Haymarket defendants, 68
Battle, George Gordon, 417n61; Aaron Burr radio drama, 417
Baumes, Caleb H., 401n24
Baumes laws, 401, 401n24, 414n55
Beard, Mary Ritter, 471
Beck, James Montgomery, 469; CD’s letters to, (1930) 392, 394–96; Benedict Arnold radio drama, 413–14, 414n54, 415; The Revolt against Prohibition, 392n11
Beck, Kathryn (Kitty) Seaman, 149n8
Bellamy, John Stark, II: Vintage Vermont Villanies, 374n166
Belli, Melvin, 2
Bemis, Edward W., 79n4, CD declining to raise money for, 79
Bennett, Arnold, 157, 338, 469
Bennett, Constance, 469
Bennett, Joan, 469
The Bennett Playbill (Bennett and Kibbee), 442n116
Bennett, Richard, xiv, 469; CD’s letter to, (1933) 442–43
Berger, Victor, 469, 512; CD’s letter to, (1909) 144; CD responding to request for assistance, 144, 144n39; The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 144n39
Berkman, Alexander, 225n48, 516–17
Berman, Louis, 469; The Glands Regulating Personality, 266, 266n60, 273
Bernard Shaw (Harris), 430
Bicknell, Fred, 8n30, 469–70; CD’s letter to, (1929) 373–74
Big Matt (Whitlock), 358
Big Trouble (Lukas), 14n44, 138nn26,27
Billings, Warren K., 220n37, 499
Binford, Jessie Florence, 435–36, 441, 470
Björnson, Björnstjerne, 38
Blaine, James Gillespie, 448, 448n128
Blascoer, Frances, 152, 152n17
Blase, William O., 470; CD’s letter to, (1933) 448
Blight, Lydia (Walters), 214, 214n24
Blight, Reynold E., 214, 214n24
Boas, Franz, 284n103; The Mind of Primitive Man, 284, 284n103
Boissevain, Inez Milholland, 203, 216n28, 470
Bommersbach, Jana: The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd, 434n99
Boni & Liveright, 332n77, 334, 425, 495
Bonney, Charles C., 66n10; World’s Congress Auxiliary, 65–67
Borah (McKenna), 137n24
Borah, William, 470; CD’s letter to, (1907) 137–38; indictment of in Idaho, 137n24
Boston University: holding CD’s papers, xviii
Boyce, Edward, 470–71; CD’s letters to, (1912) 178, (1923) 274; letter to CD, 178n87; CD’s request for money, 178, 178n87, 274n84
Boyer, Paul S.: Purity in Print, 332nn76,77
Boylan, James: Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky and William English Walling, 152n18
Boyle, Kevin: Arc of Justice, 28–29, 29n99
Boyle, Louis C., 153–54, 153n20
Bradley, Preston, 455, 471; debate with CD, 423; his view of CD’s view of women, 29
Brandeis, Louis D., 471; CD’s letter to, (1902) 106; CD’s request for help in the anthracite arbitration, 106, 106n45; The Letters of Louis D. Brandeis, 106n45
Bridges, Horace J., xiv
Brisbane, Arthur, xiv
Britton, Nan, 437n106
The Broad Ax (Chicago), 513
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 38
Brown, Edward Osgood, 265, 265n57
Brownlee, Jessie (Ohl) (CD’s first wife), xv, xviii, 22n77, 28, 33–34, 56, 116n62, 171, 172, 173, 174, 182–83, 429n86, 471, 477, 480, 505, 517; CD’s letters to, (1887) 55, 61, (1891) 63, (1896) 80–81, (1903) 123, 124, (1904) 126, 126–27; (1905) 128–29, (1918) 230, (1924) 291–92; letter to, plate 8; photo, plate 6; CD’s marriage to Ruby Hamerstrom, 24–25, 123, 124; and CD’s papers, xv, 20; CD’s sentimental statements to and expressions of concern about her financial wellbeing, 55, 80–81, 124, 126–27, 128–29, 230, 291, 399; CD’s relationship with, consideration of, 20–21; her note regarding letters to CD, 292; marriage to CD, 33; marriage to Mungo Brownlee, 174n79, 471; separation and divorce from CD, 34, 80–81
Brownlee, Mungo, 174, 399, 174n79, 471
Bruère, Martha Bensley, 471; CD’s letter to, (1927) 328
Bruère, Robert, 471
Bryan (Werner), 375n171
Bryan, William Jennings, xiv, 242, 307n16, 375, 471; photo, plate 41; and Scopes trial, 306–7, 307–8; exchange with CD on fundamentalism, 275–77
Buckner, Emory, 2
Budd, Henry, 55n16
Budd, Lizzie (Ohl), 55n16
Buffalo (New York) Times: CD’s letter to, (1934) 459–60
Burg, David F.: Chicago’s White City of 1893, 65n9
Burleson, Albert S., 224n44
Burns, Robert, 99n27
Burns, William J., 164, 165n48, 166, 437n106, 471–72
Burroughs, John, 472; meeting with CD and others, 106
Busch, Francis X., 279, 279n92
Busse, Fred, 136n22
Bye, George T., 472; CD’s letters to, (1929) 378, 384–85, (1930) 394n15, 397, (1931) 420–21
Byllesby, Henry M., 226, 226n50, 228, 472
Calhoun, William J., 146n3, 147n4; Christian Rudovtiz’s case, 146–47
Calverton, Victor F., 472; CD’s letter to, (1929) 375
Cameron, J. Donald, 445, 445n123
Camfield, Daniel A., 198, 199, 472, 513
Capital punishment. See American League to Abolish Capital Punishment; Darrow, Clarence, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, capital punishment
Caplan, David, 213n21, 472–73, 497; arrest and trial, 209n1, 213n19
Carillo, Donato, 340, 340n99, 486
Carlin, Nellie, 182–83, 334, 473, 473; as lawyer in CD’s office, 30
Carlin, William L., 172, 175, 473, 473
Carlson, A[nton] J[ulius], 473; CD’s letter to, (1934) 456–57; letter to the Chicago Tribune regarding CD’s letter, 456n141
Carpenter, Edward, 338, 338n91
Carter, Dan T.: Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, 426n81
Case, Shirley Jackson, 41, 308, 353, 354n120, 473; The Historicity of Jesus, 354; Jesus, 354; The Social Origins of Christianity, 354
Caslin, Jim 221
Castle, Irene, 456n141; antivivisection and animal-rights controversy in Chicago, 456–57
Cavenaugh, William, 183, 183n97
Caverly, John R., 296, 296n131
Century Magazine, 67n15
Chamlee, George W., 426, 426n82
Chapman, Charles C., 206, 206n151
Charles I, 395
Chase, Blanche Darrow, 55n16, 293, 293n123, 374n167, 376, 381, 473–74, 477; CD’s letter to, (1928) 350–51; Darrow family papers, xiii–xvi, xviii
Chase, Gordon, 474; Darrow family papers, xiv, xviii
Cherne, Leo: and CD’s papers, xviii, xviiin8
Chesterton, G. K., 45
Chesnutt, Charles, xiv
Chicago American, 35, 101n35, 487, 493
Chicago Bar Association, 45, 70n21, 281, 483; formation of, 454, 454n137
Chicago City Council, 9
Chicago Daily Journal, 40, 230n62
Chicago Daily News, 7, 35, 512, 513, 519; CD’s letters to, (1900) 92, (1925) 307–8; CD’s travel essays for, 122n74; on CD’s potential run for mayor of Chicago, 113n55
Chicago Herald, 517; CD’s letters to, (1893) 68–69, 70–72
Chicago & North-Western Railroad, 34
Chicago: and anti-vivisection movement, 456; arrests of anarchists following shooting of President McKinley, 99–100; assassination of mayor and resulting frenzy, 70–72; ban on the sale of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic newspaper, 258; and crime, 248; and mayoral election of 1903, 107–10, 112–16, 119–21; raids on organized labor by police, 64; streetcar franchise dispute, 114, 120. See also Darrow chronology, 33–46; Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES; DEBATES AND SPEECHES; POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND CIVIC MATTERS
Chicago Teachers Federation, 35, 483
Chicago Times, 72n25, 315, 485
Chicago Tribune, xxivn15, 11, 495; CD’s letters to, (1896) 79–80, 83–84, (1903) 110, (1923) 275–77
Chicago Woman’s Law League: CD’s speech to, 30
Chicago’s White City of 1893 (Burg), 65n9
The Children of the Universe (Tzitlonok), 256, 256n34
Children’s National Tuberculosis Society, 39
Choate, Joseph, 1
Christian Science, 257, 315, 446
Civic Federation of Chicago: CD’s criticism of, 87–88; Ralph Easley and, 479
Clabaugh, Hinton G., 364n141
Clancy, Eugene A., 166, 166n55
Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast (Kersten), 15n45, 16, 20
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned (Farrell), 15n45, 16–19, 26, 28n95, 29
Clarence Darrow (Gurko), 15n45
Clarence Darrow (Harrison), 15n45, 399n20, 417–18
Clarence Darrow for the Defense (Stone), 15n45, 20, 22–23, 29
Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel (Weinbergs), 15n45, 28n97
Clarke, James Freeman, 352n116; The Ideas of the Apostle Paul, 352
Clarke, Joseph, 201n132
Cleveland, Grover, 58n23, 60n34, 73n26, 79n7, 269, 481, 502
Cochran, Johnnie, 2
Cochran, Negley D., 210n5, 270, 271, 274, 474; CD’s letters to, (1917) 225, (1918) 229, (1921) 259–61, 261, (1924) 289, (1926) 319–20; photo, plate 47; CD’s friendship, 225
Cole, Margaret C., 258, 258n37
Cole, William Washington, 258n37
Colorado Bar Assoc. v. Lindsey, 386n187
Commercial Bulletin and Apparel Merchant, 452n135
Communist Labor Party, 41, 243n7, 393n14, 503
Communist Party: Scottsboro cases, 426nn81,82
Confessions of a Reformer (Howe), 316n30
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 211nn9,11,12, 220, 272n79, 273n80, 278n89, 505
Conklin, Edwin Grant, 267, 267n65; The Direction of Human Evolution, 267, 267n65
Connelley, William E.: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, 131n5
Coolidge, Calvin, xvi, 288n113, 297n134, 368, 387, 388n2, 389, 415, 474, 478; photo, plate 51; CD’s assessment of, 285–86, 288; election of 1924, 295
Coonradt, Paul T., 358, 358n128
Cosmopolitan Electric Company: CD’s representation of, 9–10, 75n2
Costigan, Jr., George P., 12n38, 474; CD’s letter to, (1917) 222–23; Cases and Other Authorities on Legal Ethics, 222n42; ethical issues in McNamara case, 222–23, 222n42
Cotiz, Edward, 201n132
Cotiz, Paul, 201n132
Cowan, Geoffrey: The People v. Clarence Darrow, 15n45, 16n50, 28n95, 29, 32n117
Cox, James Middleton, 249n18; CD’s support for, 248–49
Cramer, David H., 474; CD’s letter to, (1931) 424–25
Crandall, Allen, 474; CD’s letter to, (1930) 399–400
Crapsey, Algernon, xiv
Criminal Anarchy Act (New York), 41, 393n14
Crisis, 409n42
Crosby, Ernest Howard, 97, 433, 474–75, 507; planned meeting with CD and others, 106
Cruice, Daniel L., 114, 454n137, 475; CD’s letters to, (1902) 107, (1903) 119–20; CD and the 1903 Chicago mayor race, 25, 107, 119–20, 120n72, 121n73
Crunden, Robert M.: A Hero in Spite of Himself, 98n22
Curran, James, 10n34
Curtis, Harry King, 357, 357n123
Cvm Grano, Verses and Epigrams (Salt), 423–24
Czolgosz, Leon: assassination of McKinley, 99nn28,29
Darrow: A Biography (Tierney), 15n45, 20n65, 22n72
Darrow, Ammirus (CD’s father), xv, xx, 33, 36, 52, 52n11, 127, 251, 255, 303, 475, 475, 476, 499, 502; photos, plates 2, 5; death of, 36; letter to Everett Darrow, (1872) 49–51
Darrow, Channing E. (CD’s brother), xv, 51, 475, 475, 476
Darrow, Clarence: Aaron Burr radio drama, 417; attacks on character, 8–12; Benedict Arnold radio drama, 413–14, 414n54, 415; chronology of life, 33–46; fame as a lawyer, 1–3; inadequacy of biographical record, 12–14; jury bribery, analysis of, 14–20; papers of, xiii–xix; pessimism of, 4–8
BUSINESS AND PERSONAL FINANCES: his legal fees and law-firm finances, 141–42, 159, 163; his personal wills, 126–27, 126n82, 374n167; criticism about his legal fees, 8–13; his desire to buy a newspaper, 72; during bribery trials in Los Angeles, 171, 173, 176, 177, 178–79, 182, 183, 193, 205, 221; his fees for representing Louis Wilde, 148–49; his fees for representing McNamara brothers, 159, 163, 164, 223; his financial support for Mary Field Parton, 187, 406–7; Florida real-estate frenzy, 301–2; his gas plant in Colorado, 135n17, 149, 168, 172, 179, 205, 226, 228, 339, 340; lamenting his personal financial obligations, 111, 221; his loan to Fred Golding, 17–18, 340; his payments from the Daily News, 122; his receipts for film and radio drama, 415, 416; references to his personal finances, 55, 63, 82, 124, 126–27, 128–129, 149, 159, 183, 226, 252–53, 274, 415, 416, 418–19, 444; his rent dispute with a landlord during law school, 52–53; his response to fundraising requests, 149, 421; his sale of books, 251–52; his stock-market concerns, 124, 380–86, 416, 417, 418–19; terms of his divorce, 21
ATTITUDE AND PHILOSOPHY: agnosticism versus atheism, 66, 409; anarchism, 57–60, 99; antivivisection, 246n15, 456–57, 456n141; Christianity, 66, 199, 352–56, 446; death and old age, 221, 229, 232, 244, 249, 254, 266–67, 277–78, 280, 300–301, 380, 442, 463–64; determinism vs. free will, 7–8, 223, 301, 353, 465; education, 268–69, 389; eugenics, 245, 269–70, 290, 307, 311, 318; evolution, 309–10, 320, 363; feminism, 317; fundamentalism, 275–77, 310–11, 315–16, 331; heredity and environment, 268; homosexuality, 372; human nature, instincts, and emotion, 70, 202, 211, 214, 215, 217, 236–37, 245, 246, 251, 256–57, 262, 266, 273, 278, 316, 316–17, 417, 364, 438; the human race and civilization, 79, 220, 245, 262, 268–69; individuals and governments, 235; Jews and Zionism, 262; luck, 269; migration, 268; money, 77, 79, 142, 170, 171, 221, 274; Nietzsche, 199, 206, 356; pacifism, 92–93, 218; patriotism, 62, 79–80, 81, 84; pleasure, 369, 373; political and economic ideas, 76–78; poverty and the Chicago World’s Fair, 68–69; procrastination, 207, 251, 447; race, 149–50, 281–82; 283–84, 349–50, 426–27, 431, 432; reformers, 10, 31, 151–52, 212, 232, 245, 248, 272, 401, 411; religion, 218, 254, 256–57, 275–77, 309–10, 311, 315–16, 321, 352–56, 408–9, 412, 446, 448–49, 465; self-assessment of his character or personality, 117, 123, 124, 126, 169–70, 173, 189, 199–200, 209, 229, 249, 291; science, 256, 266, 267, 273, 275, 307, 315–16, 355–66; size of government, 236; vaccinations, 247–48; women’s rights, 29–32; 151–52; war prisoners, 233, 236; World War I, 218, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 233, 235–36, 316–17, 366, 399–400
CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES: anti-Semitism, 258, 258n39; arrests of anarchists after William McKinley was shot, 99–100; bail rights, 271n75; criminal procedures, 377; freedom, 343; free speech and assemblage, 64–65, 83, 100; government power, 266; an Illinois law requiring flag displays at schools, 84; liberty, 236–37; liberty in the U.S. versus England, 83–84; literary censorship, 330, 332; obedience to the law, 378–79; obscenity and medical literature, 90–92; prostitution and the Page Act in New York, 151, 151n15; Prohibition, 31–32, 55, 147, 147–48, 147n5, 236, 329, 343, 378–79, 392–93, 394–96, 406, 407, 408, 437; race relations, 149–50, 149n9, 150n10; women’s suffrage, 29–32, 36, 201, 211nn9,10,11, 216n26, 220n38, 221n40, 236, 238n72, 272n79, 273n80, 278n89, 445n122, 480, 491, 494, 502, 505, 514; Sunday closing laws, 31–32, 68–69, 245, 249, 327, 362; the value of constitutions, 236
CLIENTS AND CASES (see also Chronology of CD’s life, 33–46): anthracite arbitration, 10–11, 24, 35, 104–5, 104n42, 106, 108–9, 110, 111, 115, 119, 155–56; bank robbers in Indiana, 42, 253, 253n29; Bond, Isaac, 217, 217n31, 227, 227n54; Carillo, Donato, 340n99, 486; Chicago streetcar union strike, 10–11; Chicago Union Traction Company bribery trial, 103–4, 510; City of Chicago against the Dearborn Independent, 258; Clarke, Joseph, 201n132; Cole (Margaret) estate, 258, 258n37; Communist Labor Party members, 41, 503; Cosmopolitan Electric Company, 9, 75n2, 75–78; Cotiz, Edward and Paul, 201n132; Debs, Eugene, 34, 40, 73n26, 87, 231, 233–34, 235, 241; DePriest, Oscar, xiv, 226n52; Greco, Cologero, 340n99, 486; Haymarket anarchists, 7, 56–61, 67, 68n17, 70, 100, 467, 482; Healey, Charles, 40, 226–27; Heitler, Michael, 251, 251n24; Idaho cases (see also Adams, Steve; Haywood, William; Moyer, Charles; Pettibone, George), 11, 14, 36–37, 132–42, 154–55, 200n130, 281n96, 404, 470, 486, 500, 504, 506; photo of clients, plate 17; jury-bribery trials of CD (see also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Los Angeles Times building bombing; McNamara, James B.; McNamara, John J.), 14–20, 38, 169–96, 198–99, 201, 203–5, 213n21, 274n84, 482, 483, 505, 508, 518; Kidd, Thomas, 10–11, 34, 87; Kingdom Publishing Company, 85–86, 87n24; Leopold, Nathan, and Loeb, Richard, xiii, 7–8, 42–43, 291–94, 296, 305n10, 306nn11,12, 364, 404, 432, 482, 493, 495–96, 505; photos of, plate 34; Lloyd, William Bross, 41, 243, 244; Lorimer, William, 39, 212, 212n12; Los Angeles Times building bombing (see also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, jury-bribery trials of CD; McNamara, James B.; McNamara, John J.), 14, 158–70, 222–23, 281n96, 341n102, 471, 472–73, 478, 481–82, 484–85, 497, 506, 508, 515, 518; Love, Sydney, 37, 418n65; Lundin, Fred, 42, 272, 274n85, 278n88, 279; Massie case, 45, 431–32; McWilliams, Russell, 433–34, 435, 443; Miller, William
H. H., 272, 272n77; Mooney, Thomas J., 220n37, 359–60, 365, 428, 499; Person, Arthur, 41, 503; Prendergast, Patrick, 34, 70–72, 483; Rudovitz, Christian, 37, 146–47, plate 14; Scopes, John, xiii, xv, 43, 306–8, 312–15, 318, 319, 320, 326–27, 441, 471, 486, 496, 501, 509, 513; Scottsboro cases, 45, 426–27, 430, 486; Simpson, Emma, 40, 237, 237n71; Stephenson, D. C., 368, 391, 422, 512; St. John, Vincent, 42, 259–60; Sweet trials (see also Sweet, Ossian; Sweet, Henry), 28–29, 43, 318, 319n37, 337–38, 432, 461, 486, 500, 511; upholsterers’ union officials, 42, 253, 253n27; Walling, William English, 152n18, 158n31; Warren, Fred, 37, 152–54, 157–58; Wilde, Louis J., 148–49, 148n7, 165; Winters, John, 8, 331n74, 339, 373–74, 400, 421n69
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: capital punishment (see also American League to Abolish Capital Punishment), 3, 8, 35, 43, 44, 61n37, 71–72, 222–23, 296, 297, 305, 336–37, 340, 342–47, 371, 402–3, 410–11, 413, 427, 434, 464–65, 465; corporal punishment of children, 23; crime committees, 400–401; crime and criminals, 245, 248, 283, 320, 322, 342–47, 356, 400–401 402–3, 408, 410–11; crime and economic status, 83–84; crime statistics, 85, 344, 347, 401; crime statutes, 340, 344, 377; homicide, 342–43, 344–45; insanity, 71–72; punishment, nature of, 70–71, 322, 345, 346, 371, 464–65; punishment of war protestors, 233, 238n77; vengeance, 70–72, 322. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES
DEBATES AND SPEECHES (in date order but excluding many described in the Chronology): speech in Farmdale, Ohio (1887), 55; speech in Warren, Ohio (1887), 55; speech in Marion, Ohio, on tariffs (1887), 61n39; speech on the Haymarket defendants in Chicago (1887), 60n35; speech on women’s rights in Englewood and Rockford, Illinois (1891), 30n104; speech criticizing the Haymarket trial at the Chicago Law Club (1893), 67n16; speech at the People’s Party meetings (1894), 72n24, 131n6, 131n8; speech on politics and patriotism at the Review Club in Chicago (1896), 79–80; speech on “Workingmen and the Courts” (1898), 87; speech on “Government by Injunction” (1900), 92n4; eulogy for John Altgeld in New York City (1902), 101n37; speech at the Chicago Auditorium after anthracite arbitration (1903), 109, 115; speech against Prohibition in Lincoln, Nebraska (1910), 147–48; speech on race at the National Negro Conference in New York (1910), 149–50, 149n9, 150n10; speech on Nietzsche (1913), 199, 201; speech at Brownsville Opera House (1913), 203, 203n139; speech on Voltaire (1914), 204, 204n147; speech in Cincinnati on the war (1915), 216; speeches on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer (1916), 217; speech for Chicago Woman’s Law League on women as lawyers (1916), 30; speeches in Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania on the war (1917), 227; speech on war prisoners (1919), 238, 238n77; debate with Frederick Starr on whether civilization is a failure (1920), 245; speech on “Pessimism” at the Rationalist Educational Society in Chicago (1920), 4; political speeches for James Cox (1920), 249; debate with Lincoln Steffens on the Russian revolution (1920), 249; speech on labor and the closed shop (1921), 253, 253n28; debate with Scott Nearing on the progress of the human race (1921), 259, 259nn40,41; speech against the proposed constitution in Illinois (1922), 271, 271n75; moderating debate between Samuel Untermyer and Morris Hillquit in New York (1924), 297, 297n134; debate with Alfred Talley on capital punishment in New York (1924), 297, 297n135; speech on crime and punishment at Temple Israel in Miami (1925), 302n5; speech at the American Chamber of Congress in London and at the American Club in London (1927), 338; speech for the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment in New York, (1928), 340n100, 347n106; speech to the South Dakota Bar Association (1928), 361–62; debate with Lothrop Stoddard on immigration (1929), 369–70; speech on “Life and How to Live It” (1930), 397, 397n17; speech on “Free Will, the Doctrine of Despair” (1930), 409, 409n43; debate with Preston Bradley and Louis Mann on religion (1931), 423, 423n73; debate Charles Mantinband on “Is Religion Necessary?” (1932), 439; speech in Minneapolis on the National Recovery Administration (1935), 452n135
FAMILY, MARRIAGES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: See individual Darrow family members and other names
HEALTH, PERSONAL: death of, 46; descriptions of, 249, 253, 255–56, 283, 300–301, 333; ear infection and operation, 140n29, 141n32
JUDGES, LAWYERS, AND THE LAW: the administration of justice, 87n21, 336–38; advice to would-be lawyers, 451, 452–53, 463, 465; criminal-defense lawyers, 281; English legal system, 83–84, 337, 345, 392, 464–65; injunctions, 83, 92; judges, criticism of, 88, 92, 100, 372, 461; law, general view of 2, 7, 154, 354; lawyers, criticism of, 76–78, 88, 149, 111, 463, 465; lawyers, duty of, 99–100, 222–23, 422; trials, speed of, 337–38; weariness of practicing law, 99, 103–4, 108, 111, 123, 132, 136, 169, 217, 245, 272, 278
LABOR: Chicago carpenters’ strike (1890), 62; labor committee of World’s Congress Auxiliary for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, 65–67; raid by police on meeting of Painter’s Union (Chicago), 64; labor, in general, 76–77, 220; labor unions, 249, 286; Pullman strike, 73; Samuel Jones’s letters to working men, 93, 95, 97. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES
LITERATURE: desiring time to read and write, 108, 111, 199; Harper’s publishing, criticism of, 98; literary and dramatic club in CD’s school, 51–52; rejection of CD’s works by magazines, 420–21; The Saturday Evening Post, editorial sensitivities of, 378. See also individual authors, editors, and works
PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: advertisement for sale of his library, plate 56; bookplate of, plate 35; boyhood home of, plate 1; letters of, plate 8, 19, 30, 55; photos of, plates 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 23, 28, 34, 41, 42, 43, 44, 48, 49, 54
POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND CIVIC MATTERS: Chicago mayoral campaign of 1903, 35, 107, 109, 110, 112–15, 119–21; Civic Federation of Chicago, criticism of, 87–88; corruption in Chicago and Cook County, 57, 76; crime commissions, 400–401, 402–3; democracy, 59, 396; Dunne, Edward, criticizing as mayor of Chicago, 136–37; Illinois constitutional convention (1920–1922), 271, 271n75; the Illinois legislature, CD’s work in, 118, 119; Johnson, Hiram, praise of as governor of California, 165–66; municipal ownership, 35, 36, 72n24, 110, 120n70, 125n79, 129–30, 137, 143, 157; need for public economic statistics, 85; People’s Party, 72n24, 73–74; political life, expressing a distaste for, 107, 112–13, 130, 143; political spies, possible, 116–18; presidential election of 1876, 59; socialism and socialists, 73–74, 116, 157–58, 236, 246, 266; special counsel for the City of Chicago, CD’s resignation as, 129–30; tariffs, 61n39, 285, 287, 289, 415, 437, 453n136; U.S. senators, seating of, 394; Washington, D.C., and Congress, 53–54. See also Democratic Party; Republican Party
WORKS (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS): Argument of Clarence Darrow in the Case of Henry Sweet, 432; Argument of Clarence S. Darrow in the Wood-Workers Conspiracy Case, 87n22; Crime: Its Cause and Treatment, 41, 255, 255n33, 267n63, 267–70, 273, 283, 291, 408; An Eye for an Eye, 36; Farmington, xvii, 35, 125, 250n20, 295, 303–4, 322, 425, 495; Infidels and Heretics, 44; Is the U.S. Immigration Law Beneficial? A Debate: Clarence Darrow vs. Lothrop Stoddard, 369n151; A Persian Pearl: And Other Essays, 35, 94, 99n27, 397n17; Pessimism: A Lecture, 4n8, 4n25; The Plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22, 23, and 25, 1924, in Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, on Trial for Murder, 8n29, 294, 404, 453; Plea of Clarence Darrow, in His Own Defense to the Jury that Exonerated Him of the Charge of Bribery at Los Angeles, August–1912, 200, 200n129; The Prohibition Mania, 43, 329, 334, 495; Resist Not Evil, 35, 493; Resolved: That Capital Punishment Is a Wise Public Policy, 297n135; The Story of My Life, xix, xxxvi, 2, 21, 31n111, 45, 49n1, 52n10, 140n29, 141n32, 422, 423, 425, 427, 434, 436, 443, 444, 452n135, 444, 453n136; The War Address, 228n58; War Prisoners, 238n77
WORKS (ARTICLES, ESSAYS, ETC.): “Among the Toilers of Switzerland,” 122n74; “At Seventy-Two,” 378n176; “Attorney for the Defense,” 30n110; “Bryan” (book review), 375n171; “Crime and the Alarmists,” 321, 321n44; “Crusader’s Progress” (book review), 325n58; “Darrow’s Speech in the Haywood Case,” 200n130; “The Edwardses and the Jukeses,” 304–5, 306, 306n13, 307, 311; “England’s Rich and Poor,” 122n74; “English Trade Unions in Politics,” 122n74; “The Eugenics Cult,” 304–5, 318, 318n32; “Labor Politics in England,” 122n74; “The Lord’s Day Alliance,” 334n83, 348; “The Myth of the Soul,” 361n135; “Nietzsche,” 30n107; “The Ordeal of Prohibition,” 290; “Our Growing Tyranny,” 334n83; “Present Day Socialism in England,” 122n74; “The Religion on the American Negro,” 409n42; “Results of Bismarckian Socialism,” 122n74; review of Brand Whitlock’s Big Matt, 258; “Schopenhauer,” 30n107; “Second Plea of Clarence Darrow in His Own Defense,” 200n129; “The Shame of America” (book review), 374n168; “Success of the German Socialists,” 122n74; “Switzerland and Its Reformers,” 122n74; “Switzerland’s Political Life,” 122n74; “Tariff Agitation in England,” 122n74; “Voltaire,” 204n148; “Where the British Earnings Go,” 122n74; “Who Knows Justice?,” 421n68; “Why the 18th Amendment Cannot be Repealed,” 420; “Wilhelm Liebknecht and His Work,” 122n74; “Women and Justice: Are Women Fit to Judge Guilt,” 30n110; “Woodrow Wilson,” 242
Darrow, [Edward] Everett (CD’s brother), xv, xx, 22, 56, 243, 303, 476, 477, 507; CD’s letter to, (1873) 51–52; CD and family staying with, 63; criticism of his politics, 285–87; letter from Ammirus Darrow, (1872) 49–51
Darrow, Elmer, 61n40
Darrow, Elsie (Welty), 61
Darrow, Emily (Eddy) (CD’s mother), xv, 475, 475–76, 476, 499, 502; photo, plate 3; death of, 33, 49–51, 424
Darrow, Helen Kelchner (CD’s sister in law), 476, 476, 477; CD and family staying with, 63
Darrow, Herman C. (CD’s brother), 50, 52, 61n40, 429n86, 475, 476; at death of mother, 50
Darrow, Hubert H. (CD’s brother), xv, 63, 429n86, 476
Darrow, Jessie (Ohl). See Brownlee, Jessie (Ohl)
Darrow, Karl K. (CD’s nephew), 24, 476, 477
Darrow, Lillian (Anderson) (CD’s daughter in law), xiii, xv, 292, 376, 473, 477, 477, 491, 510; CD’s letter to, (1909) 144, plate 19; photo, plate 20; marriage to Paul Darrow, 144
Darrow, Mary. See Olson, Mary Darrow
Darrow, Paul [Everett] (CD’s son), 25, 55, 56, 61, 122, 123, 133, 141, 142, 261, 266, 291, 399, 468, 471, 472, 473, 476, 477, 491, 510, 513; CD’s letters to, (1887) 56, (1891) 63, (1896) 82–83, (1911) 159, 162–63, 168, 169–70, 170 (two letters), (1912) 171, 172 (two letters), 173 (two letters), 174–75, 175, 176–77, 179, 183–84, 184 (two letters), 186, 188–89, 190, 191, (1913) 192, 193 (two letters), 194, 196, 198, 198–99, (1917) 226–27, 228, (1918) 230, 231–32, (1919) 237, (1920) 243, (1921) 251–52, 252–53, 254–55, (1922) 271, (1923) 279, (1924) 284–85, 285–87, 287–89, 292, 293 (two letters), 293–94, 297–98, (1927) 330–31, 338, 339, 340, (1928) 361, 361–62, (1929) 380–81, 381, 382, 382–83, 383, 383–84, 385, 385–86, (1931) 415 (two letters), 416, 417, 418–19, 419, (1934) 455–56, (1936) 463–64, plates 30, 55; photos, plates 5, 6, 20, 29; and the accidental death of a child, 330–31, 331n74; arrangements for CD’s death, 463–64; birth of, 34; CD’s first trial and indictments for jury bribery, 15, 16, 17, 18, 170–73, 174–75, 176–77, 179, 183–84, 186; CD’s second trial and remaining indictment for jury bribery, 188–89, 190, 191, 192–93, 194, 196, 198; CD’s defense of the McNamara brothers, 159, 162–63, 168, 169; CD’s concern about their gas plant, 135, 170, 171–73, 177, 178, 179, 189, 228, 237, 243, 254–55, 271, 284, 293, 297, 339; CD’s relationship with, 21–23, 80–81, 124, 126–27, 128–29, 169, 211, 230; and Darrow family papers, xiii–xv, xiv–xv; marriage to Lillian Anderson, 144, plate 20; stock market or debt, CD’s concern about, 226, 228, 230, 252–53, 271, 292, 339, 380–84, 385–86, 398, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419; war draft, CD’s concern about, 231–32
Darrow, Ruby (Hamerstrom) (CD’s second wife), xv, xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, xix, xxiii–xxiv, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20n67, 21, 23–27, 28, 35, 37, 44, 123, 124, 126n82, 198, 202, 229, 261, 274, 279, 321, 342, 383, 399, 411, 417, 423, 438, 451, 453, 463, 477, 484, 517; CD’s letters to, (1902) 102–3, 103, 103–4, 104, 104–5, 105, (1903) 107–8, 111–12, 115, 116–17, 117–18, 118, 121 (two letters), 122 (two letters), (1906) 133–34, 134–35, 135–36, 136n20, (1908) 142, (1911) 158, 160, 161, 168, (1912) 190, (1914) 207–8, (1934) 453, 459, (1936) 464; photos, plates 7, 54; CD apologizing to, 168, 190, 207–8; CD’s desire to establish a home with, 135, 136; CD’s expressions of love or longing for, 102–4, 105, 111–12, 118, 121–22, 133–34, 134–35, 142, 158, 160, 161, 208; CD’s papers, Ruby’s comments about, xiv, xvii–xviii; describing her brother, Albert Hamerstrom, 281n96; during CD’s bribery trials, 171, 173, 178, 183, 184, 186n102, 192; letter to Brand Whitlock, 181n91; letter to Ella Winter, xvii; letter to Harry Barnes, 423nn74,75; letters to Irving Stone, xvii, 281n96; letter to Lewis Lawes, 411n49; marriage to CD, 35; relationship with CD, 23–27; treating CD’s ear infection, 140n29
Darrow, Viola (“Jennie”). See Moore, Viola (“Jennie”) Darrow
Daugherty, Harry M., 259, 259n42, 260, 437n106, 477–78; and the Teapot Dome scandal, 288
Daughters of the American Revolution, 44, 314
Davis, Allen F.: American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams, 212n13
Davis, John W., 289n115, 294, 295, 297–98, 478; CD’s letter to, 294n127
Davis, LeCompte, 15n48, 161, 166, 213, 324, 478
Dawson, Catherine, 263, 263n52
Dawson, Charles W., 243n8, 263n52
The Day Book (Chicago), 210n5, 474
Dearborn (Michigan) Independent: and Henry Ford’s antisemitism, 258n39
Debs, Eugene V., xiii, xiv, xv, xxiv, 87, 184n99, 265n59, 392, 469, 478, 483, 484, 502, 511–12; CD’s letters to, (1907) 140–41, (1913) 200, (1918) 231, (1920) 241; photo, plate 10; commenting on CD’s pessimism, 6; death of, 323, 323n48; defended by CD, 34, 40, 73n26; his imprisonment and CD’s efforts to obtain his release, 231, 233–34, 234n68, 235, 241; letter to Theodore Debs, 241n2; Letters of Eugene Debs, 184n99
Debs, Katherine, 478; CD’s letter to, (1926) 323
Democratic Party or Democrats, 34, 54, 59, 61n39, 72n24, 107, 129n4, 234n69, 236, 243, 288n113, 440; CD’s pessimism about, 236; convention of 1904, 35–36; 1920 convention, 242, 243; 1924 convention, 43, 289, 291, 291n119; 1928 convention, 388n2; 1932 convention, 437n105, 439n111
DePriest, Oscar, xiv, 40; 226n52; trial of, 226n52
Destler, Chester McArthur: Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform, 79n4
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 282n99, 283
A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, 52n13
Dictograph, 183n95
Dietrich, John H., xxivn14, 478; CD’s letters to, (1928) 363–64, (1932) 441; The Fathers of Evolution and Other Addresses, 364n140
The Direction of Human Evolution (Conklin), 267, 267n65
Dodge, Edwin, 496
Doheney, Edward L., 285n108, 286, 287–88
Doherty, Henry L., 228, 243, 258, 258n38, 478–79
Donahue, Katherine, 475
Douglas, Frederick, 349n110
Dowd, Jessie (Stafford), 98, 98n24
Dreiser, Theodore, xiv, 44; trial involving An American Tragedy, 44, 332, 332n77
Du Bois, W.E.B., xiv, 357, 479; CD’s letter to, (1930) 408–9; objects to resolution barring CD from speaking in churches, 349n110
Dubrow, Mary C., 419, 479; CD’s letter to, (1931) 420; letter from Vivian Pierce, 420n66
Duff, Charles: A Handbook on Hanging, 414
Dugdale, Richard L., 270n70; “The Jukes,” 270n70
Dunn, William F., 10n34
Dunne, Edward F., 473, 479; CD’s letter to, (1905) 129–30; CD’s opinion of, 136–37; and Christian Rudovitz’s case, 147n4; marrying CD and Ruby, 123n75; Sunday closings of Chicago World’s Fair, 68n20
Durant, Ariel, 309n19
Durant, Will, xiv, 309, 309n19
Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld (Barnard), 101n36
Easley, Ralph M., 479; CD’s letter to, (1899) 87–88
Eastland (ship), 39
Eastman, Crystal, 39, 211, 211n10
Eastman, Max, 211n10
Eaton, Geoffrey D., 384, 384n185
Eckert, Floyd E., 480; CD’s letter to, (1934) 455
Ecclesiastes, or, The Preacher (Nash), 250n19
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 403, 403n30
Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography (Russell), 239n79, 280n93
The Education of Henry Adams (Adams), 238, 238n78
Edwards, Jonathan, 269, 270n70, 269n68
Edwards, Richard, 269n69
Egler, Belle Hyman: friendship with CD, 372–73; 372n160
Ehrgott, Albert, 197n124, 199, 480; described by CD, 197, 199, 201, 202, 206
Ehrgott, Albert Jr.: death, 232, 232n66
Ehrgott, Kay, 232n66
Eighteenth Amendment (U.S. Const.), 392, 393, 395. See also Prohibition; Volstead Act.
Einstein, Albert, 265n59
Eldred, Henry B., 51, 424, 480
Eldridge, Catherine, 255, 255n32
Ellis, [Henry] Havelock, 351, 351n115, 480
Ely, Richard T., 480; CD’s letters to, (1897) 85, (1898) 87; interest in helping Edward Bemis, 79
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 379, 472
Ensign, Adelbert L., 174n78; possible reference, 179
Ensign, Charles B., 174n78; possible reference, 179
Equi, Marie, 234n69; conviction under the Espionage Act, 234, 234n69
Equi v. United States, 234n69
The Espionage Act of 1917, 40, 42, 512, 516; CD’s speech against, 238n77; and Eugene Debs, 231n64, 233–34, 234n68, 241n1, 478; and Marie Equi, 234–35, 234n69; and Richard Pettigrew, 504; and Vincent St. John, 259n43; and Scott Nearing, 259n40; and William Haywood, 259n43
Esquire, 30n110
Essling, William W., 2n4, 480; CD’s letter to, (1934) 452–53
Eugenics, 39, 43, 246, 269–70, 290, 305n10, 306n13, 311, 318, 512
Everyman (Los Angeles), 190n112, 200n129, 204n148
The Evolution of Penology in Pennsylvania (Barnes), 367n147
Ewing, Harrison W., 370, 370n152
Ewing, William C., 480; CD’s letter to, (1928) 342–47
The Excellent Becomes the Permanent (Addams), 441–42
Falk, Candace: Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman, 99n29
Fall, Albert, 285n108, 286, 288
The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger (Stevens ed.), 144n39
Farrell, John A.: Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, 15n45, 16–19, 26, 28n95, 29
The Fathers of Evolution and Other Addresses (Dietrich), 364n140
Ferrell, Robert H.: The Strange Deaths of President Harding, 437n106
Ferrer Colony, 489
Field, Mary. See Parton, Mary Field
Field, Sara Bard, xxvi, 6, 27, 28n95, 221, 242, 250, 267, 480, 518; CD’s letters to, (1916) 221, (1918) 232; photo, plate 39; argument with CD about war, 218; CD’s affairs with women, 29; death of son, 6, 232, 232n66; divorce from Albert Erhgott, 197, 199, 201, 201n136, 202, 204, 206; suffrage work, 216, 216n26, 219n35, 221n40
Fielden, Samuel, 58n25, meeting in jail with CD, 58–59
Fielding, Edward, 40
Fifty Years a Journalist (Stone), 264n54
Fine, Sidney: Frank Murphy, 336n89; “Without Blare of Trumpets,” 16, 206n152
First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, 441, 478
Fisher, Irving: Prohibition at Its Worst, 329; Prohibition Still at its Worst, 329n68
Fisher, Richard, 82, 230, 480–81
Foley, Bridget, 52–53
Fonda, Henry, 1
Foraker, Joseph Benson, 58, 58n23
Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915–1933 (Nevins & Hill), 216n28, 258n39
Ford, Henry, xiv, 481; CD’s letters to, (1926) 322, 322–23, (1930) 389; anti-Semitism, 258, 258n39; peace ship, 216, 216n28
Forum, 361
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 315, 316, 352, 355, 481
Foster, George Burman, 201, 215, 335, 481
Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings (Gentry) 360n131
France, Anatole, 265n59
Francis, George (John H. Francis’s son), 13, 481
Francis, John H., 279, 279n91, 481; friendship with CD, 13, 210
Francis, Lou Hott, 279, 279n91
Frank Harris (Gertz and Tobin), 430
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Secrest), 215n25
Frank Murphy (Fine), 336n89
Franklin, Benjamin, 251
Franklin, Bert H., 15, 15n48, 174, 174n76
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freidel), 439n111
Franks, Bobby, 291n120
Franz Boas, Social Activist (Hyatt), 284n103
Fraternal Organizations (Schmidt), 257n36
Frazer, James, 44, 338, 339, 338n90
Frederick, David C.: Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891–1941, 240n80
Frederick, John T. (editor), 481; CD’s letters to, (1928) 358–59, (1933) 447; Midland magazine, 358–59
Fredericks, John D. (prosecutor), 481–82; CD’s letter to, (1913) 204–5; political ambitions and possible abuse of power, 204n149
Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment (Stolzfus), 210n5
Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years (Rabban), xxv
Free Speech League, 203n143
Free Trade Club (Chicago), 265
Freidel, Frank: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 439n111
Friede, Donald, 332n77
Friedman, Isaac Kahn, 146n2; CD commenting on, 146
From Dusk to Dawn (film), 38
Frost, Richard H.: The Mooney Case, 428n85
Gale, Zona, xiv
Gallagher, Andrew, 482; CD’s letter to, (1911) 169; CD comments on guilty pleas of McNamaras, 169
Gallagher v. People, 104n40
The Game of Life (Hall), 433n96
Gardner, Fred, xiv
Garfield, James A., 448
Garland, Hamlin, xiv, 482; Hamlin Garland’s Diaries, 6
Garrison, William Lloyd, 349n110
Gary, Joseph E., 482; criticized by CD in speech at Chicago Law Club, 67, 67nn15,16; speech condemning labor at a meeting of Chicago Bar Association, 70
Gates, George, 85n17; A Foe to American Schools, 85n17; litigation with American Book Co., 85n17
Gaylord, Winfield, 144n39
Generals Die in Bed (Harrison), 418
Gentry, Curt: Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, 360n131
George, Henry, 38, 61, 216, 433, 448, 453, 453n136, 475, 482, 508
George, Walter Lionel: The Second Blooming, 211.
Gerson, Harriet Anna (Thompson), 202n138, 213, 214, 333n79
Gerson, T[heodore] Perceval, xivn1, xxiiin11, xxiv, 214, 390, 482; CD’s letters to, (1913) 201–2, (1915) 213–14, (1927) 333, (1928) 356–57, (1929) 380, (1933) 443
Gerson, Vera Madeline (Daniels), 333n79, 380, 390
Gertz, Elmer, 482–83; CD’s letters to, (1927) 330, (1932) 430–31; Frank Harris, 430n88,89
Giddings, Joshua R., 56, 57, 56n21
Giglio, James N.: H. M. Daugherty and the Politics of Expediency, 288nn112,113
Gilbert, Clinton, 260n45; The Mirrors of Washington, 260
Gilson, Tillotson W., 86n19; CD’s plan for Kingdom Publishing Co. lawsuit, 85–86
Ginger, Ray, xv, 129n4; Altgeld’s America, 129n4; The Bending Cross, xv; Six Days or Forever, xv, 312n22, 327n62
Ginn & Company, 86n18
Gitlow, Benjamin, 41; trial of, 393–94
Gitlow v. New York, 393n14
The Glands Regulating Personality (Berman), 266, 266n60, 273
Gleason, Herbert, 86n18; American Book Co.’s litigation against Kingdom Publishing Co., 85–86
Glueck, Bernard, 306, 306n11; and Leopold and Loeb, 306n11
God’s Trombones (Johnson), 331
Goebel, William, 153n19
Goetz, George. See Calverton, Victor F.
Goggin, James, 68n20; injunction against Sunday closings of Chicago World’s Fair, 68n20
Goldblatt, Paul, 483; CD’s letter to, (1933) 444–45
Golding, Fred E., 483; CD’s loan to, 17–18, 340; friendship with CD, 210
Goldman, Emma, 99n29, 489, 516; CD on her arrest after William McKinley was shot, 99; Living My Life, 99n29
Goldman v. United States, 226n49
Gompers, Samuel, 37, 483; CD’s letters to, (1911) 159–60, 162, 163, 164, 169, (1912) 178–79, 179, (1917) 224; letters to CD, 179n88, 224n45; photo, plate 26; CD’s need for money during bribery cases, 178–79, 179n88, 180; CD’s reports on the McNamara cases, 160, 162, 163, 164, 169; guilty pleas of McNamaras, CD’s explanation of, 169; World War I, 224, 224n45
Gomon, Josephine, 28–29
The Good Fight: The Life and Times of Ben B. Lindsey (Larsen), 386n187
Gorky, Maxim, 488
Gorn, Elliott J.: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, 267n61
Grant, Ulysses, 269, 288, 445n123
Great American Lawyers (Draper Lewis ed.), 2
Great Britain, 83, 234n69, 235, 258, 345, 392, 395
Green, F. D., 168n65
Greene, Marion (Field), 221, 221n39
Gregg, John R., 123n75; wife, friend of Ruby Darrow, 123
Gregory, Stephen S., 185n101, 483; CD’s letter to, (1912) 185; defense of Patrick Prendergast with CD, 72n23; John Harrington’s potential disbarment, 185
Griffes, James H., 190, 190n112
Gros, Robert R., 483; CD’s letter to, (1933) 450–51
Growth of the Soil (Hamsun), 284
Grunspan, Anna Berthe: lawsuit against William English Walling, 152n18, 158n31
Gunning, Robert J., 114, 114n56
Gurko, Miriam: Clarence Darrow, 15n45
Gurley, William W., 199, 199n127
The Gynecologic Consideration of the Sexual Act (Lewis), 90n1
Hackler, Victor, 483; CD’s letter to, (1937) 465
Haldeman-Julius, E., 309n19, 337, 516
Haley, Margaret, 483–84; CD’s letter to, (1912) 186–87; CD’s acquittal, 186–87
Hall, Bolton, xiv, 351n115, 484; CD’s letters to, (1906) 133, (1930) 409, (1932) 433; letter to CD, 133n12; The Game of Life, 433n96; offering CD assistance in the Idaho cases, 133, 133n12
Hall, G. Stanley: Senescence: The Last Half of Life, 280
Hamburg, Robert: Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 213n19
Hamerstrom, Albert, 281, 281n96
Hamerstrom, Davis, 484
Hamerstrom, Frances, 26, 27n90, 28n98
Hamerstrom, Frederick, Jr. (Ruby Darrow’s nephew), 26, 27n90, 28n98, 484
Hamerstrom, Frederick, Sr. (Ruby Darrow’s brother), 17, 17n55, 17n58, 115, 117, 123, 135, 159, 162, 231, 339, 383, 484; CD’s letters to, (1912) 177–78, 187, (1913) 197–98, (1930) 398–99; photo, plate 27; CD’s bribery trials, 177–78, 177n86, 187
Hamerstrom, George, 117, 135, 484
Hamerstrom, Ruby. See Darrow, Ruby (Hamerstrom)
Hamlin Garland’s Diaries (Pizer ed.), 6
Hamsun, Knut: Growth of the Soil, 284
A Handbook on Hanging (Duff), 414
Hapgood, Hutchins, xiv, 490; CD’s personality, 14; The Spirit of Labor, 14n42
Harding, Florence, 437n106
Harding, Warren G., 22, 249n18, 259n43, 260n45, 285, 288n113, 388, 389, 469, 478, 484; rumors of his cause of death, 437, 437n106
Hardy, Thomas, 44, 338, 339, 484
Harlan, John Marshall, 109n51
Harlan, John Maynard, II, 109n51
Harlan, John Maynard, 109n51; as a potential candidate for mayor of Chicago, 109
Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 94n10, 321n44, 345, 488
Harriman, Job, 167, 168, 169, 484–85, 518
Harrington, John R., 18–19, 163, 183n95, 485; potential disbarment, 185
Harris, Frank, 430, 485; Bernard Shaw, 430n90; My Life and Loves, 330; potential prosecution of, 330, 330n72
Harris, I.: The Significance of Existence, 135, 201n135, 202
Harrison, Benjamin, 445n121, 448n128
Harrison, Carter, Sr., 34, 116, 483, 485, 485; CD’s published defense of his assassin, 70–72; ownership of the (Chicago) Times, 72n25
Harrison, Jr., Carter, 10, 25, 485, 485; the 1903 Chicago mayoral election, 114, 119, 120, 121n73; CD’s dissatisfaction with as mayor, 113n55, 120; to speak with CD against Prohibition, 147n5
Harrison, Charles Yale, 485–86; CD’s letter to, (1931) 417–18; Clarence Darrow, 15n45, 399n20, 417–18; Generals Die in Bed, 418; letter from Victor Yarros, 399n20
Hart, Schaffner & Marx, 38
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 488
Havelock Ellis: In Appreciation (Ishill ed.), 351
Hawley, James: 486; CD’s letter to, (1907) 139–40; CD’s request for a continuance of Steve Adams’s case, 139–40
Hayes, Rutherford B.: and 1876 election, 59, 59nn32,33
Haymarket case, 7, 56–60, 61, 67nn15,16, 68n17, 70n21, 264–65, 264n54, 467, 482, 485, 515
The Haymarket Tragedy (Avrich), 264n54
Haynes, Randolph, 141n32; friendship with CD, 13–14
Hays, Arthur Garfield, xviii, 329, 367, 371, 401, 403, 416, 419, 425, 486, 496; CD’s letter to, (1925) 314; letter to CD, 403n26; Scopes trial, 312–14; Scottsboro cases, 426–27
Haywood, William (“Big Bill”), 11, 36, 37, 70, 153n19, 404n33, 486, 500, 506; CD’s letter to, (1906) 134; photo, plate 17; habeas petition, 134n14; kidnapping of by Idaho authorities, 132n10; trial of, 135n16. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Idaho cases
Head, Franklin, 62n2; CD’s criticism of, 62
Healey, Charles C., 40, 226n52, trial of, 226–27, 226n52
Healy, William, 306, 306n12; and Leopold and Loeb, 306n12
Hearst, William Randolph, xiv, 36, 220, 294n126, 305, 305n9, 322, 486–87, 493, 502; as client of CD’s, 141
Hecht, Ben: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, 7n26; on CD’s public debates, 7
Heffron, Paul, xviiin7
Heitler, Michael: trial of, 251, 251n24
Henley, William J., 188, 188n108
Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform (Destler), 79n4
Henry Ford and the Jews (Baldwin), 258n39
Henry, Samuel C., 458, 458n144
A Hero in Spite of Himself (Crunden), 98n22
Herron, George D., 498
Herron, William C., 224n44
Hillquit, Morris, 43, 154, 224n44, 297, 297n134, 487
The Historicity of Jesus (Case), 354
A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics (Ives), 363
H. M. Daugherty and the Politics of Expediency (Giglio), 288nn112,113
Hobson, Barbara Meil: Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition, 151n15
Hoffman, Frederick L., 347, 347n105
Holly, William H, 340, 477, 487; on Irving Stone’s biography of CD, 20n67, 29
Holmes, Bayard, 96
Holmes, John Haynes, 315, 351n115, 409, 487
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 3, 516
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 251
Homosexuality: CD’s view of as pathological, 372
Hoover, Herbert, 44, 260n45, 288n113, 357n123, 364n142, 366, 367, 378–79, 415, 437, 487–88; The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover, 378n177
Horner, Henry, 433n98
An Hour on Christianity (Powys), 403
House, E[dward] M[andell], 260n45, 488; CD’s letters to, (1932) 439–40; letter to CD, 440n112
Housman, A. E., 44, 339; Last Poems, 334–35; A Shropshire Lad, 219
Howe, Frederick C., 316n30; Confessions of a Reformer, 316n30
Howells, Elinor Mead, 95, 95n11
Howells, William Dean, xiv, 81, 97, 213, 488; CD’s letter to, (1900) 94–95; letter to CD, 94n8; CD’s desire to meet, 68; letters to Brand Whitlock, 94n9, 97n21; Life in Letters of William Dean Howells, 97n21
Huebsch, Benjamin W., 216n28, 250n20, 295, 410n44, 488
Hugh S. Johnson and the New Deal (Ohl), 454n138
Hughes, Charles Evans, 221n40
Hull House, 75, 100n31, 146, 147n4, 148, 238n72, 436n104, 467, 468, 470, 494, 514, 517, 519
Hunt, George W. P., 434, 434n100
Hyatt, Marshall: Franz Boas, Social Activist, 284n103
Hyde, Charles Cheney, 147n4
Hyde, George Washington, 303, 303n7
Ibsen, Henrik, 38, 188, 188n109
Ickes, Anna, 488
Ickes, Harold, 488–89; CD’s letter to, (1924) 296; letter to CD about Leopold and Loeb case, 296n130
The Ideas of the Apostle Paul (Clarke), 352n116
Illinois House of Representatives, 35
Illinois Industrial Commission, 489, 514
Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind: CD as trustee of, 372–73; described, 372n159
Immigrants’ Protective Association, 27, 503
The Impossible H. L. Mencken (Rodgers), 306n14
In Defense of Yesterday: James M. Beck and the Politics of Conservatism (Keller), 392n10
Independent Labor Party, 120n72, 475
Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony (U.S. Senate), 211n8
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 42, 234n69, 240n80, 299n1, 478, 479, 486, 500; and Vincent St. John, 259, 259n43
Ingersoll, Robert G., 384, 448–49, 488–89; The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, 384n184
Insull, Samuel, 392n10
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, 160n36, 163n41, 166n55, 187n104, 206n152, 497
International Harvester Company, 36, 42
International Labor Defense: Scottsboro cases, 426nn81,82
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, 40, 468, 487, 508
International Working People’s Association (IWPA), 58nn24,30
I Protest: Selected Disquisitions of E. W. Scripps (Knight ed.), 319n40
Iroquois Club (Chicago), 68
Irwin, Inez Haynes (Gilmore), 211, 211n9
Isaak, Abraham, 99n28; CD on his arrest, 99
Isaak, Jr., Abe, 99n28; CD on his arrest, 99
Isaak, Maria, 99n28; CD on her arrest, 99
Isaak, Mary, 99n28; CD on her arrest, 99
Ishill, Joseph, 489; CD’s letters to, (1928) 351, (1931) 423–24
Is It God’s Word? (Wheless), 321, 321n43
Is the U.S. Immigration Law Beneficial? A Debate: CD v. Lothrop Stoddard (1929), 369n151
Ives, George, 363n138; A History of Penal Methods: Criminal, Witches, Lunatics, 363
Jacobs, John T., 163, 170, 171, 172, 173, 489
Jansen, Marc: A Show Trial under Lenin, 265n59
Jasin, Joseph, 489; CD’s letter to, (1925) 302; CD speaking at Temple Israel in Miami, 302n5
Jean-Christophe (Rolland), 206, 214
Jeans, James Hopwood, 403, 403n31
Jefferson Club (Chicago), 36
Jerome, William Travers, 2
Jesus (Case), 354
Jesus Christ, 27, 223, 352, 353, 354, 355, 384, 411, 434, 446, 446n125,
Jews, 35, 41, 201, 258, 262, 411
J. Hardin and Son (Whitlock), 282–83, 282n99
JL-6 (airplane), 243n9
Johannsen, Anton, 16, 211, 238, 489–90, 515; National Labor Defense Council, 227n53
John Randolph Haynes (Sitton), 14n41
Johnson, Edna Louise, 496
Johnson, Hiram, 150, 204n149, 260n45, 490, 502; CD’s assessment of him, 165–66
Johnson, Hugh S., 458n147, 490; CD’s letter to, 454
Johnson, James Weldon, 357, 490–91; CD’s letters to, (1927) 331, (1928) 349–50, (1931) 410; photo, plate 45; God’s Trombone’s, 331
Johnson, Ralph, 491; CD’s letter to, (1932) 428
Johnson, Tom L., 143n36; CD on his fate as a politician, 143
Johnston, Jessie Darrow, xiii, 350, 351, 361, 376, 477, 491
Jones Act, 379n178
Jones, Llewellyn, 447, 447n126
Jones, Mary Harris (“Mother”), xiv, 43; The Autobiography of Mother Jones, 267, 267n61
Jones, Percy, 95
Jones, Robert Elijah, 409n42
Jones, Samuel M, 491; CD’s letters to, (1900) 92–93, 93, 95, (1901) 97; Letters of Love and Labor, 93, 95, 97n20
Jones, Wesley L., 379, 379n178
Journal of the American Medical Association, 90n1, 91n3
Journal of the Rutgers University Library, 94n9
Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, 84n16
Joyce, James, 488
Judd, Lawrence M., 432n94
Judd, Winnie Ruth, 434, 434n99, 435
“The Jukes”: A Study of Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity (Dugdale), 270n70
Jukes family, 270, 270n70, 290, 305
The Jungle (Sinclair), 510
The Junior Munsey, 100n31
Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive (Morton), 129n4
Juvenile Protective Association (Chicago), 470
Kankakee Manufacturing Company, 38
Kansas legislature, 8, 413, 413n53
Kanto earthquake, 280n95
Karsner, David: Talks with Debs in Terre Haute, 6
Kavanagh, Marcus, 356, 356n121
Keebler, Robert S., 313, 313n25, 314
Keller, Helen, xiv, 491; CD’s letters to, (1928) 368, (1929) 372–73; photo, plate 51
Keller, Morton: In Defense of Yesterday: James M. Beck and the Politics of Conservatism, 392n10
Kellogg, William Ross, 381, 381n181
Kennedy, James H., 491–92; CD’s letter to, (1925) 303–4
Kern, W.E., 10n34
Kersten, Andrew E.: Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast, 15n45, 16, 20
Kidd, Thomas I., 10; CD represents, 34, 87n22
Kiefer, Daniel, 186, 216, 186n103
Kiefer, Haley, 186n103
King, John F., 366, 492; CD’s letter to, (1928) 367
The Kingdom, 86n18
Kingdom Publishing Company: CD’s representation in lawsuit with American Book Company, 85–86
Kinsman Academy, 33, 51–52, 476
Kinsman Free Public Library, 429
Kinsman, Ohio, 33, 303, 429, 429n86, 474, 475, 476, 480
Kinsman Presbyterian Church, 424, 429
Kipling, Rudyard, 248n17
Knights of Labor, 61n38, 492, 499
Knopf, Alfred A., 295n129
Kraus, Adolf, 72n25; Reminiscences and Comments, 68n20, 72n25
Kroch’s Bookstores: and CD’s papers, xviii
Ku Klux Klan, 345, 368, 410n44, 439, 512
Kunstler, William, 2
Labadie, Joseph, 492; CD’s letter to, (1928) 348
Laemmle, Carl, xiv
La Follette, Robert, xiv, 286n110, 294n128, 295, 297, 297n134, 298, 478, 492; CD’s assessment of, 286, 302
La Guardia, F. H., xiv
Lakatos, Rose, 460
Larsen, Charles: The Good Fight: The Life and Times of Ben B. Lindsey, 386n187
Larson, Edward: Summer for the Gods, 307n15
The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow (McRae), 28n96
Lawes, Lewis E., 347n106, 419, 492; CD’s letters to, (1931) 410–11, (1932) 427, 438; letter to CD, 411n48; photo, plate 52; letter from Ruby Darrow, 411n49; Life and Death in Sing Sing, 410n45, 411n47, 427; Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, 438
Lawrence, D.H., 488
Lawyers’ Association of Illinois: dinner for CD in 1913, 198n125
League of Nations, 41, 234n69, 236, 426n80
Leegson, Ida, 217n31
Leibowitz, Samuel S., 2
Lemmon, Jack, 1
Lenroot, Irvine L., 286, 286n110
Leopold, Nathan, 7, 42–43, 305n10, 306nn11,12, 404, 432, 453, 482, 493, 495–96, 505; CD’s letters to, (1924) 296, (1928) 364; photo, plate 34; CD’s defense of, 291–94; potential parole controversy, 364
The Letters of Brand Whitlock (Nevins ed.), 94nn8,9, 145n42, 327n64
Letters of Eugene Debs (Constantine ed.), 184n99
Letters of Love and Labor (Jones), 93, 95n13, 97n20
The Letters of Louis D. Brandeis (Urofsky & Levy eds.), 106n45
Levering, James H., 163n45
Lewis, Denslow, 493; CD’s letter to, (1900) 90–92; The Gynecologic Consideration of the Sexual Act, 90n1
Lewis, Fay, 186, 210, 227n53, 255, 320, 333, 493; letter from Frank Walsh, 227n53
Lewis, Joseph, 371, 493–94; CD’s letter to, (1921) 254; The Tyranny of God, 254
Lewis, Mary Darrow, 52n11
Lewis, Sinclair, xiv, 494; CD’s letters to, (1921) 250–51, (1926) 318–19; letters to CD, 318n34, 319n36; photo, plate 44; Elmer Gantry, 318n34, 332n77; Main Street, 250–51, 250nn20,22
Lewis, William Draper: Great American Lawyers (ed.), 2
The Liberal Review, 30n107
Liberty, 371
Life and Death in Sing Sing (Lawes), 410, 410n45, 414, 427
The Life of Voltaire (Tallentyre [Hall]), 206n150
Lighthall, H.D., 10n34
Lincoln, Abraham, 37, 349n110, 445n123
Lindblom, Robert, 494; his support for CD running for mayor of Chicago, 113, 113n54, 114
Linden, Carl Eric, 494; CD’s letter to, (1932) 436
Lindsey, Benjamin B., xvi, 216n28, 271, 351n115, 443, 494; CD’s letters to, (1922) 263–64, (1929) 386–87; disbarment of, 386, 386n187
Lippmann, Walter, 494–95; CD’s letter to, (1928) 362; trial of John Scopes, 307, 307n15
Lisk, Byron, 168n65
Liveright, Horace, 495; CD’s letter to, (1927) 329; Farmington, 425; publishing The Prohibition Mania, 329n68
Living in the Twentieth Century (Barnes), 367n147
Living My Life (Goldman), 99n29
Lloyd, Caroline. See Withington, Caroline (“Caro”) Lloyd
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 41, 106, 158, 243, 442, 495; CD’s letters to, (1890) 62, (1891) 64–65, 65, (1892) 65–67, (1893) 67, 68, 70, (1894) 72, 73, 73–74, (1896) 79, 81–82, (1898) 85–86, (1901) 96–97, (1903) 116, 118–19; letter to CD, (1903) 118n66; photo, plate 11; anthracite arbitration, 104n42, 155–56, 518; CD’s comment on Wealth against Commonwealth, 81; CD reminiscing about, 131; death of, 125; encouraged to become a socialist by CD, 116; friendship with CD, 13; Mazzini and Other Essays, 65n8; Men, the Workers, 156n26; speech on free speech and assemblage, 65, 65n8
Lloyd, Jessie Bross, 82, 495; CD’s letter to, (1903) 125
Lloyd, William Bross, 41, 243n7; trial, 243
Lockwood, George, 14, 15n45, 175n81; CD’s acquittal on charge of bribing, 184n100
Loeb, Richard, 7, 42–43, 296, 305n10, 306nn11,12, 493, 495–96; photo, plate 34; CD’s defense of, 291–94; potential parole controversy, 364
London, Jack, 150n11
Loos, Anita, xiv
Lord’s Day Alliance, 327, 327n63, 334n83, 348n107, 362
Lorimer, William, 39, 212, 212n12
Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman (Falk), 99n29
Love, Sidney, 37, 418, 419, 418n65
Lovett, Robert Morss, 505
Luhan, Antonio, 496
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 496; CD’s letter to, (1914) 207
Lukas, J. Anthony: Big Trouble, 14n44, 138nn26,27
Lundin, Fred, 42, 272n78; trial of, 272, 272n78, 274, 278, 279
Lusitania, 212, 212n13, 397n17
Lynching, 149n9, 374n168; in San Jose, California, 451–52, 465
Machemer, Corona, 3n6
MacMillan, Margaret: Paris 1919, 235n70
Macrae, John, 496; CD’s letter to, (1929) 371–72
Macy, Anne Sullivan, 373, 373n162
Main Street (Lewis), 250–51, 250nn20,22, 494
Malcolm, Janet: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, 32
Malone, Dudley Field, 272, 272n79, 314, 496
Maloy, John, 10n34
The Man from Kinsman (Crandall), 474
Mantinband Charles, xxivn14, 496–97; CD’s letter to, (1932) 438–39
Mark, St., 355
Marshall, John, 1
Martin, Joseph S., 102, 102n38
Mason, Lowell B., 455, 455n140
Mason, William E., 455, 455n140
Massachusetts v. Friede, 332n77
Massie, Thalia, 45, 431n91, 432n94
Massie, Thomas, 45, 431n91, 432n94
Master and Man (Tolstoy), 373
Masters, Edgar Lee, 12n39, 35, 126n82, 467, 497; CD’s letters to, (1907) 141–42, (1912) 175–76, (1919) 239, (1923) 279–80; letter to CD, 239n79; photo, plate 16; Across Spoon River, 239n79; and CD’s indictment for bribery, 175–76, 176n83; and the Chicago Bar Association, 454n137; possible draft letter to CD, 280n93; and his divorce, 239, 239n79; and law firm finances, 141–42; his letter to the San Francisco Bulletin, 176n83; recommended by CD for employment, 279–80, 280n93; Spoon River Anthology, 213, 213n18, 497
Masters, Helen Jenkins, 239n79; divorce, 239
Matthew, St., 355
Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage, 283–84
McAdoo, William G., 243, 286, 287–88, 497
McCall’s, 30n110
McClure, S. S., 138n26; involvement in William Haywood’s trial, 138nn26,27, 139
McClure’s Magazine, 138nn26,27
McConnell, Francis J., 309–10, 309n20
McCormick, Edith, 42
McCormick, Harold, 42
McCosh Grammar School (Chicago), 499, 502
McCutcheon, John T., xiv
McKenna, Joseph, 155
McKenna, Marian C.: Borah, 137n24
McKinley, William: assassination of, 59n33, 99n28, 146n3, 155n24, 220, 265n55
McKinley, William B., 392n10
McKnight, William: CD’s letter to, (1936) 463
McLaughlin, Irene (Castle). See Castle, Irene
McManigal, Ortie, 158n32, 163, 163n41, 187n104, 324, 497
McMath, Robert C., Jr.: American Populism, 131n5
McNamara, James B., 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 29, 38, 174n76, 180n90, 183n97, 187n104, 194n119, 204n149, 205, 238, 249, 281n96, 360, 471, 472, 478, 484, 485, 490, 497, 503, 506, 508, 509, 515, 518; CD’s letters to, (1912) 171–72, 185; photo, plate 24; CD’s work in defense of, 158–64, 166–69, 179, 222–23; guilty plea and sentence, 169nn67,69; efforts to obtain his release from prison, 324, 325–26, 341. See also Darrow, Clarence, CASES AND CLIENTS, Los Angeles Times building bombing
McNamara, John J., 18, 19, 22, 38, 180n90, 183n97, 187n104, 194n119, 204n149, 205, 281n96, 471, 472, 478, 484, 485, 490, 497–98, 503, 506, 508, 509, 515, 518; CD’s letters to, (1912) 171–72, 185; photo, plate 24; efforts to obtain his release from prison, 238, 244, 249; CD’s work in defense of, 158–64, 166, 179, 222–23; guilty plea and sentence, 169nn67,69. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Los Angeles Times building bombing
McPherson, Kansas: CD reminiscing about, 428, 491
McRae, Donald: The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow, 28n96
McWilliams, Russell, 433, 433n98, 434, 435, 443
Means, Gaston, 437, 437n106; The Strange Death of President Harding, 437n106
Mechanic, Julia, 99n28; CD on her arrest, 99–100
Meehan, John J., 498; CD’s letter to, (1934) 454
Mellon, Andrew, 288, 415, 288n113
Men, the Workers (Lloyd), 156n26
Mencken, H. L., xiv, 1–3, 31n115, 334, 343, 351n115, 407n39, 415, 498; CD’s letters to, (1924) 290, 291, 295, (1925) 304–5, 306–7, 310–11, (1926) 318, 321–22, (1927) 327–28, 329, (1928) 366, (1930) 404; letter to CD, 291nn118,119; photo, plate 37; article on CD, 329; and John F. King, 366–67; reporting on the Scopes trial, 306n14, 318n33; review of Is It God’s Word? (Wheless), 321n43; Scopes trial, 306–7, 318n33; “Stewards of Nonsense,” 1–3
Mencken, Sara Powell (Haardt), 404, 404n32
Mennonite Quarterly Review, 99n28
Merchants and Manufacturers Association (Los Angeles), 164, 195
Methodism, 257, 307, 315, 347, 362, 363
Meyer Bowell Books: handling CD’s papers, xviii
M’Gee, Hugh, 10n34
Mid-America, 59n33
Midland (magazine), 358–59, 447
Miller, Henry, 482
Miller, William H. H., 272n77
Mills, Benjamin Fay, 86n18, 214, 214n22, 498; CD’s letter to, (1905) 128
Mills, Walter Thomas, 66n11; World’s Congress Auxiliary, 66
Milner, Duncan C., 252, 498; CD’s letters to, (1917) 223–24, (1921) 252
The Mind of Primitive Man (Boas), 284, 284n103
The Mirror, 212–13, 213n16, 242n6
The Mirrors of Washington (Gilbert), 260, 260n46
Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 150n14, 228n58
Mitchell, John, xiv, 37, 115, 499; CD’s letters to, (1903) 108–9, (1906) 132, (1912) 180; photo, plate 12; anthracite arbitration, 104, 108–9; CD seeking advice in the Idaho cases, 132; coal miners’ strike in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 132n11; CD soliciting financial assistance from during his bribery trials, 180; supporting CD’s potential candidacy for mayor of Chicago, 109n52
The Mooney Case (Frost), 428n85
Mooney, Thomas J., 220n37, 428, 499, 502, 516; CD’s letters to, (1928) 359–60, 365, 365n143; CD comments on strategy for his release from prison, 359–60, 365
Moore, J[ohn] Howard (CD’s brother in law), xv, xxvn16, 17, 17n58, 39, 499, 499, 507; CD’s letters to, (1911) 167, (1912) 177, 191–92; photo, plate 22; and CD’s bribery cases in Los Angeles, 177; The Universal Kinship, 191n114; and vegetarianism, 191–92
Moore, Viola (“Jennie”) Darrow (CD’s sister), xv, xvii, 167, 192, 499, 499; CD’s letters to, (1912) 176, 182–83; and CD’s bribery cases, 176, 176n84, 182–83; death of mother, 50
Morgan, J. P., 115n60, 294n128
Moro, Joseph, 499; CD’s letters to, (1926) 323, (1927) 336
Moroney, Winifred: CD’s letter to, (1930) 393–94
Morris, Edward H., 281n97; CD’s support for as judicial candidate, 281–82
Morris, William, 81n10; CD’s comment on, 81
Morrison, Frank, 37, 180, 180n89
Morton, Richard Allen: Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive, 129n4
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Gorn), 267n61
Mount Vernon, 351; CD’s observations of, 54–55
Moyer, Charles H., 36, 133n12, 137, 139n28, 153n19, 154, 500, 504, 506; CD’s letters to, (1906) 134, (1913) 193–94; letter to CD, 194n118; photo, plate 17; CD’s bribery trials, 193–94; charges dropped against, 141n32; habeas petition, 134n14; kidnapping of by Idaho authorities, 132n10. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Idaho cases
Moyer v. Nichols, 134n14, 155n23
Mulholland, Frank L., 500; CD’s letter to, (1911) 161–62
Münsterberg, Hugo, 500; CD’s letter to, (1907) 138–39; criticized by CD for his involvement in Haywood’s trial, 138–39; involvement in William Haywood’s trial, 138n26
Murphy, Frank, xxivn13, 500; CD’s letters to, (1926) 319, (1927) 336–38, (1935) 461–62, (1937) 464–65; letter to CD, 450n130, 450n131; photo, plate 53; capital punishment, 337; Sweet case, 337–38
Murphy, George, 501; CD’s letter to, (1933) 449–50; letter to CD, 450n131
Musset, Alfred de, 251
My Life and Loves (Harris), 330
The Mystery of Life (film), 45, 415, 416
Nash, John Henry, 250, 250n19; CD’s letter to, (1921) 250n19
Nathanson, William, 225, 225n47, 225n48
The Nation, 357n124; CD’s letter to, (1929) 378–79
National Association for the Advance of Colored People (NAACP), 38, 45, 149n9, 152n17, 318n35, 356–57, 374, 479, 487, 490–91, 511, 516, 517, 527; Scottsboro cases, 426
National Biscuit Company, 129
National Erectors’ Association (NEA), 183n95
National Federation of Teachers, 484
National Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of America: bars CD from speaking in member churches, 44, 349–50, 349n110
National Labor Defense Council: National Labor Defense Council, 227, 227n53
National Labor Forum, 297n134
National Prohibition Act, 379n178
National Recovery Act, 457
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 46, 450, 450n131, 452n135, 454n138, 455n140, 458, 462, 490, 514
National Recovery Review Board, 46, 313n25, 454, 454n138, 455–56, 457–58, 514; reports of, 458, 458n147
National Security League, 228, 228n58
National Woman’s Party, 211n11, 219n35, 220n38, 245, 272n79, 273n80, 278n89, 479, 505
National Women’s Trade Union League, 468
Neal, John R., 312–13, 312n22, 501
Neal, William W., 458, 458n146
Nearing, Scott, 41, 259, 259n40; debate with, 259n41
Neer, William, 18
Nelson, Nelson Olsen, 93, 97, 501
Nevin, John (“Jack”) E., 294, 294n126
Nevins, Allan: The Letters of Brand Whitlock (1936), 94n8, 145n42, 327n64; Ford (1957), 216n28, 258n39
Newcomb, Walter, 459n148
New England Quarterly, 77
The New Republic, 375n171
New York Times: CD’s letter to, (1930) 391–92
New York World, 357; editorial criticism of CD, 11, 32
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 27, 199, 201, 206, 217, 353, 356; influence on CD, 30; 39
Nockels, Ed, 18–19
Noel, Maude Miriam, 215n25
Nolan, John I., 501; CD’s letter to, (1913) 194–95
Norris, Kathleen, 371n154
Northampton School for Girls, 361n134
Noyes & Jackson, 226n51, 252, 418
Nugent, Walter T.K., The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism, 131n5
Nuncius (Italy), 247n16
Nye, Gerald P., 454n138
Oakes, George W., 501; CD’s letters to, (1928) 365–66, 369–70
Oakford, Aaron, 285n106
Oakford, Edwin (“Ned”), 284–285, 284n105
Oatley, Sarah Darrow, 303, 303n6
Oberholtzer, Madge, 512
O’Brien, Patrick H., 450, 450n132
Ochs, Adolph S., 501
O’Connor, Thomas H., 238, 238n74
O’Donnell v. Illinois, 104n40
O’Donovan, Gerald, 273, 273n81
Of Human Bondage (Maugham), 283–84
Ogden Gas Company, 75n2
Oglesby, Richard: commuting sentences of Haymarket defendants, 58n25, 58n27; CD’s petition of the Chicago Land and Labor Club for clemency, 61n37
Ohl, Jessie. See Brownlee, Jessie (Ohl)
Ohl, John Kennedy: Hugh S. Johnson and the New Deal, 454n138
Older, Cora Miranda Baggerly, 150–51, 278, 280, 301, 502
Older, Fremont, 3, 5, 176n83, 186, 202, 209, 218, 219, 238, 325, 422, 502; CD’s letters to, (1910) 150–51, (1911) 165–66, 166, 167, (1916) 219–20, (1919) 239–40, (1920) 244, 248–49, (1922) 261–62, (1923) 277–78, 280, (1925) 300–301, (1926) 324–25, 325, (1933) 451–52; photo, plate 40; CD responding to Older’s editorials, 165, 166; friendship with CD, 13; and the National Labor Defense Council, 227n53; Preparedness Day bombing, 220, 220n37
Olson, Mary Darrow, xv; 51, 56, 291, 499, 502
Olson, Olaf G., 502
Orchard, Harry, 137n23; autobiographical essay in McClure’s Magazine, 138n27; and Hugo Münsterberg, 138–39, 138n26; and Steve Adams, 139n28
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 10, 35, 87, 468
Otis, Harrison Gray, 195n121, 324n56, 518
Our Times (Sullivan), 404n33
Page Act, 151n15
Paine Lumber Company, 34, 87n22
Painters’ Union (Chicago), meeting of raided by police, 64n6
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 234n68, 242, 242n5; letter to Woodrow Wilson, 234n68
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), 209n2, 216n26
Paris 1919 (MacMillan), 235n70
Parsons, Albert, 58n24; visit with CD in jail; 58–59
Parsons, Alice Beal, 31, 503; CD’s letter to, (1926) 317; Woman’s Dilemma, 317
Parton, Lemuel F., xxvi, 202, 238, 244, 471, 503, 503, 504; photo, plate 36
Parton, Margaret, xviiin7, 27, 28n95, 28n97, 211, 211n6, 503; photo, plate 36; Journey through a Lighted Room, 23n79, 232n66
Parton, Mary Field, xvi, xviiin7, xx, xxvi, 10, 23n79, 31–32, 221, 471, 480, 503, 503; CD’s letters to, (1910) 146–47, 147–48, 151–52, (1912) 174, 187–88, 188, 189–90, (1913) 200–201, 202–3, 203–4, (1915) 209–10, 211–12, 215–16, (1916) 217–19, 219, (1919) 237–38, (1920) 244–46, (1921) 253–54, 255–56, (1922) 266–67, (1923) 272–73, (1927) 334–35, (1930) 406–7; photos, plates 18, 36; The Autobiography of Mother Jones, 267, 267n61; CD’s bribery trials, 174, 186n102, 187–88, 195; and Christian Rudovitz’s case, 146–47; in Indianapolis courtroom, 189, 189n111; marriage, 202; Page Act in New York, 151, 151n15; pessimistic statements from CD, 5–7, 31; relationship with CD, 13, 27–29; relationship with Ruby Darrow, 28; Sara Bard Field’s divorce, 199, 201, 204; security from CD for a bank loan, 406–7; sentimental statements from CD, 146
“Patterson,” “My Dear”: CD’s letter to, (1932) 437–38
Patterson, Thomas, 137n24
Paul, St., 352–53
Paulson, Elva Hamerstrom: CD’s letters to Ruby Darrow, xviii–xix
Penrose, Charles, 445, 445n122
Penrose, Richard, 445, 445n122
People of the State of California v. Clarence Darrow, 12n38, 15n46
People v. Bond, 218n31
The People v. Clarence Darrow (Cowan), 15n45, 16n50, 28n95, 29, 32n117
People v. Lloyd, 243n7
People v. McWilliams, 433n98
People v. Varecha, 444n120
People v. Wolfgang, 300n2
People’s Church (Chicago), 471
People’s Party: Vincent brothers and Kansas, 131n5; CD’s speeches at meetings of in Chicago, 72n24, 131n6, 131n8; CD’s uncertainty about, 73–74
Perkins, Dwight Heald, 100n31
Person, Arthur, 41
Pettibone, George A., 36, 37, 132n10, 133n12, 139n28, 153n19, 154, 486, 500, 504, 506; CD’s letter to, (1906) 134; photo, plate 17; habeas petition, 134n14; ; kidnapping of by Idaho authorities, 132n10; trial of, 140, 140n29, 141, 141n32. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Idaho cases
Pettibone v. Nichols, 134n14, 155n23
Pettigrew, Richard F., 106, 179, 205, 274, 504; CD’s letters to, (1902) 101–2, (1912) 182, (1926) 320–21; photo, plate 17; CD’s bribery trials, 182; CD seeking to move his trial date, 140
Pettigrew, Roberta (“Berta”) Hollister Smith, 321n42
Phelps, Mrs.: CD’s letter to, (1930) 400–402
Phillips, Wendell, 504; CD’s desire for a bust of, 97
Phillpotts, Eden, 334, 334n81; The Thief of Virtue, 148n6
Phipps, Lawrence C., 286, 289, 298, 504–5
Pierce, Vivian, 401, 420, 464, 505, 511; CD’s letters to, (1925) 305, 305–6, 314–15, (1928) 340, 347, 369, (1929) 371, 375, (1930) 409, (1931) 413, 414, 416–17, 419–20, 421, (1932) 435, 435–36; letters to CD, 369n150, 413nn52,53, 414n56, 435n102; photo, plate 32; letter to Mary Dubrow, 420n66; potential resignation from the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, 435, 435n102; relationship with CD, 8; upset with CD, 413, 413n52
Pinchot, Cornelia, 445, 445n124
Pinchot, Gifford, 445, 445n124
Pinkerton, William, xiv
Pischel, Kaspar: treating CD for ear infection, 140n29
Pliny the Younger, 379
Plummer, Christopher, 1
Plutarch, 192
The Poet in the Desert (Wood), 212
Porter, Byron, 505
Porter, Julia (Smith), 505; CD’s letter to, (1932) 429
Potter, Charles Francis, 441, 441n114
Powderly, Terence V., 61n38
Powers, Levi Moore, 145, 505; CD’s letter to, (1915) 216–17
Powers, Orlando W., 192, 196, 505
Powys, John Cowper, xxiii, 403, 403n29
Powys, Llewelyn, 505–6; CD’s letter to, (1930) 403; An Hour on Christianity, 403
Powys, Theodore Francis, xiv, 403, 403n28
Prendergast, Patrick Eugene, 34, 483; CD’s defense of, 70–72; murder of Carter Harrison Sr., 70n22; trial of, 72n23
Preparedness-Day bombing, 220n37, 360, 499
Prewitt, Charles Russell, 506; CD’s letters to, (1928) 352–54, 355–56
Progressive, 330nn72,73, 430n89
Prohibition. See Darrow, Clarence, CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, Prohibition. See also Eighteenth Amendment; Volstead Act
Prohibition at Its Worst (Fisher), 329
Prohibition Still at Its Worst (Fisher), 329n68
Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past, 327–28, 327n64
Public Ownership Party, 35
Pukas, Edward, 449–50, 449n129, 450n130
Pukas, Stella, 449–50, 449n129
Pulitzer, Joseph, 11
Pullman Palace Car Company, 34
Pullman strike, 7, 10–11, 34, 73n26, 131n9, 392n9, 467, 478, 483, 502, 512
Purity in Print (Boyer), 332nn76,77
Quay, Matthew, 445, 445n121, 445nn122,123
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120n70
Quinn, Edward, 10n34
Rabban, David: Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, xxvn17
“Rabbi,” “My Dear”: CD’s letter to, (1933) 443–44
Randolph, Elizabeth Calhoun, 263–264, 263n51, 263n52, 264n53
Randolph, John R., 263–64, 263n51, 264n53
Rappaport, Leo M., 160, 160n36, 161
Rationalist Educational Society, 4
Raulston, John T., 307–8, 307n16; photo, plate 42
Reed, John: National Labor Defense Council, 227n53
Reedy, William Marion, 212, 242, 242n6
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 327, 327n64
Reminiscences and Comments (Kraus), 68n20, 72n25
Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October 1902, 119n67
Republican Party or Republicans, 57, 59, 72n24, 109, 150n14, 288, 357, 392, 437, 440, 462, 488, 491, 462, 504
The Revolt Against Civilization (Stoddard), 282n99, 284
Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky and William English Walling (Boylan), 152n18
Rice, Wallace, 44; Infidels and Heretics (1929), 44
Richardson, Edmund F., 133, 506; disagreements with CD in the Idaho cases, 134, 134n15, 136, 138
Ricketts, C.L., 99n27
Riis, Roger William, 400–401, 400n23
Riley, William Bell, 353, 353n118
Ritter, William Emerson, 270n73
Roach, John M., 237n71
Rockwell, Irvin E., 189n110, 191, 506; CD’s letter to, (1933) 446–47; letter to CD, 446n125
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth: The Impossible H. L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories, 306n14
Rogell, Albert, 405n36
Rogers, Earl, 38, 184, 192, 193, 196, 213n21, 506
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 437
Roosevelt, Franklin D., xiv, 46, 388, 451n134, 454n138, 487, 488–89, 490, 500, 507, 516; CD’s letters to, (1934) 457, 457–58, 458; criticism of by CD, 462; letter from John Sinclair, 458n143; presidential campaign of 1932, 429, 437, 439, 440;
Roosevelt, Theodore, 3, 38, 41, 104n42, 119n67, 131n9, 146n3, 150, 220n37, 490
Root, Elihu, 147n4, 220, 220n37, 260n45; The United States and the War, 220
Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (White), 374n168
Rosenwald, Augusta (“Gussie”), 237–38, 238n72
Rosenwald, Julius, 217, 217n30, 238n72
Ross, Edward A., 507; CD’s letter to, (1927) 338–39; letter from, 339n93
Roycroft Press, 397n17
Rudkin, Frank H., 507; appeal of Marie Equi, 234n69; trial and conviction of IWW members, 239–40, 240n80, 278
Rudovitz, Christian, 37, 147; photo of his lawyers, plate 14; CD’s defense of, 147n4
Ruef, Abraham, 165n48, 166, 490
Rugged Justice (Frederick), 240n80
Russell, Bertrand, 265n59
Russell, Charles Edward, 167, 283, 507
Russell, Herbert K.: Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography, 239n79, 280n93
Russell, Lillian: CD compares his daughter-in-law to her, 144, 144n38
Russia, 235, 249, 391; and Bolsheviks, 236
Sacco, Nicola, 323, 323n49, 336, 499
“Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day” (poem) (Johnson), 410
Salt, Henry, xv, 191, 423–24, 507; Cvm Grano, Versus and Epigrams, 423–24; poem about CD, 424n76
Salter, William M., 61, 62n1, 265, 508
San Francisco Bulletin, 469, 165n48, 176n83, 186n102, 493, 502, 503
San Francisco Examiner, 220n37, 487, 492–93
San Francisco Labor Council: CD’s letter to, (1914) 206–7, 482, 501
Saturday Evening Post, 378n176
Saunders, Harlan K. Jr., 126n82
Schilling, George A., 508; CD’s letters to, (1887) 60–61, (1903) 110, 112, 112–14, 114–15; photo, plate 9; CD’s potential run for mayor of Chicago, 110, 112–15; CD’s trial for jury bribery, 18–19; friendship with CD, 13; and Haymarket incident, 60–61, 61n38, 264, 264n54
Schlesinger, Benjamin, 508; CD’s letter to, (1922) 265–66; Socialist Revolutionary Party defendants, 265–66, 265n59
Schmidt, Alvin J.: Fraternal Organizations, 257n36
Schmidt, Matthew, 324, 326, 341, 472, 497, 508; arrest and trial, 209n1, 213n19
Schoolcraft, Henry L., 416n58
Schopenhauer, Arthur: influence on CD, 30, 40, 217
Schorer, Mark: Sinclair Lewis, 250n22
Schwartz, Samuel D., 508–9; CD’s letters to, (1925) 308–9, 309–10; letter to CD, quoting Francis McConnell, 309n20
Science: The False Messiah (Ayres), 354
Scientific Monthly, 412n50
Scopes, John, xiii, xv, 43, 306–7, 308, 312n22, 313n25, 318n33, 319–20, 326n61, 441n114, 471, 486, 496, 501, 509, 513; CD’s letter to, (1927) 326–27
Scopes v. State, 326
Scottsboro (Carter), 426n81
Scottsboro cases, 45, 426nn81,82, 430, 430n87, 486
Scribner’s Magazine, 421n68
Scripps, E. W., 18, 167, 225, 261, 474, 507, 509; CD’s letters to, (1915) 210, (1922) 267–70, 270–71, (1923) 274; letter to CD, 268n66, 269n67; photo, plate 46; death of, 319, 319n40; excursion with CD, 274; and Woods Hole, 267, 267n64
Scripps Howard News Service, 397, 414, 440, 468
Sears, Joseph H., 98n22; letter to Whitlock, 98n22
The Second Blooming (George), 211
Secrest, Meryle: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, 215n25
Seham, Max, 509–10; CD’s letter to, (1920) 246–48
Senescence: The Last Half of Life (Hall), 280
Severance Club (Los Angeles), 214n24
Shaw, George Bernard, 44, 265n59, 338, 430n90, 510
Sherwood, Isaac R., 261, 261n47
Sherwood, Katherine Brownlee, 261, 261n48
Shore, Elliot: Talkin’ Socialism, 153n19, 154n22
A Show Trial under Lenin (Jansen), 265n59
The Significance of Existence (Harris), 201, 202
Simon, Cyrus, 510; bribery trial of, 103–4, 103n39, 103n39; CD on Simon’s income, 141
Simonson, Burton, 510
Simonson, Mary Darrow, xiii–xiv, 173, 350, 351, 361, 381, 477, 510; CD’s letter to, (1929) 376–77
Simpson, Elmer, 237n71
Simpson, Emma D., 40, 237, 237n71
Sinai Temple (Chicago), 423, 508–9
Sinclair, Harry F., 285n108, 357
Sinclair, John F., 457–58, 457n142; letter to Franklin Roosevelt, 458n143; resignation from the National Recovery Review Board, 458n143
Sinclair, Upton, xiv, 510; CD’s letters to, (1927) 332 (2 letters), (1930) 405–6, 407, 408, 408n41; letters to CD, 405n36, 407n39, 408n40; photo, plate 31; Oil!, 332, 332n76; proposed collaboration with CD on a movie, 405–6, 407–8
Sinclair Lewis (Schorer), 250n22
Single Tax Club (Chicago), 92n4, 473
Sissman, Peter, 147n4, 510–11; photo, plate 14; on CD’s pessimism, 6
Sitton, Tom: John Randolph Haynes, 14n41
Six Days or Forever? (Ginger), 312n22, 327n62
S., Miss, 9–10; CD’s letter to, (1895) 75–78
Smith, Alfred E., 44, 289, 367, 388, 393n14, 437, 492, 511; CD campaigning for, 364n142, 366
Smith, Frank, 392, 393, 394, 392n10
Smith, Marie Sweet, 414n55, 511; CD’s letters to, (1930) 400–402, 402–3
Smith, William W., 444n120
Social Democratic Party, 469, 478, 484, 512
Socialism and socialists, 7, 10, 38, 39, 41, 60, 66n11, 73, 74, 81, 116, 121n73, 122n74, 144, 146n2, 150n11, 153n19, 154, 157, 167n60, 169n68, 203n144, 211, 214, 218, 236, 246, 249, 257, 259n40, 262, 265, 392, 406, 437, 487, 516
Socialist Party, 66n11, 73, 278, 393n14, 478, 486, 487, 511, 514; pessimism about, 236; seeking access to the mail, 224
Sociality Revolutionary Party, 265n59
The Social Origins of Christianity (Case), 354
South Side Woman’s Club (Chicago), 36
Spacey, Kevin, 1
Spagnoli, Ernest B. D., 300, 300n3
Spies v. People, 60n35
Spingarn, Arthur, 357, 511; CD’s letter to, (1931) 425
Spingarn, Joel, 511
Spink, Alfred H., 360, 360n131
The Spirit of Labor (Hapgood), 14, 490
Spoon River Anthology (Masters), 213, 213n18, 239n79, 497
Spurlock, Frank, 313, 313n24, 314
Stallbohm, Caroline: CD’s letter to Henry D. Lloyd regarding her medical treatment, (1901) 96
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans (Connelley), 131n5
Starr, Ellen Gates, 75n1, 467; CD’s letter to “Miss S,” (1895) 75–78; analysis of possible letter to Starr as “Miss S,” 9–10; resignation from Women’s Labor Committee of World’s Congress Auxiliary, 67n13
Starr, Frederick, 270–71, 274, 511; CD’s letters to, (1923) 280–81, (1925) 301–2, (1931) 425–26; photo, plate 38; address on Liberia, 426, 426n80; debate with, 245; Kanto earthquake, 280–81, 280n95
The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover (Myers ed.), 378n177
State v. Winters, 373n164
Stauff, Paul, 452n135
Stedman, Seymour, 224n44, 299n1, 511–12
Steffens, Ella Winter, xvii, 342, 370, 370n153
Steffens, Lincoln, xvii, 13, 167, 186n103, 209, 246, 249, 324, 325, 452, 512; CD’s letters to, (1926) 325–26, (1928) 341–42, 370, (1931) 421–22; letter to CD, 422n71; photo, plate 25; The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 421–22; National Labor Defense Council, 227n53
Stephenson, D[avid] C[urtis], 512; CD’s letters to, (1928) 368, (1930) 391, (1931) 422
Sterne, Maurice, 496
Steunenberg, Frank, 137n23, 138n27, 154, 486, 500, 504; murder of, 132n10
Stevens, Doris, 272, 272n79, 419, 420n66, 496
Stevens, Michael E. (ed.): The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 144n39
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 251
Stewart, Graeme, 116, 120, 121n73
St. John, Vincent, 42, 259–60, 259n43
Stockham, Alice: CD represents, 36
Stoddard, John L., 251
Stoddard, Lothrop, 282n99, 284, 369, 512; debate on immigration with CD, 369n151; Is the U.S. Immigration Law Beneficial? A Debate: Clarence Darrow vs. Lothrop Stoddard, 369n151; The Revolt against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man, 282n99, 284
Stolzfus, Duane C. S.: Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment, 210n5
Stone, Irving, 12, 24n85, 28, 32, 80n8, 123n75, 246n15, 281n96, 293n123; letter from Ruby Darrow, 281n96; CD’s papers, xvii–xviii; Clarence Darrow for the Defense, 15n45, 20, 22–23, 29; letters from Ruby Darrow, 24, 281n96
Stone, Melville, 512; CD’s letter to, (1922) 264–65; Fifty Years a Journalist, 264n54
The Story of Punishment (Barnes), 362–63, 397
The Strange Death of President Harding (Means), 437n106
The Strange Deaths of President Harding (Ferrell), 437n106
Straton, John Roach, 308–9, 308n17, 310, 311–12, 353, 512
Strunsky, Anna, 150n11, 152n18
A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago (Tarr), 212n12
Sturges, Preston, 418n64
Sturges, Solomon, 418, 419, 418n64
Suffrage. See Darrow, Clarence, CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, women’s suffrage; Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
Sullivan, Larry, 180n90, 182n92
Sullivan, Mark, 513; CD’s letters to, (1930) 404, 404n33; Our Times, 404n33
Summer for the Gods (Larson), 307n15
Summer, William Graham: Folkways, 216, 328
Supreme Court (U.S.), 36, 53, 130, 134n14, 154, 155, 225n48, 323, 392, 393n14, 394, 395, 462
Supreme Court (Illinois), 42, 58, 60, 61n37, 130, 227, 243n7, 271n75, 337, 433n98, 434, 443, 444n120
Supreme Court (Vermont), 44, 331, 339n95, 373n164, 400n22, 421n69,
The Survey, 316n30; CD’s letter to, (1926) 316–17
Sweet, Henry, 43, 318n35, 319n37. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Sweet trials
Sweet, Ossian, 43, 318n35, 500, 511; CD’s defense of, 318, 318n35. See also Darrow, Clarence, CLIENTS AND CASES, Sweet trials
Swift, Morrison Isaac, 9, 76n3; CD’s observations about, 76–77, 78, 433, 433n95
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 188, 188n107
Taft, William Howard, 146n3, 154n22, 436n104, 507, 517
Talkin’ Socialism: J. A. Wayland and the Role of the Press in American Radicalism, 1890–1912 (Shore), 153n19
Talks with Debs in Terre Haute (Karsner), 6
Tallentyre, S. G.: The Life of Voltaire, 206n150
Talley, Alfred J., 297, 297n135
Tariffs, 61n39, 285, 287, 289, 415, 437, 453n136
Tarr, Joel: A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago, 212n12
Taylor, Graham, 513; CD’s letter to, (1932) 433–34
Taylor, Julius F., 513; CD’s letter to, (1923) 281–82
Taylor, William S., 153, 153n19
Teapot Dome Scandal, 22, 285–86, 287–88, 357n123
Technocracy, 443
Technocracy and the American Dream (Akin), 443n117
Tew, Charles F., 171, 172, 173, 199, 513–14
Thackeray, William, 251
The Thief of Virtue (Phillpotts), 148n6
Thomas, Morris St. P., 514
Thomas, Norman, 340n99, 440, 514
Thompson, Alice H., 315, 315n28; co-counsel with CD, 30
Thompson, Carl D., 144n39
Thompson, William (“Big Bill”), 272n78
Thompson, William G. (Sacco and Vanzetti’s lawyer), 323n49
Thompson, William O. (CD’s law partner), 19, 101, 514
Thoreau, Henry David, 507
Tierney, Kevin: Darrow, 15n45, 20n65, 22n72
Tilden, Samuel J., 59
Time, 370n152
Todd, Helen, 27, 201, 218, 503, 514; CD commenting on, 146
The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism (Nugent), 131n5
Tolstoy, Leo, 35, 39, 400, 475, 488; Master and Man, 373; Resurrection, 95;
Tomorrow (magazine): CD edits, 35
Torrey, James H., 108
Tracy, Spencer, 1
Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus), 379
Transplanted (Whitlock), 358
Traubel, Horace, 12n39, 351n115, 514–15; CD’s letters to, (1902) 106, (1903) 111; CD expressing support for the Conservator, 111
Travis, N.B., 10n34
Treaty of Versailles, 234n69, 235
Tresca, Carlo, 340n99
Truman, Harry S., 489
Trumbull, Lyman, 131, 131n7, 131n8
Trumbull, Matthew Mark, 61, 515
The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd (Bommersbach), 434n100
Tucker, Benjamin R., 371, 371n157
Tupper, Herbert G., 374, 374n165
Turner, George Kibbe, 138n27
Turner, John, 35
Tuttle, Elizabeth, 269–70, 269n69
Tvietmoe, Olaf A., 16, 16n50, 187, 490, 515
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (Lawes), 438
Twenty Years at Hull-House (Addams), 99n28
The Twilight of Christianity (Barnes), 398
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Malcolm), 32
Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (Hamburg), 213n19
The Tyranny of God (Lewis), 254
Tzitlonok, Anna Scherff, 5n16, 515; CD’s letter to, (1921) 256–57
Tzitlonok, Schevel, 515, 256n34; The Children of the Universe, 256n34
Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition (Hobson), 151n15
Union Traction Company, 35, 103n39
United Mine Workers: anthracite arbitration, 104n42, 108n47, 119n67, 132n11, 499
United States Commission on Industrial Relations, 39, 211, 211n8, 516
The Universal Kinship (Moore), 191n114
University of Chicago: removing Edward Bemis as professor, 79n4
University of Michigan, 33, 52n14
University of Minnesota: website on CD and holding of his papers, xviii, xix
Untermyer, Samuel, 43, 297, 297n133, 297n134
Vaccine (Allen), 247n16
Van Waters, Miriam, 409, 413, 419, 420n66, 515; CD’s letter to, (1932) 434
Vanderbilt, William K., 67n14
Vanderveer, George W., 2, 149n8
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 323, 323n49, 336, 499
Varecha, James (“Iggy”), 444, 444n120
Varnishers & Polishers Local Union No. 134, 194n120
Veblen, Thorstein, 488
Viana, Nicholas, 248n17
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 515–16; CD’s letters to, (1925) 315–16, (1928) 357
Vintage Vermont Villanies (Bellamy), 374n166
Volstead Act, 42, 289, 393, 394, 395. See also Darrow, Clarence, CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, Prohibition; Eighteenth Amendment
Voltaire, 39, 204, 204n148, 206, 252, 371, 448
Volunteers of America, 40
Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 56, 56n22, 57
Walker, Frank, 41
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 247n16; The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures, 246–48, 247n16
Walling, Anna Strunsky, 150n11
Walling, William English, 516, 516; CD’s letter to, (1910) 149–50; lawsuit against, 152, 152n18, 158n31
Walling, Willoughby George, 150, 174, 516
Walsh, Frank P., xvi, 244, 347n106, 365, 401, 516; CD’s letters to, (1917) 224, 226, 227, (1921) 257–59, (1924) 292, 294–95, 297, (1925) 311–12, 311n21, (1927) 335–36, (1928) 348–49, 349n109, (1930) 388–89, (1932) 428–29; letter to CD, 294n128; photo, plate 33; a chair of U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, 211n8; friendship with CD, 13; Leopold and Loeb case, 292, 294, 294n128; letter to Fay Lewis, 227n53; National Labor Defense Council, 227n53; and Thomas J. Mooney’s case, 365, 428
Walsh, Jerome, 348n108; potential movie involving CD, 348–49
Warner Film Company, 348n108
Warren, Everett, 108
Warren, Fred D., 37, 153n19, 516; CD’s description of Warren and his trial, 152–54, 157
Warren, Ohio, 303–4
Warren v. United States (1910), 154n21
Washington, Booker T., 36, 217n30
Washington, D.C., 53–55
Wayland’s Monthly, 200n130
The Wedding Night (Stockham), 36
Weinberg, Arthur and Lila, 21n70, 308n17, 309n20; Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel, 15n45, 28n97; Clarence Darrow: Verdicts out of Court, 4n8
Weinberger, Harry, 516–17; CD’s letter to, (1917) 225–26; letter to CD, 225n48, 226n49
Welles, Orson, 1
Wells, H. G., 265n59
Wembridge, Eleanor Harris Rowland, 405, 405n34, 405n35
Werner, Morris R.: Bryan, 375n171
West, George, 204, 204n147; National Labor Defense Council, 227n53
Western Federation of Miners, 36, 470, 486, 500, 504, 506; accusations in the murder of Frank Steunenberg, 132n10; Vincent St. John, 259n43
Western Reserve Seminary, 303, 303n7, 491
Wheeler, Wayne, 43
Wheless, Joseph, 321, 321n43; Is It God’s Word?, 321
White City Club (Chicago), 123
White, E. B.: Letters of E.B. White, 3
White, Walter, 517; CD’s letters to, (1929) 374, (1930) 405, (1931) 426–27; Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch, 374n158; Scottsboro cases, 426–27
White, William A. (psychiatrist), 305, 305n10; and Leopold and Loeb, 305n10
White, William Allen (journalist), xiv
Whitehead, George, xvii
Whitlock, Brand, xiv, 4, 93n5, 327–28, 385, 517; CD’s letters to, (1899) 88–89, (1901) 97–98, 98–99, (1902) 101, (1903) 125, (1907) 136–37, (1909) 142–43, 145, (1910) 156–57, (1911) 158–59, (1912) 181, (1923) 282–84, (1928) 358; letters to CD, 94n9, 145n42, 157nn28,29, 158n32, 282n99; photo, plate 21; admiration for William Dean Howells, 94n9; Big Matt, 358; CD’s bribery trials, 181, 181n91; CD’s Farmington, 125; friendship with CD, 13; The Gold Brick, 156n27; invitation for Whitlock to join CD’s law firm, 101; J. Hardin and Son, 282n99; letter from Ruby Darrow, 181n91; letters from William Dean Howells, 94n9, 97n21; letter from Joseph Sears, 98n22; The Letters of Brand Whitlock, 94nn8,9, 145n42, 327n64; McNamara cases in Los Angeles, 158n32; on Lothrop Stoddard, 282n99; political career, CD’s interest in, 142–43, 145, 157; respond to CD’s offer to speak in Toledo, 145n42; The Thirteen District, 94n8, 97n21; Transplanted, 358; The Turn of the Balance, 136n21; view of Ruby Darrow, 26; Whitlock’s literary career, CD’s interest in, 88–89, 94–95, 97–99, 136, 142–43, 156–57, 282–83
Whitlock, Ella (“Nell”) Brainerd, 101, 157, 159, 283, 284, 517
Whitlock, Susan Brainerd, 517
Whitman, Walt, 37, 38, 41, 43, 45, 99nn27,28, 182, 472, 515
Wigmore, John, 222n42; critical of CD, 222n42
Wilde, Louis J., 517; extradition and trial of, 165, 165n50; indictment and representation by CD, 148, 148n7
Wilde, Oscar: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 32, 371
Williams, Della, 214
Wilson, Clarence True, 44
Wilson, Francis (“Frank”) S., 124, 127, 291, 517–18; CD’s potential run for mayor, 110n53; Wilson’s income, 141
Wilson, Lillian, 239n79
Wilson, William B., 360, 360n130
Wilson, Woodrow, xiv, 216n26, 220, 221, 225, 234n69, 235, 236, 242, 260n45, 287, 360n130, 471, 488, 496, 497, 503, 516, 517, 518; CD’s letter to, (1919) 233–34; imprisonment of Eugene Debs, 233–34, 234n68; letter from A. Mitchell Palmer, 234n68
Winters, John, 8, 331, 331n74, 339, 373–374, 400n22, 421n69
Withington, Caroline (“Caro”) Lloyd, 518; CD’s letters to, (1905) 131–32, (1910) 152–56, (1911) 157–58
“Without Blare of Trumpets,” 16n49, 206n152
Woman’s Dilemma (Parson), 317, 317n31
Woman’s Law League (Chicago), 30, 39
The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures (Wallace), 247–50, 247n16
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, xxvi, 4–5, 12n39, 27, 28n95, 29, 30n106, 218, 242, 480, 518; CD’s letters to, (1910) 148–49, (1912) 180, 181, 181–82, (1913) 195, 196–97, 199–200, (1914) 205–6, (1915) 212–13, (1916) 221–22, (1918) 229, (1919) 234–37, (1920) 242, (1921) 250, (1932) 430; letter to CD, 180n90; photo, plate 39; automobile accident, 232n66; CD’s bribery cases in Los Angeles, 180, 180n90, 181, 181–82, 195, 196; CD’s debt, 221; friendship with CD, 13; National Labor Defense Council, 227n53; The Poet in the Desert, 212n14; representation of Louis Wilde with CD, 148–49, 148n7; Sara Bard Field’s divorce, 197, 201, 206; Scottsboro case, 430
Wood Works: The Life and Writings of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (Bingham & Barnes eds.), 234n69
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 267, 267nn64,65, 361
World Court, 43
World (New York), editorial critical of CD, 11–12
World War I, xxvn17, 30, 39, 40, 41, 212, 216, 217, 218, 223, 224, 225, 228, 229–30, 229n60, 232, 235, 316–17, 399–400, 410
World’s Fair (Chicago, 1893): CD’s criticism of admission policy, 68–69; Congress Auxiliary and criticism by CD, 65–67
Wright, Carroll D., 131n9; anthracite arbitration, 131
Wright, Frank Lloyd, xiv, 39, 518–19; CD’s letter to, (1915) 215; and the Mann Act, 215n25
Yarros, Rachelle Slobodinsky, 519
Yarros, Victor S., 21n68, 43, 495, 519; CD’s letter to, (1930) 399; letter to Charles Yale Harrison, 399n20; My 11 Years with Clarence Darrow, 6; The Prohibition Mania, 43, 329, 329n68, 334n82
Zionism, 262