great conspiracy? Where do you find it? You
find it in Camp 20, in Turner Hall? Now, we do not charge that the
entire camp was in it. We do not charge that the membership knew of
the conspiracy, but we do charge that it started there among these
parties.

"Foster treats the Beggs-Spellman correspondence as if Beggs was
publishing to the world that he was going to commit murder. Not so.
Our theory is, and it is the correct one, that these letters were
written for the purpose of covering up that which they expected
this committee to do. That is our theory. That is why they were
written. That is why Mr. Beggs said to me when he was brought face
to face with the record that a committee had been appointed, but
does he explain? You can see that it is a blind. You can see why he
flushed these letters in the face of the people; because it was the
work of the conspirators to begin in this line. Nothing had yet
been prepared for the disposition of Cronin. Nothing had been
arranged, but they must make a sort of an investigation in this
way. Talk about reading between the lines? The Lord knows there is
enough in the lines without reading between the lines.

"Recollect that the letter in which he says: 'I hope no trouble
will result,' is one of the links. Let us get it just right, 'I
hope no trouble will result.' On the 18th the flat is rented. And
on the 20th they finish laying the carpet. Now jump on to the 22d,
the next meeting of Camp 20, where these minutes are approved, and
what do you find? On the 22d of February in the line of his
letters, in the line that he hopes that no trouble will result,
what does he do? Pat McGarry read his speech, in which he said that
the man who gave Le Caron his credentials to go into the convention
was a greater scoundrel than ever Le Caron could pretend to be."

Mr. Donahoe--"You will concede that every Irishman knew who it was
that gave Le Caron his credentials?"

Mr. Longenecker--"I do not know whether they did or not. I presume
they did. Beggs said that they had members who were coming in and
violating the hospitality of that camp. That would have to be
stopped. It was not right. He said that they came in there talking
about Alexander Sullivan, and it was cowardly to talk of a man
behind his back. Why did they no