Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1919 — FORD SUIT ENDS TODAY [ARTICLE]

FORD SUIT ENDS TODAY

JURY, HOWEVER, IS NOT EX- * PECTED TO GET CASE UNTIL THURSDAY. - ' -"' V-' , .t ■ ■ ■ Mt. Clemens, Mich.. Aug. 11.Judge Tucker probably will not send out ithe Ford-Tribune jury until Thursday, .die said today. Arguments will “close tomorrow and the judge said he would probably require Wednesday himself to Whip his instructions into shape. He 'has a mass of briefs submitted iby counsel ito consider in connection wiltlrthem. Closing arguments today were by Oscar C. Lungerhausen and Alfred J. Murphy for Mr. Ford and Warren S. Stone for the Tribune. Mr. Stone told the jurors the case was a simple one, if stripped of its dictionaries and philosophies. It was simply, he said, that Henry Ford abused the government, and the Tribune “called him, and called him right.” “That’s all there ds to it,” went on Mr. Stone. “Don’t be confused because of Mr: Ford’s great wealth. I hope that otf I ever hear anyone abusing my government I will have the nerve to call and call him right. If Henry Ford had known as much about other things as he does about medhanics, he would not have made a laughing stock of himself with his peace ship.” . Tomorrow the last of the closing arguments will 'be delivered by Elliot G. Stevenson, senior counsel for the Tribune, and Alfred Lucking, senior counsel for Mr. Ford. “Cheer up, the end ds in sight, 1 said Mr. Lungerhausen, in opening. “The worst is yet to come,” interjected Attorney Alfred Murphy, who was on .the program as the next Ford lawyer to argue. Attorney Lungerhausen said the bearing of the Mexican situation on the mam issue of the case, namely, wias or was not Henry Fiord an anarchist on June 23, 1916, as changed by the Tribune in its alleged libelous editorial. The lawyer asserted there was no essential difference between the bandit raids on the border and the bank robberies and race riots of the north, as in Washington and Chicago. He* spoke of Mr. Ford’s horror of war and asserted that military preparedness does not prevent war, but invites it.