That particular time period was rife with murderous Socialists and Exploiter Capitalists fighting and killing each other. Teddy Roosevelt was a hunter and a capitalist, and there's none like him today. There's no comparison between Roosevelt and Socialism as it is viewed today, in my opinion.
Assassination
On December 30, 1905, Steunenberg was killed outside his house in Caldwell by a bomb rigged to his front gate. Harry Orchard was arrested shortly thereafter for the murder, and the investigation was conducted by Pinkerton agent James McParland. With the promise of a lighter sentence, McParland compelled Orchard to write a confession in which he implicated "Big Bill" Haywood, general secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, and George Pettibone, a labor activist who had a prior conviction related to an 1892 dispute in Coeur d'Alene, as co-conspirators. McParland arrested the three in Colorado in February 1906.
The nationally publicized trial took place in Boise in 1907. There was a lack of evidence in a case that was supported only by Orchard's testimony. Clarence Darrow, a lawyer who specialized in defending trade union leaders, won an acquittal for Haywood. Pettibone was defended in a separate trial by Judge Hilton of Denver, and was also acquitted. Charges were dropped against Moyer.[5] Orchard received a death sentence in a separate trial, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison.
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