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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1918. SNAPSHOT OF NEW YORK'S NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNOR, ANI HIS WIFE, v IS BUT iT SATISFIED I 1 rTTnCHAT T Sentence Commuted to Life Term at San Quentin. Commutation for Mooney Is Held Inadequate. ppw. , -vji7j .n Irn sUa4a' mmm mam af mm w Your Dollars Go Further CONVICT HELD NO MARTYR NEW TRIAL UNION DEMAND Yt7TTT7TVT VATT C A irC O t TT mT A TYTXT CH A 7 TTYd rr nmn iuu r iu o. tv n. a iv v iii vx oinnu o i: 20 Extra With the Coupon Today and Saturday 20 PRISON INSTEAD OF DEATH MODNEY'S LOT LABOR SURPRISED ;v -f v ?. J J ; s? - , California clrmnrtl Governor Declares Con Man Has Not Proved Real Friend of Labor. (Continued From First Page.) liberty of saylns to you tbat It you roiiM see your way to commute th sentence of Mooney it would have mom heartfelt effect upon certain In trnational affairs which his execution would greatly complicate. (Siirned) "'WOODKOW WILSON Farther Xnittn Received. "In June I received this additional message, the President -again urging commutation of sentence: -The White House, Washington. D. C. June 4. ISIS. "'Hon. Win. D. Stephens, Sacramento, Cal. "I beg that you will believe that I am moved only by a sense of public duty and of consciousness of the many and complicated interests Involved when I again must respectfully sua; pest a commutation of the death sen tence Imposed on Mooney. I would not venture again to call your attention to this case did I not know the interna tional slamlflcance which attaches to it. (Signed) " WOODKOW WILSON." Governor Reviews Case. "At the time of the receipt of -these messages the case was still pending In the Supreme Court of the state. Not until August !2 wirs the case finally disposed of by the California courts, and on November IS by the Supreme Court of the United States. "I have carefully reviewed all the available evidence bearing on the case. There are certain features connected with it which convince me that the ex treme sentence should not be executed. Therefore and because of the earnest request of the President for commuta tlon and conscious of the du.y I owe as Governor of this state to all of its peo ple. I have decided to commute Moon ey's sentence to life imprisonment. In doing so I accept full responsibility for the wisdom and Justification of the action. The record of the trial In the Superior Court was reviewed by the Supreme Court of our state and It found no reason for upsetting the Judgment of the lower court. New Evidence Develops. "However, there has remained for me to consider in addition certain devel opments following the conviction that could not be considered by the Supreme Court. It la because of this new evi dence that I find justification for com mutation of sentence. In arriving at this conclusion I have been obliged to consider evidence presented outside of established legal procedure. "By commutation to life Imprison ment Mooney's case will be in the same status as that of Warren K. Billings, who was convicted of the same crime and received a sentence to life impris onment. "The logic that a man Is either guilty or innocent and that necessarily if the maximum punishment is not justified pardon should follow does not hold, either in theory or in practice. i "It has been no uncommon thing for executives In granting clemency to en tertain doubt sufficient to Rave men from the gallows, but not that degree of 'reasonable doubt' that the law re solves completely in favor of a defend ant. Martyrdom Plea Abnrd. "I refuse to recognize this case as in any fashion representing a clash be tween capital and labor. I regard the " T " t - . -X III t i i 'i - s ' " J f ' iT r ' ' , ' - ' x - f ' - -fa-r r 4 ' " ' , i i ; ; V Copyright , Underwood A Underwood. T". T. Sir. and Mrs. Alfred K. Smith, Token Outside of the Public School on Oliver Street, New York City, In mediately After They Bad Cast Their Totes mt the Recent Elections mWt ThMtsaads ef Caen Sax "I hear so well with the P0RT-0-PH0NE" With this smallest, simplest and most perfect of bearing devices, you. too. can hear sermons. lec tures and general conversation. Come in and let our factory ex pert adjust one to your personal requirements. FREE Demonstration THREE (Friday. Nev. 29 DAYS A Saturday. Nov. SO. OL.V .Moadaj, December 2. Woodard, Clarke & Co. , WOOD-LARK BLDO. ALDER AT WEST PARK petition of the defendant for clemency olely as that or a man convicted of murder In the first degree. On his be- alf a propaganda has been carried on to make it appear tbat he is a martyr the cause of labor. This is absurd. The methods pursued in this propa ganda have followed largely the sys tem described In ths following letter rltten by Alexander Berkman, an as sociate of Mooney and an anarchistic gltator: 'I have had some experience in labor matters. I have also participated the defense work of various labor cases In the East. And all my experi ence has convinced me that in such matters the thing of chief importance is to create favorable public sentiment. Funds, money for the defense, etc., are of secondary importance. Take, for instance, the case of Alexander Aldenias, the .Spanish marine worker. He was arrested during the transport workers' strike of some three years ago, and he was charged with cutting a scab anl shooting three policemen. The District Attorney claimed he could give him 40 years. ment for the term of his natural life In the state prison at San Quentin. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state of California to be af fixed this 28th day of November. 1918. "WILLIAM D. STEPHENS, "Governor." A Health Builder For Weakened Lungs After btnr weakened by a continued coach the l'jnc nted th rnoft careful attention, la rui.y cta-a ECKMA.VS ALTERATIVE. m caiclum Mlt preparation, with many mora than twenty yant successful uee. haa ben found very beneficial In aunsthening th lutio and heiplne to restore haalth. o and f 1 A Rottlea at all dnisgiats ar from auwofactnrer. postpaid. ECKMA LAIIUKATORr. FhlUdtreh'a. -Adv. Propaganda Gels Results. " "I was secretary of the Aldemas de fense committee when Simon Pollock, one or our- attorneys, came with an offer of compromise from the District Attorney; Aldemas should plead guilty and get off with seven years in state prison . . . We had little money Lawyer Darling, of Brooklyn, had squandered several thousand dollars of our hard-collected funds, but we gave him the sack and engaged Pollock, but we did not depend on money. We a once organized a wide campaign of publicity: held numerous mass meet Ings, agitated the matter in the press and got In touch with the people all over the country for purposes of agi tation. "'When Aldemas was first arrested everyone cried 'hang him.' Within two months of Intense agitation we so changed the public mind on the matter that Aldemas was sentenced to one and one-half years instead of the 40 years the District Attorney had threatened us with and instead of the seven years the lawyers were quite ready to accept for him. The moral is obvious. Stick to your guns always and under all cir cumstances. fuDltc agitation to change the psychology oT the people is more important in such matters than big funds. Mooney Held Anarchistic. "The defendant. Mooney, never has been identified with the labor move ment that has achieved so much for the benefit of the worklngmen and work ing women of California. ' His connec tions have been with a small group of agitators of pronounced anarchistic tendencies. However, the propaganda in his behalf, following, the plan out lined by Berkman. has been so effective as to become world-wide, "Mooney's previous record is not such as to enlist faith in him among law abiding citizens. What character of man he is may be gained from a state ment he issued as secretarv of thu Tn. ' ternational Workers' Defense League when uovernor Johnson had refused to pardon Ford and Suhr. two L W. W. convicted of murder. The following la an excerpt from Mooney s statement Statement Shews Mam. jThe Governor s statement of his reasons for refusing to act at this time shows him up In his true colors. cowardly cur, despicable, beyond rec ognition and resorting to. the cunning. shrewdness, trickery and cowardice of the average District Attorney in pros ecuting the case. . , . . . There are some workers at least. 'Governor Johnson, who will not accept as final your de cision on the Ford and Suhr case, and from now on they will attempt to use the only kind of reasoning that will eventually reach you, and we hope it will be indulged in until Ford and Suhr are out of prison. " 'And so If violence Is committed. Governor Johnson Is responsible for it. as he closed the last legal or govern mental avenue of action. The workers must act and they will act until Ford and Suhr walk forth free men, vin dicated to the labor world as their champions in the greatest cause in his tory. fSigned) - TOM MOONEY. Sec.' Case Decided em Merita. "In reaching my conclusion I have been guided by what has come before me that bore directly on the case. It is, of course, unnecessary to argue the point that whatever Mooney's charac ter or his past record might have been, this particular case must be determined upon its own merits. "Now. therefore. I. William D. Steph ens. Governor of the state of California, do hereby commute the sentence of death imposed upon Thomas J. Mooney In the Superior Court of the state of California. In and for the citv and county of Sao. Francisco, to imprison-j COMMTICATIOX IS PROTESTED Jlooney Says He Prefers flanging to Passing Days in Prison. SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Nov. 28. Thom as J. " Mooney issued the following statement tonight: '"Governor Stephens, it is my life you are dealing with. I demand you re voke your commutation of my death sentence to a living death. ' I prefer a glorious death at the hands of my traducers to a living grave. "I am Innocent. - I demand a new and fair trial, or my unconditional liberty through a. pardon. If I were guilty of the crime for which I have been un justly convicted, hanging would be too good for me.1 Then, why commute my sentence to life? "Labor everywhere, I say to you to night, as I said the night that the Chamber of Commerce jury returned a death penalty verdict against me, that my hope, as well as the. hope of Bil lings, Nolan, Weinberg and Mrs. Moon ey, was in the solidarity of organized labor. I shall never depart from that statement. "Workers, it has been my privilege to choose the dishonorable route In this case. That same offer has been made to every one of the defendants, and even to the relatives of the defendants. I would rather hang a thousand times than do as much as even entertain a dishonorable thought. I mean by this that we were to be framed to tell a certain story, the same as all the per jurers were framed against us. "I refuse to accept the commutation. I now appeal to you again to act, and the sooner the better." Movement for Protest Strike Not Yet Called Off and Not Likely to Be Immediately. Commutation of the death penalty to life Imprisonment for, Thomas J. Mooney gave local labor leaders a bit of surprise and left the immediate course of labor in the matter some what in doubt, according to expressions given last night. It is certain, said Otto R. Hartwig, president of the State Federation of Labor, that the referendum strike votes will be continued until ail unions have expressed themselves. If developments of the next few days indicate, how ever, that Mooney has a chance to ob tain a new trial as a result of Invest! gatlons in progress or contemplated, then there is excellent chance that no general strike will be called December 9. in Mr. Hartwig s opinion. 'This is not Just what we looTced for,' said Mr. Hartwig. on learning of Gov ernor Stephens' action. "It's not what we want, either," he added, "and leaves It a little problematical as to just what will be done by the unions. It is cer tain that the referendum votes will be continued. The calls are out for these and will not be canceled. "I'm sure I am safe in saying that the strike would be held in abeyance if request for such action were to come from the Government, for instance. This would be done, though, merely to give opportunity for completion of in vestigations In the expectation that Mooney will still get the new trial we feel he should have. ' E. J. Stack, secretary both of the State Federation and of the Portland Central Labor Council, declared he was taken a little too much by surprise to venture an opinion as to the course local labor unions will purusue. On Wednesday night the Central La bor Council, after canvassing results of the referendum balloting and finding them generally favorable to the calling of a general strike, adopted a resolu tion approving a protest strike to start December 9. to be followed with a boy c'ott on all California products should Mooney be executed. STRIKE PLANS NOT AFFECTED Not Leniency but Justice, Declared to Be Labor's Demand. SEATTLE, Nov. 28. Commutation of Thomas J. Mooney's sentence from death to life imprisonment by Gov ernor Stephens of California will have no effect on the proposed labor etnke planned by Seattle labor unions, said labor union officials tonight. Our demand was not for leniency. but for justice; for a new .trial," ex plained Bert Swain, secretary of the metal trades council. "I can not see that our plan to strike,- if necessary, will be altered." 'Governor Stephens' action will not change our determination to strike, if necessary, to secure a new trial or free dom for Mooney," said R. L. Proctor, president of the Central Labor Council. WIFE " IS NOT SATISFIED Phone your want ads to The Orego nlan. Main 7070, A 6095. 'Why Give Life Imprisonment?" Mrs. Mooney Asks. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 28. When notified of the action of Governor William D. Stephens In commuting the sentence of her husband, Thomas J. Mooney. to life imprisonment, Rena Mooney said: "The action of Governor Stephens In commuting the sentence of Tom Mooney to life imprisonment Is a prac tical admission on his part that Tom Is not guilty of a hanging offense and, not being guilty of a hanging offense, why should he be given life imprisonment?" SHIPBUILDERS GIVE SHOW Seventy-five Employes of Columbia Yard Appear at Eeilig. 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