Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-21
PROMPT DENIAL Of
APPLICATION MADE
Appeal Of the Former San
Francisco Boss Falls on
Deaf Ears Declares That
He Has Paid the Penalty
in Full.

San Quentin, CAL, Juno 1o.-on mo-
ton of Director Warren r Porter. the
state prison board denied late today
an application to parole by Abraham
Ruef. former political boss Of San
Francisco, serving IA years for bribery
In connection with United Railroad
franchises. Ruef was not given
chance even to appear in person before
the board, which considered his appli-
cation in executive session and
promptly denied it along with rs 9TH
ers. A remarkable statement had been
prepared by Ruef. which he intended
to read to the prison directors 1t said
in part:
IF every vicious charge that has ever
been made against me were true-if
my sins were as black as the worst
that has ever been said of mel have
paid the bitter penalty in full. Even
the most vindictive OF my enemies
must surely now be satisfied. l have
been imprisoned seven years-three
years and three months here and over
three years in San Francisco Sleep
Ing or waking, there is no degradation,
torment or humiliation that have not
suffered. leave unspoken the physi-
cal and mental tortures. Every vestIgc
OF life's honors has been stripped.
In Valley Of the Shadows.
Convicted. disbarred, proclaimed to
the seven seas, I have walked in the
valley of the shadows-and I have
walked alone. If there Is any purif-
cation by baptism of fire ! have been
purified
There Is no punishment which can
be added to that I have already en-
dured. More time, more imprisonment
means merely more physical and men,
tai deterioration. Whatever my past
may have been the good as well as the
bad is buried beneath load and term
of suffering such as. I trust. no other
human being in the state shall ever be
called upon hereafter to bear. I have
been sustained only by confidence that
In despite of all may be yet of soma
service to my fellow man.
There comes a time, however, IN
the life of almost every man. long
confined In prison walls when he loses
his grip on himself his hold on his
manhood-when the consciousness of
thc bOod yet WitHlu llilIi idQe6 aWAt,
when the hope. the ambition. even the
possibility of better life dies--a time
when confidence in humanity fails him,
and he halts even In his faith In God.
thank God, from my inmost heart.
that that moment has not yet laid Its
soul-destroying touch on me- Before
1t comes, while yet some energy. OF
hope exists, ask, and ask only, the
opportunity OF showing that I will be
of moro use to society and the public
veal outside these walls than stag
nation and uselessly wasting away
within them.
Would Still Be Convict.
None knows better than yourselves
that the granting Of this application
means neither liberty nor relief. am
asking only to be allowed TO go out
side these walls into larger prison
to remain under the law and your
rules. still Convict for the full re-
mafnder of my entire sentence, with
out any rights of citizenship. always
under your control and surveillance
unable to act or move without your
permission-and subject at any time
to be brought back within these prison
walls at your will for any cause that
may appear sufficient to you. Shall ii
be said that the vast power of your
honorable board Ia not strong enough
to confront such q riskf
The sands of life slip fast away.
Neither you nor will be here long.
Before the Eternal Ruler Of the Uni-
verse and In His Name I ask you TO
judge as you would be judged, to act
as you would be acted by"