El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-16
Russian Agitator Likens
Himself TO Mooney, Al
leged Bomb ThroWar.

HAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Nay 10
- When the RassTou pro-Germau
- radical, NikolaI Lenine. wished
TO arouse the mob 10 attack United
States ambassador David r. Francis
and the American embassy in Petro-
grad, he told them Americans in san
F Francisco had put TO death a leader
I Of the masses like himself Thomas ..
f Mooney.
The attention OF the world was thus
F brought 10 san Francisco's case ceIe-
bre-the trials arowing out Of the
horrible bomb explosion in the pre-
/ paredness parade Of July - last.
when nine persons were killed and a
large number OF others fearfully
mangled-
Had All HIS Facts Wrong.
Lenine had his facts all wrong. SO
little OF tie truth is known in Petro-
grad that some accounts coming out
Of that city speak Of Mooney as an
Italian named NUM-
Mooney is not dead. He is about
TO have new trial The principal
witness against him has weakened
and, although no other person has
/
save Mooney and MS friends. the gen
eral opinion here is that the second
trial viii result in Moneys vindica-
tion.
Mooney is not a Socialist He is IN
altra radical q leader of the proleta-
rat, preacher Of the social revolu-
ton He is what is often called Az
anarchist. although il is not certain
Mooney himself would so denote his
convictions
He had been employed by the Inter
national Amalgamated Association OF
Street * Electric Railway Employees.
but his program could not at all oe
Identified with that of union labor,
and, in fact was probably anlagonis-
tic He was "a close friend OF Alex
ander Rerkman. who once spent a
long term in prison for an attack on
a Wall street financier, and OF Emma
Goldman. tie Red" orator.
As Moneys first trial assistant
district attorney Edward A Cunha
told the jury that president wilson
lie was threatened by an organization
known as The Blasters," OF which
Mooney was a leader.
Revolution Plot Charged
Il viii prove" the prosecutor said.
that these men plotted revolution
against the government. I VIII prove
that they said in an edition OF the
Blast. The weathercOck in the white
preston of the voice Of the discon-
tented leads TO assassination
Cunha further said that Mooney,
Berkman and others had entered into
a conspiracy 10 bring about an up
rising against property owners. the
confiscatiOn OF private property and
the destruction Of government also
that they planned to create a pref
udice against and TO betray the
American Fedora ton of Labor"
The defence asserted the district at
torney's office was the tool OF the san
Francisco street Railway company
against which Mooney had organized
a strike. in which violence had figured
prominently
Attack on Jury system
Attacks were also made by
Moneys lawyers on the peculiar san
Francisco jury system Jurors here
are not drawn from the body OF citi-
Zens, but from a class Of hangers-on
of cOurtroOms, or professional jury
men. to whom the 81 a day paid for
serving on jury is an adequate con-
sideratiOn. Furthermore, the defence
pointed out, these jurors are the tools
OF the prosecutors office. for if they
fail from grace with the district at
torney they Will be cut from the list
of jurors and their occupation VIII be
gone
". Bourke Cochran. Of New York
brilliancy at the trial in January lie
had been interested in the case by
Mrs. J.. Sergeant Cram. Of New York
city, a society leader, who is the wife
of a former New York public service
commissioner and the daughter of the
late Lloyd Bryce. one time United
States minister to the Netherlands. II
is said he served without pay
At the end OF a stormy trial SUI
perior judge Franklin Griffin charged
the jury in such a way as practically
TO direct an acquittaL Despite this.
following the states appeal TO put out
Of the way a dangerous anarchist and
avenge the preparedness parade muir
ders, a verdict of guilty was brought
in. and Mooney was sentenced TO die
May II.
But Moneys champions raised
their voices louder than ever. They
were headed by Mr.. Cochran. and Eu-
gene Y. Debs Certain publications OF