Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-29

! hanged Dec. IS in connection with the
deaths Of ten persons from bomb
explosion in san Francisco in July,
! 1916, was committed by Governor w.
u. stephens yesterday 10 Imprisonment
for life.
Held Horrible Deed.
Governor stephens, in committing
the sentence of Mooney gave out the
following statement:
ON July %, 1916, ten persons-men
women and Children-were killed ana
about fifty others wounded in a bomb
explosion during a preparedness
parade in the city of San Francisco
. The parade was n patriotic manifesto
? ton into which the people had entered
/ with much spirit and loyal impulse.
"Manifestly. because of the occasion
/ chosen, hostility to the nations de-
/ Tense measures must have had part
( in actuating the preparation OF so
/ horrible a deed. II is not unreasonable
! to assume that a sympatA or even
| definite relationship existed between
! those murderers and the propaganda
( and violence then being engaged IN
! turnout the country by agents OF the
German government.
| The case as presented to the Cali
| forna courts was that OF murder,
I without further evidence Of motive
| than the impossible tenets OF anarca-
| lists, whose sympathies for the German
cause in the war are well known.
| Their wild pacitist theories filled into
! the wide spread activities OF the kali
Sar's in this country.
A number OF persons of pronounced
! anarchistic tendencies were arrested
, shortly after the explosion and OF
| these Warren K. Billings was convict
ed and sentenced 10 life imprisonment:
and Thomas ]. Mooney found guilty.
and sentenced to be hanged
Authority for CIsmeney.
SO long as avenues OF appeal TO
the courts remained open to Mooney
and he was awaiting himself thereof
l deemed it improper Eos executive au-
thority to interfere. Although the con-
stitution Of California clothes the gov
enor with power to exercise Glenn
ency at any time after conviction, II
I is important, so far as practicable. mol
/ to intrude into any criminal case until
the judicial branch has finally disposed
/ OF it. Only recently has final action
been taken by the United States su-
| preme court, and the case Of the people
VS.. Thomas J. Mooney placed squarely
before me.
In considering the Mooney case
have had before me the urgent appear
OF the pres!de ant Of the United States
that grant Communication.
SAYS Wilson Misinformed.
| Originally. in January Of this year,
received a letter from the president
| asking me if it would not be possible
TO postpone .hc execution Of Mooney
| until he could be tried upon one OF the
other indictments against him
'Inasmuch as an appeal already
had been taken to the supreme court of
California, which appeal itself acted as
a stay Of the execution, there was at
that time no occasion for action on
my part. l take it that the president
was not correctly informed as to the
status Of the case"
Not Clash Of Glasses.
| The statement reviews the case
fully and quotes in their entirety the
two messages from President Wilson.
in which the action now taken by the
governor was suggested. The COM
mutation, says the governor, reduces
the case to the status Of that of War
rem X. Billings.
~ refuse to recognize this case as
IN any fashion representing a CLASH
between capital and labor" the gov
ernor says. and he characterizes as
absurd the propasan da that wouio
make Mooney apear as a martyr to the
cause of labor In support OF this
statement he quotes letter from
Alexander BerkInan outlining the plan
afterward adopted for the Mooney
! campaign.
The governor denies that Mooney
| 10 a true friend Of labor and charac-
terizes his previous record as such
! that it does not enlist faith In him
among law abiding citizens. but says IN
conclusion that this particular case
has been decided upon its merits.