New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
Dudley Field Malone l.
Spokesman at Meeting
to Defend Agitator
Death Revocation
Called Makeshift
Judicial Intrigue" Declared
to Have Caused Result
in Bomb Trial

Eighteen hundred persons, who met
in Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon
to protest against the continued i'm
prisonment of Thomas ]. Mooney, the
labor agitator, who is under sentence
OF death for participation in the San
francisco preparedness parade explo-
sion IN 1916. responded with a chorus
of sympathetic cheers when Dudley
Field Malone declared that MONEYS
conviction con perjured testimony, ju-
dicial intrigue and capitalistic corrup-
ton. tended "to convince Germany
thatR this country is not sincere in
! hghtng for democracy"
Mr.. Malone, referring TO President
, Wilson's proclamation last Friday in
opposition to mob rule, asserted that
women Of this Country u N'sh Should i'd" stand and
up and demand that the mob spirit
and lawlessness of courts and district
attorneys shall cease
Will Appeal to Wilson.
The demonstration was held as part
of nationwide observation of
Mooney Day" Eighty sympathizers
of Mooney, including w. Bourke Cock
ran. were appointed to present to Pres
.ident Wilson at Washington to-day
memorial asking for MONEYS immedi-
ate liberation.
Kisses greeted the announcement
from San Francisco that Governor Will
liam D. Stephens had granted to Moo
ney Il reprieve, which will act as
stay Of execution until December 13.
1--WE don't want any reprieve for
him." shouted Charles Nicholson, the
chairman. THAT is a miserable make
shift. 1t has been proven that Mooney
was convicted on perjured testimony.
be liberated, not reprieved. Labor in
this country will not be satisfied until
he is freed.'
Wild cheering again broke forth
when a telegram arrived from Samuel
Gompers. 1t read:
"The executive council of the Amer
/ lean Federation of Labor has done,
! and will continue to do, every honor
able thing within our power to save
him by the court. We still hope for
new and fair trial for Mooney, SO
that widespread suspicion that a mis-
carriage of justice has occurred in
this case may be allayed."
"The denial of justice in this case is
striking more CHASTITY blows at the mill
ions of our men fighting in France than
Germany with all her power can in
fct," said Mr.. Malone. "These des
home give color to the contention of
the lying German propaganda that the
men of our army and navy are not
fighting for democracy abroad, since
democracy is so notably denied at
home.
"The Mooney case has revealed that
our judicial procedure should be purged
e. hat
tom. SO that the foul and perjured
practices of prosecuting officers shall
cease.
Would Change Judges Choice
'ln the Federal courts the Attorney
General Of the United States and his
Assistant District Attorneys prosecute
all defendants at the criminal bar. And
yet. under the present and previous
national administrations. the Attorney
General is the chief adviser to the
President in the selection Of all Fed
eral Judges who are to sit in cases
prosecuted by the officer of the govern
ment chiefly responsible for their ap-
lointment. This practice should cease
ia order that defendants may appear
before judges who have no gatitude
IN their hearts to the prosecuting Of
iccr of the government. The pro-
prammc OF the British Labor party has
made the greatest contribution to the
days OF reconstruction when the war
is over and when the men and women
~ this country, who work by hand and
brain to create the wealth out of which
they themselves live, combine together
and dominate politics, the republic will
Re freed of these perversions of democ-
racy."
This resolution was adopted:
'in view OF the report of the com
mittec appointed by President Wilson
TO investigate the Mooney Billings case.
~ view of the proof that perjury and
subornatlon of perjury was committed
by witnesses for the prosecution with
the knowledge Of the District Attorney.
and IN view OF the world wide belief
that Mooney and Billings are the vic
TINS of a frameup. be it
Resolved. that we call upon the
overnor of California to grant Mooney
ne" tra., so as to prevent the mis-
carriage OF justice, dissatisfaction
among labor and to uphold our inter
national position before all the world 4"
A,A d. C