Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-12-30
By LAURENCE TODD
r.5srated Press Staff Correspondent

n I@fInEENis-INON - AANNs
With him % others of the so
ssIIed" political prisoners have re
rt5ead combinations of sentence.
TIE Harding administration issued
ps.8av night a list of the group Of
rsrsons selected for holiday elemeney,
5aB emphasized its view that the l..
~ N. who have not recanted are un-
worthy of release.
Tha President himself announced
his position, forbidding the press to
.s5ote him directly. Ii appears that
- axes the attitude that Debs was
Ia part entitled to his liberty-but
~ To be restored eitizenship-be-
-so-e he had twice polled nearly a
million votes as a presidential candi-
date.
Mr.. Harding, who specifically jus
tffies this action of the courts in i'm
nriSnuing these men in time of war,
EEL. that changed conditions make
II now possible TO exercise mercy.
Moreover, he views with comp,acency
tie fact that most of the l73 politi-
cal prisoners remaining behind the
stsne walls are of the |. w. ". group.
He holds that they have no good claim
Ia executive clemency. Yet he re-
leased Charles Ashleigh and Giovanni
Baldazzi for deportation, while he
holds Vincent St. John, an American,
in prison.
In brief, the Department of Justice
report on the released prisoners sets
forth that-Charles Ashleigh was an
/ W. W. speaker and writer, "and
while there is no proof of overt acts
on his part, he cooperated with the
leading |. w. W.'s up to and imme-
diately following declaration of war
by this country"
Orville Anderson, convicted at
Deadwood, S. D., charged with having
criticized the President as murder
er and denounced the war as uncon-
stitutional," denied the charges and
established his ordinary high charac-
ter as a citizen.
Giovanni BaldaZzi wrote articles
for an Italian |. w. W. paper "and
unuuestionaby justly deserved" the
10 years and $4,000 fine imposed.
The department is anxious to deport
him at once.
David T. Blodgett of Iowa, who
quoted Tom Watson on the unconsti-
tutionality of the draft, and wrote
pamphlets opposing the war, sis evi-
IDENTIFY abnormal" and has served the
equivalent of five years anyhow.
Thomas Carey, San Francisco, has
nearly completed two-year term tor
refusing to be drafted and advising
others to refuse to respond. He was
"mised' by others into his position.
j. T. Cumbie, rs years old, an Okla
homa preacher and farmer, member
of the farm tenants Universal I'm
ion," which sought to resist the draft,
was ordinarily a law-abiding, worthy
hard-working citizen but Socialist
and therefore more easily led" He
was paroled last June.
Joseph NJ. Coldwell, Providence, an
old man, whose term would have eX-
pired February %, next, 'was an in
sistent advocate of resistance to the
selective service act" Federal At
torney and Judge refused to recon-
mend more than a parole, which was
denied.
Claude Frees, FL Paso, offered
plans of machine gun to a German
consul in Mexico during the war, but
the offer was refused. Most of his
sentence has been served. This was
never considered a political one by the
amnesty advocates.
William G. Head, South Dakota,
was a Socialist and circulated petit
tons for a referendum of the war
question:" but committed no overt act
and was not an |. w. W."
Gustave H. Jacobsen, Chicago, "a
citizen of high character and stand
ing in the community" in whose
house a conspiracy to start trouble
in India was alleged to have been
discussed, in the year 1915, twas not
shown to be in reality an enemy OF
the United States"
Mrs. ldell Kennedy Of Los Angeles,
"a woman of intelligence and educa-
ton, but not well balanced mentally"
returned from a visit in Germany be-
fore the war and published proGer-
man articles and sought to obstruct
the draft. Her husband paid a S5,-
0O0 fine for her at cost of much hard
snip, and she has been in an asylum
for Is months past.
John Murphy, one of the men con-
Neted at Sacramento as an |. w. w.
denied that he was ever an active
member, is fast becoming blind and
now claims that he has completely
changed his views and attitude toward
The government and the social order
OF things generally and promises
hereafter to be law-abiding citizen"
Walter Phillips, Oklahoma, was one
OF the tenant farmers convicted en-
nasse for conspiracy to resist the
draft. These farmers "were for the
most part ignorant and had been
worked upon by the |. w. W. agita-
Tors and vicious leaders"
Jose Prado, Santa Fe, a laborer,
helped some other destitute laborers
across the border in time of war.
Moiick Fieron, Detroit, a former
onicer In the Austrian army, charged
with seeking to prevent enlistments,
denied the charge and has good
prison record.
Wilhelm Sehumann, a Lutheran
minister of Fort Dodge, Iowa, charg-
ed with disloyal utterances, denied
having made them and has served
over two years.
anthony j. Stopa, Detroit, convict
ea on charges made by alien witness
e5s--whom he charges with being his
esDtors and personal enemies-wlth