Evening star., 1927-04-23
REDS EXECUTION
STIRS BAY STATE
Boston Rings With Pleas for
Sacco and Vanzetti,
Awaiting Death.
BY ROBERT II. SMALL.

BY ROBERT II. SMALL.
BOG ON. April 23.-Boston Com
mon is ringing once more with the
cry Of freedom. " Faneuil Hall is &c
hear again the shouts of Down with
the tyrants" IL there is any sym
bolic tea around Boston. it is likely to
he thrown into the harbor at any
moment.
The sturdy yeomanry of Massachu.
setts is aroused as it has not been in
half a hundred years. and it is all
because a very considerable section of
the world at large is bent upon die
tating to this sovereign Common
wealth what il shall do and what 1t
shall not do in the case of the two
Italian gentlemen, one Bartolomeo
Nanzetti whose sturdy. peasant face
bristles with a very mild moustachlo,
and one Nicola SacCo, a mild-looking,
smooth -shaven, rather smallish sort
of man, who d little more than SIX
years ago was a worker in shoe
factory. Bartolomeo was fish
peddler.
Names Rung Around World.
Today the two men are making a
last. desperate fight to escape the
electric chair, after having been con-
victed of the murder Of a shoe fac
tory payrnaster and his guard in the
little town of Braiutree. In the six
years which have elapsed between the
commission Of the crime and the final
Judgment Of death the names OF
Sacco and Vanzetti have rung around
4, the world, and today the din Is greater
than ever before. 1t is one Of amaz-
ing facts of this wholly amazing case
that Europe and South America and
the Orient knew the full details Of 1t
before the people of the United States
had the slightest idea of what 1t was
all about It was not until the reds
of Paris and Madrid and Buenos Aires
were tossing bombs at the American
embassies in those capitals that the
people of America began 10 sit up
and take notice and ask who the devil
Sacco and Vanzetti were, anyhow
They discovered that interest in the
obscure cobbler and fishmonger had
been confined almost exclusively to
the vicinity Of Boston.
They learned that friends of the
two Italians had claimed they were
being "railroaded" to the electric
chair. not because they were guilty of
the murder charged, but because they
were admitted reds" or at least
f''parlor pinks," AMI. furthermore, that
they boasted of their lodging Of the
draft for service in the World War.
Capitalism Accused.
Capitalism was said to be taking
its revenge.
In some unexplained manner the
plight Of the two Italian radicals
epread through Europe like wildfire.
Meetings of protest were called, funds
for defense were subscribed, and be-
tween bomb throwing dire threats
were hurled. When the commot1on
came back over the oceans the men
and women Of radical leanings in this
country took up the battle cry OF
freedom for the two condemned
''brothers, until today it is be-
wildering howl.
Gov. Alvan 7. Fuller. sitting in the
golden -domed statehouse, is being
bonbarded with letters, telegralns, ca
Diagrams, post cards and petitions IN
q rising tide of protest which appar-
entity knows no bounds. But sprinkled
with the protests are letters urging
the Governor to stand firm.
Resolutions from town and village
chambers of commerce demand that
the governor let the law take Its
course. The battle lines are becoming
more firmly drawn. The sturdy yeo-
Ynanry, the type OF men you uncon-
eriouslv associate with President
Coolidge. and the business men and
large property holders are arrayed
against Sacco and Vanzetti. The lib
erals and the intelligentsia are with
the two condemned Italians to the
bitter end
Governor Considering.
The executions are set for the week
beginning July 10. Gov. Fuller mas
let it be known he will not be hurried
into a. decision as to Communication OF
sentence. aanaon or the appointment
nf an unbiased commission to review
Ihe evidence and advise him OF its
findings. with the storm growing IN
Intensity day by day, however. lt IS
hificult 10 forecast what the 1nterYen"
Ing weeks may bring.
Leading the fight TO save Sacco ana
Vanzetu in this state are the younger
BET of college professors, and they
have the boy and girl undergraduates
of their institutions with them pooy
and soul. The girls of Smith College'
IN Northampton, Mr.. Coolidges nome
Town attended a Saeco-Vanzetti de-
hate This week and howled at the
kneak kers who advocated the full pen
eltv of the law The movement has
apread to virtually every university,
tollege and upper school in New Eng
and, and this phase of the agitation
Is attracting more serious comment
and attention than the wild appeals
hom abroad which are coming TO Bos-
ION direct or through the President at
Washington.
The European agitators seem to
.hink the President alone can save the
condemned men. OF course, he mas
nothing to.do with the case. The only
nan standing between the Italians
md the death chamber is Gov. Fuller,
Ind he appears today to be the least
herturbed gentleman in all New Eng
and.
The State OF Massachusetts is being
condemned as hotbed Of t'asclsm
ind the home Of the white terror.
1t is only too apparent that here IS
htuation which must grow worse be-
Iore It gets better. 1t is something
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