The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-09
TOM MOONEY ASKS
GOV. CANDIDATES
MANY QUESTIONS
CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON,

Ne
SAN QUENTIN, Calf, Aug. 8.
The following QUESTIONABLE has
been sent the various candidates
for Governor, except the last three
questions were not put in the
QUESTIONABLE to Governor Merriam
as Petition for Pardon is beforz
him.
1. Do you know the theory of
the States case in the case of the
People VS.. Warren X. Billings?
2. Do you know the theAry of the
States case of People VS.. Tom
Mooney?
3. Do you know that under the
theory of the States case. as de-
veloped subsequent to the Billings
trial. Billings, Mooney, Rena Moo
ney and Weinberg are either all
guilty or all innocent?
a. Do you know that Rena Moo
ney, tried after the exposure of
the frameup of Tom Mooney, was
acquitted?
5. Do you know that Weinberg,
tried after the exposure of the
frameup in the case of Tom Moo
ney, was aquitted by the jury after
three minutes elaboration
6. Dc you know that Mooney
has never had his case examined
by any court on its merits since
the facts of the Oxman perjury
and frameup were discovered?
z. Do you know that Tom Moo
ney was aquitted on May "a, 1888
on an advised verdict on an indict-
ment identical in every essential
respect with that on which he is
now serving a life sentence?
8. Do you know that in the trial
on May "a, 1888, Tom Mooney
agreed that the State might use
testimony from former trials, pro-
vided he were allowed to impeach
1t?
9. Do you know that there were
only four Witnesses against Moo
ney, three of whom have been
proven to be perjurers (Oxman and
the two Edeau women) and the
fourth (McDonald) has confessed
perjury?
10. Do you know that on July
"a, 1916, Mcdonald described to
the police the two persons that he
claimed to have seen place the
suitcase resulting in the Prepared
ness Day explosion, and this de-
Scription was suppressed by the
police department and remained
concealed for more than Is years,
and when produced showed a de-
scription which could not possible
have fitted Billings or Mooney?
II. Do you know the part that
Swanson, private detective for the
United RAILROADS. and the PacifM
Gas & Electric Company played in
the frameup of Mooney and Bill
ings?
IL. Have YOU read the suppressed
Mooney-Billings Wickersham re-
port?
10. Have you read the Dins-
more report.
IA. Have you read the argu-
ment of Edwin V. Mckenzie be-
fore the California Supreme Court
in the matter of the Application of
Warren K. Billings for a Pardon?
Is. Have you read the analysis
of the Rolph-Sullivan report made
for the American Civil Liberties
Union by Aaron Sapiro?
16. What is your present view
as to the guilt or innocence of
Mooney?
II. Upon what is your opinion
based?
IL. Will you pardon Mooney
within one month of your election,
if you are elected Governor of
California?
Accompanying the questionable
was statement by Tom Mooney
as follows:
"There are tens of thousands of
voters in California, who will be
interested in knowing your answers
to the above questions, and who
are entitled to know what your
position is with reference to the
Mooney case.
A failure to answer this letter
within a reasonable time will be
considered as evidence that you
will not pardon me if elected Gov
ernor, but that you will join the
ranks of those who by failure to
act have continued the original
frameup."
TOM MOONEY,
Q1Q01