The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-11-10
LetterFronMooney
Disappointed BY Decision Of
United States Supreme
Court
California State Prison,
San Quentin, California
1O-22-3S

S0alAOIlIlo 0totC xlSOlIS
San Quentin, California
10-22-3S
Dear Friends:
The decision of the United States
Supreme Court denying me a writ of
certiorari (or review keenly disap-
pointed me. This decision of the
highest judicial tribunal in the United
States, said substantially that it is
proper, legal and lawful for the preda-
tory, anti-labor union, corporate inter-
ests of this land to take an innocent,
militant trade-unionist, and, through
their minions and hirelings in and out
of public office, deliberately frame
him for the most diabolical crime and
railroad him to the penitentiary for
life, on perjured testimony which the
public officials through the district at
torney and the police department con-
nived at and suborned through bribery,
fraud, and other means of corruption
and chicanery.
This decision, more than any other
single one that has ever been handed
down by the United States Supreme
Court, proves conclusively that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was right and just in
his efforts to bring about a re-organ-
izatiop Of the Court, in order to have
more liberal Interpretation of the
law in line with our modern social,
economic and political life. That fight
must go on with renewed vigor and
intensity until the six remaining of
the original "nine old men" are finally
and ultimately removed from this most
powerful tribunal, which can nullify
the will of the entire people of this
nation.
Intense agitation and educational
work must continue unabated to drive
these six old reactionaries from the
United States Supreme Court bench.
They are real stumbling block in the
path of progress. They are the en-
emies Of justice and decency. They
are in reality the last bulwark of the
corrupt and deeply entrenched, preda
tory corporate interests. They are
stepped in the reactionary traditions of
the dead past. Their reasoning is
blighted with century or more of
legalism that has no place in our mod
ern life. l urge you to do everything
in your humble power to intensity the
agitation leading to the ultimate and
complete liberalization of the Supreme
Court of the United States through the
appointment of more liberal justices.
l hope sincerely that you will find some
means of registering most profound
protest against this monstrously un-
just and unfair decision against me.
My only immediate hope lies in the
election of State Senator Culbert L.
Olson as the next Democratic Cover
nor Of California. Olson in genuine
liberal, and a progressive-minded, pub
lic-spirited citizen. During his past
four years. incumbency as state SEN
ator, he championed my cause in the
California State Legislature every time
it came before that body He has made
no promise to me personally, he has
made no commitments on my case, l
have exacted no pledge from him; but
am firmly convinced that he will be
elected and will pardon me immedi-
ately and unconditionally.
The same corrupt, all-powerful,
predatory, anti-labor union, corporate
interests of California that railroaded
me to the penitentiary twenty-five
years ago on one of the foulest frame
up conspiracies ever perpetuated, are
now doing everything within their
power to bring about the defeat of all
liberals seeking public office in Cali
fornia on November Sth. Chief among
them is State Senator Culbert Olson.
There is no foul trick that they will
not resort to to accomplish their de-
spicable ends. Millions of dollars will
be spent to defeat decency and the
will of the common people. This re-
dictionary, Republican, corporate-con-
trolled, political machine has had an
uninterrupted reign of fifty years in
California.
| urge you from the depths Of my
heart for your most generous finan
cial and moral support at this time
to enable me to do everything humanity
possible within our very limited means
to bring about the election of Culbert
l.. Olson as the next Governor of Cali
fornia, Sheridan Downey as United
States Senator, and Ellis Patterson as
Lieutenant Governor, and all other
progressive minded liberal candidates
for public office in California. l can
not urge this upon you too strongly.
plead with you to let your imagin-
alton carry you into San Quentin
Prison with me and picture for your
self how you would feel under these
circumstances after 22la years of des-
perate struggling to obtain a simple
means of redress, the last five years
of that time devoted intensively and
energetically to obtaining a writ of
habeas corpus, going through every
one of the courts Of the land not only
once but twice in an endeavor to ac-
complish that end, and then being told