European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 George will Edward who is Ruhn Ling for mayor of recently faced Down a questioner on the subject punish was he not trucking to i passions of the Day by calling for the reinstatement of he effect allowing this son of Sam to brutalize the entire Community who is a very Bright Man at great replied that he had always favored capita punishment under certain leaving the questioner because Edward Koch is not Only a Man of very High he is also a highly pedigreed arid his statement la indicative of a trend that is working coast to Uberall believe Din punishment tended to suppress that belief until quite v la has been widely remarked that Gover nor Brown of California declined to lobby to sustain his veto punish Why because proponents of capital punishment would the question on a referendum which would have gone to the voters the first tuesday after the first monday november of and guess who is running for reelection As governor of California on that Dale the indices Are solid not Only in the state o there is a swing in sentiment capital this swing is the result of a go the Case that scarred a generation on in South men with revolvers killed two men Earry maj a shoe factors on Miry Ine Boston Globe headline proclaimed Calvin cot judges veto of a Bill Concan Tib a Small Story on Page six reported to jul Nicola a and Ivair Tolimeo i had oven churn i with carry ing concealed la is 50 Yui Ira since they shortly i Flor aug in the elec columns comments iroc chair in Bostons Charlestown prison that was the Climax of ill nations Mosi wrenching criminal tin american Dreyfus Case thai gathered and concentrated unpleasant passions on both and scarred a the trial turned on identification of the two men and of Sac eos today it is widely believed that Vanielle was inno cent and thai Sacco May have 11 is arguable that neither was proven guilty beyond a reasonable it is certain that the Case became a in part be cause of attitudes that today seem As Remote As the passion far free coinage of As often the end of Warwas an occasion for on attorney general Mitchell Palmer twisted the cons Tullon into a pretzel with raids against anarchists and other radicals in Tow Opici Iani of mind in column Tot urto oni m nit it Kim d in i our my in in u d oink dorm i nuni Wing in vim m to the Kun flux Cjan was in an Oregon Man was sentenced to Days in jail for this incendiary remark to hell with Coli dec its Only an Acci Dent Hes in the first decade of the Mencken and a jewish businessman published a Book debating Pic merits of free the new York times reviewer deplored the fact that Llic american system was being debated by two men without american u was then common for the gently bred to distinguish Between mean ing persons of scotch or German and meaning the and Southern und euro Theodore Totoa Coll saw Rule suicide in the fact hut propertied folks were nol reproducing As rapidly As tic Lucr prevailing and abuses of made the moment Ripe fur a counterattack from and Many who in the Best of Amis have their fair share of used the Snetro and Vaud to Case As an excuse to fall upon Massif Chusett with angry in the was what arfaub4s was in the 1950s and Mississippi was in the it was the state that especially Laved loll was considered doubly odious puritanical and the phrase banned in Boston had entered the and Mencken amused himself Selling banned books on Boston acne who did not participate in the made amusing satire of populist resentment of Pym Mouth All the inbred landlord Unsay wrote a mock solemn poem in weighing against the dour a Gigantic spiders As a Bryan populist would have done Plymouth Hock with tils boulders from the judge Webster who presided at the could have been carved from Plymouth he was the embodiment of Granite Yankee Ness he May or May not have told golfing did you Sec what i did to Hose anarchist bastards but on the Bench he certainly had same of the unfortunate trails of judge Julius the Little judge with the Short fuse who pre sided no the i9w trial of the Chicago if the prosecution involved some prejudice masquerading As respect for the protest movement on behalf of the defendants involved much masquerading As communists were disproportionately influential in the move irenus they embezzled funds collected for the and hard hearted regarded the defendants As expendable the protest movement put communists on display before progressives who wanted to be the movement was the first disillusioning episode in two decades of disillusionment with comm Katherine Anna the wis a protester who innocently remarked to one of the communist leaders that sire hoped Sacco and Varu Tetti could be alive in the alive snapped the what fur they Are no earthly Good to us the thai Shoou Ceance is not for this world  dial capital question whether vengeance is nth cosely an obligation of a an c victimized by Lite murdered Chi f q professor 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