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...class prisoner, was a symbol of labor's intolerable servitude. But Tom Mooney, pardoned and free, is a symbol no longer. He is an ex-class prisoner, who, to win his own freedom, led the workers into the enemy's camp [by advocating the election of Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social order...
...Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...
...closed for good. Governor Olson brought Tom Mooney, dressed in a neat striped prison-made suit, from San Quentin to Sacramento. The grey-haired convict stepped up beside the grey-haired Governor before an audience of 500 in the Assembly chamber. He listened to a speech in which Culbert Olson simply stated his conviction that the Preparedness Day bombing was not the work of Tom Mooney. The Governor waited 30 seconds for someone to contradict him before he handed over an unconditional pardon...
Famed California Convict Thomas Joseph Mooney, anticipating a full pardon by Governor Culbert Olson (due about January 15), made plans for the future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
...Republicans: South Dakota's Harland J. Bushfield, Wyoming's Nels H. Smith, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall. Iowa's George A. Wilson, Idaho's C. A. Bottolfsen. New Democrats: Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor, California's Culbert Olson, North Dakota's John Moses...