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...appointment of a commission to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, composed of President Lowell, President S. W. Stratton of M. I. T. and former Judge Robert Grant has already brought forth a storm of protest from such prominent men as T. J. Boynton, former attorney general of the Commonwealth and F. A. Goodwin, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The former declared in an address to the alumni association of the Suffolk Law School that "there is absolutely no need for any fact finding commission in this case" and the latter declared that such action would be "a direct attack...
These protests come as the result of the appointment of the committee of three by Governor Fuller, which he has asked to act as a sort of advisory board in his investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The commission, however, is to sit independent of the Governor, who will continue his own study of the case as before. The members of the newly appointed committee will conduct their investigation in whatever way they see fit and probably will not hold any public hearings...
Harvard men have long been prominent in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti--not, probably, because the University is a hot bed of socialism, not because the men concerned have sought to create names for themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice...
...course it is not to be expected that such a public show as the Sacco-Vanzetti, case very obviously has become, will pass from the boards without first being thoroughly drained of all apparent significance. Indeed, it is not altogether an unhappy outlook to suppose that lawyers and politicians will take the affair some-what to heart and that, consequently, some slight attempt will be made to mend both the ways of court procedure and political preferment. Doubtless, too, it will occur to some analyst that the case of Judge Thayer, laboring for years under the siress of one single...
...Governor, in whose hands the matter now is, will do well to ignore them for the present. He needs but look to the original evidence, measure, if he can, the almost overwhelming doubt that meets the eye as to the actual guilt of the men. Sacco and Vanzetti, and act accordingly...