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But there is more in the Sacco-Vanzetti case than is contained in a bare recital of its facts and dates. During one morning last week the first mail alone brought to Governor Fuller 57 letters, some urging intercession, others protesting against intercession for Shoemaker Sacco, for Fish-peddler Vanzetti. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament cabled Governor Fuller, demanding a new trial, viewing with horror the approaching executions of two men whose guilt they question. Last week 7,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, roared "Stop the murder of Sacco & Vanzetti." In London, in Paris, in The Hague police guard U. S. embassies and consulates, fearing that European radicals will let bombs express their disapproval of Massachusetts justice. Girls of Wellesley and Barnard colleges have petitioned the Governor to intervene. And a long list of liberal intelligentsia, including Jane Addams of Hull House, Remain Rolland (French novelist), Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard Law School faculty, Albert Einstein (relativity theorist) and many another have enrolled themselves with the Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. But, in spite of tumult, of shouting, the outcome now rests solely with Governor Fuller. The Governor may 1) appoint a committee to review the entire proceedings, with the possible result of giving the condemned a new trial; 2) of his own responsibility, grant pardons to Mr. Sacco, to Mr. Vanzetti; 3) may let the law take its course. When, in his office beneath the Golden Dome of the State House at Boston, he sits down to consider his decision, what arguments are there that might lead him to decide in favor of the shoemaker and the fish-peddler? What is the case for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
That case rests partly upon the contention that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti, because of their avowed Communistic principles, did not receive a fair trial owing to prejudice against their political beliefs partly upon the contention that since their conviction, important new evidence has developed sufficient to justify a retrial. Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, quoting from the trial records, point out 815£. Prosecutors Katzmann and Williams stressed the facts that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti had ln 1917, dodged the draft by going to Mexico, that both were Reds of the most crimson hue. Cross-examining Mr. Sacco, District Attorney Katzmann drew from him a long speech, in whose broken, halting English the law-abiding Massachusetts gentlemen of the jury heard a Communist's brief for Communism. Said Mr. Sacco after telling how he had come to thei Fm —:, believing it to be the "land of the free":