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Show DENIES TRUTH OF FICKERT'S CHARGE Chairman of War Labor ; Policies Board Sends Telegram Tele-gram on Mooney Case. WASHINGTON, July 26. Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the war labor la-bor policies board, today telegraphed to Governor Stephens of California a de- mal that wnnc aetiDg as st;acw President Wilson 's mediation commission commis-sion he expressed an opinion that Thomas J. Mooney was guilty of the San Francisco preparedness day bomb plot, for which Mooney now is under death sentence. The telegram was sent because, m an affidavit filed with Governor Stephens by District Attorney Fickert, Frankfurter Frank-furter was charged i with expressing a belief of Mooney Js guilt to the district attorney. The telegram follows: ''News association here reports filing of affidavit with you by District Attorney At-torney Fickert, which, iu effect, attrib-. utes to me a statement indicating belief in Mooney Js guilt and urging executive execu-tive action iu Mooney Js behalf solely in order to placate radical opinion liere ajid abroad. 1(Any allegation made ,by any one as to any expression of belief in Mooney 5s guilt is wholly false. I never directly or indirectly by implication or suggestion sugges-tion expressed an opinion in regard to Mooney 's guilt or innocence. On innumerable in-numerable occasions said that I neither had an opinion nor was entitled to have an opinion on the merits as to Mooney Js guilt or innocence. I never had one and do not have such an opinion at this time. 1 ' The sole task of the president s mediation commission in investigating the Mooney case was not to pass upon bis guilt or his innocence, but to consider con-sider whether the circumstances which developed after Mooney Js conviction were such as to impair the full confidence confi-dence ordinarily to be accorded to a jury's verdict. The president's mediation media-tion commission, as you know, reached the same conclusion on this narrow issue is-sue as that reached by the attorney general of the state of California and the judge before whom the case was tried. The reason tlmt the federal government gov-ernment was involved was because the circumstances of the case widely attracted at-tracted attention both in this country aud among the people of the allies anil therefore became a matter of nationwide nation-wide and international concern. All this Ins beer, set forth with unequivocal I clearness by the report of the presi- dent's mediation commission to the president on January 16. That report set forth the findings which the commission com-mission reached and m all the findings it set f Oil n the reasons why the commission com-mission was charged with making tiie inquiry and the basis of its recommendation. recommen-dation. Any opinion or belief outside of the report itself attributed to me or the commission has no foundation ; w-hatever. "I cannot believe that a district at- torney. who is a judicial officer, acting ; under one of the most solemn oaths imposed im-posed upon any official, should willingly willing-ly or ro-klessly charge others with facts which he must know to be untrue. I therefore am loath to .believe that re-! re-! port which the eastern press attributes to Pistrict Attorney Fickert -is true, but I burden you with this telegram of denial in order to avoid even the most remote possibility of misunderstanding. I have taken the liberty of giving this telegram to the press associations." |