Show FREED BY GOV SMITH Violator of Anarchy Act Pardoned ALBANY N N. Y Y Dec Dc Dec 12 1 AP API AP- I Benjamin communist who has Benamin served time in Sing Sing for advocating the overthrow of the government by force torce has been par cloned by Governor Smith Convicted in 1920 for violation of act act- the state criminal anarchy Gitlow has waged waged an incessant struggle for freedom Five times Umes in the five years of his incarceration tion he was released when his appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal ton eal from the conviction reached various stages I When the United States supreme court sustained his conviction this year he went back to Sing Sing again Three times in iTt the five years he was a candidate for political office once for mayor o of oC New York Yoek YOlk on a aI I Communist ticket and the second time for congressman for the Working Mens Men's league In 1924 he lie was vice vie presidential candidate for the Workers Workers' Party of America d the His name was permitted on ballot balot when he ran for vice president president president dent but on the other occasions it I was kept off oft Gitlow published in a radical magazine a l manifesto b by the left lef wing of the Socialist party pary which the tW state charged advocated the overthrow of ot the government by force torce The governor Ja in In granting the pardon yesterday left no doubt that he was convinced of ot Gitlow's guilt guit The only question queston the gove governor governor gov gov- e nor said was whether or not he ha has been sufficiently punished for tor fora tora a political crime pointing that out he had actually served sered a longer term than James J. J Larkin Irish agitator whom the governor pardoned pardoned par par- pa- pa in 1923 and who was convicted convicted con con- under the ame same ac act |