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chee weap FY 2- + $ z i % : € a ; . “PAGE 26 Wed Charter de Young Thicriot, Edit: and Publis cher Gea:ge T. Cameron, Publisher 1925 to 1955 ad 1865 by Cherles aid M. H. de Young OR ER ER OR Ce arn eM En ean em lm sday, Feb. 24, 1960 ccce freee HSE Ae Be 8 EN eR te ee re crate nig Bah Art a Re vir LY LITTLE of the astonishment caused by the Tepr ieve of Caryl Chéssman last Thursday has been cleared up or modified, for most Californians, hy Governor Brown's statcment about it. - The Legislature quite clearly does not wel- come his throw ing back info ils hands an issue disposed of a year ago when it refused to impose nmarat: s Brown did, from the pre eponderance of his cor- espondence calling 3 for Clemency for Chessman, eome favor an end to capital @ Jong leap in logic and name wall. Polls of opinion, ncomicie Poll of last spring. inst abolition of capital - < Poy punishment, Go not appear to bear out his belief that the public is with the abolitionists. *.. Brown's second excuse for granting his re- pricve was the Ruhotiom telegram from the State Depariment felling what President Eisenhower might be up against in Montevideo if the execution were carricd oul. We beneve mast people join Senator Fulbrigh(, chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in finding it “very disturb- ing” that American justice can be “pressured by incipient mobs of students in a small Latin Amer- ican country,” students whose presumptuousness is probably equalled only by their ignorance of the Chess an ~Gase, ts the status of American society so insecure, many people have lately asked themselves, as to be swerved from justice by considerations of its public retations effects? Are we so fearful of oe 7 dnote . WS? world opinion that.” jeep our own lax s - Governor Brow). whose conscience 28 an op- ponent of capifal punishment has been weighed down by the Chessman case, seemed only too eager . to ‘have the State Denariment provide him with an excuse for stooping the march of lawful proc- esses. The Rubottom teiegram’s intentions have, bowever, never been made clear. Was it or . wasn't it a White House request to keep the coast Clear while the President was on tour? orium on the death penalty. To assume, |