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de Yeung Thicrion, Editar and Publisher sz Gearge T. Cameron, Publisher 1925 to 1955 ded 1865 by Chorles aad } sday, Feb. 24, 1960 “eee H. de Young Vo. California ; yee RY LITTLE of (ie astonishment caused by the : ve of Cary] Chessman last Thursday has dup or modified, for most Cal conians, ror Brown's statement about it. re quite clearly does not wel- is throwing ba! ck info its hands an issue fa year ago when it refused to impose mon the Seath penalty. To assume, from the pond fence calling fur clemency for Chessman, e favor an end to capital 2 long Jeap in logic and val Poll s of oP “The Legisla jon “of capital ment, do not appear ‘to * ar out his belief that the public is with the abolitionists. ++. Brown's second excuse for granting his re- 5 s the Ruboitom telegram from the ate Department telling wheat President Eisenhower fight be up ogeinst in eo if the execution vere carried out. We believe mast people join Senator Fulbright. chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Cornmittee, in finding it “very disturb- ing” that American justice can be “pi y incipient mots of students in a small Latin Amer- intry.” students whose presumptuousness biy equalled only by their ignorance of the Chessman case. . 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 relations effects? Are we so fearful of w6rld opinion that “Ager our own laws? Governor Brow), ase conscience’ 2s an op- 4 ponent of capital himent has been weighed . down by the Chessman case, seemed only too eager fo ‘have the State Depariment provide him with an excuse for stonping the march of lawful proc- esses. The Rubottom telegrem’s intentions have, however, 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?