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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 25, 1920
Atlanta Penitentiary – President Wilson Refuses to Release Eugene Debs
From The Atlanta Constitution of December 24, 1920:
NO XMAS PARDON FOR EUGENE DEBS
FROM PRESIDENT
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Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate for president, now serving a ten-year sentence in the Atlanta federal prison, will not be freed from the penitentiary Christmas day, as has been rumored, according to dispatches received from Washington Thursday night.
There has been much talk in Atlanta, centered around the belief among those who will be extended executive clemency by President Wilson on Christmas day, but it is now understood that the president has refused to extend clemency in the socialist leader’s case, believing it not consonant with public interest.
It has also been said that Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, whom friends of Debs have been inclined to hold responsible for the president’s continued refusal to cut the prison term short, actually recommended the pardon of Debs some time ago.
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[Drawing by Art Young and emphasis added.]
From The Liberator of April 1920:
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SOURCES
Quote EVD, AtR p1, Oct 23, 1920
https://www.newspapers.com/image/612855160/
The Atlanta Constitution
(Atlanta, Georgia)
-Dec 24, 1920
https://www.newspapers.com/image/26911851/
IMAGES
EVD by Art Young, Liberator, Sept 1918
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1918/07/v1n07-sep-1918-liberator.pdf
EVD, by Boardman Robinson, Liberator p4, Apr 1920
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/04/v3n04-w25-apr-1920-liberator.pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: “Debs and the Poets” -Edited by Ruth Le Prade, with an Introduction by Upton Sinclair
From the Appeal to Reason of November 6, 1920:
“New Book of Poems Dedicated to Our ‘Gene”
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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day — St Peter’s Choir