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Hellraisers Journal –  Wednesday May 10, 1922
Washington, D. C. – President Refuses Petitions for Political Prisoners

From the Vancouver Daily World (British Columbia) of May 2, 1922:

From the Regina Morning Leader (Saskatchewan) of May 4, 1922:

From the Oklahoma Leader of May 9, 1922:

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CREDIT CHILDREN FOR HARDING ACT
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President Calls For Reports On Politicals
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By LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 8.-President Harding has called for reports from the department of justice on the Philadelphia [?] I. W. W. cases.

News of this response to renewed pressure for release of the political prisoners was given by the attorney general’s office on Monday, to a delegation from the Women’s International league, which on Sunday adopted resolutions demanding general amnesty. Action by this national organization of women was prompted by the coming of the Children’s Crusade and the hostile reception given the children and their mothers by President Harding and his associates.

Credit for apparent anxiety on the part of the administration to get rid of the issue of amnesty is given to the children, who have touched the hearts of even the most hardened politicians and idlers in the capital. Something near indignation is manifested by the general public as it learns of the driving of these children away from the president’s church on Sunday on the pretext that the place of worship was already crowded to the limit of the fire regulations. Moving picture men pose the weary and work-bowed mothers and the tired little girls and boys, and local newspapers publish many groups of them with sympathetic comment.

The Crusaders are digging in to make the fight, however long, to change the attitude of Harding, whether they soften his heart or no.

[Reference to Philadelphia makes little sense here. Most of the families represented by Children’s Crusade were from Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri.)

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CHILD CRUSADERS STAY AT CAPITAL
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President Refuses To See Petitions For Prisoners
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WASHINGTON, May 9.-Even though President Harding refused to see Mrs. Kate Richards O’Hare and the children’s crusade, the results of the trip will be far from in vain. When Attorney General Daugherty, to whom the President referred them, was seen he stated that there would no general amnesty decree, that each case would be considered on its merits and action taken only upon application for pardon being made by the “offenders.”

“We shall stay here on the doorstep of the federal government until the fathers of these children and all other political prisoners are released,” Mrs. O’Hare has announced. Living quarters have been provided by the Farmer-Labor party and the American Civil Liberties union.

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