ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Wilson Commission's review of "the Tom Mooney Case". The Mooney Case attracted attention and sympathy not only in the United States but around the world. The radical and labor press cited the Commission's findings and heightened their appeals for Mooney's freedom. From the latter part of 1918, and really for the next 20 years, the battle over his fate raged, all the while amid a national climate of fear and distrust that only encouraged delay. As it dragged on for years, the Mooney Case often saw comparison to the Dreyfus Affair in France, sometimes with Mooney himself drawing the comparison. He reminded the audience of previous instances of "conviction without evidence", citing a number of examples, but specifically the Dreyfus case. As Cockran made clear in his 1918 address, the anti-Semitism and antilabor attitudes in both were eerily similar.
