In June , Massachusetts Federal District Court Judge George Anderson ordered the discharge of twenty more arrested aliens and effectively ended the possibility of additional raids . The conservative '' Christian Science Monitor '' found itself unable to support Palmer any longer , writing on June 25 , 1920 : " What appeared to be an excess of radicalism ... was certainly met with ... an excess of suppression . " Leaders of industry voiced similar sentiments , including Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel , who thought Palmer 's activities created more radicals than they suppressed , and T. Coleman du Pont who called the Justice Department 's work evidence of " sheer Red hysteria . " At the Democratic National Convention in July , Palmer never had a chance at winning the nomination . Coolidge , famous for his opposition to the right of police to strike , won a place on the Republican ticket , but the party 's nominee , and the eventual winner of the 1920 election , was the U.S. Senator from Ohio , Warren G. Harding . He sounded a very different note in mid-August . An interviewer wrote that " his jaws fairly snapped " when he said that " too much has been said about Bolshevism in America . It is quite true that there are enemies of Government within our borders . However , I believe their number has been greatly magnified . The American workman is not a Bolshevik ; neither is the American employer an autocrat . " When another anarchist bomb exploded on Wall Street in September 1920 , newspaper response was comparatively restrained . " More bombs may be exploded , " wrote the '' New York Times '' , " Other lives may be taken . But these are only hazards of a war which ... must be faced calmly . " If anarchists sought to make people fearful , " By keeping cool and firm we begin their defeat . " Nevertheless , the after-effects of the First Red Scare were a major factor in the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
bomb exploded on Wall Street in September 1920
Wall Street bombing
First Red Scare