The herald., 1897-07-12
ISSUES TOO MANY PARD0NS
JoBBERY Is CARaED AT THE RE-
FORM SCHOOL
Lash1ey's Execution at Tucson the
First Hanging in Arizona for
Seven Years-Notes


bug article placed in office by Cleveland.
McCord's name seems to be just about
where It was seven weeks ago, in the
senate committee on territories. and the
ment.
President Mckinley has said he will
make no important appointments till the
senate shall again be in session next De-
cember. All this. taken together sus-
tains one of two views here entertained:
O That the president is satisfied with
the financial views Of the incumbent and
will allow him to serve out his term; (2)
that Governor Franklin is to be at once
removed. should the senate fail to con-
firm McCord- In this latter contingency
Charles Akers, the new secretary Of the
territory, would occupy. pro tempore,
the executive office and honors.
A LONESOME GOVERNOR ..
Franklin Is not admired at home. In
the first place, he is not regular Demo-
crat and was offensive last campaign in,
his disloyalty to the party and in his
references to the local party leaders
He is not man Of tact. It is possible
he is. as he says he is, a man of integ-
rity and honor. but that's no reason for
calling other Democrats thieves and
other naughty names that DON'T sound
even as well as thief"
Affidavits and charges are now dull
in the local market, but just at present
there Is an extra boom in these commod- =,
NJ to-
stocked. and so the more attention. is
being paid Governor Franklin. Yet
Democrats are raising most of the fuss
and what they demand Is Franklins s
removal, instanter. The basis of the,
latest batch Of charges sent on to WASH
ington is that the governor and T. j.
Wolfley, Republican, as the majority of
the territorial board of control, are at
tempting petty piece of jobbery in
connection with the territorial reform
school at Flagstaff. The last legislature
voted tax of about $50, 900 for the COM
pletion Of the structure and designated
new use for it, that it should be
branch territorial insane asylum.
Though only $1,000 of the fund will be
available before next tax season, the
governor and Citizen Member Wolfey
have started to spend it. And this, de-
spite the warmest protests from the
boards third member, Auditor Leitch.
WILL HAUNT THE JUDGE
The most important item of the week
in Arizona has been the hanging at Tue
son Of Philip Lashley, the negro sergeant
who murdered Private Sanden at Fort
Huachuca in April, 1896. The president
a. 1.
a petition for such communication was,
presented him signed by United States
Attorney Ellinwood, by the governor and
three Of the four supreme justices who
reviewed the case. The justices who tried
the case. Judge Bethune, seemed to be
the only territorial official who believed
Lashley should hang. The execution was
accomplished yesterday. The negro
made it notable by disgusting profanity,
by dancing a breakdown" on the trap
and by the assurance that he surely
would return in the spirit to haunt the
judge and jury.
This Lashley hanging is the first in the
territory since the execution of Dilda, in
Prescott, seven years ago. This, no
doubt. seems incredible to readers of the
Detroit Free Press and Puck, but the
fact remains that Arizona has by no
means any penchant for necktie par
ties. 1t is lamentably true there are
many murderers in the territorial prison
whose due was a clear drop from we'll
tied knot, and still more lamentable is
the fact, and have the information from
ex-United States Marshal Meade, that
an average "life" term in the Arizona
penitentiary is four years and eight
months. Some people think this suffl-
cient justification for lynching, others
think it might be easier to correct the
evil by hanging a governor or two.
DOWN ON PARDONS
Gila county is the political subdivision
of Arizona wherein lie Pleasant valley
and Tonic basin. those native haunts Of
the cowboy, far from civilization s. taint
Presumably this is why her citizens OBJ
ject to unstrained mercy font-like
springing at the PRISONS gate. So the
grand jury of Gila county roasted
Governor Franklin in its last report
The roasting was scorcher, yet since
the report the governor has appended
his signature to still two more pardons.
A grapevine dispatch from Yuma
brings the following, unanimously
adopted at the last meeting of the Muir
derers and Burglars Protective asso-
citation, club composed of the haut