The age-herald., 1902-02-23

three, retailing liquor without license,
 robbery assault with intent to murder, carrying concealed weapohs, man- slaughter, gambling bigamy two each; taking boat from moorings, aiding esA cape. receiving stolen property attempt at criminal assault, selling pistol to min or, arson second degree, assault and bat tery, violating contract presenting pis- tol, criminal assault, gaming. disturbing public worship, miscegenation one each.
 Seventy-five Pardons.
 While acting governor during the ill- ness of the late Governor Sanford, Gov ernor Jelks issued ten pardons and pa roles, bringing his total up to seventy four in a period covering about seven months. This shows an average to date of about ten to each month, but unless unusual conditions prevail this average
 will not be kept up for the remainder of the term, as almost the entire list of applications now on file have been passed upon. Very few other than new cases
 will in future receive attention of the pardoning board, and there cannot be
 many new applications unless they come
 from new convicts, as there are now
 about fourteen hundred applications on
 file out of total of 1865 prisoners in the
 walls.
 Of the last five governors serving the State Governor Joseph F. Johnston was freest in the issuance of pardons. During his four years tenure in office he ex- | tended executive clefhency to total of | 1113 persons Governor Jones comes next with total of 643 in four years. It was 1 very difficult to secure pardon through | Governor es, and during his term of two years he used the power in behalf
 of 237 persons Governor Sanford issued
 total of ninety-six pardons and pa- 1 roles within five months, but this large record was caused by the pardoning of I fortysix persons sent up from Butler 1 County on the charge of unlawful riding I on railroad trains and vagrancy.s With l these pardons excluded, his record would l have been on par with other governors 1 J. Kirk Jackson, private secretary to l Governor Jelks, and also to former Gov 1 ernors Seay and Jones, told this interest l ing story of his experience with the par don question to representative of the
 Age-Herald this morning:
 Secretary Jackson Talks. l Speaking of pardons, as you know, l this is the third governor whom I have had the honor to serve in the very con l fidential capacity of private secretary. 1 In this position I have had much expe- l rience in the matter of pardons. I am | duly mindful of the fact that the gov ernor of the State makes United States | Senators. He is commander-in-chief of | the National Guard and puts thousands of men under arms I am not forgetful too. that when 1t comes to legislation. his one word outweighs that of majority of the General Assembly, but the great ness and magnitude of the pardoning
 power impresses me more than all else | with the office of governor I have seen
 men on the way to the gallows when the
 ipse dixit of the governor of this state saxd they should not die.
 Under former administrations there
 was no advisory pardoning board. The
 applications came direct to the governor
 but now it is different. We have a par
 doning board, consisting of the Auditor,
 Secretary of State and Attorney General. It Is generally understood that this board is to meet on Friday of each week and in this way all applications will probably be promptly considered After this board
 acts the governor can either approve or disapprove their findings, but every ap- plication for the pardoning of felon must be referred to the board.
 Every incoming administration has hard time with pardons during its first six months. Each and every convict in the penitentiary wants to take another chance; they seem to think that if they are turned down, they are in no worse fix than they were before. Of course, the governor Is not familiar with the cases until he has examined them. He does not know whether there Is any merit in it or not, and this entails a vast amount of work on him until he gets on intimate terms with what might be called the chestnuts."
 The "Parion Brokers"