The Green Forest tribune., 1903-11-14
as to the identity of the negro, yet Gov. Davis pardoned him be- fore half his term was out.

 fore half his term was out.
 E. O. Stuckey was convicted in Polk county for stealing goods from fellow-merchants. Stuckey had skeleton keys and would enter other stores at night and steal goods. He was caught in the act. Said Gov. Davis was passing through the pen one day and heard Stuckey playing "Home Sweet Home" on a violin. The old tune melted his heart. No man could stay in the pen that could play "Home, Sweet Home" so sweetly. He issued him a pardon. Judge Wood said he told the incident when they spoke at Mena and Judge Pickett rose up in the crowd and inter- rupted the speaker to state that he got $500 for securing that pardon.
 Next, Judge Wood took up the Johnson pardon, with which our readers are more or less familiar. "Dr." Johnson had committed an unmentionable crime against his own daughter at Ft. Smith; she was only child yet made mother, for which awful deed Johnson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. He was pardoned by the governor before he had served out two years, under the pretense that James & Fuller of Eureka Springs had represented to him that Johnson was in bad health and likely to die in the penitentiary. Instead of issuing the pardon to Johnson the governor sent it to James 6 Fuller and they sent it to a lawyer in Little Rock with in- structions to give it to Johnson when he had signed a deed to James & Fuller for all his prop erty in Eureka Springs. That the deed was signed, sealed, and delivered and Johnson was duly released. the consideration be- ing S400, as fee for securing the pardon. Judge Wood said a man rose up in the audience in Eureka Springs at the speaking there and said he would give 5000 for this property any day. In explanation of this inexplain- able transaction Gov. Davis had said at other places that Fuller & James had perpetrated a fraud on him, that they had represent ed that Johnson was in bad health when as a matter of fact he could split 200 rails a day and was the picture of health. Davis had been reading telegram which he said he sent Fuller tell ing him if he didn't release Johnson's property he would sue him for the amount; but since coming to Carroll county he (Davis) was endeavoring to smooth up the matter, that he put up the pitiful excuse that 1 Fuller had been deceived by Dr. Witt, that he (Fuller) had voted wrong" on prison matters and displeased the doctor who refused to grant him certificate of poor health. Judge Wood declared that Gov. Davis had not only prostituted justice by pardoning this fiend in human form, but he absolutely violated the law which required all petitions for pardon to be published i'll some newspaper and posted in the clerks office for a period ol thirty days before presenting, a law the passage of which Gov, Davis recommended himself.
 In reference to Gov. Davis anti trust record, Judge Wood declared that the governor as at torney general had laid down on the prosecution of the trusts after the supreme court had held the law to be valid. That the law is identically the same as the one under which the attorney general of Missouri had been successful in busting the trusts that were doing business in that state.
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