The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-01-10
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Its argument is based on mistaken
idea of the nature and prerogatives o.
7 such board and the reasons why i
I is given place in our system OF
, state government. That the organ
should use this argument as a pre-
text to heap additional insult upon
the late state board Of pardons fol
its action in the Diamonfeld Jack
case, surprises nobody. 1t is merely
the buzzing of the wheels in the ed
itorlal Uranium.
The supreme object in the creation
of board of pardons is to prevent
injustice to individuals who are CON
demDed to suffer for crimes which
subsequent evidence shows conclu-
sively they did not commit. The
history of criminal records from
earliest times shows the necessity.
from humanitarian standpoint, of
such tribunal 1t is difficult TO
find in all the annals of modern
times at least, better example than
the case of Diamondfeld Jack af
fords.
Although the days of the block
and the bastile have not found a
place on this continent, 1t seems that
the republican party is anxious to
have political prisoners in Idaho
That party has from the first made
political prisoners of Corcoran and
Jack Davis. Long ago the Grimm
al character of Davis was submerged
by republican organs and leaders,
and he was seized upon as means
for political warfare and utilized to
arouse party prejudices. SO desper-
ate was that party to find some
means of agitation upon which to
befuddle the people into returning
them into the control Of the state.
which they could not secure on the
business records of the two admins
trations, that the prisons have been
secured in search of material for any
thing that could be turned into use
TO work upon the unthinking. Some
all 'ged democratic journals, always
ready to knife their own party when
their particular favorites do not
chance to hold the reins, are seeking
10 curry favor by revamplng the de-
unclatlon with which the victors are
as anxious to damn the vanqulshed
AS was Macbeth to lay the ghost
which filled him with fear-and
nothing could be more dreadful to
lhe incoming powers than the possible ,
resurrection of the honest record of !
he past six years to confront them.
when temporary public decisions 7
lave passed away.
With the knowledge resting with 7
vi citizens of Idaho, who are not
teeped in political hatred and venom =
II the high character as men and ;,
ltzens of Messrs. Hunt and Basset
he majority members of the board .
I pardons, against whom the States.
nan Is restlessly pointing its shafts ',
1 malice, and the fact that their ;,
onor and morals Is as bright and h
Ugh as the honor and morals of IT
uahos best, it is well to take the ~
'ouble to review the celebrated case
pom which the Statesman, through E,
lie most unworthy motives, seeks TO =,
ase pretended conviction that
demand change in the -
'istlng system. Had this pardon n
zen made by the president and ap- ~,
led to some man indisputably guilty al
some great, wide reaching crime
+ weightier than a mere act Of -
olence, but controlling powerful o.
'lilical influences, the Statesman :;
ould have applauded l.,
Davis was convicted by compe- 80
Mt jury for the crime of murderino 90
llson and Cummings on Feb. 4th an
96, and sentenced to be hung. he
Fair minded men in considering tai
evidence in the case are led to no
'rVei how jury could find it th,
'ong enough to convict Davis but tn
weak and unsatisfactory as to ex. of