The Forrest City times., 1903-08-28

eleven pardons for horse stealing
and $50 pardons for larceny; par
dons for common. ordinary thieves.
He has granted thirty-one pardons
for burglary and robbery, Who is
a burglar He is q man who plots
and plans and waits, who with
steaIthy tread enters your home
when you are asleep, and with a
dagger or bud geon in one hand
stands ready 10 take your life;while
with the other he takes your prop
#erty. a burglar is a man who has
murder in his heart. This is the
worst class OF criminals that lives.
hirty-one OF them have been
turned loose TO prey upon honest
people by governor who thinks
more of beer than he does of edu
cation.
ITO convict such men the state
has spent thousands Of dollars, bat
the verdicts OF the .iuries and the
judgments Of courts are set aside
/ by Davis and his list of pardon at
torneys. Davis proudly boasts of
his pardons. One is almost led to
believe that he finds among criml.
nails kindred spirit, which makes
him "wondrous kind" Or could
we expect anything better from
man who said Il will give ten
years of my life in jail to be COVER
nor OF Arkansas Now that be
has been governor, it is time for
him TO serve his term in Jail. |
make no charges, but tie suspicion
is gro wing that if the facts could
be made known between Davis
and his pardon attorneys he would
merit every day of the ten years.
The pardon mill of Governor
JEFF Davis is never at rest. 1t is
dull day in"the state house when
some one is not pardoned for bur-
, glary, manslaughter, larceny or
rape.
The Methodists in district con-
ference recently at Monticello de-
] plored the governors abuse of the
pardoning power. They adopted
! the following resolution before ad.
journing:
"Resolved, That we deplore the
+ abuse OF the pardoning power, as
exercised by our present chief eA-
ecutive, as regards the pardonlng
of vlolators OF our prohibition
laws and for the unfrendly spirit
manifested to the cause of temper
ance by vetoing legislation done
IN order to make ous temperance
laws more effective"
And "these are the kind of men
who are opposing jeff Davis"
All these are indisputabe facts
taken from sundry newspapers,
which have access to the records.
The Davis shouters will tell you,
and jeff Davis himself, will tell
you that the newspapers are edited
by lot Of little squirrel headed
! editors, who don't know what they
are writing about, and that the
newspapers don't tell the truth al.
ways. We admit that the news
papers are sometimes mistaken
and frequently mlsinformed by
rumors, but their intentions are
honest, and when they 90 the
records aud reproduce facts, their.
iuterity does not become qucs-
ton in the consideration of what
that record discloscs.
We would not knowingly pen an
untruth about jeff Davis or any
other man, and we honestly, con.
sclentlously and absolutely believe
the matters and things stated in
this article are the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
'o"NNit hOht Ou accept inc
truth Say in your heart!
Jef's friends will try to excuse
his pardons by stating that she
must have had coed reason" or
that "there arc good reasons of
which the public is not informed"
Can you find or think of any
reason good or bad which would
induce You to pardon so vile
wretch as DR.. Lee Johnson?
Jeff Davis is now offering as an
excuse for the Johnson pardon the
plea that he was "imposed upon"
lie has somo such fimsy excuse
for every one OF his shortcomings,
as fast as they are exposed. It is
wonderful that he is able to sue
cesstully presume upon the in.
credulhty of the masses.
Will they never see the shallow.