Evening journal., 1912-10-21
CONTINUED From First Page).

OF PARDONS UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION HAS GRANTED
ONLY TEN PARDONS
IN OTHER WORDS, HAD ROBERT j. REYNOLDS DEMO
CRATIC GOVERNOR GRANTED THREE MORE PARDONs
HIS TOTAL FOR FOUR YEARS WOULD HAVE BEEN FIVE
TIMES THE TOTAL GRANTED BY THE BOARD OF PARDONS
UNDER THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR
PENNEWILL@
1T ALSO ONLY IS FAIR TO THE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS
OF THAT BOARD OF PARDONS TO SAY, THAT IN INSTANCES
1T EXERCISED CLENIENCY UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF
ANDREW c. GRAY, A DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY GENERAL
WHOSE CHIEF DEPUTY, JOSIAH 0. WOLCOTT NOW is MAX
ING A FRUITLESS FIGHT TO OBTAIN AN ELECTION AS AT
TORNEY- GENERAL
In editorial indictment of the Democracy of this State
THE EVENING JOURNAL charged that it had been guilty of
gross pardonng power That charge denied by
the Democratic machine campaign speakers and their
newspapers EVENING JOURNAL
lays before the people the Delaware regardless of their
political affiliations positive proof that what charged true
THE EVENING JOURNAL DOES NOT ASK ANYONE TO Be
LIEyE IN A MERE GENERAL STATEMENT.
IT LAYS BEFORE IT'S READERS THE NAMES OF THOSE
PARDONED AND THE OFFENSES FOR WHICH THEY HAD
BEEN CONVICTED. IN ADDITION, THE EVENING JOURNAL
CHALLENGES THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE LEADERS, AND
OWNED OR SUBSIDIZED NEWSPAPERS TO DISPUTE THE
ACCURACY OF THE LISTS OF PARDONS HEREWITH PUB
LISHED THE RECORDS OF THE NEW CASTLE COUNTY
WORKHOUSE AND THE JAnS IN THE THREE COUNTIES
PROVE THEIR ACCURACY AND SHOW THE SHAMEFUL HY-
POCRIsY OF THE SAULSBURY-MONAGHAN DEMOCRATIC
MACHINE AND ITS AGENTS IN RAILING AGAINST THE RE-
PUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE PRESENT BOARD OF PARDONS.
THE EVENING JOURNAL ASKS THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE TO TAKE THAT LIST OF FORTY
SEVEN PARDONS GRANTED BY A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR
AND STUDY IT. 1T Is WELL WORTHY OF THEIR CLOSE AT
TENTION
1T CONSTITUTES A SHAMEFUL CHAPTER IN THE HIS
TORY OF DEMOCRATIC DOMINATION IN THIS STATE. SEE
THOSE WHO FOUND FAVOR AT THE HANDS OF THE della
WARE DEMOCRACY IN THOSE DAYS, AND ASK YOURSELF
WHETHER IT WOULD BE WELL TO RESTORE THAT DEMOC-
HIGHwAYBIEN THIEVES, WIFE-BEATERs, AssALANTS OF
LITTLE CHILDREN CORRUPTORS OF AND TRAFFICKERS IN
THE VIRTUE OF LITTLE GIRLS ASSAILANTS OF DEFENSE
LESS WOMEN, GAMBLERS, POLICY WRITER'S AND SWIND-
LERS PROFITED BY THE FRIENDLY INTERVENTION OF A
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION AND WERE TURNED LOOSE
UPON SOCIETY.
high Democratic regard elements
community well worthy study preservation
should be kept every home in the State Delaware
of the influence that murderers manes burglars hgw
thieves gamblers pOcwters and other denens
of the underworld, had with Democratic administration.
would be interesting through particular Demo
cratic pull Big Frank" Mccoy, the burglar went
The circumstances surrounding the pardon "Bucyy
Gnns would interesting chapter this Democratic
Orge of multiplying by the pardon the corrective pnatye
protective operations Delaware the name
by and work your the
Democratic influence which led pardon at the hands
cratic Realize from the list friendly existed
between the Democracy and the lottery policy writer's preyed
the the State of Delaware You will notice those
social parasites influential with the Democracy
that three padOned February and April 1s93
that lottery policy hacker pardon April
1894 "A" Fountain gambler and Democratic politician
also had strings leading into the Democratic chamber
he, too, went free
IN FACT, THE DEMOCRATIC PARDONING ORGIE WHICH
AMOUNTED ALMOST TO JAIL DELIVERY BECAME SUCH
STATE AND NATIONAL SCANDAL THAT WHEN THE CONSTI
TUTONAL CONVENTION MET SUBSEQUENTLY,, 1T ENDED
FOREVER THE PARDONING POWER VESTED SOLELY IN THE
GOVERNOR AND TRANSFERRED 1T TO THE BOARD OF PAR
DONS AND DESPITE THESE FACTS, THE DEMOCRACY OF
THE STATE is SEEKING TO MAKE AN ISSUE THIS YEAR OF
THE CLENIENCY EXERCISED BY A REPUBLICAN BOARD OF
PARDONS WHICH, ALL TOLD, HAS GRANTED ONLY TEN PAR
DONS IN FOUR YEARS, AS AGAINST FORTY PARDONS
GRANTED IN LIKE TIME BY A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR.
THE EVENING JOURNAL comnends these facts and the pardon
lists to the serious consideration of Deawareans