The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-05


classes Of criminals and policy Of
sterilization for others.
AS TO the cruelty Of sterillza-
ton" said the governor. the same
degree of suffering is inflicted, for
a uurpose in one respect not dis
similar, On half OF our larger do
meetlc animals. We do not deem
il cruelty to them. So far as yasec'
tony Is concerned, 1t has recently
been pronounced not a cruel form
Of punishment bg the supreme court
OF Washington. and in several states
there are laws authorizing the OPP
Grafton upon deeenerates in aims
houses. asylums or prisons
Gov Baldwins address immedi-
ately followed an address OF Gov.
John F. Shafroth OF Colorado, in
which Gov. shafroth advocated len
lent but certain punishment TO
criminals and cited his own state
as an example where this system
has worked well. He declared that
severe punishment has proved no
deterrent to crime. Certainty oil
punishment, in his opinion, with an
opportunity TO shorten the sentence
through labor and good behavior, not
only punished the criminal, but
served alike as a deterrent against
future crimes and an incentive TO
reform. He advocated the system
in vogue in Colorado under which
gangs Of fifty men, without guards,
save at Nights, worked on the pub
lie roads, and expressed the hope
that the time was near when the
state could do more than this and
pa ythe convict nominal wage TO"
the work he performed.
Gov George W. Donaghey OF Ar
kansas declared for a severe pen
atty for lynchers; no punishment
save death, he said, would detel
murderers from their crime.
Murderers Go Scot Free.
"Why, it's getting to the pass, he
declared, where man is certain
Of punishment If he should steal a
horse, bat where, nine times out
of ten. he Is able to go scot free II
he commits a murder"
Gov. Adolph, o. Eberhart OF Min
nesota thought the jury system Is
at the root OF the evil of the fire.
nuent miscarriage Of justice. Now
adays. he also declared. man coulc
plead guilty to flfty-seven varieties
of insanity" and escape the conse'
nuences OF his crime. Under tn
present jury system, he added, /
is all but impossible to get intelli
gent men for jury service.
81 want to take off my hat t.
Virginia and to New York. salt
Gov Albert w. Gilchrist of Florida
"for | believe they have done jus
tice in their recent murder cases
| don't believe Henry Clay Beatti'
could have been conS icted in m,
state"
Gov. Blease in his address, afte
promising immunity to lynchers
warmly defended his use Of the par
doning power, declaring that in tn
twenty-five months he had pardone'
or paroled approximately 400 per
sons and that he hoped the numbe
at the end of the second term woul'
re 500.
90 walked through the penitentia
ry Of South Carolina he said Il
defending his use of the pardonin
power. and found tuberculosi
incubator where poor devils Wer
dying at their tasks. making none
for other people; poor devils WHIT
had no choice but to stand an,
work or take the lash. Just the 9th
or day Jim Roberts, negro from
Charleston, stopped me as wa
walking through and respectful,
asked permission TO speak to me
lie told me that he had been KEEP
in Jail for twenty-five years fo
stealth ~ $27 watch.
L said, If you are telling me tn,
truth you viii eat your Christina
dinner with your folks at home. IL,
said. Governor, ! have no folks
Then, | replied you will eat |
away from here And he will.
Errors of Injustice.
Another negro had served elev
en- years and seven months for stea
ing 50, 4 judge wrote to me tina
he had sentenced to death ma
when he did net believe the MAJ
had been convictable beyond a reas
enable doubt. Another wrote tina