The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-08-28
THE DEMOCRATIC INDICTMENT
AGAINST HUNT.


P. Hunt the present incumbent, and candidate 70
denomination, is acknowledgements of the laws; tn
substitution of his personal fads and fances in el
Of the laws and his gross Encouragement of state
institutions
I. He has refused to execute the written law.
of the state when cold blooded murderers have
been convicted in our courts and sentenced to be
hanged by jury of twelve men.
q He has refused to be guided by the law in
the purchase of supplies for the institutions
favoring his commercial institution at Globe,
until compelled by the Legislature and the At
torney General to discontinue this practice.
8. He has abused the right of parole vested in
the Governors Office not only where murderers
have been committed, but has overrun this state
with paroled prisoners, ranging from grand lar
ceny to rape, to the detriment of society and the
encouragement of like commission OF crime.
4. The gross nlisrnana cement of the State
Penitentiary, the State Industrial School, The
State Pioneer Home, has become scandal and
disgrace to the state and of these institutions
are without a superintendent the appoint
ments being withheld at the present for political
purposes
During the past week the Governor has realiz-
ed that the democratic of the state in
dignant and incensed over his wholesale reprieve
OF murderers not because there any possibility
Of their innocence, but because forsooth the Gov
ernor of this state has set himself up as greater
and wiser than the written law. Homcides and
murder have increased in every county in this
state at alarming rate since the Governor has
constituted himself the Supreme Court and de-
creed who shall be punished and who shall not
The Governor attempts to explain why he has not
permitted the law of Arizona to take its course
where it effects the commission of the crime of
cold blooded, premeditated deliberate murder. He
maintains that the law infcting capital punish
ment should not be enforced by him until the peo-
pie have had opportunity to pass upon it at the
polls. On this ground the Governor could refuse
likewise to enforce any law upon Statutes
which did not meet with his personal approval
That the Governor of a state has the legal right
to reprieve murderers convicted in our courts is
granted But everyone knows, and the Governor
knows, that this reprieve power is placed in his
hands to guard against injustice. In the case of
the seven nlurderers confined in Florence
awaiting execution for their dastardly, cold blood
ed crimes, not ScIntllla of evidence has |
been discovered since they were convicted and
sentenced by twelve jurors In some instances more
than two years have elapsed since these murderers
were convicted and they stand today, where they I
stood when the jury brought in unanimous YER
dict of guilty, convicted of redhanded deliberate
premeditated murder, without single mitigating
How different by comparison is the
of the duties of chief executive as L
by our democratic president, Wood
row Wilson During his term of office two Fed
eral prisoners were tried and convicted of murder
IN Arizona, the crime having been committed on
an Indian reservation by two soldiers who had
deserted. An appeal was made to the President
or a reprieve, which granted by the Pres1,
lent for period of sixty days At the expiration
Of that time evidence had been discovered D
he men had been accorded a fair and impartial P
rial. At the expiration of a reasonable reprieve
period the President said: ''Let the law of the b
and take its course" Both of these federal muir
lerers paid the penalty of their crime upon the W
salows at Globe during the past year. The re- ,
'rieve power exercised by the President is the
anne power that is vested in the Governor. Presi- n
lent Wilson carried out the letter and the spirit II
# the law. Governor Hunt says by his actions: Il
l am greater than the written law The result
f such action on his part has been to encourage
he gun man and the red eyed slayer to go hunt A
g. Our statutes for the punishment of murder fc
I the state have been brought into contempt by m
he criminal class. ST
In the beginning the danger of this policy was p
ointed out by the democratic press; the Cover
or's plan for the purchase of state supplies
trough his store which institution added ten w