The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-22


These show some rather unusual con
clusions.
He pardoned Samuel Way, a whit,
man, serving term in the state pen
itontiary for false pretense, because
"this unfortunate defendant seems tC
have had much trouble with hi:
wife. A more serious affliction, tc
my mind, cannot be imposed on any
man, especially one living in South
Carolina, where you cannot get a
divorce"
Negro Testimony Held Bad.
Another man was pardoned because
he had been convicted on the tes.
timony of two negroes.
Another, A. L. Pitman, white, of
Greenville county, was freed when
the governor found that he had been
imprisoned for assault and battery on
man who had insulted his wife.
THE prosecutor ought to have been
pleased that he was not killed out.
right" said the governor in this case.
Frank Stone, a white man, of Laur-
ems county, beat a neighbor in a trade
by palming off on him blind horse,
supposed to be in good condition,
and accordingly was imprisoned
There is no excuse for man say
ing blind horse was put off on him
unless he was either blind or drunk,
said the governor, freeing Stone
Otis Hill, white man, from Ches-
ter county, killed negro who had
cursed him. He was freed by the
governor and comm ended for his ac-
ton.
Negroes, according TO the governor
have a low standard of morality, and
therefore he pardoned William John
son, who killed another in a fuss
over a woman
William Mckinley, alias Byron
Scott, was released when the COVER
nor found that he had already served
a term in federal prison for the
olGense for which he was held in
South Carolina.
In committing to life Imprisonment
the sentence of electrocution passed
on Stake Morris, a negro of Green
vile county, the governor said:
Likens Negroes to Mules.
THE defendant was convicted of
killing another negro. | am naturally
against electrocuting or hanging one
negro for killing another because
if a man had two fine mules running
loose in a lot and one went mad and
kicked and killed the other he Ger.
tainly would not take his gun and
shoot the other mule. He would work |
it, and try to get another in place
Of the one killed. Therefore | be.
lieve when one negro kills another |
he should be put in the penitentiary |
and made to work for the state"
In keeping with his avowed deter
to clean out" the state |
by August /, Governor
Please has cut the number of con-
victs in the state, prison from eight
to about sixty. Some have
been put to work on the state roads. |
many have been freed outright.
Discussing his future policy in con-
nection with the criticism of his enc
mics, the governor gives expression
to these words of defiance:
Il am still doing business in room
No. 1, State House, Columbia, S. c., !
and though it hurts some folks !
mighty bad, they can't help it, and |
You may rest assured that the system
have established in South Carolina |
will be followed by other governors" |
Believes in Lynching, Though.
Governor Blease is probably the
most talked-of executive in the Uni |
ted States. He has taken a stand |
on a number of questions in conflict |
with generally accepted theories. lie |
has among other things, announced |
publicly that he will not call out the
to prevent the lynchlng of !
men guilty of certain crimes, holding
that to do so would be to insult the
of South Carolina. The !
gcN ernor intimates that he would not
mind taking a hand in a lynching bee
himself in certain circumstances.
Governor Blease's record so far is
four hundred prisoners pardoned a
year This is an aveage of more than
one a day for the entire time he has
been IN office.