Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-15
HuNr PLAYs HIs cARp

The manipulation which Governor Hunt has prac ced in his successful efforts to resist Of capital punishment must inevitably the ndigna on of the entire State Men and women who subsorib ed to his views on the issue will be less inconsed than those who were opposed his lawderidmg policy The verdict concerning capital punishment deliver ed by Arizona last November B. Thereafter, the question had to do solely with Governor Hunts attitude in the matter His attitude first revealed through diatrbe in which vented his spleen corporations The puerity Che attack overwhelmed him with ridi cue Next he planned wholesale hanging which aroused expressions of horror and cries of shame throughout the country Protests from the people Of his own State forced him abandon the plan and run CTS were heard of a movement to recall him. Here how the case now stands:
 Of the thirteen murderers originally sentenced to hanged not in eapordy of his life at the presen time and none need have any immediate fear of expia ing the crimes for which courts iures returned diets Of guilty. The cases Of eleven of the men hav' been diverted by Governor Hunt into channels vhic' lead to appeals in the supreme court; mans sen tence is commuted to life Imprisonment, and another gets of with ten years imprisonment
 The power of pardon and reprieve taken iron
  with this knowledge of public sentiment Governor Hun boldly enronted it by employing the legal suberfuF contained in the fact that the recentypassed inotiy law does not become operative until he procaims it. Governor Hunt is indicted for perhdy and moral coward ice in the minds of the people of this State the follow ing facts will be taken into consideration
 At this late hour he has adopted course whicl should have been taken immediately following the con yiction of the prisoners if the meritorious Every day that the spent in prison following thei sentence was day freedom unusty denied to then if they were less than wholly guilty of the crime for which they were convicted Why did Governor Hunt fail to act when-f his present position is above re proach-ueu whose degrc of guilt even entire inno cense was unesabshed were permitted to languish i prison? Their taller was George W. P. Hunt The mar to whom the prisoners looked for succor was George F. Hunt If they were innocent or uniustly sentenced George w. F. Hunt was their betrayer when he failed to exercise the prorogatyes at his command
 It will be difficult to convince the people of Arizon' that Governor Hunt did not deliberately eyade his re responsibilities in the hope that capital punishment would be abolished on November G. will he have the impu dence to assert that if capital punishment had beer abolished he would have been alert in bringing the at tenton of courts the of the murderers? De velopments poins to the conclusion: that Goyerno Hunt chagrined by the defeat of his pet measure ha deaed the will of the people and darted into hole be fore it was closed to him.
 The respective merits of capital punishment and f imprisonment are not concerned in the present situa ton The time for controversy has passed The me' and women of Arizona sHn hold to whatever opin ions they are inclined Governor Hunts action in side tracking the eases into the courts will deceive no ono He resorted to a subterfuge in order to escape th calumny attaching to a carnival of death oh Decembe 19 for which he would have been held responsible H attempt to mask his official duplicity by an appeal the law is too spurious 10 deceive anyone.