Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-03
How Life Looks to a Governor.
The Former Chief Executive of New York Tells Incidents Of
His Life In the Fifteen Months Following Suffers
Downfall.

l1artin IL. Glyln. in the New York World.
l do nor intend to discuss here my rec
trd in the subernatorial office. Nor do !
lesire TO convey the impression that the
executive chamber during the last IL
months has been any buster Than it has
,een al amy time during the last IS Years.
It is and has been and Will continue TO be
, hare Job. Il job fun of a type of mental
anxiety few men experience III any othef
fne of public or private activity.
Politicians of whatever pasty can he
handled more easily and With less anxiety
so any governor than two-thirds OF the
%:outinc of the executive chamber which
has no part AT all in the political game.
The appeal OF a mother or Il sister or a
brother to save "A victim from the electric
thair gives the governor more actual men-
tai anxiety than all of the combined ae-
guests OF demands of all the politicians OF
ill parties. II is the most trying of all
The many burdens placed upon the GOV
arnor's shoulders.
Pleas For the Gunner.
My most painful experience in that lire
was in the ease of the ~'gunmen' electro
viscd at Sing Sing. You who read may
recall the extraordinary efforts put forth
to save these men from the electric chair.
Perhaps you remember that delegation OF
rabbits which ca,ne 10 see me on the very
I'VE Oh tTe deaths 10 Dts me 10 save liz
ives of the u-nfortunatcs.
These rabbits. good. honest. earnest men,
provided rue into d corner and begged. ar
gued and finally wept. simultaneously.
the mother of one. the wives and sisters
of others OF the condemned men. threw
themselves against the outer door of my
office which ! had to have closed for my
own protection. and cried and screamed
for mercy for ''o,ir poor boys These
,.A,n .-y .l.a., TODD Il r-Al M fn
my home and persisted in their appeals.
/ never closed an eye all Of the last night
those boys lived. and was just about iised
up when ii WAS all over.
Were TIL" governor to give the time re-
quested OF him for the consideration of all
applications for executive clemency i'm
criminal cases he would have time for no
other duty.
| believe this whole matter of executive
clemency should be taken out OF ;he hands
of the governor.
Cutting Up the Pie.
What is perhaps Just as human a phase
of the governors daily routine. OF ordeal.
YOU might better call ii. is the appeal of
the ever faithful for positions which they
believe are always available. There arc
about 10000 places in The state service.
and a great many people believe that the
incoming governor has a right to fill every
one of them. If this were the case. ] am
quite sure that no governor could possibly
live through the appointment Of The third
thousand. The state service, however. like
that OF any other big corporation. Is sc
systernatiacd that it could III afford to dis
t,irb the detailed makeup OF any one OF
its important departments.
The governor has his hands full distrib-
uting the patronage which his party be-
.ieves it is properly entitled 10. and ii is
hard for him TO make some of the faith
full realize after this IS dispensed that
there IS no more available. For every
position the governor has at his disposal
there are at least 100 applicants, and some
times twice that number while IL is fire.
nrentlN the case that the man who is the