Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-19
Friday Morning, March ls, 1915
po rHE PEoPLE RuLE7

I is fair to assume that people of ths State are harboring weldofned suspicion that they have au. pinely surrendered legacy of freedom and progress which Abraham Lincoln defined when he sroke of gov ernment in this country being "of the people by the people and for the people"
 Arizona folks like to think that they potential in guiding the affairs Of their State. Theu have equp ped themselves with the initiative the referendum and recall and other newfangled socslled popular government But in one instance least, the truth is brought home them that they permitted merely to toy with the shadow They are told 10 keep their hands off the substance We refer to the arbitrary tion of Governor in granting nnetyday reprievo to prisoners now confined the penitentiary der sentence of death They are the prsoers who were to hay paid the forfeit their lives last December Three months have passed since then The Hunt an,- nesty provides for three months The Hunt rro gram indefinite
 Governor Hunt mark you. promised % abide by the decision Of the people the question of capital punish ment He entered into covenant with the people last election to shape his official acts in accordance with their judgment people expressed their belief r the necessity of capital punishment tn Arizona. They caused to be created Board of Pardons as assur- ancc that the demands of justice and mercy would be conserved Yet Governor Hunt persists in violating hi compact with the people. He ignores the popularl. created Board of Pardons He makes of himself laN unto himself
 In the opinion handed down by Judge Rauehn in the Knox Laird case attention called to rights of the peo pe which have been violated Here is the section deal 4eg with that phase of the subject:
 Tn the case before may not in a sense, lken constitution deed Of grant from the people yayng certain powers to certain officers representnr certain branches Of the government limited periods and upon certain conditions bearing mind that the same may be by people? in the instance the grant before the people granted tas power to the governor subject certain condition, which they have expressly placed thereon and which have and modify either the power itseh or the exercise thereon. just choose word it And SO doing have they placed thereon a condi ton precedent 10 either the power its exercise, o Ioth which would give the law-making arm of tn, government-in this instance both the legislature anJ the peoplehe right prescribe that before the gover may a pardon application shall be made t'
 board of pardons and paroles to be by the board in vestigated thoroughly and recommended? We think ha they have
 May the law-making arm of our governmen under this section impose such condition preceden no pardon shall be granted by the governor unti the same shall be recommended by the said board? w think that it may
 or course the Legislature might mol have exercise their right impose any conditions under the uon in which case the power would have remained ai soute the governor. But the right exercised ant it is not for the say whether its exercise wa ,gi.e r pot an lon ae tba avroal,ing DoUer had th right to exercise it.