The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-11-17
PARDON EFFORT
DRAWS ATTACK
Of k|WAN | ANS
Club Opposed to Glenn
ency for Harry Orchard
Enlist Civic Organiza-
tons Aid.
The kiwanis club of Caldwell
hereby places itself on record as
being unalterably opposed to the

hereby places ltSelI on record as
being unalterably opposed to the
pardoning of Harry Orchard
Thus read a statement INCORPORATED
in a motion presented to the club
Thursday by Presley Horne which
asked the club president, Dr. F. NJ.
Cole, to appoint committee of three
with power to confer with other civic
organizations with view OF sending
a strong delegation to Boise Novem-
Der 81 to appear before the state board
of pardons and enter protest against
pardoning the confessed assassin of
Frank Stuenenberg, former governor
of Idaho and Caldwell resident.
In prefacing his motion, Mr.. Horne
said that only the urgency of the :it-
uation prompted the board of direct
ors and the public affairs committee
to bring this subject to light
Il believe that every Caldwell citi-
zen feels as | do" Mr.. Horne said,
that Harry Orchard is right where
he belongs, that the deeds he did to
place him there are the past that
the books has been closed and that it
should remain so. 1t is without any
sense of revenge or malice that | offer
this motion but purely as sense of
duty, of citizenship"
Mr.. Horne criticized Senator Frank
Gooding for his position in asking that
Orchard be pardoned. He said that
Senator Gooding employed false logic
when Mr.. Gooding argued that Orch
ards pardon would halt criminal ten
denotes because of the fear that some
person involved in the crime might
turn states evidence. On the con-
trary, pardoning Harry Orchard
would serve only as an encouragement
to commit crime.
Il noticed in a Boise newspaper
that Harry Orchard had been ap-
preached on the streets of Boise by a
Red Cross solicitor and had contrib
uted SIS to that organization. l say
that he should only be found in the
state penitentiary of Idaho"
R. w. Cakes, ST., spoke feelingly
of some of the incidents of the muir
der of Frank Stuenenberg as he re-
called them. He recalled having heard
the bomb which took the life of
Idaho's former governor, of attempt.
ing to call his home over the telephone
and hearing the voice of Frank Stuen.
enberg's daughter asking someone tc
hurry to their home because her father
had been killed Mr.. Cakes hastenee
to the scene to find the victims body
mangled and torn on the snow covered
sidewalk.
How can they ask that any mar
who has done thing like that b.
pardoned?" he concluded.
w. II. Redway also appealed feel
ingly for the support of the motion
which had been amended to ask tina
Incorporation of all other Idaho Kiwan
is clubs be asked in the effort to stoI
Orchards pardon.
\ roar greeted the question whel
it was submitted to the club mem
bers Not one dissenting vote wa
raised against it
Upon taking this action, DR.. J, w
Cue asked that the matter OF closin.
up the town and attending the hear
ing in a body from Caldwell be re
ferred TO the Retail Merchants asSo
citation This motion was promptl
passed and submitted to +. I. Fuel
ing for consideration by that organiza
ton
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