Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

| ing there is an offset Gov. Nellie
| T. Ross, the first woman to be elected
! governor Of any State. has a record
! to be pointed to with pride" The
! Fort Wayne Journal Gazette AYERS
| that there was never any good rea-
| son to suppose that Mrs. Ferguson
had the natural parts or the trained
| faculties Of which a capable and sound
executive is made"
| Referring to the thousands Of par
dons issued by the retiring governor
/ the Raleigh News and Observer states
! that 80 scandadlous did the perform
! ance become that solicitors and judges
were cooperating to delay sentence
until after the Ferguson regime came
| to an end. South Carolina under
| Blease,' continues the News and Oh
server, ''is the only State that has
been so wanton in issuing pardons
as Texas, but the Palmetto State could
not exceed the speed limit, as Texas
has done. They had only one person
working at the job. In Texas. Ma
did the signing and Jim fed the
hopper"
| + = *
Just one official act of Mrs. FerEu
son." according to the Louisville
Times, Shows the intolerable misuse
/ Va bAAC PebA NCli44AE IONEL rs tN@Net'T-
/ Mrs. Ferguson. outgoing, grants
| conditional pardon To a murderer
sentenced to life imprisonment, the
condition being that this murderer.
| a negro, will sell his labor to James
f. Ferguson for six years at s15 "a
month
The Reno Gazette takes the posi-
ton that wholesale rardonings Ge
contrary to the real law and casts dis
i credit upon it,; that cit is not possible
that the juries in the cases Of the
LOIS men to whom she had given full
| pardon were all wrong, or that the
prosecuting officers, men whose stand
ing as American citizens and resi-
| dents of Texas is attested by their
: election to the district attorneyship,
would deliberately prosecute innocent
persons. The Providence Journal
| thinks It strange that "only one WON
an received the favor of a pardon
"A policy like Mrs. Ferguson's in
effect all over the country" in the
opinion of the Yakima Daily Repuh-
! lie. would result in the greatest boom
( In crime that we ever have known.
The Elmira Star-Gazette, however.
points out that 1.-The practice is being
carried to such extreme that legisla
lures are debating the question OF
[
I the pardoning power so far as the
executive is concerned" But the
Asheville Times remarks that las the
| people of Texas cneerfully say good
! by to Ma Ferguson they will hardly
| fail to remember that it is Jim whom
! they should hold responsible for III"
abuse OF the executive authority III
Texas in the past TWO years"
Texas should breathe sigh OF re-
| lief that there is n change in COVER
nors," says the Lynchburg News.
THE Fergusons, both Jim and Ma
have been a thorn in the side Of the
State for years. Now the State IS
expected to return to sanity in the
| management OF governmental ar
fairs for it is believed the new eX
ecutive will bring political conditions
| back to decency." The Roanoke Times
declares Texas is "a great State, PEG
| pied by a wonderful citizenship, and
with the leadership that Dan Moody
is expected to provide. prospects for
| the future may fairly be said to be
bright indeed" while the New York
Evening World concludes, THE sun
rises in Texas with the Inauguration
of the brilliant and militant young
Dan Moody"