Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1902, Page 5

REPUBLICAN SENTIMENT OUTSPOKEN ON BARTLEY PARDON HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1902. ——y Too Destersus a Pen, Hyracuse Journal It's the Hon. Joseph Bartley new, by the grace of Governor Savage's sympathetic nature and dexterous pen. It's also Gov- ernor Savage now, but when the voters of Nebraska get a whack at him he will be plain Bzra P. from Custer county. Open to Very Grave Doubt. Pawnee Republican. Governor Savage bas set Joe Bartley fr ‘While the governor i an honest man striv- g to do right, his good judgment in this matter is open to very grave doubt. Any- thing that tends to lower the standard of public morals 15 mot right under any conditions, Thunderholt to Loyal Republicans, Intperial Republican The complete pardon of ex-Treasurer Jo- seph Bartley by Governor Savage came as a thunderbolt to the loyal republican vot of Nebraska. To think that Governor Sav- age would commit such an act In direct violation of the voice of the republicans of Nebraska in convention assembled last Iast fall is a sad blow av the party. One thing Is reasonably certaln and that fs that Governor Savage s a dead oyster, politically. Fletitions | Norfolk News. Surprise 18 expressed in some quarters that developments are to the effect that #ome of the signatures on the Bartley pe- tition for pardon are not genuine. This should occasion no surprise whatever, Men desperate enough to exert themselves fn behalt of a convicted embezzler, desperate enough to defeat the edds of justice and capable of Interesting the governor in their cause would not hesitate at the mere for- mality of procuring names If they were doomed necessary. Let the Governor Stay Away. Blue Springs Sentinel. Governor Savage found it to be an op- portune time to take a junket to Louls- fana after pardoning Bartley, which places Senator Steele of Fairbury in the governor's chalr during his absence. The governor's ears will buzz like a disturbed bumble bee's nest during his absence, or we are mistaken. For the act of pardoning Bart- ley the governor ought to find it convenlent to leave Senator Steele in charge of that ofice until the mext legally elected gov- ernor can assume the dutles of that po- sition. Too Big for His Pa Tekamah Herald. The reoublican editors of the state had %lielr Inoing last week, the one theme belng the pardon of Bartley. Governor Savage received ths righteous indignation of the press, and that without stint, the sentiment being almost unanimous that the governor committed political suicide. Undoubtedly the governor made up his mind to quit the political arena or he would never have com- mitted the egregtous error of slapping his party in the face after the almost Unani- mous expression of ita regularly elected delegates, In convention assembled, on this same subject. When a man gets bigger than his party the quick €0 the rear the better. Would Welcome His Resigwation. Afnsworth’ Star-Journal. The Star-Journal calls upon the repub- lican state central committee to meet at the earllest moment and take action to diseredit the flagrant outrage perpetrated on the people of the state in general and upon the republican party in partic ernor Savage in pardoning his Bartley. The committee should insist on Savago resigning the high office he has dia- 1t s, of course, impossible to com- pel him to do ®0, as a committee, but In asking for his rosignation they are backed by nine-tenths of the people, and show sonclusively that he is not wanted by the decent, consclentious, law-ablding people of the state. Not a Popular Proposition. Wahoo Was) Qovernor Sa strike a very popular proposition when he made Joseph Bartley a New Year's present of his 1ib- arty. It is cerfainly a pecullar condition when & man can deliberately appropriate nearly & quarter of a million of dollars of the people’s money and, without attempt- ing to make a reasonable excuse for his conduct, should be given his liberty before one-third his sentence has been served. We venture that one-third of the convicts in the Nebraska penitentlary could give a much better reason for a pardon than Bartley has. Governor Savage le deserving of censure and it is only too bad that he cannot be relleved at ouce of the responsi- ble position he hold: Press V. & and File. North Platte Tribune. The republican papers of the state are practically a unit in condemning Governor Savage for pardoning Joe Bartley, and these papors but volce the sentiment of the rank and<le of the party. It can be said of the country republican papers of Nebraska that few of them uphold or condone the wrong acts of the men who they bave helped to place in power. When an officer has stultified himselt they do mot with- Bold thelr criticlsm. Ustversally Condem Alblon News, Never, perhaps, in the history of Ne- bra politics has any act been so uni- versally anft uuanimously condemned as has been the pardoning of Joe Bartiey by Gov- ernor Savage. The press of the state, ex- cept & very few which have sald nn,,l:’. 18 unanimously of one mind, and if . ernor Savage had an idea he would recelve any backing throughout the state he seems te have been mistaken. While it can't help = but Injure the republican party in some degree, it should pot. The action of the last state convention put the party on record on this question and the universal condemnation of the act by the party press further shows the feellng of republicans throughout the state. Mr. Savage has dug his own political grave and his party wiil take pleasure in filling it up at the first opportunity. A Merited Ro Pender Republic. The action of Governor Savage In pardon- Ing Joseph S. Bartley has met with a round of rebuke from not only the press all over the state, but from the people as well from one end of the state to the other. Tt was the most viclous act that has _ever emanated from the state house under the gulse of executive discretion. While the governor liberated Bartley he Impris- oned himself forever {n the prison house of the people, who want no more of Sav- age. Rebuke. No Shadow Greeley Leader, We have studied hard to find in Gov- ernor Savage's statement about the Bartley pardon some shadow of reason for his ex- ercise of executive clemency, but so far wo haven't been able to discover any. About the only striking thing we see is the gov- ernor's petulance with himself for letting g0 of Bartley's parole so easily when the state convention set up its shout last sum- mer. It looks as though hls excellency had gotten his cond wind'' after that bout and concluded he'd show the public he had some ‘‘sand” anyway, and was ready to say with former distinguished American citizen, “The people be d—d.” It seems that way to & layman who hasn't seen the petition on which the governor apparently acted for at least two years. of Reason. That Imaginary Four Thousand. York Republican. Evidence that the petitions for the par- don of Bartley were cooked by forging names of prominent people thereto grows evéry day. A number of prominent men in Omaha, who claim their names were forged, will {nvestigate the matter, and they say whoever is responsible for the forgery will havé to suffer for it. E. P. Smith, former stant attorney general, is among the number. J. B. Sheean, a well-known at- toruey of Omaha, a prominent banker, and a number of other Influentlal men, have the same complaint, denying that they ever signed the petition. A prominent citizen from the southeast part of the state was at the capital investigating, and declared his name a forgery. The ‘four thousand others” petition from Chadron is sald to have been shamelessly cooked. Bartley Wins nt Savage's Expense. Arcadia Champlon, W have listened to the storm of pro- test which almost unanimously went up from the Nebraska republican press on ac- count of the Bartley pardon, and In it I8 plainly seen a few things. That Savage is A political corpse cannot be doubted, for the t that he took this task upon him- self In the face of the declaration of the party to the contrary s enough to con- vince anyone of that. In this round of the game Bartley is surely the winner at the oxpense of’ Savage. That the state will hever seo a cent of the lost money is also now a certainty, for if Bartley has it where he can uge it he certainly will keep it, and It anyone else has it Bartley's ence would be very easy to buy now. The few things the state had to get hold of the facts of the transactions are now exploded. Cannot Buy Publ Fremont Tribune. The country press of Nebraska is prac- tically a unit in its condemnation of the Partley pardon. When the state conven- tion, by & vote of 998 to 168, requested the governor to recall Bartley's parole it did not any more unanimously express the un- bought, unhampered sentiment of the party and the people of Nebraska than does the country press of the state in dealing with Bartley's pardon. The Tribune doesn't pretend to know what efforts have been made to forestall the criticism of the country pros: does know that Bartley's attorney a few months ago put in a whole day in Fremont trylng to argue the editor of this paper into the advisabllity of signing a petition for pardon. This attorney sald it was the desire of the governor that the signature of the editor be procured. This fact s in- dicative of the far-reaching plans lald to pardon Bartley and break in advance the force of the storm that was apparently pending in case such action was taken. Monst Indefensible of All Nehawka Regle The most Indefensible act ever done by a governor of Nebraska is the pardoning of Partley. He was a thief, pure and simple, and no amount of explaining can make it anything el No man is a safe governor who can be swayed by tearful a peals of a family or sentimental reason- ing of “the ends of justice satisfled.” Bart- ley should stayed his twenty-one years In jail. When he came out he would have $25,000 per year for the time he servod the state in stripes, but by the governor's action he has been paid at the rate of $100,000 per r. The action of the governor shows how dangerous it 1s to place third-rate men in places of trust. An action that requires an apology sbould never have been committed, and our governor takes two columns of the State Journal to apologize for his action, and it s the weakest kind of reasoning, even for a third-rate man. He h ing of a lot of slick scoundrels, instead of heeding the volce of sate conservative men of godd judgment who have the interest of the state at heart, and Instead of remem- berin, the demands of his party in state conventlon. If he is renominated we will take pleasure fn helping to give 500 major- Ity againet him in Cass county. Logie Decldedly at Fault, Rushville Record The Recorder has read Governor Savage's preamble to his pardon of Embezzler Bart- ley three times and our conclusions are not arrived at hastily. when we condemn the whole transaction from first to last. We belleve that the pardon of Bartley 1s a mistake, and not from political motives alone, but on general principle. The ob- Ject of the law Is not merely to make the punishment fit the crime, but to prevent the growth of crime by making salutary examples of criminals in order to deter others from walking in their path. Tho Idea of making the punishment fit the crime cannot be determined by a bad precedent and we belleve Governor Savage's reason- ing Is faulty from the simple fact that he justifies Bartley very much in the same way that a gambler stakes his maney with the tdea that he may win. But what about the other side. The world admires suc- cess and daring, but for those who dare and fail they only consider them fools and we cannot afford to breed a race of fools for the sentiment's sake, much less volitics. Direct Disregard of Party Will, Nelson Gazette. In granting to ex-Treasurer Bartley an unconditional pardon Governor Savage gives evidence of his utter dlsregard for the wishes of the people of his state and the instructions of the party that made bim, po- Itically speaking. We doubt if there s another official act of a public servant on record in this state that meets with such a unanimous disapproval on the part of the common people as does this pardoning of the embezzler in question. Mr. Savage is the representative of the republican party. The party s, In a measure at leas held responsible for his actions. On the other hand, he is in honor bound to be gulded by the platform of his party. The representatives of the party, in convention assembled, registered their disapproval of granting Bartley a parole. The governor recognized the wisdom of this and at once recalled his parole and Bartley was re- turned to prison. On every hand was heard the volce of the people, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” But scarcely has the echo of this praise died away when now comes, like a thunderclap from the clear skies, the news that Bartley is par- doned without y condition or restraint whatever. * ¢ ¢ In assuming the right or privilege to re- Ileve Bartley of the payment of the penalty for his crime the governor has no doubt served himself in the capacity of political executioner. Just what effect it will have on the republican party in Nebraska, time only can tell. erly Without Justification. Columbus Journal. To put it with exceeding mildned publicans of Nebraska are grieved over the pardon of ex-State Treasurer J. S. Bartley by Governor Sav Sentenced to twenty years in the peniten- tlary for embezzlement, he had served s! years, and now is unconditionally par- doned. Once he was paroled, the parole, thought by some to be for the purpose of givi Mr. Bartley opportunity to make collec- tions from those to whom he had loaned money, and that $200,000 or $300,000 might be recovered to the state of the moneys embezzled. The republican state conventlon con- demned this action of Governor Savage 8o strongly that he immediately ordered the reincarceration of Bartley. Now comes an unconditional pardon, and, needless to say, most people are astounded. The true inwardness of the matter may ge, on principle, was convinced of his duty when he paroled Bartley, he should bave unflinchingly held to it, even agalnst the actlon of the re- publican convention. Newly-discovered facts a llowed to change judgment, but there seem to be none of these with Governor Savage—at least so far as the public Is as yet ad- vised. It anybody is gullty with Bartley and is now using money got of him that ought rightly to be in the state treasury, the public does not know who they are. Perhaps Bartley, being himself pardoned, may now turn stato’'s evidence and dle. «close where the money was placed, to the end that a large portion of it may be re- Crete Vidette. The republican press of the state is al- most unanimous in condemning Governor Savage for pardoning Joe Bartle: Vidette was one of the few paper tended the governor's actlon in the parole of Bartley. We belleve his motives were pure and his argument in defense of his parole were sound. Had he then defled the resolution of the state convention and Kept his promise with Bartley to the limit of time granted, all fairminded men would have applauded the governor's course. And it Bartley had made some restitution and furnished the public with a detailed ac- count of his losses, the Vidette would have cheerfully signed a petition for his par- don. But nothing of the kind was done. We have always admired Governor Savage, but believe his friends have led him into the error of making a fatal mistake. It is true the party would galn nothing by the further Incarceration of Bartley, nor will it lose the confidence of the people by his pardon. But "the blow will fall entirely upon the governor. If his friends insist upon & vindication and succeed In foisting his nomination upon the party, we firmly belleve that he will be the worst defeated man that ever ran for the office of gov- ernor. Influential political leaders of all parties will undoubtedly support Governor Savage, but they will find that they can no more stay the wrath of the rank and file of all parties than they can quiet the raging force of a cyclone. No man ever made a political success by runuing counter to the almost unanimous vaice of the great “common people.’* An Unsavory Last Chapter. Hold Citizen Governor Savage has been given a good opportunity to know what the people think of him and of his action n pardoning Joe Bartley out of the penitentiary. The polt- ticiane who were afraid that Bartley would say something that they did not want him to, made life a burden to the governor till he turned Bartley loose. Now the people who are not politicians, but believe in hon- esty and that the man after he has been proven a rascal should be punished, are making it uncomfortably warm for the gove ernor. It is quite probable that the gov- ernor wishes he was out of public lite and there certalnly are lots who would say amen to it it he did. It is hard to see how the governor could arrive at the decielon to et Bartley free. The governor tried to ex~ plain the reason for his action, but, outside of the few who were anxlous to get Bartley out of the pen, his explanations are very unsatisfactory. The last chapter in the his- tory of Bartley and the state is not more savory to the people at large than some of the preceding one: Cleaf the Track for Bartley. Walt Mason in Lincoln News Colonel Bartley hasn't run up the white flag; he sald ho wouldn't, and he kept his word. He went to the pen haughty and uncompromising, and he emerges in the same spirit. He lets it be known that those who have opposed his pardon will feel the welght of his royal displeasure. He evi- dently feels that he will step directly from the penitentiary to a place of power In politics, where he may empty a few vials of wrath upon the heads of those who have oftended him. There is nothing humble or repentant about this {llustrious sinner. He has no use for the mourner's bench. He reminds the reader of the count of Monte Cristo, who emerged from a dungeon with a righteous determination to punish those who put him there. He owes mothing to the state or to good morals. He is golng to open an office as Nemesis, and will do a wholesale and retail business in retribu- tlon. 014 wrongs avenged while you wait, Vengeance delivered anywhere, express charges prepald, either in cans or in bulk. Mail orders promptly attended to. Call and compare goods and prices. The peo- ple are very sick of Mr. Bartley. Now that he is free the best thing he can do 18 to tell what he did with the swag, and then hunt a hermitage, and clothe himselt in sheepskins, and spend the balance of his days in meditation and prayer. Up to Savage to Resign. York Republican. The republicans of Nebraska would not feel offended or bereayed if Governor Sav- age should at once hand in his resignation. It Is up to him, and he has been up to tricks they do mot like. His position that it ia not well to sacrifice personal justice to party welfare is unassailable, but it has not been done in any feature of the Bartley case and, therefore, the platitude does not exonorate him. Justice, for personal rea- sons, has been outraged, and the people of the state have a right to cry out at the outrage. The pops are laughing and point- ing the finger of derision at republicans all over the state, and republicans have no reply to make. They can only hang their heads In humiliation. They sald Bartley would be pardoned as soon as the election was over. The Republican did not belleve that such an outrage could be possible. It did not belleve there was In all the state of Nebraska a man who would dare to so outrage public sentiment, after that sentl- ment had been o strongly expressed as the antl-Bartley sentiment was expressed by the republican convention and by the people of the etate. Such a man existed, however, and he was found in a high office, to the humiliation of the party which placed him in it. The only atonement he can make is to “‘come down from the high place which he s In mo way worthy to hold.” While the republican party s in no way respon- sible for his deed it is responsible politi- cally Yor his elevation above his compat- riots of the sand hills. Had it been known what the outcome was to be he. would be still gracing the gritty bucolic scenes of Custer county, which has given the stal #0 much cause for grief and tears. Now that the outcome is known, the only true course for the party to pursue is to dis- 'ow the burden and cast it from the party shoulders. Earas Only Severest Criticlsm, Aurora Republican The indignation felt at the action of Gov- ernor Savage in releasing ex-Treasurer Bartley from the penitentiary seems to deepen as the days go by. True, there are some who uphold the governor's action, but the majority of the republicans of the state are stifiing their feelings and sharp- ening up their political axes for the next state convention, when Mr. Savage, who has n fit to thwart the will of the men who placed him in office, will feel the welght of public sentiment and know that his political standing Is a thing of the past. The governor has endeavored to explain how justice demanded the release of Bart- ley and how he has been besipged by the state's best people to extend full and com- plete pardon to a traitor who betrayed his party and wrecked the state treasury. But his explanation falls to explain. It lacks demnatlon of the outr: ing storm of protest than that which fol- lowed Gdvernor Savage's celebration of tho New Year's birth has naver passed over sincerity. satisfactory. tion at all. Mr. Bartley is now a-free man. He is to take it for granted that his crimes have been forgiven and that executive clemency has transformed him at one stroke from a criminal to a man of homor. Whatever circumstances there may have been to les- gen his crime, his attitude of defiance bhas set them at naught. The spirit of peni- tence has not been his—he has hardened himself and the people. But now he breathes the air of freedom because an executive has violated the obligations of his office and given sanction to erime, set- ting at naught the wishes of party and put- ting a premium on crime. Governor Savage deserves for this act the severest criticism of the people of Ne- braska. It is hollow and wholly un- It is worse than no explana- e Commonwenlth, Plerce Call. We believe Governor Savage made the greatest mistake of his lifo when he par doned Bartley out of the penitentiary on New Year's day. Thiok of it, a man who stolo $600,000 of the people’s money being allowed to serve a term of only five years when he should have served the full sen- tence of twenty years. As it now is Bart- ley is a free man and the state s minus that $600,000. Why didn't the governor parole him again with a view of granting a pardon If he should turn back into the state treasury the whole or a good share of the money stolen by him? This would bave been far better than the way it is now, The pardoning of Joseph Bartley by Gov. ernor Savage is a crime agalnst the com- monwealth of Nebraska and the governor may try to explain from now until dooms- day, but he can’t cover up the crime. Last August the republican party In convention assembled demanded that Bartley be sent back to the penitentlary, and the party hasn't receded one step from that position. Governor Savage obeyed the voice of the convention then and revoked Bartley's parole. Now he has defled the will of the republicans of this state and must take the consequences. In this instance, Gov- ernor Savage has shown himself unfit for that high office. He bad a chance to make @ good record and one that he could well feel proud of. While he has made a few friends by this pardon he has lost the col fidence of the rank and file of the party well as the people of our state. It is quite evident that Governor Savage doesn’t want to be governor again. No one who will pardon a man in so short a time that has stolen over $500,000 of the tax- payers' money can have the nerve to stand up before the people of Nebraska and ask for a renomination. The republicans of Nebraska must nominate a man for gov- ernor who won't be making lssues for the tusionists of the state in every campaign. Crime Agninat Short Route to Political Grave. Plattsmouth Tribune. ‘The unconditional pardoning,of ex-State Treasurer Bartley by Governor Savage has called forth the disapproval expressed by the state press that his unwarranted ac- tion deserve crime was one of the most flagrant cases of betrayal of a public trust in the history of the state. Bartley has always posed, and for a time was considered by many people a sort of martyr—a man who was suffering the pen- alty alone, while others equally gulity en- joyed the misappropriated funds and were left unmolested. These claims of his were never substantiated and | 11 one of the unexplained mysteries. He certainly has not been looked upon as an object for executive clemency by a majority of the people of this state, unless he returned to the state trcasury the greater, If not the entire, amount he embezzled. This he Las never done and never will. | Those who claim that by simply donning the stripes for a few months that he was adequately punished are certainly not be- levers In, or supporters of the constitu- tion, which declares all men equal before the law and they are 0 the very ones who would clamor for their pound of flesh it they chanced to be “‘touched” by a poor hungry tramp for a meal out of the pantry and would insist on the limit of ten or twelve years as a sentence. If this mis- placed use of the pardoning power can be so easily condoned jt will have a strong tendency to the lowering of the standard of public morals, for it would not be hard to find any number of men who would will- ingly run the risk of serving a few years at some soft job in prison at the ratio Bartley d1d—$100,000 or better a year. Governor Bavage's action was {llegal in the first place, as no notice was given of the application to pardon Bartley, as re- quired by law. Mr. Savage's abuse of power gained through accident is in no way chargeable to the republican party. At the ttme of his election to the office of lleutenant governor he enjoyed a good character and no party can be held respon- sible for a wrongful act of one of its of- ficlals. Mr. Savage has dug his own po- litical grave and should resign, Stench to Decent Republicans. 8t. Paul Republican. Thero is no division of sentiment worth mentioning on the Bartley pardon. The republican newspapers of the state, which unerringly indicate the attitude of the party, are practically unanimous in con- A more sweep- Nebraska. The foolish drivel of his three- column explanation (written by Bartley's lawyer) and the weak chirping of a few apologists have been drowned by a roar of righteous Indignation from all quarters of the state. The governor has fled to the swamps and canebrakes of Loulsiana, lack- ing the moral courage to face an outraged BUST WEEK POR COMMITTEES Beth ldllull Benate Wait for Roperts on Various Bills PENSION APPROPRIATIONS ABOUT READY ss on Cuban Reciprocity Ave wbaidy BINl Seom to Reappear. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The really im- portant work of the' house of representd- tives, aside from the Nicaragua bill, 18 stlll in the committee stage, 50 that there is little of importance to be considered durlng the coming week. Monday will be given to bills affecting the District of Co- lumbia. = After that the pension appro- priation bill will be passed. Although this measure carries about $139,000,000, it fol- lows department estimates and does not fuyolve ‘auy Narious fssues, oo that after a brief explapation of it usually tollows promptly. The ways and means committee has a few minor bills on the calendar, for the re- Qemption of revenue stamps made worth- less by the repeal of certain features of the war revenue act. With the disposal of bills there will be little to engage the attention of the house and there prom- ises to be several periods of adjournments during which time the committees will ure to be brought The chief fnterest of the week will cen- ter in hearings on Cuban reciprocity, to begin at 10, o'clock Wednesday morning, mmittee. hearings will continue for several days, and 1t Is expected that General Wood and others promi in Cuban affairs, as well as the int The senate is still without any definite plan of action for the future, and the in- dicatfons are that the present week will witness a greater display of activity In the semate committee rooms than in the sel | ters of lmportance oo e calendar, b\ll\ enough to engage attention for a few hours {each day until Sunday, when the senate will probably adjourn for the week. Among the measures which there wiH be an effort to get out of committee dur- ing the week are the Nicaragua canal bill, the Philippine tarift bill and the ship sub- sidy bill. The indications are that the Nicaragua bill will be reported practically it passed the house and tnat the ship- ping bill will not be materially amended, but the republican leaders have practically decided to make a materlal reduction of the tariff on Philippine exports. It is not probable that the discussion of either of these questions will begin for some time. The utmost that is to be expected In that direction is a preliminary arrangement for consideration. Which of the measures will receive first consideration, is not yet determined, and considerable rivalry is likely to develop for precedence. All three measures are likely to be debated at considerable length when taken up In the ate. Death of Rev. Cha: . Hamilton, CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Rev. Charles Letcher | Hamllton of Sauk Center, Minn, the prominent Episcopal minis W dled today In this city at the home | ment for an elght-hour work day. of his son, Rev. W. B. Hamllton, rector of Calvary Eplscopal church. Mr, Hamil- federate army during the civil war. was born in 1828 and is survived by the widow and one son. BRICKLAYERS’ UNIONS MEET Tradesmen Will Convene in Annual Seaston f a Some Import- Business. PITTSBURG, Jan. annual convention of the Bricklayers' and Mat International union opens here on Monday. Delegat are arriving on every traln and when the sesslons are representing 582 nty-two of whom are in Can- expected to be in More than 70,000 workmen are members of the unlon. One of the important actions expected to be taken by the convention will be a move- osition will also be made to aMliate with the Federation of Labor. [ — Recep e Henry, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--At the White 12.~The thirty-sixth | A prop- | | day at her home near Finchville. House tonight it was stated that no ar- | rangements had been made for the recep- ton was a brigadier general in the con- | He | tion of Prince Hanrr of Prussia upon the occasion of his visit'to this country, Com- ing as he does, the personal representative of the emperor, he will be accorded the honora due his high rank. His mission, it | 18 understood, will bring him to Wash! ton probably as the guest of the German ambassador. Raine VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 12.—The point d that the federal parllament not legally called las on account of the proclamation summoning | it belng lssued in the name of Queen Vic- toria, and before parilament met the queen | died and King Edward VII reigned. It is contended that a new proclamation should | have been issued under the king's name. The minister of juatice, David Mills, says that parllament was summonad un | great seal and therefore no new proclamas tion was necessary. Over Hundred Mark MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Jan. 12.—Mrs. D. Stamp celebrated her 108th birthday to- She 18 in full possession of her faculties and spends much of her tims in spinning. constituency until has wrath. That a republican governor should have committed such a mistake in the face of his party's sentiment, as expressed In a representative state convention, is Incom- prehensible. Had Mr. Holcomb or Mr. Poynter seen fit to exercise clemency in the Bartley case there might have been some excuse. The fusion party had bene- fited immensely from his defalcation and each was under at least indirect political obligations to him. Governor Holcomb has been accused of partial responsibility for the state’s loss In falllog to exact either a proper accounting from Bartley at the end of his first term or an adequate bond at the beginning of his second. A pardon coming from such a source would not have looked so bad. But Savage's action, viewed under the light of all the attendant cir- cumstances, is Indefensible. * ¢ ¢ Although the action of the last repub- llcan state convention should free the party of any responsibllity for Bartley's pardon in the minds of all unprejudiced people, it cannot fall to sufter, in some extent at least, for its carelessness in ele- vating a man of Savage's caliber to a posi- tion ot such Importance as that of lleu- tenant governor. It was an open secret that the republicans had little hope of winning the election of 1900, and the nom- inations made in the convention of that year were allowed to go by default. The contest was over delegates to the national convention and liftle attention was given to the state ticket, the lieutenant governor belng considered the least important posi- tion on the list. Circumstances have since shaped themselves so as to place great power in the hands of a hitherto obscure ranchman and he has misused it to the shame of the entire state. Savage is the oftspring of party despondency, just as Bartley was the child of overconfidence. It is sald that Savage has been promised & renomination by the men who influenced him to issue the pardon. Had he not al- ready shown himself to be absolutely devold of political judgment such a statement could not be credited. The nomination of such a man would invite the most over- whelming defeat any party has ever known in any state. And yet it seems that there is actually to be a serlous effort made toward that end. The decent republicans will never tolerate such a climax to their series of misfortunes. It Is only a ques- tion of how emphatic their rebuke to such a brazen proposition will be. It should be suffictently strong to forever set at rest any suspicion of sympathy with public em- bezzlers. It should be sufolently plain for even the perverted consciemce of Fzrs Savage to understand. time cooled its Hebron Journal. 1t will be remembered that at the time of the state convention last August Gov- ernor Savage had paroled Bartley for sixty days, but on the culmination of the ex- pressed public indignation in the emphatic demand of the republican atate convention by resolution, Bartley was re-incarcerated. The governor sald at first that he hoped to make restitution of funds by exerting clemency, but he now abandons that idea and pardons Bartley notwithstanding! At one time the governor promised to secure the name of every man who borrowed money from Bartley, but even this attempt at restitution {s now ignored by his ex- cellency. The governor's action is somewhat com- promising. In & lengthy published st ment, replete with flowery, empty exp! slons such “white light of reason,” and attempts at distraction from the central thought of a notorfous criminal freed, ho recites causes of the panic and crop fail- ure, and by allusions to the McKinley vie- tory and references to ‘“‘the quality of basal currency” would divert attention from his own action. Governor Savage poses as belng greater than his party, or its state convention whose action he characterizes as a “di courtesy” and an unwarranted right of in- terference with the constitutioual right of the executlve. The governor forgets that after all ho is but the servant of the people—the sworn executive of the state— and that this office of responsibility is not eimply one of titles and honors wherein the people should fear to show the ‘“dlis- courtesy’ of demanding that thelr executive should serve the state instead of exercls- ing a personal constitutional “right” when that right is wrong. The governor claims sincerity of honest motives, but his action: causes the citizen to question the influences that can have so swayed his mind and blased his judgment, causing him to talk only of justice to the “Individual” and not to the state. He then attempts to laud the ex-tre rer for standing behind wob- bly banks during the panic, as if state rob- bery In the Interests of any class would ex- cuse or expatiate the breaki! the betrayal of public intei N Again, the governor makes a startling excuse for clemency by comparing Bartley’ sentence with that of Mosher, the infamous bank wrecker, whose light s sugh a flagrant violation of justice. Savage ys Mosher's fallure nt disaster into a e number of homes and seated pov- erty at a great ny firesides,”” whil, ley's shorti attended by les net braska!" Shades of Justice Bavage's r erence to Bartley as though he were s fering a martyr's imprisonment jars on one rather harshly as they read of “a with- ering travesty on justic What of the hundreds of other convicts in the peniten- tlary? Shall the doors of our penal Insti- tutions be flung open for the triumphal exit of a most dangerous element of so- clety? Two wrongs never make a right, and beca a scoundrel like Mosher got less punishment than he deserved {s no ex- wi euse for pardoning another who betrayed o public trust and took that which belonget to the state What If no “danger” can come to the state from Bartley's release, as says! What, too, it might be pertinently inquired, of the fracture of law, of right, of the principles which justice Is founded? The governor credits himeelt with cour- age for defylng the sentiment of the re- publican party. It is not a question of “po- litleal supremacy.” The governor mistakes when he infers that te average citizen considers expediency In a mattor affecting right and wrong The governor says he “is bound to pass upon them according to the dictates of the law and in the light of unbinsed reason.” And yet he advances no proof show that these were ignored W the place ing of the sentence by the court under which Bartley was given a fair and Impar- tial trial. There was never any question as to the gullt of the condemned. The only {ssue now is, what has ho done to merit liberty? Every sympathetic heart in Nebraska beats In tender sympathy for the “brulsed and quaking hearts of the lnmocent and defensoless wife and children’ of the do- faulter, as it does-for the similarly suffer- ing wives and children of the other crim- inals in the penitentiary who have less of & “pull”"—and yet it would be u dangerous precedent and an encouragement of count- less evils, to liberate on New Year's day all “who had served" five years, seven months and elght days of a twenty-year sentence for a monstrous crime. The fear expressed by some that the gov- ernor's action will weaken the republican party i unfounded.’ The inevitablo result will be the further retirement of a certain dangerous element to the party; the ac- tion of the state convention will be even more strongly indorsed, and the Larnacles which impede the progress of the party of honesty and progress will be compelled to week recognition in the ranks of some other organization. Poor Way to Get Even. Kearney Hub. It was Senator Thurston who once sald that no one person was greater than his party, or some such words in substance. When Thurston became a senator he lost sight of this truth, and acting on the as- sumption that he could ignore party in- t s In the reward of subservient cronles and by setting the moral sentiment of his party at naught when he stepped down from his exalted position as a pald servant of the public to defend a great corpor tlon In a sult wherein the state he was supposed to represent was plaintiff, it was not assumed for a moment that he had erred in judgment, but that he had con- sulted solely his own intere: ‘A spectator in the last republican con- ventlon who sat through that memorable scene when the governor of the state fol- lowed in the wake of Bartley's paid at- torney In making a plea in justification of the parole, and boldly asserted that Bart- ley had already suffered in disgrace and humiliation all tl he could ever suffer and that further punishment could no fur ther serve the ends of justice, could not he feel humiliated, and the blush of shame mantled the face of every person of clear moral conceptions In that body. Like an animal at bay the executive of the state, unwilling to admit that his constituents and party representatives. had a right to be heard, sought to brazen out his act, to defend his position, and force the conven- tion to repudlate the recommendation of the committee on resolutions. That reso- lution was as follows: “The republicans of Nebraska disclalm for the party any sympathy with custo- dians of public money found guilty of the bet 1 of sacred trusts. Without im« pugning the motives of the governor in any cal we deprecate any exercise of oxecu- tive clemency tending to create the false impression that the republican party is disposed to condone the wilful embezzle- ment of public funds under any circums stances, and we request the immediate re- all of the parole of Joseph Bartley." The writer knows something of the senti- ment behind that resolution. It was nol nearly so much a matter of party loss or aln as it was & protest against an im- pending public calamity. It w adopted by & vote of 988 to 168. It will be noticed, however, that the convention did not im- pugn the governor's action. Neither did the public at large. People had been will- ing to wait and see, trusting to the gove ernor's honesty and good judgment. That he resented the action of the convention, and smarted under the humilation that he forced upon himself by his unnecessasy plea for Bartley, goes without question, and the Hub does not doubt that it was in a spirit of “playing even” that he finally issued full and complete pardon. This is the least that can be said in explanation of his act, and if there Is anything in this theory, the fact remains that he was moved by ignoble motives and a base passion, and that he is not fitted in any sense whatsoever to occupy any position of great responsi- bility in the service of the state. The well known fact that & large sum of money has been at the disposal of any executive who would pardon Bartley, and the fact that he bas been pardoned, naturally give rise te ugly suspicions. The Hub does not, how- ever, share in them. Indeed, it cannot concelve how an executive could be core rupted in such & manner, In a, case 0 no- torious, and carry the welght of the thing upon his consclence until his dying day. It prefers to belleve, and does belleve, that the governor acted in spite and anger, and in a spirit of revenge, finally bringing bis disordered mind to belleve that he war doing a justifiable act. 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