Show JUST ACTION BY STATE PARDON BOARD 0 A A CAREFUL reading of the th statement issued yesterday by Albert AThert TL R Barnes Darnes attorney general of Utah and clerk of the tho state board of will undoubtedly convince all who may read it that the aper a per 1 alone af rn Q cast oat upon the official actions of tha tiia board since the incumbency of William Spry as a Governor of Utah are without foundation in fact and andare andare are net justified by truth I i Under the constitution oo of Utah the state board of pardons consists I of tho o Governor the justices of the Supreme court of Utah and the attorn attorI I n nay y general of Utah The Tho Governor is a member of the tho board but is not the entire board bord and if he had wanted to do ao any of the dreadful things of which the opposition press has been accusing him he ho would have been bean forced foro d to have had with him at least two other oilier members of the board The he statement issued by the boards clerk shows that in practically every action taken by the tho board since Governor Spry assumed office it has been beenS the unanimous action of the entire board The suggestion that the S Governor dominated the board may be flattering to Mr Spry in that he I Ii i was br b inference given the credit of influencing the three justices of the Supreme me court of Utah lut hut it could scarcely be bo true truer Itis within the province of the board that a majority with the Gover Governor r I nor nM way may remit fines finos grant commutations and grant pardons Two hun hundred hundred hunI I dred and forty cases cas have been considered by tho the board of pardons since J Mr lIr Spry Siry became me a member by virtue of his office oHice and have haveIS IS bae acted upon favorably That is slightly more moro than 25 L per cent of I the tha applications have received favorable consideration Aa At the statement shows it is ia not a question of how many cases oases have been acted upon but whether they have hue been acted upon wisely and the theS careful reader will take the position we believe that the board acted to S the boat beat De t of its Ito and judgment We will all admit that tho the judg judgment ment m nt of the three men who compo the th highest tribunal in Utah must be beof beof beof of some soma little account and in addition to that they have havo also the legal advice of the man whom the voters of Utah said two years ago they th wanted for attorney general of the state Governor judgment ako alao is regarded reI re regarded I as pretty fair by most moet business bUi men of Salt Lake and others who 1 know knew him S Out Oat of the oases whore where the board of pardons has shown t since Mr Spry became Governor forty of these were pardoned Of or this thia forty twenty tw had either served their th ir terms or their sentences were w re bent about a ett to tG expire In Iiii many of these theBe cues CAMS pardons were granted to ro to th theM M man nen the rights of citi There were cases casi C ses where the b I i granted pandora p on three months after the prisoner had been released that he lie might exercise e his hil rights right as a n of the state sute Two wore were pardoned because of great physical infirmities and on the i urgent request of physicians In six sis other cases it was made to t appear i by the tha prosecuting officers that much doubt existed as to the guilt gunt of the i 1 prisoners o ers Of the cases Ci in ia which clemency was granted there were some whose sentences were commuted for only a few days and in inthe F the owes CaMS ca of a few fw theeo theiO the o were commuted for several 5 oral years Four of those th se 4 whose sentences were were commuted by the board are still in the state prison t because e their sentences as fixed by the tho board have not expired S Of tho the cases acted upon thirty were recommended for clemency by the trial judge or the prosecuting attorney or both In most oases CAser there were petitions for clemency by the citizens of the community from fl m which they thy were sentenced A careful reading of the ille statement will WA show that the board acted wisely wiS in all cases cas Justices McCarty and Frick Prick are members of the state board of pardons They are aro present at t all n meetings of the board It requires I at least one ono of them with the Governor and the attorney general to exercise frise clemency It is Ia a fact that the tho board beard has baa h been heap practically a unit unitS unitia unitia ia 1 its ito action upon the cases eue which have been handled during the tho incumbency of Governor Spry L Is h there t any person p in Utah or any newspaper in Utah that desires to o oz z question the honesty and integrity of these thee men roen i Is there any person er r publication in Utah that desires to accuse tko tho Supreme court justices of this state of letting loose a flood of criminals upon this community r Is there anybody that desires to question the tha ability of these moo mon when it comes oom to handling bundling evidence 1 J 9 They are all oil men trained in the law able lawyers men who won to these thee high positions by honesty integrity and ability They are men in whom the community has every confidence They compose the court of last resort in this state the men upon whom the rich and poor the high Q and the low must depend for justice They are the men upon do ce panda the security of life and property Their honesty has never bean been questioned S Governor Spry in his nefarious plot to let loose a gang of criminals O upon the people of Utah and Salt Lake would have to have at least one of df f them with the attorney general of Utah to accomplish his hellish 4 designs If It the th attorney general balked and refused to releases man who nIght might some somo night enter Attorney Att General Barnes home and cut his throat then tho the Governor would have to sandbag two of tho the Supreme court justices j 6 and ad get them to 10 consent to release these thugs It will be seen that Governor Spry would have to be an active gentle gentleman gentleman man oven if he were disposed to do all this And when wIlen you further con consider consider sider aider that the board has been a unit in practically every etory one of the sixty i four cases cas in which clemency has lULs been exorcised exercised and which is slightly f more mora than of all the cases that have been considered by the thet board i nt it somewhat ridiculous after all i t |