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PAGE 4.THE RALEIGH HERALD.The Official Organ of the Republican party of Raleigh county.Published Every Thursday Morning.B, WINIFRED BROWN, : : : : Owner.PRICE ONE DOLLAR THE YEAR IN ADVANCE.News items of interest front ilifferuil points in the comity an' raj iitfsll. lolictted from tJie readers and friuiuis uf Tim Hi-inki. lml oliiluar.v notice (Dd cards of thnuks li-ill lie charped for: tilt- formur at the rate of 2 I-2cts per printed line and the latter at the rale SO cents i-acli.Registered at Uie post office at Iicckley, w. Vn„ as -ceoitdBECKLEY, W. VA., THURSDAY, 311 AYWcstr'besofwiidis-wh.theof t be t Dei: legi will neet notl havi Eve iven a mi not stati chos ism bee?of 1! The; pub! a di’ wellDEMAND FOR DENUNCIATION OF PARDONIn as much as there was such a large demand for last week's Herald denouncing the the at tempt Qf Dr. E. 0. Thornhill's slayer to secure a pardon, we could not' supply the extra copies, so we are reproducing the editorial. This shows the high esteem in which Dr. Thornhill was regarded in this section of the state.•sAmong other congratulations, the Herald congratulates itself upon voicing the sentiments of the lawabiding citizens, who know the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.SHALL PARTY COURT DEFEAT?' Never was feeling more intense in Beck ley and surrounding towns where the victim was known when the news of the “manslaughter” of Dr. Thornhill reached here on the day of his death.The particulars of the crime are too well known to peed the repetition, and there was talk of mob Violence.The press dispatches stated that the-convicted man’s friends and relatives considered his sentence of four years in the penitentiary for “manslaughter” a light one, and we have not been able to learn of another opinion; but people, who have no respect for either the laws of God or man, always expect to escape the penalty of these laws, and Willis Hatfield is no exception to this rule, and to escape a sentence which a court would not impose upon a man without his earning it, ■ is now . making an effort to secure a pardon.* Hatfield pleas pardon for his crime on account of being a tuber, his attorney’s paper does not state whether he trumped up the malady before or after the “manslaughter • of that gentleman whose life he took. If a man earn a place in the penitentiary, it is as good a place to die as any other, and is just as near heaven or- hell, so they should not worry on this score.The pardon is signed by three doctors, a . jury-1 pian, a judge (but not Judge Miller, but Bennett, |eaiT' qf Fayette} and a number of lesser lights—-and i ‘ts 01 some are so little they do not amount to one I lt;*ea^ twentieth candle power. We wonder what could 1110^ have been the motive for these people to become! -mir; so anxious in his behalf; could it be cowardice, or'*10^ more possibly, they were victims of a cheap char-1*° *’v Jatan, who values his fee more highly than the f honor of the state. ■ n)ustThe reputation of both men and their families pxe known throughout this section. Dr. Thornhill:flcCtT and his people are above reproach; whereas, tliej ' perpetrator of the crime, which he now implores ^ Clemency from the governor, to escape man's,camp penalty, bears the name which is the darkest blot't™1 c upon the scutcheon of West Virginia. j110 *-a'If a petition for the enforcement of the sen-, tence of the court were circulated among the people among whom Dr. Edwin 0. Thornhill labored, I among those who knew him, and recognized a true1 man when they meet him, the affair which theloss latui chin-can ; men: publgovernor is now considering would appear like a*A'e!'t'^0puny baby in the presence of a giant. i ^inoiliiIf Hatfield is pardoned, the law seems effectual thing i.o the multitude, so is disrespected, !°'UUTl and in another similar ease, mob violnce is en- ato,1‘r couraged. 1 f a Republican governor shows t:h e: 1J! ~ ’ weakness, or moral cuwardice, in pardoning this 11 : creature, he has made as great a scandal in tin; °^'tc party of the stale, as the democrats when th«y;!?nvIe' sold the seats in the U. S. senate, and the demo-'[)uni1 crats will make the most of it. ; with iGET TOGETHER“Get together” seems to be the slogan of the c Republican party of the state this year. With: bickerings between different factions, victory is i Impossible, Of the great necessity of a united*, party the Huntington Herald Dispatch writes: ;f“The results announced Friday in Kanawha, ■? Wayne, Nicholas, Boone, and other counties, af- p ford the proverbial last straw. The presidential n preference contest in West Virginia is settled be-yond peradventure. Colonel Roosevelt will gel. the ” Support of the six delegates at large, and he will decure the ten district delegates which will be sent up. from the five congressional districts of the state. hWhile the Herald-Dispatch, in the beginning ir advised against a preference contest: in West. Vir-ginia, it must be admitted that the light has been orderiy, and has been carried through with a mini- a mum of bitterness. Whether an v last.in r t,‘
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Raleigh Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, May 02, 1912
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