Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 24, 1910, Image 4
The Fort Mill Times.
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Published Thursday Morninirs.
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W. R. Bradford Editor
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FORT MUX. S. C.. MARCH 24. 1910.
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The Fannie Carton Pardon.
Governor Ansel's friends will
now have to abandon the claim
that he has wisely exercised the
pardoning power. During the
last week Governor Ansel granted
a pardon to Fannie Carson,
the Spartanburg murderess, who
was serving a life sentence in
the penitentiary for the murder
of her husband.
Fannie Carson had been in
prison 15 years. The crime for
which she was convicted was one J
of the most reprehensible ever
committed in the State. Becom-'
ing infatuated with a man named
Green, she and Green planned to
murder her husband. Green
went to the home of the Carsons
one night and being admitted to !
the house by Mrs. Carson, slipped
to the bed where his victim was
asleep and brained him with an
avp hnnrllo nftprvvavrls nnttinnr
his throat with a razor. Absolutely
no chance was given Carson
to defend himself. He was
as helplessly at the mercy of his
murderers as man is before the
wrath of the Almighty. lie was '
deliberately done tp death at the
instance and upon the insistence
of his wife, the ihother of his
children.
This is the woman (Governor Ansel
has pardoned. Not one extenuating
circumstance for the murder
was shown upon the trial, in
which Mrs. Carson admitted her i
gui't and implicated Green and
another man, named Page. All
three were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Page has sip." died
in the penitentiary and of the
trio of murderers Green is the
only one left in prison. All three
should have been luu.g* d. since
it is the law to bang murderers, '
and it was a perversion of justice
and a disgrace to the Commonwealth
that they were rot
hanged.
But what of the act of the
governor who has allowed this
murderess to walk out into the
World a free wnmnn mnr.
deress wfih a heart as black a<
hades and a mind as vicious a
Caligula's? What show of
justification is Governor Ansel
able to make for pardoning Mrs.
Carson? None further In. n
that he "has been influenced by
misgui led sympat1 y for the
woman. There is no attempt to
show that she is today more
entitled to executive cle.nei ,-y
than she was the day following
her incarceration. It avails the
governor nothing to recall that
she had been in prison 15 years.
Fifteen years' imprisonment is
not sufficient punishment to
make amends to society for the
commission of such a crime.
And why pardon Mrs. Carson
and allow Green to remain in
prison? Is he not entitled to an
equal degree of consideration?
We think he is. Of the two,
Mrs. Carson is the greater
criminal. The murder would
not have been committed but for
me impelling inriiieiico of Mrs.
Carson over Green. The truth
is, neither should have been pardoned,
and Governor Ansel's
course is inexcusable and unjustifiable.
There is not one
murderer in the penitentiary
who merits the punishment he is
receiving more than Mrs. Carson
merits like punishment; and not
one of the murderers in the
penitentiary but who should now
be able to ask Governor Ansel
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for pardon with reasonable hope
of his request being granted,
j Governor Ansel should be consistent
by pardoning every
murderer who prays executive
clemency. But he will not be
j consistent. Other murderers
who are certain to appeal to him
for pardon will not be able to
bring to bear as great influence
as was Mrs. Carson's.
So-Called Carnival Companies.
The mayors of many South
Carolina towns have learned
that the interests of their
municipalities cannot be promntn/1
Kir 1 n re f ^ r\ 1 1 ?-l
i inv/iv-vi u\ iiv.ciioiii^ awitiiicu
carnival companies. Their view
of the matter is generally commended
by the newspapers. The
small amount of revenue which
is derived from permitting the
operation of carnival companies
is more than offset by the unimpaired
financial and moral
status of the town which prohibits
them. Many of the alleged
carnival companies?a number
of which have visited Fort Mill
and sold their wares here?do
not furnish entertainment which
is either pleasing or entertaining.
Instead it is so much hoydenish
drivel that is not worth the
patronage of people who lay
claim to a discriminating degree
of intelligence. It is worse than
horseplay. It is not only disgust'ng
but often indecent and
in cities could not command the
patronage of the more intelligent
class of negroes. We are particularly
iinterested in the welfare
of Fort Mill, financially,
morally and otherwise. No carnival
company which has ever
visited Fort Mill has done the
town any good. They have carried
away from the town aeon*
siderable amount of money
which was taken from the people
under false 'pretenses, in that
they diil not give value received.
They ha\e been allowed to
operate gambling games in open
violation of Loth State and town
laws and no move has been made
to hold the promoters to account.
The Times calls upon the
officials to do their duty by keeping
close watch of any carnival
v.ui!t{>?iii> nviiii;ii mmi.s run *tuu
for the detection of any form of
gambling and to punish the
violators of the law. We do not
need carnival companies in this
town and The Times voices the
sentiment of the better part of
the community in expressing the
hope that no such organization
will be allowed to show here in
the future.
Tiiok. R. W.trijif? for Vice President.
The suggestion of the Richmond
Times-Dispatch that Thos.
R. Waring, editor of the Charleston
Post, be nominated by the
next national Democratic convention
for vice president was ma.de
more- in jest than in earnest, but
it is nevertheless not without
merit. If there is to be an effort
made to put a Southern man
on the ticket for vice president,
we could do no better than to
bestow the honor upon Mr.
Waring. He would make an
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senate. He is a man of unquestioned
intellectuality and
being young in years and blessed
with an attractive; magnetic
personality, he could he depended
upon to add strength to the
ticket in the South, at least.
Whether it is advisable to nominate
a Southern man for the vice
presidency, however, is a debatable
question; but if there
is any serious thought of such a
course, The Times very earnestly
hopes that Major Hemphill's
nominee will be given the consideration
a man of Mr. Waring's
capacity and fitness for the place
deserves. Mr. Waring would be
such an impryvt ment over the
party who is now pretending to
fill the office that it is almost
libelous to mention the two in
the same breath.
The State has the headline:
i "Lyon Scores Again." Too
much scoring will make the
game uninteresting and break it
up.
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Change of Business j
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This Sale will last only nine days.
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Brennecke & Comp'y in charge.
Watch for the Big Canvas
Signs.
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