Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1911 — Thinks Governor Made No Mistake in Bader Parole. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Governor Made No Mistake in Bader Parole.

Starko County Republican. Governor Marshall Is being roundly criticised because he issued a ten day parole to Clinton L. Bader, the Winamac bridge man who was sent to prison for filing a fraudulent bill in the Jasper county commissioners’ court. Bader was wanted as a witness in Pulaski county, the character of the man is such that he was sent home alone with instructions to "report to the prison at end of his respite. Numerous critics have flayed Governor Marshall for Ike act of mercy, especially as it permitted the prisoner to spend Thanksgiving at home with his family. Governor Marshall is noted for his leniency in the treatment of prisoners, and for this he has been roundly criticised time and again. The Republican feels called upon to pass some severe strictures upon Governor Marshall’s administration, but not as to his conduct respecting inmates of prisons. Any act of mercy comes from the heart, and the man who obeys the impulses of his better nature is seldom for out of the straight and narrow way. Bader is as much a prisoner as any other man within the grim walls, but he has already suffered much, as also has his wife and children. The little ray of sunshine which came into their lb'es by the ten days* parole nqeant more to them than the tongues of all the critics can tell. Governor Marshall believes in tempering justice with mercy. It is a noble qualify, all the criticism to the contrary notwithstanding. '