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Vol. 11, No. 15
The Leo Frank Case. Does the State of Georgia Deserve
JL4R. ADOLPH OCHS, a most
1 useful servant of the Wall
Street interests, runs a Tory
paper in New York, whose chief end in
life seems to be to uphold all the atrocities of
Special Privilege and all of the monstrous
‘demands of Big Money.
lhe name of the paper is, The Times; and,
like its owner, it is an ox that knows its mas
ter’s crib.
Some years ago, Mr. Brisbane, the great
Hearst editor of all the great Hearst news
papers, and author of the great book known
as ‘•The Hearst Editorials,’’ took occasion to
jump upon the worthy Adolph Ochs, and to
say things about him and his paper that were
fierce enough to make the windows rattle.
In fact, the windows did rattle; for the
indignant Ochs took his head out of his mas
ter’s crib long enough to file a damage suit
against the great Hearst paper.
The case had not been on file more than a
day or so, ere the redoubtable Brisbane came
right back at the worthy Ochs, in another
editorial, immensely more caustic, merciless,
scathing, flaggellative and actionable than its
predecessor.
Brisbane commenced this second attack by
saying, in effect, “Ochs has brought a damage
suit against us because we told the truth on
him: we will now tell some more truth on him,
and thus give him the chance to file another
damage suit.”
But no second suit was filed; and the first
one came to nothing.
Shall the Atlanta Politicians and
'T'HE other day I was talking
with a couple of old friends,
here in my own doby, and the
name of Private-Secretary Ulm came up.
w Ulm, you know, is the man of the Execu
tive Office in Atlanta, who has been handed
down from one Governor to another, until he
is sometimes more of a governor than the
Governor is.
Some years ago, Ulm soured on my stomach,
and Uve never been able to take enough politi
cal soda to get rid of the Ulm acidity.
One of these two old friends of mine
remarked, addressing himself to me, “Ulm
says he regrets very much that Mr. Watson
does not understand him.”
I laughed and said, “No, it’s not that. What
Ulm very much regrets is, that I do under
stand him.”
So, when I learned by private grapevine
from Atlanta that Ulm had gone before the
State Democratic Committee at its session
last week, and had made a strenuous effort to
abolish our County Unit plan, in the
approaching Senatorial election, I was not
surprised.
Ulm is Private Secretory to His Excellency,
Governor John Marmalade Slaton. Ulm
knows that the Hon. Goliath Smith was
defeated for governor, in 1908, because he
played traitor to the County Unit plan.
It was the Hon. Clark Howell who wrote
to me in the Spring of that memorable year,
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, oflprit 9, 1914
This Nation - Wide Abuse ?
If Mr. Adolph Ochs continues to libel the
people of Georgia in his Wall Street organ,
I will have to look up the Brisbane editorials,
and republish them. They are in my scrap
books, somewhere, and they will read spicily
at this particular time, when The Times is
viciously lying about the courts and the peo
ple of Georgia. Especially, as the great
Hearst papers are helping him do it.
On March 20, 1914, there appeared in Mr.
Ochs’ Wall Street sheet the following:
LIKENS FRANK TO BEILIS.
Same Clamor Heard in Georgia as in Russia,
Says Rabbi.
Special to The New York Times.
Philadelphia, March 21. —The State of Georgia
was arraigned for injustice in the conviction of
Leo M. Frank for murder by Rabbi Henry Ber
kowitz today in a sermon at Rodeph Shalom
’ Synagogue. He said:
“Frank’s conviction on a charge of murder was
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to the People of Georgia ?
calling on me to notice that Smith’s Executive
Committee had set aside the County Unit
plan. Clark was very angry. If he hadn’t
been so fat and short winded, he would have
swelled with indignation.
I was in Florida at the time, and had not
seen what Smith’s rubber-stamp Committee
had done. Clark jogged my attention, and
wrote me the facts, calling for war.
Well, we went to war, in behalf of the Con
stitutional rights of the small country coun
ties. Clark and I went to doing about and
killing bears. There was an awful racket,
and Smith resisted the ipicac with all his
Goliath strength. ‘
But Clark and I were too much for him,
and we got the medicine down, and he had to
“throw up.” Lost the governorship, you see,
by going back on his own promises concern
ing the County Unit plan.
Then, he waited two years before demand*
ing another office. They must have been long,
lonesome years.
But in 1910, he ran again vowing before
high heaven that never again would he molest!
the County Unit plan. He also delivered him
self most virtuously on every possible public
question. Whenever there were two sides to
any question, he took both.
murders m Georgia. A victim had to
be found.
“The officers of the law, sworn to preserve
peace, openly encouraged the mob. Wild stories
utterly without basis were set afloat. One of
these was that, Frank, being a Jew, the Jews
would spend unlimted? funds to insure his acquit
tal. The court and jury were intihiidated. The
Judge made the astounding confession that after
hearing all the testimony he was unable to decide
whether the defendant was guilty or not, never
theless he refused a new trial and inflicted a sen
tence of the extreme penalty—death.
“Some months ago, when the infamous Beilis
trial was being enacted in Russia, the press, the
pulpit, the platform, and the people of this land
united in ringing denunciation of the scandalous
injustice. Our sense of decency and fairness was
outraged, and now what a sense of shame comes
over us as we painfully realize that within the
borders of this fair land it lias become possible
for scenes to be enacted not unlike those of Rus
sia. The State of Georgia is on trial.’’
The Rabbi compares Georgia to Russia, a
happy comparison which I myself have made
■ upon occasion. For instance, when an
unknown, non-existent “Martial Law” was
nevertheless proclaimed and put in force, and
civilians were shot down like so many mad-
Jogs, because they were peaceably and legiti
mately using streets that they were accustomed
to use, and which no visible signs, or barriers
notified t not to use—then, indeed, my
indignat o bounds save those of the
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in puunc, ne was against tne
whiskey interests: in private he wasn’t.
By lavish expenditure of money, and the
artful playing of a double game, he managed
to get back in office, by a very small majority.
He wouldn’t have got that, if he and Judge
Hines had not concocted the perfidious letter
which misled my own following.
The moment, he was sure of the nomina
tion, the treacherous num struck again at the
County Unit plan, securing its abolition under
the famous “Rube Arnold Rules.”
So universal was the wrath of the deceived
people of the small Country Counties, that
an opposition campaign was immediately]
commenced—and it was because of this that
Smithy tried to have me assassinated.
He didn’t quite get me; and our campaign
resulted in a stinging rebuke to him and to
his Rube Arnold Rules.
THAT VICTORY, PUT HIM IN
MINORITY.
The politicians appear to have forgotten,
that the last time the peope had a chance at
Smith, THEY SWATTED HIM!,
But Smith did not forget it. Therefore,
he was afraid to go before them when he.
became a candidate for the Senate, H#
sneaked behind his rubber-stamp Committee,
[(concluded on page six.)J
brought about by the clamor of the
mob. The police were on trial
because of some fifteen unpunished
In public, he was
corporations: in private he
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