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Why Do the Atlanta Papers Ignore the Peo-
ple, in the Frank Case?
EAR SIR: Enclosed find a
card that I wrote on the
Frank case, and sent to the
Atlanta Constitution for pub-
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lication. I send you his ans
wer with the card. Note the Con
stitution’s excuse for not publishing
my card. Since when did they adopt
this rule? They published Miss Jane
Addams’ letter, which she had writ
ten a lady friend in Atlanta, and
they published those preachers slob
bergosh; but that was favorable to
Frank you see' You have been tell
ing us the press was muzzled and I
believe it. If my card in your judg
ment is worth publishing, I would
like for you to do it.
Respectfully,
Georgia. W. F. WALDROP.
The Letter.
• Turin, Ga., April 7th, 1914.
Editor Constitution:
There has been so much said
through the public press by a few
editors, and many preachers of the
gospel in regard to the Leo Frank
case that 1 don’t think it out of
place for an old “Hayseed” to have
a say.
Those preachers and editors who
are pleading for a new trial for
Frank, have been the loudest in
their condemnation of Lynch law, or
mob violence: and to lessen or stop
mob violence: they offered a remedy,
namely—speedy trials and prompt
punishment. The court officials
acted on this advice in the Frank
case, tried and found Frank guilty
and promptly condemned him to die
for his awful crime, and to the great
astonishment of 90 per cent of the
people of this great State, those
preachers and editors come out in
print and tell us that they didn’t
mean what they said, or that they
had reference to the poor white man
or the negro. They ought to be
ashamed of themselves.
Frank has had a fair trial and the
jury handed him a righteous verdict.
The jury could do nothing else but
find him guilty. The evidence was
ample. They say that nothing will
be lost by giving Frank a new tral.
If there is nothing to be lost -what
is to be gained? Have not those
same preachers and editors been
pleading with the court officials and
lawyers telling them that so long as
the lawyers and courts insisted on
keeping low down criminals in liti
gation till they wear, out the pa
tience of the people, and drain the
purses of the litigants that mob vio
lence would prevail. Yes, they said
that, and now they come out in the
daily papers and virtually say that
they did not mean what they said.
Such childish prattle reminds me of
the mother who had a wayward son.
The son held up a train and robbed
it, was caught and confessed. The
mother said that she knew that her
son could not be guilty of such a
crime, that he (the son) was just
playing with the people to create a
sensation.
Those people pleading for a new
trial for Frank and playing with the
people.
The part that detective Burns is
playing is the same as that of Arn
old and Rosser. Burns started out
to find some one other than Frank
guilty, and being paid by the friends
of Frank', how in the name of com
mon sense could the public expect
Burns to find anything that would be
damaging to Leo Frank? Would be
next to impossible for Burns to see
anything that would lead to Frank’s
guilt. Why did not Burns take
Frank’s case at first —before he was
tried and found guilty? He was on
the ground. I always thought that
a detective (worth the name) kept
all his findings to himself, until he
had spotted his man, but 1 find that
I have been mistaken. Burns let it
be known at the start that he had a
soft snap, hardly worth his while
down here. Would soon be able to
put his hands on the man that killed
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Mary Phagan, and let it be known
that he thought that Jim Conley
was the man. All this while the
case was pending. • Frank’s attor
neys had prepared for an extraordi
nary motion for a new tiral. Burns
came along behind Arnold & Ros
ser trying to build a sentiment on
which to get a new trial. What a
low estimate they put on the intelli
gence of Georgia citizens.
Let us hope that Judge Ben Hill
will refuse a motion for a now trial
and place himself on record as a
Judge with a backbone.
After the trial and conviction of
Frank a motion for a new trial was
refused. Arnold, Rosser, Frank &
Co. knew that something extraordi
nary had to be done or their client
would hang by the neck until he was
very dead. So it came to pass that
they called themselves together, and
did counsel mightily, and after much
counselling together, they reasoned
thusly: We will see the mighty de
tective —one Burns, whose fame is
nation wide, and he (Burns) will
evolve away out of our awful plight.
So it came to pass in due time that
the mighty Seer, was on the ground
and proceeded to talk through the
mouths of Arnold, Rosser, Frank &
Co.; saying that a great wrong had
been done, and that the life of an
innocent man was about to be taken
because of race prejudice. This is a
mild indictment against the Gen
tiles, but we feel sure that after sec
ond thought those great hearted
Gentiles will forget all of the damag
ing evidence given against Frank at
the trial, and they did prophesy, say
ing: “That the murderer of Mary
Phagan was the man who wrote
those notes found by her side in the
basement of the pencil factory, and
that the truth was on the march,
etc.,” and after due time the - great
Burns visited Jerusalem (New York
City) where there are many Jews
and much rich Sheckles, pretending
to be hunting evidence, but some of
we country folks think that he was
hunting Sheckles, and after making
the necessary arrangements Burns
came back from Jerusalem and has
fulfilled the prophecy given out of
the mouth of Frank, who said the
man who wrote those notes and
placed them by little Mary Phagan
was the man who killed her? So
the great Seer has fulfilled his own
prophecy.
Very respectfully,
W. F. WALDROP.
Atlanta, Ga., April Bth, 1914.
Mr. W. F. Waldrop,
Turin, Ga.
Dear Sir: We are in receipt of
your communication bearing on the
Frank case, and in reply beg to say
that we would be glad to make pub
lication of the same but for the fact
that we have been forced to confine
everything we published on this case
to statements coming from the attor
neys of one side or the other or from
the principals themselves. We have
received literally hundreds of com
munications on the subject, and we
could not, of course, publish yours
now without offending the writers
of those we have been forced to re
turn.
With best wishes, we are,
Very truly yours,
THE CONSTITUTION.
A WARM TRIBUTE FROM A
FRIEND OF LONG STANDING?
Dear Sir: I read in yesterday’s
Jeffersonian your article headed,
“The Frank Trial.” After reading
I then read it again, and I verily
believe it is the finest piece I ever
saw in print. I wish every man in
America could read that piece.
Judge Hill and Mr. Dorsey no doubt
will see it, and I hope the jury that
tried him wall see it. The people of
the South ought in some way reward
you for what you have done and are
doing. My honest opinion is you are
doing more good than any other one
man in America. By the way, I am
not a recent convert to T. E. Wat
son’s doctrine, I have been a Watson
man since the days of the Farmer’s
Alliance. Well am just 60 years
old and never wrote a piece to be
published in my life, and am not
writing this to be published, but just
to let you know how much I appre
ciate what you are doing for the
people. My humble prayer is that
you may live long to do more good
and in the end it will be said, come
up higher my brother. If I could
write a letter fit to read I would
write more. I am your friend until
death. I enclose SI.OO to push my
Jeff up. Yours truly,
Georgia. E. W. BRAYNER.
HOW THE PLAIN PEOPLE FEEL
ABOUT THE FRANK CASE.
Dear Sir: • I am enclosing you
herewith a copy of a list of citizens
of this, Monroe County, endorsing
your editorial on the Frank Case
which appeared in The Jeffersonian
of April Bth issue. The original list
I mailed to the Atlanta Journal with
the request that they print the same.
Not expecting the Journal to publish
it, I hope it may appear in the
columns of The Jeffersonian.
Very truly,
J. H. McCOWEN.
Forsyth, Ga., April 14, 1914.
To the Editor of the Atlanta Journal,
Atlanta, Ga.
In view of the editorials on the
Frank Case; the press comments
and endorsements of the same, we
the undersigned citizens of Forsyth,
wish to express our appreciation and
endorsement of the article and edi
torial appearing in The Jeffersonian
of April Bth, under the headline,
“The Leo Frank Case. Does the
State of Georgia Deserve This Wide
Abuse?”
W. G. Brooks, B. H. Mitchel, J.
W. Webb, J. Mz Fletcher, B. F. Hill,
Sr., M. C. Williamson, J. H. Fletcher,
O. T. McCommons, B. M. Hathorn,
J. C. Burt, J. M. Farley, C. O. Good
wyne, Jr., J. T. Cannon, J. R. Hill,
Sr., W. W. Browning, J. C. Aba
nathy, R. W. Trippe, H. M. Aba
nathy, G. W. Tribble, W. V. Meek,
C. H. Meek, J. T. Duncan, Jno. M.
Hill, J. D. Brooks, G. A. Penington,
J. H. Cowen, C. M. Taylor, Jerry
Cox, W. C. King, J. B. Rogers, J. E.
Ham, H. W. Nalley, J. N. Zellner, J.
H. King, E. R. Rogers, I. S. May
nard, G. W. Calaway, T. C. Pinpin,
W. R. Pippin, J. W. Miller, E. N.
Goodone, R. D. Cannon, F. L. Jack
son, W. E. McCommons, A. L. Ham,
J F. Pippin, L. O. Hollis, J. E. Wil
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Lindsay, J. H. Shannon, Geo. R.
Banks, Ben. F. Hill, J. B. Greggofy,
R. G. McCowen, H. S. Worsham, R.
L. Fort, A. Lu._Mormon, W. M. Watts,
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Tribble, C. W Grant, W. A. Spicer,
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