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you will realize that he was the only human
being who could have known what became
of Mary, after she arrived at his office. If
she went towards the toilet, he alone knew
it. If she went to the metal room, he alone
knew it.
And Jim Conley could not have come up to
that floor, and assaulted the girl, and killed
her, without Frank's knowing it.
Foil will believe Monteen Stover when she
swears that she went to Frank’s office at that
time, and he was not there.
Fou will believe Harry Scott, when he
swears that Frank positively stated he was
in the office at that time.
Fou will therefore understand why Frank
endeavored to convince the jury that he was
unconsciously absent from the office, answer
ing a call of nature.
r l he notes make Mary say, as she was dying,
that she had gone to the toilet, to answer a
call of nature. Isn't it a marvellous thing,'
that the same explanation should be given for
both the criminal and his victim?
In whose mind was that similarity of
thought most likely to run? Did Jim's mind
run on water-closets, too? The toilet ex
plains why Mary was found where she died,
and the toilet explains away Monteen’s evi
dence and the falsehood which Frank told
Scott!
But, enough: (he facts are reasoned on at
length in the Magazine, and I need not re
peat.
The most insidious, sinister and powerful
pressure will be brought to bear upon the Par
don Board, and upon the Governor, to pre
vent the law from taking its course, and to
give another depressing instance of “the dif
ference, 'twixt the Rich and the Poor.”
It is fair and proper to assume that our
State officials will do their duty, “without
fear, favor, affection, reward, or the hope
thereof.”
Collier's has taken it upon itself to an
nounce that Lon Frank will not be executed.
Therefore, Collier's has been guilty of the
grave indiscretion of forestalling the action
of the Georgia Pardon Board, and the Geor
gia governor.
Collier’s declares that it will publish a se
ries of articles on the case. Will they be simi
lar to Connolly's rigmaroles in the Baltimore
Sun? Will they repeat the one-sided state
ments of the Times and the Burns
seems to have won the confidence of Mr. Con
nolly, and Mr. Connolly's articles sound
loudly of William J. Burns.
These newspaper articles of the propaganda
of Big Money against the Law, are all based
on Leo Frank’s ex-parte statement, which he
dared not submit to the test of a cross-exami
nation.
Not one of these newspaper articles deals
with the undisputed facts which form the
chain of circumstantial evidence, solidifying
the work of the direct testimony.
These intensely partisan articles arc pre
dicated upon the alleged fact, that some men
on the streets of Atlanta said, “Hang the d—n
Jew!'’ and upon the baseless assumption that
the jury heard these cries, and were controlled
by them.
Not once have these hirelings for the de
fence argued the actual, proved, material, con
trolling facts that compelled the verdict.
' What do rich Jews care for Jews who are
poor ?
What do the Rothschilds and Belmonts care
for the suffering Hebrews of Poland, of Aus
tria. of Chicago, of the East Side in New
York ?
Suppose Leo Frank had been a moneyless
Hebrew immigrant, recently arrived from
Lithuania, and peddling about from house
to house to get a few dollars for the wife and
child he left behind in the war-zone, would
the wealthy Jews , of Athens, Atlanta, Balti
more, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and New York
be spending half-a-million dollars to save film
THE JEFFERSONIAN
from the legal consequences of premeditated
and horrible crime?
Or suppose Alary Phagan had been Jacob
Schiff's daughter, or Belmont's daughter, or
Pulitzer's daughter, or Och’s daughter, or
Collier's daughter, would Leo Frank be the
subject of a propaganda of libellous misrep
resentations of the people of Georgia?
It hasn't been so long ago, since Colliers
published the slander on Southern white
women, in w/hich the editor alleged that tf/n?
white women ace-used negro men of rape, TO
TUBE THE SHAME OF CONSENT!
Having championed (he negro rapist against
the Southern white woman, let Colliers now
demonstrate what it can do for an abnormal
Sodomite, who comes as near carrying it on
his face, as any lascivious degenerate ever did.
No innocent white man ever feared to face
a guilty negro, but Frank ref used to face Con
ley before witnesses. In guilty terror, Frank
shrunk from a conversation in which old Jim
Conley might remind him of details known
only to those two, and to which Frank might
not be able to extemporise a denial, or an ex
planation.
No innocent man would have gone to the
Morgue twice >, and, when there, been utterly
unable to look upon the dead girl's face.
Frank shudderingly shrunk away from the
corpse, just as he shrunk from mentioning her
name, in his newspaper articles, until after
The Jeffersonian had called attention to the
psychological significance of the omission.
Then, in his set speech before Judge Hill,
he not only parades her name, but parades*
his delayed-sympathy for her parents!
William J. Burns knows that he has dis
credited himself, and he is now using C. P.
Connolly as his megaphone. C. P. Connolly
is flooding the country with literature, finely
gotten up on glossy paper, and illustrated by
a cut of the horribly sensual face of Leo
Frank.
The purpose is to divide public opinion,
create mawkish sentiment, and manufacture
a sympathy which will influence the authori
ties. The most outrageous misrepresentations
about (lie Atlanta “mob,’’ and the Atlanta mil
’ itary, and the terrorizing of the jury, are be
ing recklessly circulated, to save as guilty a
man as was ever arraigned, and to besmirch
a State whose laws, juries and judges are no
toriously inclined to the utmost verge of le
niency.
There is no Big Money to push the case
against Leo Frank. . There w r ere honest At
lanta policemen, an honest Pinkerton detec
tive. some white girls and white men who
could neither be bullied nor bought; twelve
honest jurors in the box and a just judge on
the bench: an able, fearless and energetic
Solicitor-General as the State’s representative;
and a chain of proved facts and circumstances,
which apart from negro evidence, excluded
every other reasonable hypothesis, save that
of the defendant’s -guilt.
Leo Frank and Alary Phagan, the pursuer
and the pursued, the hawk and the dove, the
wolf and the lamb—there they are. The
bones of the little Georgia girl are mouldering
in the ground, and Leo Frank poses for an
other photograph and composes another state
ment, and his rich, powerful champions de
clare defiantly that he w’ill not be punished!
Afay the Almighty source of Justice and of
power, give to the Governor of Georgia the
strength to withstand all blandishments, ail
influences, all mawkish appeals, and to stand
firm, BY THE LA IF, and do his duty, as the
jurors and the judges have done theirs.
Read “Life and Times of Thomas Jeffer
son,” by Thos. E. Watson. The work is in
dispensable to all those who want to know
the whole truth about Jefferson, and about
the Great Alen and the Great Events of that
period of our history. Illustrated. Paper
cover, SI.OO. The Jeffersonian Publishing,
Co., Ga.
The Papists Are Getting Sore
on This PofnL
JN my earnest endeavors to bring our Catho
* lie friends to a proper understanding of
Popery, I have stressed the point that the sys
tem of Roman Catholicism, as it now exists,
is a local, Italian affair!
The attention of the patriotic American
Catholic lias been called to the fact that the
Pope is an absolute foreign monarch, elected
in secret by less than 75 Cardinals, most of
whom are Italians, and all of whom arc ap
pointed by the Pope.
Thus a complete Italian ring is formed, and
kept in power.
The Italian Pope appoints a majority of
Italian Cardinals, and this majority of Ital
ian Cardinals choose an Italian Pope. Every
time!
They have been doing that, for 400 years.
Hence, (he Roman Catholic system is a
monarchy, in w’hich the people have no voice,
no vote, no control.
The Catholic people pay. ami obey: that's
what the Catholic people do.
The Pope and the Cardinals appoint one
another, and issue orders to the people, and
live luxuriously at the expense of the people,
swapping “blessings” for ducats.
The Catholic people gi ve the ducats and get
the blessing's: the Pope and the priests give
the blessings and get the ducats.
We have a good deal of that sorb of thing
among us Protestants, but we do enjoy the
privilege of. selecting our own pastors, read
ing our own Bibles, thinking our own
thoughts, and taking a free fling with the
English 1 anguage.
Besides, we don't have to buy anybody's
soul out of an imaginary Pu.rgm -ry, nor pay
for wax candles, beads, civ.srs, images,
masses, baptisms, burials, christenings, and
indulgences.
Moreover, we don't have to kiss anybody's
foot, nor I'.c-’i; that a pri . can change a
bottle of Aladeria while into the. blood of a
God.
But as I was saying, the Roman Catholic
people are getting sore on this idea that they
are governed from Italy, by a set of Secret
Societies, over which an Italian always ru’ws.
The Catholic laymen are writing to Catho
lic editors for information on that subject.
For example, here are a question and ans
wer that are found in the latest issue of
Daddy Noll's Sunday Visitor:
Question: Has an Englishman or German ever
been. Tope?
Answer: Pope Adrian IV. was an Englishman.
.Adrian VI was a German. Most of the popes havo
been Italians, but it is not necessary that the pope
be an Italian.
Yes, that is true, but how* long has it been
since an Englishman was Pope?
It has been more than 850 years!
Nickolas Brakespea.re was born in Eng
land, but he had become an Italian by resi
dence and had lost ail personal identity with
his native land.
He hal so long been a Cardinal in Italy,
that the Italian priests considered him one of
themselves.
As to Adrian VI. he was born in Germany,
but early went to Spain, where he became
the tutor of the Spanish King. He was pro
moted in the Spanish priesthood, until he was
next under Cardinal Ximines, the ferocious
persecutor.
Adrian was appointed Regent of Castile,
and was made Pope at the dictation of Span
ish royalty, in the person of the Emperor
Charles V.
So angry were the Italian priests at this
election that they raised disturbances in
Rome, and the Cardinals w-ere hooted and
hissed in the streets.
There has not been a “foreign” Pope since.
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