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Mr. Stevens- uses this- remarkable language
in his appeal to Gov. Slaton—
“My only right in addressing you is, that
• I own some little stock in a very successful
company doing business in the State of Geor
gia. ”
If the Governor of Massachusetts had be
fore him a case of murder, and a man living
in Georgia should be guilty of trying to in
termeddle,. and dictate, it would probably
strike the Northern governor as highly im
proper for the Georgian to give as his excuse
the fact that he owned stock in a Massachu
setts corporation
Mr. L. Z. Rosser telegraphed to a Northern
newspaper last week a long statement in
which he savs—
Leo M. Frank is an educated, intelligent, nor
mal man of a retiring, home making, home loving
nature. He has lived a clean, honest, busy, unos
tentatious life, known by few outside of his own
people. In the absence of the testimony of the
negro, .Tim Conley, a verdict of acquittal would'
have been inevitable.
Mr. Rosser, if you believed that Leo Frank
was the pure young man and model husband,
why did you sit silent while twenty white
girls and ladies swore to his lascivious char
acter ?
Mr. Rosser, why were you and Rube Arn
old aqd the Haas brothers afraid to ask those
wMtc*women a single question?
You knew very well what would come out,
and knew that- if you asked those women
what they knew on Frank, you would make
matters worse for this embodiment of diseased
lust and this typical man of the double life.
Do you suppose that any power on earth
could have' produced twenty white women of
Atlanta who w T ould have sworn that Dtr.
John E. White's character is lascivious? Or
that Judge Evans’ character is lascivious?
Or that Governor Slaton’s character is lasci
vious ?
Why did you not put into your telegram
another piece of information about the Frank
case? Why didn’t you tell the Northern peo
ple that you yourself practically wrote out
that affidavit for poor old Ragsdale when he
was trying to earn S2OO of Leo Frank money
by swearing to an absurd fiction, whose pur
pose was to lift this awful crime off of Frank
and to put it on the negro ?
You did not prepare that ridiculous and
most criminal affidavit in your office, until af
ter William J. Burns had rooted around all
over the North, hunting for Hebrew shekels,
and 'for the criminal who “is still at large.”
It was after Burns had made a miserable
failure in locating the criminal “who has
never been suspected and who is still at large,”
that you and he decided to lay the whole
crime on Conley.
rt wZ then it was, NOT BEFORE, that the
defense made desperate and criminal efforts to
change the testimony of the white witnesses.
You knew that the case did not rest on
Conley’s evidence.
You lenew it was the testimony of the white
witnesses that demonstrated Frank's guilt.
You knew that Monteen Stover was the
girl whose visit to Frank's office, at the time
of the crime, and whose unshaken testimony
that he was not there when he said he was,
constituted the fatality of your case.
That’s why Burns made such unheard of
efforts to break the girl down, and make her
change her evidence.
The very best indication that you knew you
had no corroboration to support the theory of
Conley’s sole guilt lies in the terrible fact
that your side hired Ragsdale and Barber to
swear they heard the negro confess.
No innocent white men ever tried to bribe
another white man to sw’ear away the life of
a negro.
Frank’s fear to have a talk with Conley,
in the presence of witnesses, was excused on
TME JEFFERSONIAN
the ground that his lawver was out of the
city.
No innocent white man was ever afraid to
face a guilty negro, when the negro was say
ing that the white man committed the crime.
Out of the numerous letters which have
been written to me by persons who attended
the trial of Leo Frank, and who are men of
the highest character-—not semibarous, nor
fanatical, nor Jew-baiters, —I select one writ
ten by a member of the Faculty of one of our
Theological Seminaries, a gentleman who had
no feeling whatever in the case, save that of a
citizen who believes in the law and in the
administration of justice.
I quote what he says that he knows about
the actual conduct of the trial:
“I studied the case, at advantage before
the trial and attended the trial through. The
juiy was one of the best and best behaved I
ever saw. The advantage was constantly
given to Frank's side. All that about ‘mob’
outside or in the court-room is pure rot. The
man is just what you call him.”
. This is the private testimonial/ to me of a
high-minded Christian gentleman who at
tended the trial all through.
Whom will von believe?
Will we take the evidence of an impartial
actual observer who was present, or will you
believe men a thousand miles away, who have
taken their views of the case from rotten
detectives and from subsidized newspapers?
It should be understood that if the Supreme
Court of the United States annuls the trial
and sentence of Frank, he goes free.
He cannot be tried again.
The case is now entirely different from a
motion for new trial, and a decision in
Frank’s favor would operate to turn him
loose.
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