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Rev. C. A. Hendley, a Baptist Pastor, Replies
to the “Frank Letter to Preachers”
Jan. 29, 1914.
Mr. Walter Laidlaw,
Secretary, Room 1232,
200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
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EAR SIR: Replying to your
communication of Dec. 23, in
which you request that I read
the “Collier’s Weekly” of
Dec. 19 and 26, containing
articles on the Frank case.
Your explanation for directing my
attention to the articles mentioned,
that you believe that Frank has been
denied a fair trial, that such denial
constitutes the gravest infringement
on the rights of an American citizen.
You further state that Frank’s coun
sel, having been denied a retrial, are
about to appeal to Governor Slaton,
of Georgia, urging clemency on his
behalf. You conclude by earnestly
requesting that 1 will, by voice and
pen, join in the appeal, in the hope
that “some day” such evidence may
be brought forth as will necessitate
a new trial that will be “just and
fair.”
You sign your name, as well as
nine others, in capital type, using
“secretary” after your name.
I do not know what kind of an
organization you are secretary for,
and I wonder who defrays the ex
pense of the printing and stationery
which undoubtedly is enormous, as
doubtless you are writing every min
ister whose names you could possibly
obtain. Ido not know how you se
cured.my name and address, as I am
one of the youngest of the Apostles.
Perhaps I might conjecture that
part of the treasury left after having
satisfied Mr. W. J. Burns, the “fa
mous sleuth,” the Rev. B. D. Rags-
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
dale, et. al., is being utilized in your
world-wide campaign for “A fair
trial” for the factory superintendent.
I should be elated and feel flattered
to* know that I have become so fa
mous that my name reached the city
of modern Babylon, and really I
wonder what you think 1 am any
way. What is your conception of “a
fair trial?” Do you think that any
Governor since the days of Pilot
would grant' Frank clemency? Ba
fully assured that, in addressing me,
you are appealing to a real man.
You and your allies have thoroughly
succeeded in disrobing one minister
who is now all but ostracised from
society. Your appeal may be fruit
ful and you may secure the downfall
of others, but rest content that my
hands will never be poluted by the
“filthy lucre” of the Jews.
Your declaration is a slander upon
the courts of this commonwealth,
more especially Georgia. Your ap
peal is an insult to the ministry.
Be sure that my “voice and pen”
is utterly unavailing, otherwise your
friend Frank would have met his
well-earned fate promptly.
Abel’s blood “cried out” to Jeho
vah —God. Little Mary Phagan’s
blood not only “cries out” to God,
but to every individual on earth who
has ever had lodged in their bosom,
a spark from the Divine forge.
Perhaps she ought not to have
been poor. But she was. She toiled
away, early and late, for an honest
and honorable livelihood.
Young, full of life, ambition and
energy, she left home in the morning.
It was “Memorial Day.” The arms
of men, women, boys and girls were
full of flowers as sweet as the Rose
of Sharon and the Lilly of the Vai-
ley. They marched to the mound
that covered the dust of earth’s great
est heroes. Little Mary, was wont to
join herself to the happy throng.
She was penniless. A thought struck
her. It was pay-day, and she was
due $1.60 by the National Pencil fac
tory. She called there to obtain her
dues. She was there strangled,
larcerated and bruised and foully
and brutally murdered. Heaven
alone knows her torture before she
expired. But she’s dead and why is
it so. Life was as sweet to her as
the Queen’s daughter. But life had
no charms when it involved the sac
rifice of principle or compromise of
virtue. Oh, Angels weep. ' The dust
of her father must have wept in his
cold grave. Jim Conley, an illiterate
negro was there. Leo M. Frank, an
exceedingly intelligent Jew was there.
Both were tried. Conley was repre
sented by an ordinary lawyer. Frank
was represented by talent, genius,
learning, courage and eloquence. The
negro was penniless. Frank has been
supplied with millions. Various le
gal talent has. watched every nook
and cranny for the semblance of a
loophole for technicalities. Some of
his lawyers possessed the most exqui
site inutellect ever housed in a hu
man skull. Frank was found guilty
and condemned to die for the most
atrocious murder ever committed.
Every appeal has been promptly de
nied. The “Famous Sleuth,” W. J.
Burns was empleyed. He entangled
affairs more and more. Every move
of this eminent legal talent only
tightened the rope around Franks
neck. At this late hour you and your
allies seek to intervene. You say
“m the hope that some day such evi
dence may be brought forward as will
necessitate a new trial.” You are
hoping against hope. Such evidence
is impossible unless purchased like
poor old man Ragsdale’s was. Dope
them and bribe them. That will only
continue the noose. "home Day’*
will never come. It’s impossible to
bring evidence where there is none.
They cried“mob spirit,” “race
prejudice,” “unfairness,” and every
other conceivable cry that would free
this inebriate, alas, —all in vain. He
is guilty—thrice guilty. The court
has so found, higher courts affirmed
and this, in spite of talent, genius,
eloquence and GOLD.
God knows that if there is a spark
of sympathy in my breast, that it is
for the Israelites. God experienced
untold difficulty in handling them,
they are so slick. ‘He came unto
His own, and His own received Him
not.” “Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusaieiu;”
“Thou that stonest the prophets.”
And “They parted His garments and
cast lots.” They begun the second
hand store right then and there and
today the majority of them will sell
you a solid piece of “WOOL” woven
out of cotton, provided you don’t
happen to know the difference. Its
sad indeed, that a people so highly
favored of God should be so rebel
lious. I have no prejudice on earth
against no race under the sun. I
highly sympathize with some races,
the Jew first.
I am surprised beyond words to
express, to see Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills’ name attached to your letter.
Can it be possible that the ministry
is approached in an effort to thwart
justice? If he occupied an Atlanta
pastorate I would think he would be
asked to retire, quickly.
Don’t Oh, don’t use my name on
your communications.
Very respectfully,
C. A. HENDLEY.
Rev. A. C. Hendley,
R. F. D-. 3, Decatur, Ga.
VERBATIMS COPY OF COMMUNI
CATION WALTER LAIDLAW,
N. Y., FRANK CASE.
New York, N. Y.» Dec. 23, 1914.
Rev. A. C. Hendley,
Decatur, Ga.
Dear Sir and Brother: We beg to
send you under separate cover, copies
of “Collier’s Weekly,” of December
19th and 26th, containing two arti
cles on the Frank case. We ask you
to read these articles because we be
lieve that Frank has been denied a
fair trial, and that such denial con
stitutes the gravest possible infringe
ment on the rights of an American
citizen. The courts having denied
him a retrial, his counsel are about
to appeal to the Governor of Georgia,
urging clemency on his behalf. We
earnestly trust that you will, by
voice and pen, join in this appeal, in
the hope that some day such evidence
may be brought forward as will ne
cessitate a ne wtrial«that shall be
just and fair.
Fraternally yours,
(Signed) Charles A. Eaton, James
M. Farrar, Frank Oliver Hall, J.
Lewis Hartsock, Junius B. Remen
synder, Newell Dwight Hillis, John
Haynes Holmes, William Peirson
Merrill, Charles H. Parkhurst, Wal
ter Laidlaw, Secretary, Room 1232,
200 Fifth Ave.
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