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his attempt to pick something damaging to
Lee, out of Lee himself.
His report was. “Newt still sticks to his
original story.”
Newt Lee. the night watch, is accused, in
the notes : Newt Lee, the night-watch, is ac
cused by Frank's conduct, and 'insinuations,
after Frank’s arrest.
How can you explain the similarity be
tween the notes and the conduct of Frank?
That “plant” of the bloody shirt at the
night watchman’s house; that sending of po
licemen to search the night watchman’s prem
ises: that statement that the night watchman
had had time to commit the crime: that effort
to create the impression that the night watch
man had allowed couples, male and female,
to enter the factory at night; that bungling
attempt to get the night watchman to change
his story—all these things are in a direct line
with the thought in Frank’s mind, when, in
dictating the notes to Jim, he made the dead
girl, not only say that the night-watch did it,
BUT MADE HER DESCRIBE HIM!
And don't forget, that when Frank had
made the dead girl say Newt Lee as
saulted and killed her. he made her place
herself on the second floor, at the toilet, to
which Frank said he unconsciously went, at
the same time, IF he was not in his office
when Montcen Stover swears he WASN'T !
He told Newt Lee, with averted eye, and
head drooped, “If you stick to your story, you
will go to hell, and so will I.”
AA hat was Lee's story? It was the story
that is now conceded to be the exact truth as
to what happened at the factory, after Newt
got there.
FRANK TRIED TO HANG AN INNOCENT MAN.
Why, then, did Frank tell the officers that
Newt could have committed the crime? Why
did he send to have Newt’s house searched?
\\ lio “planted" that bloody shirt at Newt's
place—the dirty shirt which had no negro
smell about it?
H hy this horrible attempt to hang an in
nocent darkey—and, afterwards, the innocent
white man, Gantt?
AAhy did Frank never once hint, that Jim
Conley might have done the deed?
Why did Frank employ a lawyer for him
self, before he was arrested?
AA by did Frank pretend he might be able
to get a confession out of Newt Lee. when
he knew that Lee wasn't in the building at
the time Mary was there, BUT THAT CON
LEY JIMS/
Why did the negro shield the Jew?
AA hy did the Jew shield the negro?
And when the negro broke down, and con
fessed his own share in it, why was the white
man afraid to face the negro, and talk to
him, in the presence of witnesses?
Aon answer—“ Because Mr. Rosser was out
of the citv.”
Suppose Jim Conley had accused some in
nocent hotel or factory manager of the* crime,
would that manager have hesitated to face
the lying negro?
Does an innocent college graduate, a white
man of superior intelligence, have to wait for
a lawyer, before he can face a darkey who
accuses him of assault and murder?
FRANK PRETENDED NOT TO KNOW THE
GIIRL.
My lords 1 No!
1 hen, again, why did Frank refuse to gaze
on Mary’s face, at the morgue, pretend that
\he did not know such a girl by name., but
would look at his books, and see whether a
girl named Mary Phagan worked for him?
And why did he try to put the hounds after
J. M. Gantt, to whom he had said, “Z see you
know Mary pretty well,” and upon whom he
tried to fix an undue intimacy with the little
girl--the little Georgia maiden up-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
lifted hands, rigid in death, proved that she
died fighting for her honor!
Frank told Harry Scott, from the first, that
Jim Conley was in the Pencil Factory, that
Saturday morning.
Frank knew that Newt Lee, the night
watch, was at home asleep; and that he didn’t
report for duty until the middle of the after
noon.
Frank knew that J. M. Gnatt was not in
the building at all, until Frank was leaving
in the evening.
Who, then, can explain why Frank did not
say, at once, when he first learned that Mary
Phagan had never left the building:
“Conley was there when Mary came, and
she must have passed him, as she went up
stairs: and, since she never left, but was
killed, she must have been assaulted and
killed, immediately after she left me.
“She must have gone downstairs, and Jim
Conley must have seized her, and committed
the crime, because he was the only man who
could possibly have done it, EXCEPTING
MYSELF.” '
How on earth did Frank avoid this line of
reasoning? llow can anybody explain his
failure to accuse the negro, instead of waiting
davs and da vs, UNTIL THE NEGRO AC
CUSED HIM?
Give us your explanation, Mr. Rosser.
Give us yours, Mr. Powell.
Perhaps, if you can t, Mr. Rosser, your He
brew partner, Mr. Morris, can do so.
Perhaps, if you can't do it, Mr. PowelL
your Hebrew partner, Mr. Goldstein, can
do it.
RISE! PEOPLE OF GEORGIA!
People of Georgia! Are you going to sit
still, and let them run this thing over you ?
Are you going to allow a clamorous minor
ity, make a mockery of Justice, a fareg of
jury trial, a bye-word of our Laws?
Are you going to provide encouragement
and justification for future lynchings, by al
lowing Big Money to annul the well-weighed
findings of unimpeachable jurors, whose ver
dict rests on unimpeachable testimony, and
bears the aproval of the highest court in the
world ?
Are you going to allow them to fling a
Pandora’s box into Georgia politics, from
whose open lid there will come bitter animos
ities. and troubles, for years to come?
What right will any Hebrew have to say
hereafter. that there is prejudice against his
race, if they fling down the gauntlet at our
feet, and say, by deeds that speak louder than
words, that no criminal of that race shall
hang?
GEORGIA MUST SETTLE IT!
The case has been taken away from the
courts, and is apparently to be tried again,
on the hustings, in the editorial rooms, in
school houses, in miscellaneous gatherings, in
pamphlets, in telegrams, in circulars, in peti
tions, in hearings before the Prison Commis
sion.
Bvery office-holder, or office-seeker, whose
constituency embraces Jewish bankers, edi
tors, or voters, will cheaply throw an anchor
to windward by asking clemency for the
ravisher, sodomist, and murderer, Leo Frank.
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Legally, this man’s guilt has been adjudi
cated.
Legally, he can not be tried again.
Legally, he must be executed.
Let no Prison Commission, or Governor, be
deceived. Let no one make a mistake about
the deep, intense and bitter feeling that pre
vails among the plain people of Georgia. -
The clamor of paid lawyers, is one thing:
the manufactured howl of hysteria, is an
other: the perfunctory appeals of place-hold
ers. and place-hunters, isn't worth hell’s room :
the petitions signed by the indifferent, the
duped, the coerced, and the misled, are mere
waste of ink and paper.
This is Georgia’s case: and Georgia means
to control it.
DON’T FORGET THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE.
We have never sought to dictate to other
States: other States must bo given to under
stand, once and forever, THAT THEY CAN
NOT DICTATE TO US.
Governor! The corridor of the Capitol
may buzz with hirelings, talking for Frank;
and the lobbies of hotels may hum, with
cheap strikers for Leo Frank.
But don't forget the sunny fields where
red-handed and red-necked Georgians are
following the mule down the furrow; don’t
forget the old red hills, where Georgians are
at work, as their fathers were, digging an
honest living out of the ground; don't forget
the hamlet and the village, that dot the map,
from river to river, and from mountain to
sea; don’t forget the old mothers who have
grieved with Mary Phagan's mother; nor the
stalwart men whose breasts have ached for
the little fatherless girl, dead on the field of
honor!
Don’t forget that ten thousand ten thous
and men have had their eyes on Mary Pha
gan’s innocent blood, lying there, in damning
spots, at Leo Frank’s door; and that these
strong men —some with daughters, and some
with grand-daughters—have felt the blood
run cold in their veins, at the thought, that,
what Leo Frank did to the little Phagan girl,
some other lustful beast might do to these
idols of their own hearts.
Don’t forget that when the night comes
down on village, and hamlet, and country
home, all over Georgia, the honest, law-abid
ing, God-fearing people, tired as they are
from the long day’s work, talk about this
Frank case, and about the superhuman efforts
that have been in operation for nearly two
years, to save this one New York Jew from
the gallows—two years during which Gen
tiles, of Georgia blood and birth, have been
hanged, without raising a ripple of excite
ment among the harlots of bouthern and
Northern journalism.
Governor! This factitious clamor will soon
die away. The financed hurly-burly will be
heard no more.
But there is one thing that will not die
away—one thing that will live with us, to the
end of time.
If our system of law, and of legal ascer
tainment of guilt, and of legal punishment
for guilt, stands unshaken against the attacks
of the Big Money Brigades, the glory of that
triumph of the Law, will abide with us, ever
more.
' . If we fail of our duty, and allow outside
dictation to trample our Code into the mire,
the shame will cling to us, as long as the
record of Celebrated Cases is remembered.
u’i. 'i- f POOR RABBI MARX!
Did you ever hear anything more painful,
than the Rabbi’s explanation of why the ex
cellent woman who is Frank’s wife, did not
go to him for “the first few days?”
The Rabbi’s idea of time is somewhat dif
ferent from ours, for we would never allude
to three weeks, as “several days,” or “the first
few days.”
The Rabbi says that Frank’s wife was at
the police station the day of Frank’s arrest.
Yes, she was carried there, but she did not
see her husband.
r I he Rabbi says, that the “rude treatment
accorded her there,” caused her to go home
without seeing Frank.
Is there a man in Atlanta who is guilty of
that charge? Did anybody ever hear of a
Georgian who could be such a brute, as to be
rude to a distressed, innocent, and most
estimable wife, under such circumstances?
Who was it that acted so rudely to this good
