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Vol. 12, No. 28
While Leo Frank Is Loafing at the State Farm, the Rich Jews
Continue to Defame the People and the Courts of Georgia
JpROM the M arietta Journal and Courier
I clip the following, for it is certain to
be an item of interest to many people:
At half past ten o’clock Friday morning, July
2nd, 1915, the monument erected to little Mary
Phagan in the city cemetery by the Marietta
Camp U. C. V. 763 was unveiled in the presence
of a vast throng of people from Atlanta and Cobb
county. The unveiling was by James Sauls, a
crippled veteran, who was a soldier for four
years in the conflict between the North and South.
Hon. Henry Boyd Moss made the formal eulogy
of the martyred girl, and Rev. A. C. Hendley, of
East Point, made a brief address.
Gazaway Hames made the opening invocation
and Dr. Rembert Smith closed with a prayer and
benediction. The grave was covered with flowers
by friends of the family.
The modest monument, carved out of
Georgia marble, and paid for by the old
soldiers who vent to the wars for Georgia;
and unveiled in the presence of “a vast
throng’’ of representative Georgians, will
serve to remind the doming generations of
the little Georgia heroine who perished at
the age of fourteen—died because she would
not yield her person to the insistent lusts
of the vilest Jew that has lived, since the
desert winds blew into space the ashes of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
We Georgians have often been divided
among, ourselves by bitter political feuds;
we differ among ourselves, now, upon many
a question of Church and State; we are
antagonistic and combative at many a
point of material interest; but on this case
of our little girl—just an humble daughter
of the plain people—we are as warmly
united, and as deeply stirred as any State
ever was, for we know that Right has again
'been condemned and crucified.
While Mary Pragan's body lies moulder
ing in the ground, where is the lecherous
Least who assaulted her, and choked her to
death ?
Apparently, there is no intention of put
ting Frank to work, at all. He is to piddle
about, and pass away the time as agree
ably as possible, until Burns, and Straus,
and Hearst, and Ochs, and Pulitzer, and
Abell. and, the L. & N. Railroad, and the
noble fij-m of Rosser, Slaton & Phillips can
again set in motion the legions of hysteria,
slanderous fabrications, bought affidavits,
and forged letters.
The invisible powers which saved Frank
from the just penalty of capital punish
ment. arc merely taking a recess; they are
awaiting to see the effects of the ovations
which the rich Jews of the North and West
are tendering to Slaton.
They are at a loss, for the present, as to
the best method of renewing “the fight:’’
they have not agreed among themselves
how to begin.
Talkative and boastful, and impudent, as
usual. William J. Burns— who bears the
brand of infamy burnt into hint by the U.
S. lb part me nt of Justice — told the Denver
Times the following:
Ultimately, perhaps in the very near
Loo Frank will be freed. He will come from the
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, July 15, 1915
Georgia prison, where he has been since Gover
nor Slaton commuted his sentence of death to
life imprisonment, vindicated of the murder of
Mary Phagan, and the crime laid on the should
ers of the principal State’s witness in the famous
trial. Governor Slaton, hissed by inobs in Geor
gia, will be hailed a hero.
Blames Mob for Conviction. ,
“The conviction of Leo Frank was one of the
foulest perversions of justice the United States
has ever known,” Burns declared. “The mob
prevailed at his trial. The district attorney made
his case on an appeal to the passions and preju
dices of that mob* He had not a scintilla of true
evidence. Perjury and intimidation was resorted
to.
Lowest Strata Involved.
“Only a portion, and that portion of the lowest
strata of Georgia’s citizenship, are in the mobs
that now threaten Governor Slaton, and that
tried to get me when I went to Atlanta to make
an investigation.
“The better class of Atlantans believe Frank
innocent and will work to prove him so. Already
some of the witnesses who helped the State, in
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face of the fact that for perjury in a murder
trial in Georgia a witness can be giv;n the same
punishment as the person on trial, have repudi
ated testimony.
“One, Minola McKnight, a negro servant em
ployed in the Frank home, swore on the witness
stand that the affidavit she had sworn to against
Frank had been obtained from her by the police,
who held her in jail two days and nights to force
her to sign the document.
Killed After Confession.
“She denied absolutely, in face 'of possible
prosecution, that what she had sworn to was true.
The State made no effort to punish her, but a
short time afterward she was found dead, her
lace and throat gashed, in the street.
These threats as to what the Frank
boodlers, bribers, and slanderers mean to
do; and these astounding falsehoods as to
what has occurred, make it plain enough
that the battle is to be fought over; and
the same old methods of bribery, intimida
tion, forgery, gagging the ?Atlanta dailies,
&c., are to be used again.
“She was found dead, her face and throat
gashed, in the streets”
Who was found dead? Why. Minola Mc-
Knight, the cook of Leo Frank.
So says this bewilderingly prolific liar,
William J. Burns.
And of course the Times believed it. and
the readers of the Times believed it: be
cause Burns shouts it brassily, and no zU
lanta daily will deny it.
Without a defender, without any way of
answering these hired libellers, the people
of Georgia have to sit silent and helpless,
under an endless campaign of villification.
Burns impliedly charges, the State
had Minola McKnight killed, because she
went back on the affidavit she gave the
State in the presence of her lawyer. George
Gordon.
Minola McKnight is no more dead than
I am: she is as m uch all re as Milliam J.
Burns.
She lives in Atlanta, and so does her
husband.
This negro was the cause of suspicion
fixing itself upon Leo Frank, for he it was
who told three gentlemen, working for the
Beck Gregg Hardware Company, what had
been said in Frank's home.
Frank got drunk, at home, the night
after the murder, and told his wife he killed
the girl-; and called for his pistol to put an
end to himself.
Albert McKnight has never repudiated
his evidence at the trial, nor has he ever
said he was bribed to tell what he knew.
How can you be surprised at the furor
that has been raised against the people of
Georgia, when you see what arrant lies
have been universally circulated. not
denied by the Atlanta papers?
Do those papers owe no duty to Truth,
to the honor of the State, to the reputation
of the South?
Are those three Atlanta dailies totally
indifferent to the good name of their city,
and the honor of their State?
Do these Democratic organs care nothing
for the bad name that is being made for
Georgia democracy—made by mercenary
defamers?
Are they so cravenly terrorized by the
Jew advertiser, and the L. & N. Railroad,
that they dare not defend the integrity of
Georgia people?
“The District Attorney made his appeal
to the passions and prejudices of the mob!’’
The readers of the Denver Times will see
this brazen statement of Burns, and will
not see the magnificent speech of Solicitor
Dorsey, in which there is not one single
line of appeal to any man's passion or
prejudice.
The readers of the Denver Times will
have learned that Burns says the Solicitor
had not one scintilla of evidence to' stand
on; and they will not read the record, nor
Dorsey’s speech, where the invincible evi
dence appears.
The readers of the Denver Times have
no • means of knowing that William J.
Burns and his man Lehon came to
after the Supreme Court of Georgia had
UNANIMOUSLY refused Leo Frank a re-
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