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.'Site .TJefferstmian
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Office of Publication: THOMSON, GA.
Entered as second-class matter, Dec. 8, 1910,
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THOMSON, GA.. JULY 15, 1915.
ncnt citizens of this commonwealth arc in back
of the campaign.
To those friends of justice, who wish to see
Frank entirely vindicated, the suppression of The
Jeffersonian seems a necessary preliminary. Cer
tainly it played no inconsiderable part in arous
ing the Georgia riot spirit.
Jhe suppression of The Jeffersonian a
necessary preliminary to the pardoning of
the murderer of Mary Phagan !
lo stop this Jeffersonian, would be a
service to humanity and civilization!
So there you have some foreshadowing of
the conspiracy to throw our paper out of
the mails because it can neither be bought,
muzzled or duped.
In the'Montgomery Advertiser, is a let’
ter, from which I quote:
Atlanta, Ga., June 25, 1915.
Editor The Advertiser:
I am a sergeant-major in the National'Guard
of Georgia, and went on duty at 11 p. m. Mon
day night, and was on continuous duty until 1
p. m. Wednesday of this week. I had, however,
seen copies of the Atlanta papers Tuesday and
■Wednesday. Being unable to learn anything of
the situation in Atlanta, from them, I proceeded
to the Carnegie Library here, and reviewed about
a dozen newspapers from cities in the Southeast
and North and Northeast, from which I learned
something of'what had occurred here.
Not only have the papers here taken sides in
this affair, which is bad enough, but they have
actually suppressed news—big news.
A few' weeks ago, on a Saturday night, there
was a mass meeting on the State Capitol grounds,
which drew seven or eight thousand people. The
military was held in the armory, and large num
bers of traffic and mounted police patrolled the
adjoining streets. The meeting was orderly, but
pathetic. It passed resolutions calling on the
Governor to let the law take its course, etc.
Next morning the Journal and Georgian made
no leference to it —The Constitution had a short
article on an inside page, referring to the meet
ing as being attended by a large crowd. Similar
meetings were hid on Friday, Saturday and Sun
day following, attended by thousands of peaceful
people. No reference w’as made of them, except
that a “small” crow’d assembled, etc.
Wednesday night a big crowd met at the-circus
grounds here. Last night there was a big gather
ing at Inman Park. The papers carry no refer
ence to either.
The papers here try to give the impression that
the masses of the people w’anted the Frank sen
tence commuted; they now, on the surface, en
deavor to create the impression that Slaton is
being show'ered with telegrams and letters of
congratulation from his people.
Monday of this week there were numbers of
numerous crowds assembled. In an early edition
The Georgian referred to one of these; the arti
cle did not appear in the later editions.
AU in ail, the papers here certainly have mis
represented the people. Puck magazine printed a
THE JEFFERSONIAN
cartoon showing a black coffin marked “Justice”
being lowered into the grave, in Georgia. Similar
cartoons, insulting this State, were printed. False
stories slandering the people and the State have
been printed by the hundreds—our papers have
not resented it—have not spoken for their peo
ple.
As to the mob which went to the Governor’s
home. lam of the same opinion that you are. I
believe in law and order all the time. But the
people, as a whole, Lost their heads completely in
this case. They say there is no law. It is not
the pool’ class of people I refer to — but the upper
middle class. I have personally heard a number
of people who stand high in the business and
social world say this. You cannot imagine how
excited the people are as a whole. It is unusual.
Everyone is on one side or the other. In the
office in which I am engaged there are over fifty
men. One of them thought Frank was innocent —•
the others thought he was guilty. After the tristfl,
one of them thought he had not had a fair trial —
the others thought that he had. One of them
wanted the sentence commuted —the others
wanted it to stand.
Half of them believe Slaton took money, the
amounts ranging from $350,000 to $1,500,000.
But I should think that half of them think he
did not accept money, but that he didn’t do the
right thing; and they are all incensed against
him.
They’ are angry with the Jewish race, bu tnot
at any individual Jew. No harm has been done
to a Jew here. This seems to me to show that
there is no strong anti-Jewish feeling here. At
first there must have been practically none, but it
is true there is an anti-Jew feeling rising. Cards
are being printed here today by the tens of thous
ands and circulated, copies of which I am enclos
ing.
At 8 o’clock in the morning all the Atlanta
military forces go on duty again. Perhaps you
would not learn this from the Atlanta papers.
We are not on parade, either, but will go out
fully armed.
Yours truly,
• L. O. GRICE.
14 Terminal Station.
You will be impressed by the -spirit of
fairness shown in •Sergeant Grice's letter.
I put it in the record, so that the outside
world may realize how one of the soldiers
who guarded Slaton viewed the situation,
and how he felt.
Here was an Atlanta man, called upon to
risk his life in the defense of Slaton's, and
he could not learn from the Atlanta papers
what was happening!
He was under the necessity of going to
the Carnegie Library, where papers from
other States were accessible to him.
Sergeant Grice tells the Montgomery Ad
vertiser that “the mob” was not composed
of the “scum and the riff-raff;” but of the
“upper middle class,” and substantial busi
ness men—citizens who felt that the Atlanta
papers, the Governor, and the ruling powers
were trampling the law under foot.
Let every outsider who wants to be fair
to Georgia weigh carefully what Sergeant
Grice says about the constituent elements
of the Atlanta “mob.”
Let every one remember that Grice was
on duty, day after day, protecting the life
of Slaton, who had aroused in the hearts of
the best men and women in Georgia the
same passionate resentment that Frenchmen
feel for Marmont who betrayed their great
Emperor, and that Americans of Washing
ton's time felt against Benedict Arnold.
Whenever Treason ceases to be odious, and
the Traitor a person abhorred, let us re
arrange our Halls of Fame, and give the
place of honor to the statue of Judas
Iscariot.
Sergeant Grice says that the “mob” was
composed of the upper middle class, the
business men— not the poorest and lowest
class.
What did the cowardly fugitive say, after
reaching Chicago, and glad-handing with
the rich Jews?
Slaton said, of the Atlanta “mob:”
“They are the scum, THE THIEVES,
the corner loafers.”
(Hearst’s Chicago paper so reports —July
9, 1915.)
Bishop Candler’s Dangerous
Demand for a Union of
Church and State.
IN the old times, pills were so disagreeable
* to the taste, that a saying became cur
rent, “« bitter pitd to swallow.”
We still use the phrase, as a common say
ing, although pills have been sugar-coated,
’ and arc no longer disagreeable to the taste.
But the sugar-coated pellet gets there just
the same.
Bishop Warren Candler and Dr. John D.
Walker have laid their heads together, and
decided to sugar-coat the old, old bitter pill,
known as the Union of Church ami State.
A bill of that sort is now pending before
the Legislature of Georgia.
If passed in Georgia, the same bill will
bob up in every other State, with the same
influences behind it.
What are those influences?
They are the denominational coteries,
rings, cliques, and boards which believe that
sectarian institutions should be supported
bv the tax-payers under a taw of compul
sion.
On that subject, some so-called Protestants
are good Catholics.
When the Romish priest, Shealy, preaches
in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York (in
the presence of Cardinal Farley), and de
nounces the Catholic politicians for cow
ardice, because they don't force the State of
New York to divide the State school funds
with the Romish schools, that Catholic
priest is actuated by substantially the same
purpose which moves Bishop Candler.
Men of the Bishop's way of thinking
have begun to say that ministers of the
Gospel are doing a good work for the State,
and should be put on the State's pay-roll, as
salaried officers.
That is the Catholic view, exactly.
Only a few years ago, there were riots,
bloodshed, and much danger of civil war
in France and Spain.
Why? i
Because, each nation had been paying sal
aries to the Catholic priests out of the pub
lic treasury, and had decided to stop it.
France had been paying the Romish
priests ten million dollars a year; Spain,
eight millions.
Naturally, the Pope and his greedy gang
did not want to lose $18,000,000; hence,
Rome bitterly opposed the separation of
Church and State, in France and Spain.
Now, Bishop Candler demands that the
Georgia Legislature begin to enter upon the
fatal course that France ..abandoned, which
Italy abandoned, which Portugal abandoned,
and which Spain tried to abandon.
Bishop Candler wants to lead us into
the very dangers which our forefathers so
. well understood, and which they endeavored
to guard us against, by constitutional bar
riers.
The highest law of the Union, and of the
State, forever prohibits appropriations of
public money for sectarian purposes.
To grant tax exemptions on any kind of
church property, is an indirect appropria
tion to that amount.
If my annual taxes are SI,OOO, and the
Legislature passes a law saying that I can
keep the SI,OOO, the Legislature has indi
rect! v donated to me the annual sum of
SI,OOO.
In an evil hour, some imp of, Satan con
cocted the hell-brew known as Coca-Cola;
and it is doing more harm to boys and
girls, young men and young women, than
was ever done by the barrooms where whis
key and beer were sold.
Out of the net profits of this demoraliz
ing Coca-Cola business, Asa Candler gives
to the Denominational College, in Atlanta,
a million dollars.
