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Sentiment of the People Regarding Frank Case
A NORTHERN MAN DENOUNESC
THE FAVOR SHOWN FRANK.
Dear Sir: I was born and raised
in the North, and in politics have
been a- stalwart Republican ever
since the birth of the party. For the
past twenty-five years I have lived
mostly in Dixie, three years of the
time in Georgia, and know its people
well; was there during the entire
Spanish-American war, and one of
the proudest days of my life was
when I saw those gallant old Rebs,
Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee, in
command of Yankee soldiers.
Today I see the glorious old State
of Georgia with an ex-Governor it is
ashamed of, and since it has become
quite the fashion for outsiders to
take a hand in straightening up her
business for her, I do not feel that I
owe you an apology for joining the
procession.
Ever since the Civil War writers
and speakers of the North have lec
tured and scolded ti e South for its
lawless methods of dealing with cer
tain crimes. There certainly was
good cause for these lectures and
their influence and effect had been
most salutary, as is amply proven by
the fact that, when in the end, there
was committed the most monstrous
aixd brutal outrage of the sort ever
recorded, it found the people of Geor
gia so level-headed and self-con
tained, so obedient to law’ and the
findings of its courts that even the
e?'acting and punctilious old State of
Massachusetts might w’ell take pat
tern .
But I must not. encroach too much
on your time. You can guess what
T am driving at. .While you have
only an ex-Governor to be ashamed
of, remember there are thousands of
us of Northern stock who, in con
nection with this affair, have a whole
lot. of noonle to be ashamed of.
I wish at the present moment that
The Jeffersonian had 300,000 read
ers North of the Ohio River. That
would be enough for a starter.
.AN OLD YANKEE SOLDIER.
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RESOLUTIONS OF UNION RIDGE
CHURCH.
Whereas. On the 26th day of April,
1912 a little Gentile girl was out
raged end murdered. One Leo M.
Frank a as accused and convicted of
the crime. lie, having unlimited
money, carried his case through all
the courts of the land to the United
States Supreme Court, where he was
denied any '--ewency; and,
Whm-oas, Ills case finally reached
Gov. Jf hn M. Slaton, who set aside
tn a] by jury, went out of the way to
find now evidence whereby ho could
commute Lira to life imprisonment.;
tl crefore, be it
Besolv n d, By Christ Church, at
Union Ridge. Butts County, Georgia,
that we condemn Governor Slaton in
the broadest terms, holding him up to
the world as a common traitor of the
blacke-t type;
Resolved. That by this official ac
tion o. Governor Slaton Georgia has
big’’ made to bow her head in
shame: he Ims stuck a dagger in the
bear* of Soul be-n womanhood that
v ill take a generation to outlive;
Resolved. That we demand that
our honorable Prison Commission
have Leo Frank removed from the
r.iron Farm and have him put to
work at bard labor on the public
reads of the State:
Resolved, That we commend Hon.
Rnl ?.rt Davison and Hon. E. L.
Rainey for their effort to uphold the
honor of our women of the South;
Rc-olved, That these resolutions
be spread cn the minutes of the
chnrm l ook so that future genera
tion ' may know that Georgia had a
Govererr who tainted his hands and
ti e honor of h : s State with blood
mouoy.
Res.nl- cd. That we feel that J. M.
Slaton should do as Judas did—go
and offer his thirty pieces of silver
to the family of poor Mary Phagan,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
then have his friend bury him in the
Potter’s field;
Resolved, That these resolutions
be sent to the Butts County Progress
and a copy to The Jeffersonian.
All of which have been unani
mously adopted by the church and
citizens of Union Ridge.
MISS CLARA NORSWORTHY,
T. E. FEARS, Secretary.
Chairman.
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COUNTRY GIRL ON FRANK CASE.
Dear Sir: I just have to write you
a few lines to tell you how much I
admire your writings. I always read
The Jeffersonian from cover to cover
and when I read your writings on
the Frank case I just can’t help say
ing, “Three cheers for Toni Wat
son.’’ 1 would like to know if all
those men who are sending in pe
titions to commute Frank’s sentence
to life imprisonment have girls of
their own. We ail know that if he
goes to prison it will not be long be
fore he would be a free man, and
then we girls had better prepare for
the other Leo Franks'that are now
free. Who could have done more
to prove his guilt than did his wife.
Do you suppose if I had a husband
and he was accused of such a crime
as Leo Frank was I would stay away
from him? No, a thousand times
no! There’s not a man on earth nor
a demon in torment that would have
kept me from him. Well, it’s high
time the people were opening their
eyes, so thinks this little
Ga. COUNTRY LASSIE.
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ATHENS AND CLARK COUNTY
FOLK BOYCOTT JEWS.
On account of the fact that the
many Jew-s here contributed largely
to secure the liberation or stay of
sentence of Leo Frank, the Gentiles
have begun a systematic boycott.
A -wholesale and retail firm of
Micheal Brothers are feeling it in
their dry goods business.
A wholesale and retail firm of
shoe dealers, composed of Louie
Funkenstein, Sol Boley, Ike Boley,
Sid Boley, and other Jews, who have
been operating under the Gentile
firm name of Johnson Shoe Company,
have been notified by Gentile mer
chants to keep out of their places of
business ,and cancel orders.
Farmers in that section and other
working people refuse to buy from
merchants who handle the brands of
goods carrying these Jew trade
marks ,and will not patronize r or
chants who buy from these Jewish
firms.
In other words, the people of
Georgia have determined that the
vast slush fund given by the Jews
all over Georgia to defeat the ends
of justice, and make a joke and
laughing matter of Georgia people
and Georgia law’s, will lose many
times more than they gave for the
cause of saving the neck of Leo
Frank from justice.
AH other Jews in any kind of bus
iness in Athens are feeling the cold
ness and antagonism they have
wrought, visiting upon themselves,
that which they might have expected.
Thousands here want you to run
for next Governor.
C. W. CARR.
FROM AN OLD CONFEDERATE
SOLDIER.
Dear Sir: I am an old Confederate
71 years cld, and was wounded in
the Rattle of Atlanta July 22, 1864.
I have just read “The Old Paths—
and the New Path Taken by the
Frank Case.” I shall go out today
and try to raise a club for The Jeff;
if I fail, will send in my dollar at
once. I lot my subscription run out
about a year ago, but my son has
been sending me his for the last few
weeks. I take the tri-Weekly Con
stitution to get the news, but I want
The Jeffersonian to get the .truth.
Not a lawyer or judge; not a man
or woman in this parish who read
the testimony in the Frank case but
what pronounced him guilty. The
Louisiana papers can lie as well as
the Atlanta papers. If Slaton is run
out of Georgia and wants congenial
associates, let him go to Mexico. We
don’t w r ant him to even pass through
the State of Louisiana. You shall
hear from me again before long.
Yours truly
La. JOHN C. BAIRD.
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A NORTH GEORGIA MOTHER.
Dear Sir: 1 feel like I must write
you and express my sentiment on the
Frank case. I have read every word
you have w-ritten on the subject, and
if I had not been convinced of his
guilt before, 1 certainly would have,
after reading the facts in The Jeffer
sonian. I have never believed in
mob violence, but the Governor
(Jack Slaton) has set the example.
He has defied all the courts, tram
pled on the law. Now what are the
people to do when a leader —the
head of the State —does this? Are
the men of Georgia going to let this
crime go unpunished? What are we
mothers going to depend on? I have
four daughters, and I shudder to
tl?ink of them growing up in a State
where a crime like this goes un- s
punished. I shall always be very
much disapointed, and regret that I
live in a State that has been so dis
graced.
Thanking you for the stand you
have taken on the subject, I am,
Very respectfully,
Ga. A MOTHER.
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THEY STOP TAKING HEARST’S
“GEORGIAN.”
Atlanta, Ga., June 30, 1915.
Editor The Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: We, the undersigned,
who Jor several years have been sub
scribers, strong admirers and sup
porters of you.' paper, have this date
discontinued our subscriptions, same
being delivered by carriers to our
office, 618 Austell Building, and think
that we can faithfully promise that
not another copy of the “Georgian”
shall ever enter our respective homes.
In this connection, beg to ask why
it is that you have so suddenly
“flopped” over and become such a
strong believer in the innocence of
one Leo M. Frank, and why it is you
are now trying to justify the recent
action of Georgia’s ex-Governor (?),
while heretofore it has appeared that
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you have staunchly favored uphold
ing the laws of the State of Georgia
and of the United States. In Tues
day’s issue you have devoted an entire
page to the upholding of ex-Governor
(?) “Jack” Slaton’s decision, which is
understood and generally believed to
have been purchased. At any rate,
everybody knows there’s a “nigger in
the wood pile” somewhere.
We are very sorry, indeed, to lose
what we have heretofore considered
a friend, but we can never again place
any confidence in anything appearing
in the “Georgian,” and we are not
alone in our "Sows.
Yours truly.
O. D. KEOWN, . . .
J. T. LINSEY,
b. l. Mclntosh,
L. S. UPSHAW.
BACKWOODSMAN FRIEND OF
OURS.
Dear Sir: I presume you will be
surprised to hoar from a backwoods
man, but I have been reading what
I consider a very able defense of the
law and the State of Georgia in The
Jeffersonian until I feel like it is the
duty of every decent lover of virtue
who has the safety of their own fam
ilies and the dignity of the law at
heart to speak out, however feeble
the voice. Therefore I write to con
tribute my gratitude to you for the
able and willing stand you have so
fearlessly taken. However, it is
rather late in the game to have the
desired effect. Os Frank’s guilt
there is no more question in my
mind than there is that the sun
shines, and my firm belief is that,
were it possible for Frank to be sub
jected to the methods once employed
to cause men to tell the truth, peo
ple who so arrogantly protest his in
nocence would hear Leo Frank say,
“Yes, I killel litttle innocent Mary
Phagan to save my own disgrace.”
Hoping The Jeffersonian may live
long, with you as its champion, for
righteousness, truth and justice, I
am, yours very truly,
Ga. W. J. DUNCAN.
“Around that grief-bowed woman,
I threw the weeds of widowhood—
but I paid for the chance to do it;
and they who took my money knew
that I would do it.”
From “The Song o» the Bar-
Room,” in Watson’s Prose Miscella
nies, second edition. Price SI.OO.
THE JEFFS, Thomson, Ga.
