The Jeffersonian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, July 22, 1915, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
PAGE TWO 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. Fla. R 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. © 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. © 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. o 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. ® 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 Send a Club of Ten, at 50c Each ======= AND get ============ The Weekly Jeffersonian FOR ONE YEAR. Mr. Watson will touch on every phase of the Financial, Religious, Political questions, which are of so great importance to our people. Every issue of THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN is a live one. The Jeffersonian Publishing Company Thomson, Georgia. pL“™~ NAPOLEON I By THOS. E. WATSON I THIS BOOK IS BECARDEO AS A STTWfMftP, | BV EMINENT SCHOLARS | Limited Edition PRICE, $1.50. | SOn,anfy PVB ' co -> Thomson, Ga. 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.