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A LETTER TO GOVERNOR
HARRIS.
Blue Ridge, Ga., June 29, 1915.
Hon. N. E. Harris,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Governor: I notice that you
have continued the order of Gover
nor Slaton, and martial law is still
being maintained in Atlanta and
about the home of ex-Governor Sla
ton, al an approximate expanse to
the State of $1,200 per day. No mat
ter has been so constantly discussed
in Fannin County as the action of
Governor Slaton, commuting the sen
tence of Leo M. Frank from the
death penalty to life imprisonment.
I have been in several sections of the
county within the last few days.
But a very few people have expressed
themselves as favorable to the Gover
nor in this matter. It can be safely
said that 99* per cent of the people
of this county condemn in unmeas
ured terms his act, ascribing to him
ulterior motives. If one will take
time to investigate, the same state
of feeling will be found to exist in
practically every section and com
munity of the State. Consequently,
the great majority of the people of
Georgia believe that you are not jus
tified in incurring this great expense
to the State, especially in view of the
financial conditions which now con
front the people of this State. He is
now a private citizen. Evidently he
is perfectly able to pay any necessary
expenses incident to protecting his
life and property. If not, he might
call upon the Jews. The Israelites
could be assessed as they were in the
case of the Frank defense, to raise a
fund to pay for his .protection. Be
sides all this, the people think that
he has no right to demand protec
tion from the State, and at the cost
of the whole people, since in his ac
tion, commuting the sentence of
Frank, lie has put himself in opposi
tion to the enforcement of the law.
He disregarded the verdict of an hon
est and impartial jury in Fulton
County, who heard all the evidence
and gave almost thirty days of their
time to a hearing of the case; he set
aside two decisions of the Supreme
Court of his State; treated with scant
courtesy the solemn judgment of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
and trampled on the finding of the
Prison Commission. He has given
the world to understand that there
is one law for the poor in Georgia,
and another for the rich and power
ful. He, in effect, has said to the
people of the State, which has in the
past honored him over much, that
little Mary Phagan was only a fac
tory girl, and that the Jewish grad
uate of Cornell University, who mur
dered her when she would not sur
render her virtue, has not committed
a crime worthy of death. She came
o.f a class which represents possibly
90 per cent of the people of Georgia
—the working classes. K Governor
Slaton has thus shown his regard for
the great majority of the people as
Geragia. Tn fact, the people of this
section of the State, in so far as I
have been able to get at their senti
ments, think that if the so-called
mob should get hold of the ex-Gover
nor and do its very worst to him per
sonally, it would not matter very
much. Nor arc our people blood
thirsty; nor do they belong to the
lawless element of the State. They
merely feel righteously indignant.
They seem to feel that his taking
off, or at least, his removal from tLe
State, will do more to bring about
the absolute enforcement, imparti
ally, of the law in Georgia than any
thing else which could possibly hap
pen. It would tend to bring about
respect for the verdicts of juries
when annroved by the appellate
courts of the country. It would teach
all men who shall hereafter occupy
Hie chief executive office in Georgia
that there is one law in Georgia, and
that it applies alike to the poor and
defenseless ami the rich, influential
and the powerful, and that no Gov
ernor will ever, in the future, dare to
commute the sentence of the client
of his law partner, especially after
eveiy court in the State and nation
THE JEFFERSONS AN
having jurisdiction of the case has
said by solemn judgment that such
law partner’s client was guilty and
worthy of death.
I thus write in order that you can
have some idea about the present
state of public opinion in this part of
the State on this all-absorbing ques
tion, growing out of the commutation
of the death sentence of Leo M.
Frank.
With the highest regards for your
self personally, and trusting that
your administration will meet the ap
proval and very high expectation of
the people of Georgia, who have so
signally honored you in your elec
tion to the highest office within the
gift o fthe people of the Emnirt State
of the South, I remain yours most
respectfully,
THOS. A. BROWN.
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A SAMPLE OF THE CHICAGO
FRANK LITERATURE.
Chicago, July 21, 1915.
Hon. Joseph Brown, Former Gover
nor, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: A large per cent of the
population of Georgia, white as well
as black, is illiterate. In fact, Geor
gia shares with two or three other
States of the South the disgraceful
distinction of having the largest per
cent of illiterates, white illiterates,
of any of the States of the Union,
and, according to the University Club,
of Atlanta, white illiteracy has in
creased in fifty-one counties of Geor
gia in the past five years. It is safe
to say that no other State equals this
disgraceful record. The cause of this
shameful condition of illiteracy in
Georgia is not far to seek. It is due
to a lack of support of common
schools. For example, while Nebras
ka spends $7.18 per capita of popula
tion in support of common schools,
Oregon $8.30, California $9.30, and
other Northern States approximately
as much, Georgia spends only $1.89,
or say only one-third to one-fifth as
much as the States named. (See New
York World Almanac for 1915, page
626.)
It has well been said that Georgia,
like Mexico, has always been long on
“statesmen” (sic) and illiterates and
short on school teachers.
With a knowledge, therefore, of the
general illiteracy and medieval con
ditions that have long existed in
Georgia, and which do not appear
to be improving, one is not surprised
to learn that an ex-Governor of Geor
gia, born and raised in the State and
handicapped by such surroundings
and associations, would appear before
the pardoning power of his State and
demand the blood of a fellow citizen.
Such an appearance would be un
speakably indecent on the part of an
ex-Governor, even though the guilt
of the prisoner was an undisputed
and conceded fact. How much more
indecent, when grave doubt exists in
the minds of many as to the guilt of
the orison: ’.
Very truly,
(Signature illegible.)
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