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Say what you will, there is something ex
tra(*iumary in this: and to the normal, aver
age person, there conies a feeling of sadness
that the .Law bad to deal so inexorably with
so strong, so capable, and so courageous a
man <;s Charles Becker.
But did the Hearst papers express any
hysterical pity lor the condemned, in this
case?
No.
Did Ihe Jew papers of New York relent,
even alter they had drunk Becker's blood?
No.
I heir li\ id rage froze into iron satisfac
tion, and they expressed their savage joy
with, indecent exultation.
For Becker 'was a Gentile, and the mur
dered man was a Jew of aristocratic connec
tions!.
Mr. Adolph Ochs, in his New York Times,
heaps contempt upon the people who doubted
Becker's gmit. referring to them as “a few
casuists, and the usual amiable sentimental
ists," “persons of Joo easy lachrymal .ducts
and the conscientious opponents of capital
punishment. 1 ’
Mr. Ochs, you see, harbors a fine scorn for
people who weep too readily, when a wailing
wife is m tears, and when a strong man is
about to lav down his robust strength in the
narrow bed of the grave.
Mr. Ochs is net only glad to his very soul
that the Law has taken Becker's life, and
draped Becker's wife in widow's weeds, but
Mr. Ochs severely arraigns the Law for not
having killed Becxer sooner.
Mr. Ochs says—-
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But justice which can be delayed for three
years, justice to delay and thwart which every
invention and device, supported presumably by
the proceeds of graft, has been used, this is far
from the swift, sure, relentless, equal justice
which makes itself feared. It is to the shame of
Legislatures and lawyers rather than of the
courts, that a fat-pocketed murderer, though his
guilt be flagrant and undeniable, can hire the
talent to stave off the evil day, and at last, on
some petty technicality or string of affidavits,
false as dicers’ oaths, win a new trial, face a jury
wherein some perverse and stubborn man may
again delay justice.
\ Is there some yellow streak in the blood
of all such men as Adolph Ochs?
Is there some Arab coarseness inherited
from of old which prevents such a man from
realizing how 7 he shocks the feelings of hu
manity, when he gloats over a new-made
grave, and resents the idea that he had to
wait so Jong for it?
This is the same man wdiose paper took
exactly the opposite course in the Frank
case, backed up the fat-pocxeted murderer,
and shouted encouragement to his determina
tion “to hire the talent to stave off the evil
day,” and found no fault with his “string of
affidavits, false as dicers’ oaths,” not even
when those affidavits, drawn up by a law 7 yer
like Rosser, and signed by such men as Rags
dale and Barber, cost the fat-pocketed mur
derer tw’o hundred dollars apiece!
Ralph and Joseph Pulitzer, of the New
York World, are equally scandalized because
Becker was not killed sooner.
In their editorial of July 30th, they say:
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What has been done to save Becker from ther
death-chair can be done in behalf of any other
convicted murderer who has enough money to
employ zealous counsel.
Under a rational system of administering the
criminal law, Becker’s case would have been dis
posed of two years and six months ago. It has
been before the New York courts at least six
times as long as a similar case would have been
to rest before the English courts. What
wonder that New York City alone has had 126
homicides during the last six months’ What re
spect can there be for a criminal procedure that
can be juggled in such fashion?
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Ths Pulitzers call upon the Constitutional
Convention of New York to change the law
SO that a criminal who has plenty of money
X THE JEFFERSONIAN
will not hereafter be able to baffle justice for
so long a time.
And yet Becker could not get his case be
fore the United States Supreme Court:
Becker could not get Vice-President Mar
shall to intercede for him'. Becker could not
get Doctors of Divinity to publicly preach
and pray for him; and Becker apparently
never got the chance to plant one of his law
yers in the Executive Office!
By judicial methods inherited from our
English and Germanic ancestors, New York
ascertained that Lieutenant Becker had mur
dered Herman Rosenthal.
By the same judicial methods, Georgia
ascertained that Leo Frank had murdered
Mary Phagan.
After New York had judicially ascertained
the guilt of Becker, he w 7 as put to death, his
victim having been a professional law-break
er. a (/ambler by trade.
After Georgia had judicially ascertained
the guilt of Leo Frank, he was made the
hero of a national campaign against our
people, and our courts; and his leading law
yer’s partner virtually pardoned him — his
victim being a Sunday School girl whose
white dress lay oir the bed waiting for her
to come home and w 7 ear it to the Christian
Church next day.
Instead of wearing it to the Bible class
contest in which she was to take part, she
wore it as a shroud \ and her little bones are
turning to dust, while the Sodomite Jew who
choked her to death basks in the favors of
.Warden Smith, at the State Farm.
We demonstrated that man’s guilt in ex
actly the same way we demonstrated the
guilt of Wilburn, the Cantrells, and Um
phrey: and the same Governor who sent
those murderers to the scaffold for killing
men, set the law aside in favor of his client,
who pursued a little girl, decoyed her into
a room whose door he closed on her: tried
to make her yield hpr person to his sadistic
lust; grew furious at her resistance: struck
her in the face: knocked her against the
shaft of Barrett’s machine, cutting her head
open, and rendering her unconscious—and
then, dreading the swift punishment which
he knew’ that her alarm would soon bring
upon him. he ties a cord around her neck,
and devilishly chokes her to death!
Ah what shadows w 7 e are; and what
ghastly things befall us, leaping upon us
out of the invisible world, and taking us
with them — where?
While the child w’as ironing her white
dress that fatal Saturday morning, un
warned of danger, and seeing in her mind
the white-dressed children w-ho would be her
companions in the Bible class next day, Leo
Frank was standing not jar from Montag's
place of business, in close conversation with
Jim Conley!
(A white lady, Mrs. Hattie Waites, saw
, them together, and W’as struck by the manner
* of the tw 7 0.) t
Iron the white, dress, little girl! Iron it
out smooth; and see yourself wearing it in
the Sunday School, tomorrow’; spread it out
on the bed, and leave it there till you come
home: Fate and the Jew have other plans
for you, my child !
“Some day, some day, we’ll understand!”
Perhaps. a
We certainly do not understand it, now.
But if the man who has inflicted this eter
nal infamy upon us is allowed to come back
to Georgia, and resume his w r ay of practis
ing law with a hardened scoundrel who
practises law as Rosser does, w r e w ill deserve
every bit of the abuse which the rich Jews,
and the misled Gentiles, have heaped upon
us.
If Jack Slaton ever puts his foot in this
State again, he ought to be given the same
sort of reception that the Colonial patriots
would have given to Benedict Arnold.
Why Did Creen Cut Leo Frank?
IN the August number of our Magazine, I
mention the evidence which the Cincin
nati girl gave to Judge Roan, in the absence
of the jury.
Judge Roan refused to allow’ this evidence
to go to the jury, but Frank sat there and
heard it, and in his statement to the jury he
made no reference to it.
The girl told Judge Roan that she had a
scar, on the tenderest part of her thigh,
made by the teeth of Leo Frank!
In the dissenting opinion of Justices Fish
and Beck, they set out the evidence of
Sodomy!
(It is on page 285 of 141 Georgia Re
ports.)
The evidence quoted by the two dissenting
Justices, w’ould seem to indicate that Frank
had ceased to be the sexual mate of his
wife, and had abandoned himself to the un
natural gratification of his lusts.
It is well known to the doctors, that a
sexual pervert stops at nothing.
Some of them are not aroused by women,
at all. They crave boys, men. and even
animals.
Instances that are almost incredible are
given in “Human Sexuality," a book which
none but doctors can procure.
If you will study the three pictures of
Frank's face, in our August Magazine, you
will see that his mouth is unutterably hor
rible.
What he does with that hideous mouth,
is told on page 285, 141st Georgia Reports.
It is also told in the sworn story of the
scar on the Cincinnati girl's inner thigh,
near the privates.
Now 7 , bear in mind, that the two notes
found near Mary’s body, accused the night
watch of haring had unnatural intercourse
with her.
Jim Conley's picture in the August Maga
zine show’s him to be a typical African
negro, a perfect specimen of the human ani
mal, just such a man as goes after black
women naturally.
The vice of Sodom is the vice of civiliza
tion. not of barbarism.
The sadistic monster is the rotten product
of the higher race.
All doctors will tell you so.
The notes accuse Newt Lee, the negro
night w’atch. of unnatural intercourse with
the dead white girl; and the evidence of her
underclothing, and her privates, indicate
that whoever killed her had unnaturally
used her. -
A negro rapist would not have needed td
open his pocket-knife and cut her drawers
all the w ay up, on one leg.
A negro rapist would have left the sperma
tazoa!
Is it not so?
No spermatazoa w’as found: but the girl’s
inner leg had been bared, and some sort of
violence had been done to the vagina.
Dr. Harris swore it, positively.
Now 7 , when you remember that Frank’s
lew 7 d character w’as shown up by eleven
white girls, and that one of these girls swore
to his beastly habit which had left a life
long scar on her person, you find yourself
w’ondering if it is true that Creen told Gov
ernor Harris he cut Frank because Frank
had tried to sodomize him.
You may have noticed that after the Gov
ernor talked with Creen, he recommended
separate sleeping cells for convicts.
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