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THOMSON, GA., SEPTEMBER 30, 1915.
How Much Longer is Georgia to
be hounded in the Jew
bought Papers ?
IN the New Yory Times, which, like the
Chattanooga paper, is owned by Adolph
Ochs, the following statement appears:
“By the way, I hear through a mechanic
from Atlanta, who is doing repairing here,
that he heard one of the mob say that every
manner of torture was used on Frank to ex
tort a confession, but that he stoutly pro
claimed his innocence until the last, when a
vote was taken to determine whether or not
he shoud be returned to Miledgeville. All
but four of the mob voted to recant, and
these four said they would murder him on
the spot.
“I am satisfied that these brutes are per
fectly assured of his innocence, as the record
shows beyond a doubt he was not guilty.
“Yours to honor,
W. P. PONDER, M. D.”
Box 27, Forsyth, Ga.
“Yours to honor” —if you feel like honor
ing a Georgian who can slander his own peo
ple in that outrageous manner.
Leo Frank was not mistreated in any way.
He did not protest his innocence.
He slept much of the time that night, and
he took an occasional drink of whiskey.
More than once he seemed to be on the
point of making a complete confession, but
he checked himself, and* merely said .“The
negro told the story."
Another avi sion is, that he was asked if
the negro’s story was true, and he answered:
“ITe did not tell it all
He appeared to be about to tell what it
was that the negro left out, but a nervous
member of the Committee expressed a fear
that the militia were about to appear on the
scene, and this gleam of hope in a rescue
caused Frank to close up like a clam.
Just before the sentence of the Law was
executed upon him, he was asked to say
whether the negro was as guilty as himself.
He was told that the Vigilantes had the
negro spotted, and if he, Frank, charged the
negro with equal guilt in the crime, the ne
gro would be given the same treatment that
was in store for Frank.
It is to the credit of the Jew, that he did
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not accuse the negro, of being more guilty
than he had confessed.
Frank ijsked to be shot, but was answered:
“No! The Law did not sentence you to
be shot.
"THE LAW SENTENCED YOU TO
*BE HANGED, and that’s the sentence, we
mean to carry out.”
As he swung into eternity, his last words
were, “God forgive me.”
He did not claim to the Vigilantes that
they were doing a great wrong; he did not
accuse them of intended crime.
He merely asked the quicker death, and
the one less abhorrent to a man of his race.
It is utterly untrue that there was any
weakening in “the mob.” The story of divi
sion and defection, first started in Hearst’s
New York paper, is mere bosh.
As to their being “brutes,” there was not
a man in the party who wasn’t more of a
gentelman than this Dr. W. P. Ponder—
who is “yours to honor.” if you choose to
“honor” that kind of “M. D.”
Since Ponder knows that the record shows
Frank’s innocence, he ought to hasten to At
anta and put his argument in the Dick Gray-
John Cohen Journal.
Or he might speed to Savannah, and help
Sam Adams out of the hole.
Legal talent like Ponder’s, ought not to
waste its sweetness on the desert air.
It must be a source of regret to PoncTer
that he failed to coach Frank’s lawyers, so
that they could convince the jury.
If Ponder is as much of a doctor, as he is
of a lawyer, I wonder that any othher phy
sician in the State gets any practice at all.
It isn’t often that one man, in this short
life, masters two difficult professions, but
Ponder seems to have done it.
Or is it another case "where a first-class
lawyer was spoiled in the making of a third
rate doctor ?
If there is wisdom in the old-time adage,
that “the shoe-maker should stick to his
laste,” how cautious a village doctor should
be in accusing the Supreme Court of Geor
gia of condemning a man to death on “a
record which shows, beyond a doubt, that
he is not guilty.”
Judges Beverly D. Evans, Joseph Henry
Lumpkin, Samuel Atkinson and H. 'Warner
Hill declared that they had given the volum
inous record careful consideration, and that
they—the trained lawyers chosen by the peo
ple—“believed the evidence to be sufficient
to support the verdict.”
Ponder, in effect, says these learned, im
partial Justices lied about the record.
Ponder says that the record shows beyond
a doubt that Frank was not guilty.
That’s far more than Slaton said in his
15,000 words.
Slaton should have conferred with Pon
der. and saved half of his vocabulary.
As the record shows, beyond a doubt, that
Frank was not guilty, it was a most coward
ly thing for Slaton not to have given his cli
ent a full pardon.
While he was reversing all the Courts in
behalf of his client, he should have gone the
whole hog.
Innocent men have no business at the
State Farm as life-termers, even though it
be an Eden, where Money does not count-
If Ponder will carry to Rosser his argu
ment, demonstrating Frank’s innocence, and
Rosser will send it to me for publication,
the people shall have it. w
A thing like that is too good to be lost to
mankind.
Yours to honor, Ponder! -
Read Foreign Missions Exposed, by Thos.
E. Watson. Beautifully printed. Profusely
illustrated. Price 30 cents. The Jeffersonian
Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga.
Some of the Commuters that
Slaton and Grant and Rosser
are Banking on.
'THE Slaton papers make a mighty effort to
* show that the citizens of Georgia rose up
and demanded that Slaton save his client,
Leo Frank.
These Jew-bought papers fail to prove
that the men and women who vainly pleaded
with Slaton, last year, to save the lives of
Cantrell, Umphrey and Wilburn, are not as
good as the scattering few that were per
suaded into signing for Frank.
But to show you the flimsy character of
the defense made for Slaton, this year, when
he was moving heaven and earth to get
backers, I will place before you some sam
ples of those petitions.
They publish the names of sevezi citizens
of Montezuma, a town of 2,000 inhabitants.
Who are those seven petitioners?
They are as follows:
Joseph Kroll, a Jew merchant.
Mollie Kroll, his wife.
Bella Kroll, his daughter, about 9 years
old.
Roy Freidin, about 15 years old.
Cecelia Freidin, about 13 years old.
Cornelius Freidin, about 11 years old.
Julius Freidin, about 7 years old.
These Freidin children are the children of
L. Freidin, a Jew farmer, living about 12
miles from Montezuma. Three of these chil
dren go to school there. You will notice that
L. Freidin did not sign.
So you see, here were two children of 7
years, three more less than 16, one Jewess
and one Jew, all the children being Jews,
also.
The letter in which this information is
given, proceeds to say;
“There was a paper gotten up from this,
town asking Slaton to let the Law take its
course, and nearly every voter signed it.
Ask the papers to publish it, in next Sun
day's issue, we will assure them there will
be no 7 -year-old school girls’’ names on it.
The above are facts, Mr. Watson. If you
need them certified, just write any citizen of
Montezuma.
We feel sure that school children signed
this paper all over the country, just as they
did here.”
Now, what do you think of a Governor
who pays more attention to one merchant’s
family, and to the school children of one
other man, than he does to nearly all the
other voters?
But they not only got the names of 7-
year-old children, but used names that were
entirely fictitious. In other words, they fak
ed petitions, just as so many other things
were faked in this horrible case.
The following letter explains itself:
Clarkesville, Ga., Sept. 23, 1915.
Dear Sir: I enclose clipping our County
Paper. I can furnish you any number of
affidavits that there are no such people liv
ing in Habersham County, and that the pe
tition is a fake.
I am satisfied that 90-100 of the good peo
ple of Habersham are with you on the
Frank case.
Your Friend,
v W. I. COOPER, ;
Y. - Formerly of Sylvania, Ga.
The clipping from the County paper, The
Advertiser, reads:
“This paper doesn’t propose to take part in
this controversy, but a list of names pur
porting to come from Clarksville, Ga., ask
ing Gov. Slaton to commute the sentence s os
z Leo M. Frank has been published.
As there are no such names in either the
town of Clarkesville or in Habersham Coun
ty, it is in justice to this town and county
