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FROM THE HILES Oi HABER
SHAM.
Dear Sir: In The Atlanta Consti
tution. February 7th, 1916, on page
4. there appears an article from one
Mr. Wright Willingham, of Rome,
Ga. Oa the lawlessness of Geor
gians. I am like Mr. Willingham.
When the life of any one is taken
■without due process of law, it is to
be deplored. All men _ everywhere
should stand for that. He says:
“A citizen of Milwaukee, Wis..
'with whom I have had considerable
dealings and for whom my firm has
handled and is now handling invest
ments, writes me under date of
February Ist. inquiring as to the ex
tent of this disregard for law r in our
suite; and at the same time inclosed
to me a clipping from The Nashville,
(Tenn » Banner, vluch reads in part
as follows.
The lynching of five negroes, who
were taken from the jail at Sylvester,
■was a brutal and revolting deed,
shocking to all civilized sensibilities.
If t! e negroes •' ne -el tv of i ic
crimes charged against them, there
would have been no doubt of their
conviction and legal execution. A
white grand jury would have in
dicted them and they would have
been tried before a white judge
elected exclusively by white votes, by*
a white jury and under laws made
wholly by white men. They were
surely entitled to that much. So
says The Nashville Banner Now T
can’t give you all of Mr. W.'s letter.
Just a part of it. But he says. “I
read between the lines of the letter
from my Wisconsin friend and client,
a feeling of distress and alarm, not
only from the standpoint of a pru
dent investor, who shrinks from the
ultimate possibilities of such a state
of a*fairs as exist in our state, but
there is a manifestation of melan
cholia sentiment animating the mind
and heart of this good American
citizen, which though obviously re
pressed. nevertheless finds sorrowful
expression through his pen.”
Mv my! Distressed, alarmed, and
has melancholia. I suspect the poor
fellow has indigestion or Dyspepsia.
If so be should diet himself. I know
by experience what these things will
do for a fellow. The very thing to
cause distress and alarm. Has melan
cholia, ah me. So bad that it is flow
ing out through his pen. Well, well,
well. Pretty bad case. I hope he
won't attempt to come down South,
for Georgia has quarentined against
that, done that in 1914. when cotton
went down to S3O per bale. Now 1
am fearful that our friend Willing
ham. has it too, I guess he has been
fooling around up in Wisconsin with
his friend and has caught melan
cholia too.
Friend W. says: “My own mental
process in dealing with problems al
ways impels me to drive at once and
without circumlocution to the vul
nerable spot in my humble opinion
the trouble is in the lack of moral
courage on the part of Georgia offi
cialdom. not even excepting Sena
tors and Congressmen and Legisla
tors and Sheriffs, and last but not
least, the governor of the state.”
O ye Senators, Legislators. Sheriffs.
Judges, and Big Nat. you hear it
don’t ye. In my opinion, there is not
a state in the union that lias a bet
ter set of officials, including the old
war horse governor, than Georgia
has. And no state has a better
Code of laws than Georgia has.
Too Much Humbuggery.
Under this head our W- tells
us<that there has been too much
humbuggery in Georgia. That is the
key note. That is the cause of most
of our troubles in Georgia. If the
laws were only allowed to take their
course as they should there would be
very little trouble in Georgia. He
says. (That men in high positions
have been unwilling to make a per
sonal sacrifice) I disagree with him.
I don’t think any state ever had a
more sacrificing governor, than
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
Georgia, has had, John M. Slaton,
sacrificed his friends, together with
all the laws of his state when he
commuted the sentence of Frank’s -
Mr. Willingham, farther says, “they
have been a little too much inter
ested in getting the job, and not
enough interested in discharging,
the responsibilities of the job. This
responsibility should be discharged
conscientiously, courageously and
competently without regard to the
cost.) No doubt Mr. W is cor
rect in that Mr. W fears that
the governor of Georgia, Hon. Nat.
E. Harris, is lending a listening ear
to someone in McDuffie County.
Some times I am concious of a
feeling which may or may not have
real foundation that the present
governor is attaching some little in
terest in the sayings of the man who
is sometimes spoken of as the Sage
of McDuffie, but -who might be
more appropriately designated as
Red Eyed Scorpion of McDuffie.
I can’t imagine who be has ref
erence to, unless it is our Uncle Tom
Watson. If he is the one, that beats
me. I have never had the pleasure
of meeting Uncle Tom. though I have
heard that he had red hair, but I
have never beard before that he had
red eyes. He must be an Albino, or
a Toper. I never beard of- him
drinking; If he refers to him per
haps he is judging the color of his
eyes by his writings. He has been
giving the people the truth, and you
know a lot of people can’t stand the
truth. When the Apostles of the
Lord preached the truth by the
power of Holy Gho'st. Acts 2. 13.
(Others mocking said these men are
full of new wine.) Then I should
think according to Mr. W that
the Apostles were red eyed then.
There are thousands and thousands
of people in Georgia and all through
the South and many in the North
as well as other parts of these United
States, who think this red headed,
red eyed, red blooded scorpion, one
of the wisest and one of the most
patriotic law-abiding citizens of this
nation. Our Mr. Willingham, farther
says. “For days and even weeks prior
to the Frank lynching the air was
full of Anarchy, the tread of it was
plainly heard in the distance long
before the successful execution of its
plans. The governor did not have
the moral courage to protect the
good name of this state against the
unlawful invasion of that contingent
of Georgians w’ho saw fit to take the
law into their own hands.”
That is strange, I live right here
in North Georgia, have lived here
many years, I have just as nice
large set of saddle skirts as ever set
on a man’s gourd and can hear just
as good as anyone, and I declare I
could not hear the tread of any mob,
and more. If there was anarchy, in
the air I did not smell it, and I am
sure I did not inhale any of it. The
only anarchy I heard any talk of was
when Staton, mobed the decision of
the courts of the state and of the
nation, and they did not call that
anarchy bu called it Monarchy. I
don’t think that my Brother Wil
lingham, heard the tread of any mob.
or smelt the anarchy in the air. It
must have been the effects of melan
choly working on him. I can’t tell,
it is running out of his pen too. Now
let me say in conclusion, I don’t
know anything about Mr. Willing
ham, I should guess he is a nice man.
I don’t know what his profession is,
perhaps a lawyer. I don’t know what
his politics are. Democrat I reckon.
1 know he is a Roman, he may not
be a Catholic. I should think he is
a Protestant Roman.
Bro. W seems to blame the
state officials for not bringing to
justice the lynchers of Mr. Frank
and others. I did not know before,
that a Senator or Congressman or a
legislator, had anything more to do
with the enforcement of the law
than Mr. W or myself. Now in
regard to what he says about our
Governor. Hon. N. E. Harris. I
don’t think that the governor or any
one else could punish a criminal in
any way unless he could get some
evidence against him. It is true that
Brother Harris is getting up in
years and may not have altogether
as much executive ability as he once
had, but I think Georgia has today
as good a governor as any state.
And Georgia has a code of as good
laws as any state in this Union.
Wisconsin not excepted. Will Bro.
W remember, that just a few
hours before Governor Harris took
the oath of office, that an act had
been committed, that has no presi
dence in any state. When ex-Gov
ernor Slaton, set aside as thousands
of people think, not only of the laws
of Georgia, but the laws of the
United States when he set his judg
ment up against all the courts of the*
land. When he commuted the sent
ence of Leo M. Frank, I believe that
90 per cent, of the people think he
Slaton, committed a more henious
crime than Frank. So you see when
Harris went into office the people
did not feel that they had any laws,
since they had been nullified and set
aside. It is considered by most peo
ple of Georgia that if we have any
laws at all, we have one for the rich
man and the jew, and another for
the poor w r hite man and the negro.
Now let the governor of any state
treat the people as Slaton has done
in Georgia and the ultimate results
will be the same. I am a Georgian,
and I am proud of it. I feel that
while Georg ; a may be humiliated, not
because of the acts of violence on the
part of the people, she still remains
the Empire State of the South. It
makes me sick when I hear a Geor
gian quoting some old Northern Jew
or Catholic, who would like to spit
their venom in the face of Georgia.
They claim to be so very much
interested in Georgia, but it is only
for the dollars that they can get out
of her. There has been a number
of people lynched in Georgia as well
as other states, and there was no
great hue and cry about it except
when came from one Northern paper
who was so much interested in Geor
gia. But when it comes to executing
a man who has money by the mil
lions, it is something awful, and the
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fair name of Georgia must be be
smirched. and her people called
Anarchist and mobbers, and some few
of her citizens to help out in the dirty
work
There is one thing you may count
on, Georgians will protect the fair
name of their women, against the
assaults of any brute be he white or
black. If the law fails look for the
people. It is much better for them
to be allowed to take its course, then
you will have no lawlessness. Now
let every Georgian go to work and
see that the laws are duly executed,
and don’t allow any man to speak in
your presence against the good name
of Georgia. I resent, and expect to
continue to resent, all such Pommy
Rot.
I remain yours, a citizen of the
Empire State of the South.
R. S. SAUNDERS.
Georgia.
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