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'*■ "BfittaSfi W peMffiferitfy Sefiea the public
opinion on the question of free school-books,
find he has never failed to serve the Yankee
trust, slavishly, by lobbying against every bill
which sought to infringe upon this most hate
ful monopoly.
He has also been utterly contemptuous of
criticism, in the matter of violating the high
est law of this State by financing the teaching
of Roman Catholicism, at the expense of Pro
testant tax payers.
In his latest expensive cards in the papers,
he virtually proclaims his intention of pur
suing his illegal methods.
His motto seems to be, “D—n the law!”
And the scornful Brittain says that the law
against church-use of State-money is “thread
bare !”
Is the law against theft any less threadbare
than the law which says that public funds
shall not be given to religious institutions?
Is the law against murder any younger than
the law which requires a complete separation
of Church and State?
What a nakedly indefensible position is
occupied by this sworn officer of the State,
when his only reply to the charge that he has
constantly violated the highest law, is that
the charge “is threadbare!”
The more threadbare the accusation, the
deeper the guilt of the official who can’t make
any other answer.
Do you want to condemn Hugh Dorsey for
convicting Leo Frank, and re-establish the
recreant governor who acted both as State
officer and the murderer’s attorney?
Do you want to ruin the Solicitor who did
his duty, and vindicate the Governor who be
trayed his trust?
If you do, vote for Slaton’s candidate, N. E.
Harris.
Slaton's entrance into the campaign, on the
Frank case, means exactly that.
Slaton and his newspaper organs have made
the issue:
A vote for Tlarris,NOW, is a vote for Sla
ton, TWO YEARS FROM NOW!
Where You Can Find the Jeffer
sonian in Alabama.
Birmingham—ll7 1-2 N. 20th St., Wetsen
Harris.
Birmingham—Birmingham Terminal Station.
Gadsden —Riley Bros.
Opelika—Union Depot Restaurant.
Bessemer—-No. 14, 19th St., F. T. Scott.
Slocomb —Mr. Zell McGhee.
York —Hill & Hill.
Anniston —The Smoke House.
FROM HON. FRANK PARK.
Sylvester 1 , Ga., Sept. 4,
Editor The Jeffersonian,
Thomson, Ga.
The following letter was received
by me today from a gentleman in
Grady County which I will thank
you to print in this week’s issue of
The Jeffersonian, together with my
statement regarding the matter re
ferred to which follows:
Hon.. Frank Park.
Sylvester 1 , Ga.
“Dear Sir: It is reported to me
reliably, although I am not at liberty
to divulge the source that on the day
of the election there will be circulars
distributed at every voting precinct
in the district that you signed the
petition requesting Governor Slaton
to pardon Leo M. Frank. I think
you can count on this as reliable and
am letting you know in confidence
so you can take the same for what it
is worth.”
Soon after I returned from Wash
ington when these petitions were be
ing circulated, I was approached on
two occasions by Mr. Jacob Wigod
ner, who has been in the mercantile
business in Sylvester for twenty
years and urged to sign a petition, or
write a letter to Governor Slaton in
Uehalf of Leo Frank.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
I told him that T k Md mot kepf'up
with the case, was not familiar with
the facts and evidence, and did not
feel that I was in position to do as
requested. When subsequently ap
proached I still refused to sign the
petition or write a letter.
As the Jeffersonian is familiar
with the names of those who did sign
such a petition and wrote letters or
sent telegrams, 1* will thank you to
state the truth as you have found it.
I wish to add further, that there is
being circulated in the district a tele
gram written by R. P. Hale, Clerk
Superior Court, Dougherty County,
who has always been my bitter politi
cal enemy, which states that I ap
pointed a Catholic as one of the Jury
Commissioners in Dougherty County.
The Jury Commissioners appointed
by me were selected by the Law and
Order League of Dougherty County.
Five names were submitted, to me as
being men who would stand for law
enforcement and would select jurors
who would enforce the prohibition
law in the county. On this recom
mendation I named them as Jury
Commissioners without investigation
on my part as to their qualifications
or religious beliefs. They did select
jurors who enforced the prohibition
laws in the County. This was be-
How the Constitution of the
United States Prevents
Noble Congressmen from
Doing Good.
IT must have made the heart of Senator
Hardwick bleed, when his sensitive con
science coerced him into siding with Wall
Street billionaires against the Railroad
workers.
Jerome Jones must have suffered in his
mind, and those Labor leaders who were so
ardent for Hardwick must have grieved
sorely.
Hardwick’s virtue would not allow him to
support the President and his Democratic
colleagues because, he said, the Government
should not yield the demands of men “highly
organized.”
Therefore, he deserted his President, and
his Democratic colleagues, carrying his con
science and his vote to the Republicans.
Clarke of Arkansas was the only other
Democratic Senator who voted with the Re
publiJans and billionaires, against the men
whose toil, last year, enabled the billionaires
to pocket net profits to the amount of a
thousand million dollars.
Not long ago, the Hardwick virtue en
deavored to defeat the Child Labor bill.
Although the U. S. Constitution expressly
gives Congress the power to regulate com
merce, and although the Child Labor bill
merely forbade commerce in the products of
Child labor, this conscientiously virtuous
Senator denied the power of Congress to pro
tect the Republic’s little white slaves.
Thus, you will observe that the highest law
of the land is perpetually frustrating our
Steam-roller Senator from doing good for the
lowly.
Strange to say, it does not hamper him in
the other direction.
His conscience does not torture him when
the interest of the Sugar Trust are at stake.
He suffers no qualms when the Government
pays an army of spies to gather up informa
tion for Wall Street speculators.
He does not sweat blood when the military
law is centralized, the power of the State de
stroyed, and compulsory service slipped into
the system.
He made no war upon the new postal law
which clothes the Postmaster-General with
despotic power to destroy the freedom of the
press.
He saw no invasion of> ConstitutionaLlaw
in the Ben Johnson Juvenile Court Bill, which'
provides thaf -children can be -secretly rail-
tween four and five years ago, be
fore my first election to Congress.
It was told to me subsequently that
one of the revisors selected by the
Law and Order League was a Cath
olic. The fight that is now being
waged against me in Dougherty
County is by those who -were opposed
For Representative in the 65th Congress.
To the Voters of the Second Con
gressional District:
Feeling profoundly grateful to you
and deeply conscious of the gieat ob
ligation and responsibility resting
upon me, I hereby acknowledge the
debt of gratitude I feel for the con
fidence you have so generously re
posed in me.
I have spared no effort to serve
you faithfully.
My record for the short time I
have served you is before you and I
am willing for you to pass upon it,
confidently relying upon a fair ver
dict at the polls in September from
a great people who ar© just as well
as generous.
roaded into the Pope’s hell-holes, without
notice to parents, guardians, relatives, or
friends.
His conscience erupts violently when North
ern owners of Southern mills wish to con
tinue the exploitation of our children, and
when Wall Street billionaires demand a con
tinuance of their arbitrary control of the
National Highways.
The Senator—who is one by virtue of E. J.
Reagan’s steam-roller—says that he is op
posed to governmental surrender to “men
highly organized.”
Since when?
The Sugar Trust, “highly organized,” de
manded and obtained a continuance of the
tariff duties which were to have expired in
May of this year.
The railroads, “highly organized,” de
manded and obtained a general advance in
freight rates.
The cotton gamblers, “highly organized,”
demanded and obtained governmental in
surance at 4 and 5 per cent, to escape the
premiums of 25 and 30 per cent asked by the
private insurance companies.
The national banks, “highly organized.” de
manded and obtained new governmental pa
per money at a nominal cost, and are now
amassing fabulous fortunes by farming the
sovereign power of controlling the finances of
one hundred million people!
Did Senator Hardwick's virtue and con
science trouble him on an?/ of these demands
of “men highly organized?”
No, indeed. He himself was writing in
solent letters to distressed farmers, in 1914,
declaring himself opposed to government
loans to farmers, because such government
loans were unconstitutional.
And, in behalf of the highly organized ex
press companies, he was ridiculing and lying
about the Parcels Post, pretending that
farmers wanted to ship bales of cotton by ex
press.
Hugh M. Dorsey’s Speaking Dates
Columbus, Muskogee County, Thursday, Sep
tember 7, 8:00 p. m.
Savannah, Chatham County, Friday, September
8, 8:00 p. m.
Atlanta, Fulton County, Saturday, September
9, 8:00 p. m.
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“Socialists and ‘Socialism” by Thos. E.
Wat&on, has a vast amount of information of
interest and value to those who think they
know what Socialism stands for. Price 25c.
The Jeffersonian Pub. Co., Thomson, Ga.
to the enforcement of the prohibition
law, and who seek revenge at this
time in every conceivable way and
by circulating statements which are
part truth, but have all the vices of
falsehood.
. FRANK PARK.
I hereby announce as a candidate
to succeed myself as your representa
tive in the 65th Congress, subject to
your will and under the rules of the
Democratic Primary.
While important measures affect
ing your interests are before Con
gress, and when every vote counts,
I feel that I should attend to the du
ties to which you have assigned me,
and return only when your interests
are not neglected. I expect to be
in the district and shall see as many
of you personally as possible before
th® Primary on September 12th.
Faithfully yours,
FRANK PARK.
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