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A Miserable Surrender,
Editor Jeffersonian:
On the 22nd of September there
appeared in Atlanta, a municipal
judge, hailing from the city of Wash
ington, D. C. His name is Robert H.
Terrell, and he is a negro; and he
was appointed to the judgeship, by
Piesident Woodrow Wilson in the
year 1914, and confirmed by a Demo
cratic Senate, on April 2 4th of that
year. His arrival in Atlanta, was
noticed by The Atlanta Journal, Sep
tember 22d, in the following clip
ping:
WILL SPEAK AT BETHEL M. E.
CHURCH FRIDAY.
Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the
municipal court-- of Washington, D.
C., will speak at the Bethel Metho
dist Episcopal church, colored, Fri
day evening at 8:15 o’clock. He is
lecturing under the auspices of the
Douglas Memorial association.
In the same issue is found a frantic
appeal to Democrats to raise a Wil
son campaign fund. It is supposed
that Terrell was brought to Georgia,
(as -was a negro, Ross, in Populist
days) and paid from Democratic
campaign funds to secure votes for
Wilson. You will notice that Judge
Robert H. Terrell, municipal judge,
has a fine notice in the Journal.
There is no mention as to his color.
And for such purposes, is the frantic
cry to “pay a dollar’’ to the Wilson
fund. And the salary of the muni
cipal judge is said to be $5,000. And
Woodrow Wilson appointed this
negro judge over the indignant pro
test of Washington City citizens. It
is understood in Washington that
Wilson was pledged to reappoint this
municipal judge, before he was in
augurated in 1913. He is also
OUR SENIOR SENATOR GROWS
ANXIOUS.
Dear Sir: I see from the Wash
ington, D. C., dispatches that Senator
Hoke Smith, is quoted as saying that
he hoped to return to Georgia in time
to vote for “Someone” to beat the
Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey for Governor.
Now suppose you emulate this
humbug Senator by calling upon your
40,000 or more loyal friends and fol
lowers to vote for “someone” to cue
feat Woodrow Wilson, and his jack
ass Attorney General Gregory.
No former administration has ever
dared to “slap the paws” of the white
Voters of Georgia as has been done
by the present administration.
Could there be a more damnable
insult hurled at any State than to
say that your state has 20 0,000
qualified jurors within her border
but notwithstanding that it may be
come necessary to remove one of her
most prominent citizens to some
other State for trial where twelve
honest, upright jurors, who have re
gard for their oath can be found ?
Didn’t Mr. Wilson’s bigoted At
torney General practically use those
words with regard to Georgia? He
did. Did Mr. Wilson reprimand or
remove him from office for so do
ing? He did not. He indorsed him
by keeping silent. Can that, insult
ever cease to wrange in the bosom of
any true Georgian?
C. H. CUNYERS.
A THOMAS COUNTY MAN FEELS
GOOD OVER DORSEY VICTORY.
Dear Sir: Will you allow an old
Confederate Veteran, who has passed
his three score and ten years, to con
gratulate you upon the success of
our beloved Hugh M. Dorsey? Ho
swept the field with principles that
you have worked hard for; may
they still grow in Georgia and spread
into other states.
I regret so much that we could not
and did not, put Thomas county in
the Dorsey victory, but there being
so many small towns in that county,
and, as you know, birds of a feather
THE JEFFERSONIAN
to Negro Republicans.
pledged to fill every position for
merly held by negroes, with negroes.
Terrell’s appointment was held up
in the U. S. Senate from February
18, 1914, to April 24, 1914. Ben
Tillman, the man who raved over the
appointment of the negro, Crum, for
some months, was present at the ex
ecutive session that confirmed Ter
rell and did not vote against this
negro judge. Saulsbury of Delaware
dodged. Thornton of Louisiana,
dodged. Stone of Missouri dodged.
Kern of Indiana, dodged, and all are
rampant Democrats. This appears
in record, April 24, 1914. It was a
miserable surrender. Borah of
Idaho, a Republican refused to vote
for Terrell. This is recorded in
Congressional Record bearing date,
April 24, 1914. Anybody can see it,
who cares to look it up!
Wilson is worse than Taft or
Roosevelt —And now, “Judge Robert
H. Torrell, municipal judge,” is in
Georgia—working for Woodrow Wil
son, and it will require a good many
dollars to pay his expenses, as a Wil
son speaker!—“Come on boys, pay
your dollar.” And the Georgia Sena
tors are whooping up the president
in Northern States, while “Judge”
Terrell is whooping up Woodrow in
Georgia!
Atlanta is a place for rakeoffs! We
that are obliged to do business in the
city, are getting mortal tired of such
campaign orators. Hoke failed to
carry our Fulton County in the late
primary, but we will not fail to re
member Hoke, who allowed Wood
row to appoint the negro judge, over
the white men and women of Wash
ington City.
OLD TIMER.
, Atlanta, October 4, 1916.
stick together, and that let Nat get
the county by a small majority.
I was also sorry to see McDuffie
County did not go for Dorsey and I
feel sure you regret it as much as I
do. God bless you and yours my
brother, may you live long.
With my thanks and very best
wishes to you and all the force of
the Jeffs., believe me to be one of
your friends while life lasts.
God bless you, as ever,
M. S. CHESHIRE.
Georgia.
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QUESTIONS AS TO FRANK CASE.
Dear Sir: There is some disputa
here as to the question, the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and also of the
Lnited States passed upon in the Leo
M. Frank case. Will you publish in
next weeks Jeff the true questions?
Thanking you, I am yours very
truly. L. P. SMITH.
Swainsboro, Go.
(Answer.)
(1) The Supreme Court of Geor
gia reviewed the law and the evi
dence, deciding that no error of law
had been committed and that the
evidence of guilt was sufficient.
(2) The Supreme Court of the
U. S. was asked to say that “mob
atmosphere” and demonstrations in
fluenced the trial, and it decided that
no showing to that effete had been
made. t. E. W.
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