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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, MAY 15.
W II A T II E t; O T O U T 0 F IT,
ll« novrr took n Huy of rent;
couldn't nil'ord it.
Ho rinv r hud IiIh trousers preusH;
He couldn’t iilT ird it.
He never went uwny carefree
To visit dintnnt lunds, to h«*«
How fair a tiluro thi•« world might he;
He couldn't alTonl it.
He never wont to hoc a play.
lie couldn't afford it.
llo« love for art he put uwny;
lie couldn't afford it
lie died and left his heirs u lot-
Hut no tall shaft proclaim the spot
In w hlcli he lies. I Hi: children thought
They couldn't aflord it.
I am Hure that my experience has
been that of every lawyer in Georgia
whose practice covered the same period.
As to prejudice against defendants on
account of their race, 1 never saw it,
excepting when a negro was accused of
crime against a white man. Even then,
I never kne w it to resist the testimony.
In the court records of this State there
are some marvelous cases that will sup
port my assertion. 1 myself lost to
Judge II. D. D. Twiggs one of the
most notable cases ever tried in
Waynesboro, where a young white man
was tried for the killing of a negro,
and convicted.
Detective Burns and the Frank
Case.
Thou. K. WntHon In The JefTomonian.
it iH a bad state of affairs when the
idea gets abroad that tire law is too
weak to punish a man who has plenty
of money.
Under our Bystem, the defendant in a
criminal case is given greater privileges
than anywhere else in the world.
When the pendulum swung away
from the extreme rigor with which, in
past ages, the supposed criminal was
treated, it never stopped until it had
swung to tho opposite extreme. There
it still restH.
In France, the first thing that hap
pens is a careful examination of the
accused by a magistrate skilled in the
business. No innocent man could pos
sibly object to such questioning.
None hut the guilty fear it.
ltut in our country we are so tender
ly considerate of the defendant that he
cannot bo made to answer a single
question, or furnish any of the evidence
against himRelf.
Because, in former times, prisoners
were tortured to compel confessions,
and were thus made to choose between
dreadful sulTering and self-conviction,
we go to the absurdly opposite, of al
lowing the accused to make any state
ment his lawyers may manufacture;
and tho State iB not permitted to punc
ture it with a legitimate cross-exami
nation.
Yet our common sense tells us that
none but the guilty would object to be
ing asked fair questions.
Under our system, the prisoner is al
lowed extraordinary privileges in the
facing of tho witnesses who testify
against him; in the separation of those
witnesses, so that one muy not know
what the others have sworn; in the ex
haustive cross-examination of those
witnesses; and in the preparation of
testimony overthrowing the evidence of
those witnesses.
More than that—far more than that —
the doctrine of “reasonable doubt"
stands beside the prisoner, all the way
along tho trial, a veritable Angel of
Mercy, armed with all the glorious
majesty of the Law, and saying to the
avengers of blood—"Prove hia guilt to
MY satisfaction, or you shall not harm
a hair of his head."
Not until tlint heavenly principlo-of-
justice has hoard enough, and has sadly
turned her back on the accused, with
drawing her divine protection, can the
jury and the judge, the law and the evi
dence, say, "Guilty!"
As I look hack over my own experi
ence at the bar an experience which
soon convinced me that I was too sym
pathetic by nature to prosecute any
body it is impossible for me to recall a
single case in which an innocent man
was convicted. On the contrary, there
was hardly a term of court at which I
did not see guilty men escape. The ex
treme tenderness of the law, the firm
impartiality of the Judge, the easq with
which shrewd lawyers for the defense
could confuse witnesses, the power of
eloquence in touching tho feelings of
the jury, and the never-failing power
of tho “reasonable doubt" where there
was any room for it-released men
whom the jurors themselves believed to
be guilty, but whose guilt had not been
legally established beyond a reasonable
doubt.
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In another leading case, tried in one
of our so-called "black" counties,
Judge Twiggs defended and cleared a
negro who shot and killed a deputy
sherifT.
The white officer was attempting to
arrest the negro. The black man was
in his own house, and the officer had
not disclosed his official character; con
sequently, the negro may have been
telling the truth when he claimed he
did not know what the white man was
trying to do. Under the law relating
to defense of habitation, and the law of
"reasonable doubt,” the consummate
advocate, Judge Twiggs, brought his
client off. (The jury, of course, were
white men.)
It would lie easy for me to cite other
instances, just as any other "old Geor
gia lawyer” can do it.
As to their being prejudiced against
the Jowb, that is arrant folly, never
heard of until William Jackass Burns
brought hia hot-air blast into this State.
One of the closest cases I ever had
was that of young Lichtenstein, the
Jew, who killed a Gentile at Swains-
boro. There wusn’t a Jew to testify,
and none to serve on the jury. Ab I re
member, the case was tried before
Judge Beverly D. Evans, who is now
on the Supreme Court bench, and one
of those honorable jurists whom the
Atlanta Journal accuses of being a par
ty to a "judicial murder."
The twelve men in the box were typi
cal Gentiles, neither better nor worse
than the twelve men who tried Leo
Frank. Although the prosecution of
Lichtenstein wsb pressed with great
vigor he was acquitted—and, as I have
intimated, it was a case that gave me
many an anxious hour.
Another case is that of the young
Jew of Macon, who went to a Gentile
woman’s own room, her legal habita
tion, and shot her to death, in that
room. A merciful Gentile jury eased
the crime down to manslaughter; a Gen
tile Judge, Kinchen Hawkins, sentenced
the murderer to 20 years in the peni
tentiary; and a Gentile Governor, Jos.
M. Brown, issued a pardon, after the
criminal had been in the State’s custo
dy one year.
Does this look like prejudice against
the Jews? Can anybody mention a case
in Georgia where Jews have been de
nied their legal rights? Can any Jew
give an instance?
Of all the booby blunderings of Wil
liam What's-hisname Burns, none was
more stupid than this—and none was
prompted by a baser purpose. He simply
wanted to arouse the Jews, and get
money out of the rich ones, caring noth
ing for tiie aftermath which his despic
able conduct might leave in its wake.
• * *****
When the noble Burns got back to
Atlanta from Marietta, ami was safe in
the Piedmont Hotel—with his jaws well
slapped-he began to talk again. Of
course. That is Burns' long suit. If he
could soil one-tenth of his talk at only
ninety per cent, discount, he'd be the'
richest man in America.
I think I said that Burns might trace
a lost cow, if she had a hell on her neck
and toted a red lantern on her tail. I
now take that back. I was too hasty.
My revised opinion is that Burns couldn't
even find a lost cow. unless she was
equipped with a wireless telegraph out
fit, and regularly flashed out S. O. S.
signals every time she stopped.
When Burns got back to the Pied
mont Hotel and resumed the conversa
tion which had suffered interruption at
Marietta, he expressed great indigna
tion at the beating he had received.
He said that it was an outrage, and that
neither he nor his man Lehon had done
a thing to provoke it.
If that is so, Burns has been badly
treated. Let us review the undisputed
facts, the recent facts, the ghastly
facts, the unforgettable facts.
•••**•*
There is a grave in Marietta, "a nar
row ridge in the churchyard, that would
scarce stay a child in its flight."
FEEBLE OLD PEOPLE
Let us place ourselves there, a mo
ment, and think.
When the aged fall on sleep we nat
urally grieve, but there is no shock-
nothing that makes the heart almost
stop beating. The old have lived their
lives, have emptied the cup of joy and
of sorrow. The silver cord is gently
parted; the golden bowl ia softly bro
ken.
It had to be so; it was always so; it
is the inevitable; and we reconcile our
selves to it, as best we may.
But when a young person dies a boy
just rushing into robust youth, a girl
just blossoming into radiant maiden
hood—there is unspeakable pathos in
the event.
We see them looking into the open
deor of Life, and see their eyes glisten
with hope, anticipation, fearless and
undoubting expectation; and then we
see them snatched away from the door,
the door closed to them, and the shroud
hiding them from our weeping eyes. It
is awful, and we never get used to it—
never in the world.
Such a wound, inflicted on the human
heart, never heals, always aches, arfd
in the dead hours of night wets the
sleepless pillow —as the desolate soul is
wrung with the agony which no halm
in Gilead can ever soothe.
And when that early and, to us, un
natural death comes to the young, in
the fearful form of crime, of lust, of
rape, of murder, how infinitely more
tragic and pathetic it is to see the
grave claim its victim!
There is just a little grave in Mari-
etta, in which lies a Georgia girl who
was born among ourselves, was hone of
our bone, flesh of our flesh; and she was
as dear to us as any other little country
girl whose beauty and whose sweetness
and purity win our love and respect,
whether she comes from the mansion
or comes from the hut.
If Mary Phagan had not been so poor
she would now be going to school in
Cobb county, as many other girls of
her own age are doing. If she had not
been so poor she would not have been
working for a trifling wage at a pencil
factory. If she had been a rich girl
she would be alive to-day.
Or, if not alive, but the victim of
that foul beast, Leo Frank, he would
not be alive.
She was poor, and she is dead. She
was poor, and the lustful villian who
hunted her down and took her life Btill
lives, handing out coolly from his cell
insolent statements about "the dead
lady.”
A few weeks ago every one of the
Frank references, direct and indirect,
classed Mary Phagan as a "factory
girl.”
Now she is “the dead lady.”
Why was she so persistently referred
to as “a factory girl?” Was it to con
vey the idea that all factory girls are
more or less shady? If so, the insult
is a disgrace to the lawyers who are re
sponsible for it.
Was it to convey the idea that be
cause Mary was ”a factory girl,” it
didn’t so much matter how she came
to her death? If so, the insult ia to all
honorable, right-thinking Georgians.
Have William J. Burns and Dan Le
hon done nothing to provoke the peo
ple of Georgia?
They came down here from the North,
after Leo Frank had been given aa fair
a trial as ever was given to any human
being. They came after the highest
Georgia court had reviewed the trial,
and found no reversible error.
They came after Frank and his able
lawyers had absolutely exhausted the
legitimate means of defense.
They came with airy arrogance to
assume that Frank never had been tried
at all. They came to rub out all that
had been done and to start anew.
To them, it was the beginning of the
case. The State’s sworn witnesses,
jurors and judges were mere nothings
— errant nonentities, unworthy a mo-
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Mrs. Mary Ivey, of Columbus, Ga„
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ment’s consideration by the Great De
tective.
They came boaatingly confident, and
virtually saying that the rich Jews of
Atlanta, New York and Chicago would
not allow Frank to be hanged.
They came to buy up the newspapers
of Atlanta, change public sentiment,
bribe witnesses, intimidate those whom
they could not buy; and to inaugurate
the vilest crusade of abuse against the
people of Georgia in the newspapers of
the North.
In short. Burns came to defeat the
law, protect crime, suppress the truth,
and to make himself morally the ac
complice, after the fact, to the hideous
crime which Frank had perpetrated
upon the little country girl who lies in
that grave at Marietta.
No provocation! If what Burns has
done, and attempted to do, is not a
provocation, what would be?
We are required to sit silent and im
passive while Burns slanders our peo
ple, heaps contempt upon our courts,
gluts our newspapers with Hebrew
money, threatens such witnesses a3
Monteen Stover, and attempts to con
coct a case on the imaginary criminal
who is still “at large.”
They bribe poor old Ragsdale to sign
a ridiculous statement —which we all
knew was false before Ragsdale con
fessed—and they use every dirty de
vice to change the evidence on which
the guilty man was convicted.
No provocation!
Why, blast his infernal hide! those
Cobb county people ought to have laid
him across a log and given him a hun
dred lashes with a buggy-trace!
• •
If there is one day in the seven ,on
which a Gentile girl might reasonably
suppose she was safe in her person and
her virtue, from a Jew, it was on the
Saturday, the Sabbath, when every
good Jew might be thought to remem
ber the God of his people, the Law of
the Covenant, and the awful punish
ment written into the unchangeable
Code.
Let that young man prepare to meet
Mary Phagan at the judgment-bar of
the Almighty. Let him make his peace
with his Creator!
His life is forfeit, and he must pay!
It must be understood, all over this
Union, that big money cannot buy EV
ERYTHING, in Georgia.
It must be understood that venal
lawyers, venal “detectives,” and venal
newspapers, do not buy indulgence for
rich people, in Georgia.
One law for the white, and the same
for the black; one for the Jew, and the
same for the Gentile; one law for the
rich, and the same for the poor—that’s
the way it must be in the grand old
commonwealth that hugs, in mother
earth, the bones of Lumpkin, Cobb,
Crawford, Pierce, Marshall, Mercer,
Toombs, Stephens, and Ben Hill.
That’s the way it has always been;
that's the way it should ever be; that’s
the way we Georgians must see to it
THAT IT SHALL BE.
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Wi nter is about gone and the “good old summer
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We have a stock of select peas and sorghum seed
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