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No Substitutes R ETURN to the grocer all sub stitutes sent you for Royal Bak ing Powder. There is no sub stitute for ROYAL. Royal is a pure, cream of tartar baking powder, and healthful. Powders offered as sub stitutes are made from alum. The Herald and Advertiser 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. Looks Better; Lasts Longer. Costs Less Per Job Than the Other Kinds. Why not Buy It? For sale by W. S. ASKEW CO., New- tan. Ga. 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- Are Told How to Regain Strength and Vigor. As one grows old the waste of the system becomes more rapid than re pair, the organs act more slowly and less effectively than In youth, the cir culation Is poor, the blood thin and digestion weak. Vlnol, our delicious cod liver and Iron tonic without oil la the Ideal strengthener and body-builder for old folks, for It contains the very elements needed to rebuild wasting tissues and replace weakness with strength. Vlnol also fortifies the system against colds and thus prevents pneumonia. Mrs. Mary Ivey, of Columbus, Ga„ says; "If people only knew the good Vlnol does old people, I am sure you would be unable to supply the de mand. I never took anything before that did me so much good as Vlnol. It Is the finest tonic and strength creator I ever UBed in my life.” If Vlnol fails to build up the feeble, old people, and create strength we will return your money. T. S.—Our Saxo Salve stops Itching and begins healing at once. JOHN It. CATES DRUG CO., Newnan 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. With Lead, Zinc and Asbestos Paint It stands the test. The Government uses Lead, Zinc and Asbestos Paint. Will not peel or crack. Is perfectly white. We are doing the business. It seems to be just what the people want. High quality goods, and com petition not in the way. Let us have a little talk with you about paint. Johnson Hardware Co. ’Phone 81 Newnan, Ga. Farmers’ Supply Store Wi nter is about gone and the “good old summer time” will soon be with us. We will move the big stove out and have in its place ice water for our cus tomers and friends. We are out for all the GOOD business to be had for CASH OR ON TIME. We want satisfied custo mers, as they are the greatest asset in our kind of business. We sell nearly every article that is needed on a well-kept farm. Our prices are based on quality and consistent business principles. We wish to call your attention to the “Star” brand shoes. These shoes come direct from the shoemaker’s bench to the customer. These are the shoes that WEAR and please the wearer. We have a stock of select peas and sorghum seed for sale. Genuine Cuban molasses, direct from Cuba, in the old-time punchions. R L O U R We want everybody to have good biscuit, so ask you to try our “Desoto” brand of flour. We cordially invite all our friends, when in town, to come to our store. You will be always welcome. I. G. 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