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V Luther Rosser perhaps never made a more impressive speech in all his long and distinguished career at the bar than he made on Friday when closing the argument for the defense in the Frank case. It was not such a speech as might be termed a finished oration. It was not characterized by many of the tricks of eloquence so frequently em ployed. It was not polished, and it was not rhetorically magnificent. It rang “like a bell in the Alps” with sincerity, however—and in that it was a compelling great speech, and it surely must have gone home, as the speaker intended. It carried a large measure of con viction, I think, to every man that heard it—Rosser believes Frank inno cent, though all the world take issile with him! And does real oratory achieve any higher end than convincing those to ward whom it 13 directed of the ear nestness and integrity of its pur pose? It was the last word for Frank—the final plea before his fate, so far as the defense was concerned, was given into the keeping of the jury. The speaker seemed to realize heavily the tremendous weight of re sponsibility upon him—Just as he showed all too plainly the wear and tear inflicted upon his physical make up by the long trial. Luther Rosser’s speech may not clear Frank—maybe it ought not to clear him.—but if so, nothing human, I think, COULD clear him. If Frank still was doomed when Rosser finished, he surely must have been doubly doomed when Rosser be gan! No Stronger Than Dorsey’s. As appealing as Mr. Rosser's ad dress to the jury was, however, it was not one whit more moving or forceful than was Dorsey’s—the clos ing argument for the State, and the last speech before the judge’s charge. The young Solicitor General knew he was to follow two of the most adroit and aggressive speakers in Georgia. He knew that it was to be no child’s play to batter down the wall of de fense set up by the combined genius of Reuben Arnold and Luther Ros- serl He realized, however, that he was rated by many as rather a novice in the art of criminal practice, despite his tenure of office as the State's rep resentative in prosecutions hereto fore. He had heard Rosser laugh at his youihfulness and had heard himself called “son” and “bud” too often not to know that every effort to belittle him was being made, and that every means to discount in advance what he might say was being put forth! Nevertheless, his sworn duty was plain. He was chosen some months ago by the people of the Atlanta Cir cuit to be their Solicitor General. He was on his mettle—the critical eyes I of all his friends were upon him, and the eyes of the people whose repre sentative he was—and he was spokes man for the mighty majesty of the law! And Dorsey rose to the full de mands of the occasion! That much may be said of him, sin cerely and in all truthfulness. From start to finish of the Frank trial Dorsey has been the aggressive, faithful and tireless agent of the State—and it is altogether and en tirely to his credit that he has been that and all of that! Both Bhowed Heavy Strain. Like Mr. Rosser, too, Mr. Dorsey shows the heavy strain he has been under for the past four months—for he has been employed almost exclu sively on the Frank case that long. When he had finished he evidently was exhausted utterly in his physi cal being. He had waged a long and gallant fight—from his point of view —and it had taken tremendous toll of his energy and nervous system. Opposing counsel have snapped ana Are You Sick, Diseased, Nervous, Run Down? H*v» You Blood Poison, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Troubles? IF 80. CONSULT (FREE) nr Hugh#*, Atlanta'a Long Established, Dr ' * |R*t Reliable Socialist. I cure to stay cured NXRVE. BLOOD and Skin Diseases, STRICTURE. 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One can not say how that attack impressed the jury—for the member ship of that body may or may not be so well acquainted with Hugh Dorsey as the general run of Atlanta people are—but It may well be doubt-, ed that it listened with any particu lar degree of patience when the charge of “conspiracy” was hurled at the head of the Solicitor General so vehemently! Those people who have pleaded and begged for fair play all the way around—who have insisted that Frank be given an absolutely Impar tial and unprejudiced trial—have laid much stress upon his heretofore un blemished business career. That was all right, for previous good character is an asset any man possessing it has a right to lean upon when as sailed. But if Hugh Dorsey, the Solicitor General, a man of utterly unim peached integrity throughout a life time in Atlanta, were a willing party to the maliciously wicked and inhu man "frame up” charged by the de fense, he would be as completely unworthy of the respect and esteem of this community as any person could be! “Frame Up” Charge a Mistake. When, therefore, the defense asks the public to believe, and the jury to believe, that Dorsey and Hooper— the latter for years a most honorable and approved prosecuting attorney In South Georgia—were deliberately and designedly parties to a “frame up” of evidence against Frank’s life and lib erty, is to ask the one to believe something it most certainly will NOT believe, and to ask the other some thing it should not, and likely will not, believe! It will be rated no more right to clear Frank through unsustalned and unfair charges than to convict him that way, I take it! Solicitors General in Georgia are not to be criticised for aggressively and vigorously prosecuting indicted criminals—that’s what they are there for—and they are entitled, in good faith, to seek the truth unmolested and in their own way and after their own fashion, unless it can be shown categorically that they are basely un worthy—and nothing approximating that has been shown, or likely can be shown, of Dorsey and his associates in this case. If the defense finds eventually that its attack on Dorsey has been resent ed, it will have nobody to blame but itself! The Frank case has been a most complex and strange proceeding. It has involved so many emotions, so many opinions, so many theories, and so many peculiar attributes, that it is all but impossible to make an in telligent forecast of the Jury’s finding Opinion in the street is varied, and generally not aggressively expressed. It is perhaps true that a plurality of those people who have kept the run of the trial, believe a mistrial is the best that may be hoped for. The case has been so long drawn out, so badly mixed up, and so hotly contested, that it seems likely the jury may hardly know exactly where the truth doeH dwell. It has been an expensive trial to Fulton County—it has cost well over $10,000—but that doesn’t matter so much in the public mind as that a Just and righteous verdict be found. There are those who look for a quick verdict of acquittal, just as there are those who look for a quick verdict of conviction. Few Expect a Quick Verdict. And yet there are relatively few who look for a quick verdict, one way or the other. People generally would be glad to see a verdict one way or the other returned—and the case disposed of. To think of going over all the Frank case again is appalling to most parties connected with it—and yet a mistrial would mean that, and noth ing more or less. The general opinion is that this has been a fair trial—as fair as human Intelligence and the most approved forms of law can make it—and that a verdict should result. While this is generally admitted, however, it is admitted simultaneous ly that the jury may have rather a difficult time getting at the exact truth, whatever it is. obscured as It has been by so many issues and argu ments, both ways, not altogether relevant or in point. The story has been told in its entirety, however—all but the last and closing chapter. The Jury has the telling of that— and all the public is asking is that the jury’s story speak the TRUTH of the matter, and the public general ly is prepared to accept the Jury’s verdict as the truth, I think, what ever it may be. AMERICA’S To Put Bust of Pitt In the White House Wilson Not Allowed HE OF TRIAL Man Accused of White Slavery Declares He Can Not Deny Girls’ Charges. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.—E. Drew Camlnetti, son of a wealthy and prominent family, whose father is politically powerful, to-day admitted that he was near a nervous break down over the approach of his trial, which begins Tit .ay before Federal Judge Van Fleet. Following the con viction of Maury I. Diggs, former State architect, on a charge of being a white slaver, Camlnetti must face the same charge and hear the same evi dence against him that convicted Diggs. In an intervJ v to-day he said: “I do not attem|L »o condone a breach of Federal law, but I am not a white slaver, and I will not plead guilty to the charge against me.” Caminettl will not deny the truth of any statement that Lola Norris makes on the witness stand. “When Man’s Sin Comes Home.” “God knows,” he said, “that it Is going to be hard for me and for Diggs, but infinitely worse for the two women in the case. I know from my experience before the trial. “That is where a mien’s sin comes j home to him. It is hard enough for all of us, but doubly hard for Lola Norris. As for Marsha Warrington, I feel, perhaps, less sympathy, for she used reprisal. Anything that Lola may say on the witness stand will have no denial from me." Not Reconciled With Wife. Speaking of the rumor that he was to plead guilty, Camlnetti said: “I am not guilty of any intent or action under the white slave law. I do not condone my offense, but surely it is only natural to say that this is an ofTei.se that is being com mitted by thousands every day and for which there is no Impeachment or even blame. "I am not afraid to face trial. I have sinned, but I have not sinned as this Mann act would make It ap pear. I can only hope that prejudice will be stricken from the courtroom when I am put on trial.” There has been no reconciliation between Camlnetti and his wife. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.—Owing to the objection of Representative Mann, of Illinois, a resolution grant ing President Wilson the right to accept and place in the White Houwe a bust of William Pitt, as a gift from an American woman now in England, the House failed to pass the measure. President Wilson sent a special message to Congress asking that he be permitted to receive the Pitt bust. “It teems to me that we should re member,” said Representative Ken nedy, of Pennsylvania, “that in the King’s closet at Windsor Castle, is a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. If they keep a picture of Jefferson in Wind sor Castle, we could well have a bust of William Pitt in the White House.” But he was overruled by Represen tative Mann. ON STYLE TRAT One Critic Declares Tailored Suit Will Be Garb Our Grandchil dren Will Remember. Granted Divorce on Ground of‘Nagging’ RENO, NETV.. Aug. 23.—James G. Shepherd, a retired coal operator of Scranton. Pa., has been given a di vorce here after charging his wife with many acts of cruelty. Mr. Shepherd alleged that his wife, Jennie, whom he married in 1899, objected to his going to church, spoiled his nine-months’ tour of Eu rope by nagging him, and threatened his life in 1900 with a revolver, which he wrested from her. He declare^ his wife finally drove him to nervous prostration. Man ‘Dead’ Nearly Forty Years Returns HAMMOND, IND., Aug. 23.—De clared legally dead two years ago In the Lake County Superior Court here. Mat Franzen, a former resident of Hobart, has been found alive on a ranch near Lewiston, Idaho, and has entered claims for a part of the es- state of his father, late wealthy farmer of Hobart township. Franzen left home In 1868. The last heard from him was In 1876. His relatives concluded he had been killed In an Indian uprising. White Plague Foes Plan National Rally Churches, schools, labor unions, fraternal orders and other organiza tions In the United States to the number of 200,000 at least will be asked to Join in the observance of the fourth National Tuberculosis Day December 7, according to am announcement by the National Asso ciation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. This movement will be participat ed in by the Atlanta Antl-Tubercu- losls Association, of which Hugh M. Willett Is president. The movement will be furthered by more than 1,000 antl-tubereulosls societies. Missouri Financier Killed Cranking Auto SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Aug. 23. James Burnes, aged 62, a retired banker of St. Joseph, Mo., having been president of the Empire Trust Company of that city, to-day suc cumbed to injuries received six weeks ago when he was crushed by an au tomobile. Mr. Burnes was injured in trying to start his automobile. He was cranking it when it suddenly leaped forward and knocked him to the ground. Says Her Husband Is Marathon Drinker MEMPHIS, Aug. 23.—According to a petition for divorce filed by Netta Eva Fowler, her spouse. William J. Fowler, Is the champion marathon drinker of Memphis. According to Mrs. Fowler’s allega tions. it’s a very poor day ofr ordinary performance when Fowler doesn’t put away from two to three quarts of whisky, Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Aug. 23.—What style 100 years hence will he thought to char acterize the epoch from 1880 to the present as panniers now’ characterize the eighteenth century and crinoline the second empire? This question, asked by the news paper Excelsior, has awakened great interest at the seaside resorts and has elicited many replies, of which perhaps the most significant is that of Leon Bakst, the Russian painter, Tvhose scenery for Russian ballets has made him world famous. “The tailored suit,” he writes, “alone endures through the multiple transformations of our styles. The accomplishment of this link between the dress of men and women, it seems to me, is the most interesting accomplishment of the modern dress makers. I believe the convergence will continue and that men’s cloth ing will be almost the same as wo men’s under the influence of modern sports. Any way, it is this con vergence which will astonish our grandchildren." Prince Lucien Murat, the painter, answers that the Oriental art intro duced in the Russian ballets ulti mately will characterize our times. Mme. Polignac Chabannes, the composer, believes the flat skirt to be the predominating tendency. Mme. Daniel Lesueur, the novelist, sees nothing especially choice except, perhaps, slender, pretty silhouettes, with coquettish stockings and shoes. Mme. Rachilde, the novelist, writes: “One takes the most exaggerated style as choice, hence ours will be the trousers skirt, with bolero jacket and turban hat.” “Our grandchildren,” declares Baroness Aymery De Pierre Bourg. the novelist* “certainly will paint ua somew r hat as mad persons, in clos ing the legs In a narrow circle and wearing Immensely wide hats so as to resemble mushrooms.” Survives Railroad Wreck Only To Be Killed by Street Car Out of bed only a few days, where he was confined as the result of a railroad accident, Ou A. Parker, of No. 789 Ashby street, was knocked down by a Marietta street car at the comer of Marietta and Ashby streets about 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. He died from his injuries two hours later. Street car authorities say Parker stepped in front of the car and was hit before the motorman could bring It to a stop. Parker was hurled ten feet. His skull was fractured and his right leg broken in three places. No relatives of Mr. Parker are known in Atlanta. 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And coming down to the doings of fash ionable Atlanta you will find that POLLY PEACHTREE was among those present at all the func tions of the inner circle, and will tell about them in her usual sprightly style. Moreover, baseball fans, as well as those who never see a game, will find a fascinat ing story in THE PLOT FOR THE PENNANT by Hugh S. Fullerton, which begins in this issue. So, why worry about your Sunday reading when you know that in addition to these great features and a dozen others, you can have all the news of the whole universe—sports, financial, foreign, political and local—delivered at your front door for 5 cents 1 Better clinch the bargain at once, and order from your dealer or by phoning Main 100. I \ I THE SCENIC WAY WITH DINING CARS r j