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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
SATURDAY. WKITKMBKU 25. 11ml
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PICTURE ON OPPOSITE PAGE
shows just what was done on last Satur
day. In view of the Grand Jury’s state
ment, and the efforts of some of the
newspapers to include The Georgian in
the responsibility for the mob, we are
compelled to publish it.
The Grand Jury, the Mayor, the Council,
the Chief of Police | and
nearly everybody else seem
to blame the newspapers.
We insist thatTheGeorgian
shall not be included. The
Georgian printed no papers
other than the regular edi
tions Saturday nor since.
FULTON GRAND JURY
FIXES RESPONSBILITY
FOR RECENT RIOTING
The Foltpn county grand jury this morning unanimously
adopted the following resolutions touching the causes leading
up to the rioting in Atlanta on last Saturday night:
"Grand Jury Room, Atlanta, Qa., Sept 27, 1906.—We, the
members of the grand jury of Fulton county, Georgia, believing
that the sensational manner in which the afternoon newspapers
of Atlanta have presented to the people the news of the various
criminal acts recently committed in this county, haa largely influ
enced the creation of the spirit animating the mob of last Satur
day night, and that tho editorial utterances of The Atlanta
News for some time past have been calculated to create a dis
regard for the proper administration of the law, and to promote
the organization of citizens to act outside of the law in the pun
ishment of crime;
"And believing further that the distribution by The Atlanta
News of sensational and heavy-leaded extras on Saturday night
among a large crowd of excited men and boys who thronged tho
streets, greatly inflamed the crowd and promoted tho formation
of the mobs:
"Therefore, resolved, That the sensationalism of the after
noon papers in the presentation of the criminal news to the pub
lic prior to the riots of Saturday night, especially in the case of
The Atlanta News, deserves our severest condemnation, and we
trust that, in the interest of law and order in Fulton county,
there may be for the future a cessation of such journalistic
methods.’’
A. J. West, Foreman j B. M. Blount,
J. R. Nutting, Edwin Kingsbery,
John M, Gretn, Frank Hawkins,
f Alonzo Richardson, Wm. J. Davis,
James M. Couper, George E. King,
Ernest Woodruff, George W. Sciple,
Albert Steiner, J. W. Cotton,
W. H. Kiser, L. H. Beck, , ■;
Demps Perkerson, S. C. Huff. iSwf,
We have always moved along steadily
and carefully, and have considered the
best interests of all the people, and in
justice to itself, The Georgian shall en
deavor to set itself right with all its readers.