Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11
MARION JACKSON
AND HOTEL MAN
SET RIGHT
John Edmondson, Lessee of En-
pire, Denies Statements Made
Public by Carl Hutcheson.

The following letters given to The
Georgian in reply to charges made
by Carl Hutcheson explain them
selves
Editor The Georgian:
Attacks upon myself personally are
immaterial.
They We're expected. Others will he
made But protected vice can not re-
vive itself in Atlanta by slandering
me or any other individual am only
one of committee, which commit
tee represents 90 per cent if not
all. of the Protestant churches of Al
lanta
Therefore, if the attacks injured
only me, I should ignore them.
But when these attacks nit and hurt
not me. but innocent third parties, q
IS known to those who make the at
taeks. the public should be informe /.
John Edmondson is known in At
lanta and throughout the State "t
Georgia. He needs no defense nom
ne. as mis- friends and acquaintances
know that he would not operate
pire. in the jackson Building, was
leased to him a year or more ago tJF
a period Of five years.
Whether or not +. EdmonGS1n
makes money from his lease, he has
10 pay the rent, fOr the simple reason
that he is financially responsible, IN
dependent az his connection with TINS
hotel. Therefore. on strictl~ business
PRINCIPLES. temporarily. it is imma-
H.Fz snf
whether or not he makes money rom
the hotel
At present he l. losing mon y
rhrogeh no fault OF his. but through
attacks Of members Of the under
world and its defenders made upon
me personally. The continued SIAN
ders deter decent people from gong
To the hotel. The other KIND 90 not
FREQUENT Il for two reasons.
First Edmondson viii not toler-
ate it. --.,..,,d
The second is that ! have requested
the chief of police If anything is
wrong in the Jackson Building TO
"pull ID" before any other place.
Al the outset Of the campaign
AGAINST protected vice ! made TINS
request of Chief Beavers in the pres,
crcc % several newspaper men.
repeat The request to-day
Furthermore I have asked lnoiN To-,
nails and I now ask them and an
others regardless, Of their motives,
1 10 have the Hotel Empire pulled ~
4 re is anything wrong with H.
win gladly nay the fee of any lawyer
VITO win convict any bellbo>, clerk or
uroprfetor in the place of sanctionlns
anv immortality. And / shall consider
the showing up of the place not as an
attack upon me, but as personal
favor. I'm
What is more, Mr.. Edmondson VIII
consider il as favor.
The Jackson Building Is owned oS
ave persons the hcirs of my iatnelTs
estate. These also will thank the m
divldual that puts an end to anything
wrong upon their property.
And In future the public VIII ap-
nralsp AT their proper value the men
who in seeking to discredit a work oil
the churches Of Atlanta, make at
tacks upon me which do not hurt me-
but iniure others who have done them
no harm.
have only pity for the blindness oil
these men and their tools.
Since these atta,k have reached
the public through your columns l
would appreciate your giving the
same publicity to this letter.
Respectfully,
MARION w JACKSON.
Here IS a statement by Edmondson;
Atlanta. Ga. June 10, 1913.
NY attention has Just been called
TO an article IN Sundays American
wherein Car HUtchesOn states IN
substance that Mr.. Marion Jackson is
a partv to the Keeping of disreputa-
BILE house in the Empire Hotel in the
city of Atlanta
/ beg to state that I have leased
from the jackson estate, Of which MI.
Marion Jackson is one of the heirs,
hotel known as the Empire Hotel, In
the city of Atlanta, having been IN
possession of the same since August,
1912 and that any imputation that
this hotel has not been conducted in a
proper manner is slanderous and I'M
true.
If Mr. Hutcheson can establish that
enc Of my clerks has ever greeted
guest VINO was about to register with
the language with or without
will give him $1,000 and if he can not
establish this. If there is any manly