Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-12
MARION JACKSON
AND HOTEL MAN
SET RIGHT
John Edmondson, Lessee of En-
Djre, 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
immateriaI
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. l am only
one of a committee. which commit
tee represents 80 per cent, If not
all, of the Protestant churches of At
lanta
Therefore, if the attacks injured
only me, ] should ignore them.
But when these attacks hit and hurt
not me, but innocent third parties, as
is known to those who make the at
lacks. the public should be informe !.
John Edmondson is known in At
lanta and throughout the State Of
Georgia. He needs no defense from
me. as his friends and acquaintance
know that he would not operate
pire. in the Jackson Building, vas
leased to him year or more ago EJr
a period of five years.
Whether or not r. EdmOnds)n
makes money from his lease, he has
to pay the rent, for the simple reason
that he is financially responsible m
dependent o. his connection with TINS
hotel Therefore on strictl'. business
principles. temporarily, II is lmn1-
terial to the owners Of the building
whether or not he makes money from
the hotel.
AT present he is losing mon "
through 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 DO not
frequent it for two reasons.
First Edmondson will not toler-
ate it. --..-5
The second is that have requested
tha chief of police If anything IS
wrong in the Jackson Building 10
pull it" before any other place.
At the outset Of the campaign
against protected vice ! MADE TINS
request Of Chief Beavers in the pres
ence of several newspaper men.
repeat the request to-day.
Furthermore, | have asked lndlVld-
mails and | now ask them and all
others, regardless of their motlnesl
10 have the Hotel Empire pulled II
there is anything wrong with II.
will gladly pay the fee of any lawyer
who will convict any bellboy, CLERK OF
proprietor in the place Of saucuonlhs
any immortality And ] shall consider
the shaving up Of the place not as an
attack upon me, but as PERSONA
favor.
What is more. Mr. Edmondson viii
consider ii as favor.
The Jackson Building is owned by
Ave persons the heirs of my tatner
estate. These also will thank the IN
dividual that puts an end to anything
wrong upon their property.
And i'm future the public VIII ap-
praise at their proper value the men
who i'm seeking 10 discredit work ut
thp 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 of
these men and their tools.
Since these attacks have reached
the public through your columns
would APPRECIATE your giving the
same publicity to this letter.
Respectfully,
MARION ". JACKSON.
Here is "a statement by EdmOndson:
Atlanta, Ga. June 10, 1913
NV attention has just been called
10 an article in Sundays American
wherein Carl Hutchinson states I'M
substance that Mr.. Marion Jackson Is
"a party To the keeping of a disreputa
bile house i'm the Empire Hotel in the
city of Atlanta.
beg To state that I have leased
from the jackson estate, Of which Mr.
Marion jackson is one of the heirs. a
hotel known as the Empire Hotel, IN
the city OF Atlanta, having been in
uossossion of the same since August
1912 and that any imputation that
this hotel has not been conducted i'm a
proper manner is slunderou- and un-
true.
If Mr. Hutchinson can establish that
one of my clerks has ever greeted d
guest VINO was about 10 register with
The language, with or without?
will give him 1000. and If he can not
asta bIiSh This if there is any manly