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 Hutchinson.

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 were 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
tacks, the public should be informe /.
John Edmondson is known in At
ianta and throughout the State or
Georgia. He needs no defense from
me. as his friends and acquaintance
know that he would not operate
question: BILE house. The Hotel En-
pire in the Jackson Building, was
leased to him year or more ago Or
a period of five years.
Whether or NOT r. EdmondsOn
makes money from his lease, he mas
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. It is lmIni-
terial to the owners of the buildlns
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. --.,,...,d
the chief Of police if anything is
wrong in the jackson Building to
..nuIl il" before any other place.
Al the outset of the campaign
against protected vice l MADE inns
request of Chief Beavers in the pres
ence of several newspaper men
repeat the request to-day.
Furthermore, I have asked lhaiNlu,
uals. and | now ask them ana an
others. regardless Of their notiNes,
To have the Hotel Empire pulled II
thore is ANYTHING wrong with it, l
will gladly pay the fee Of any lawyer
who will convict any bellboy, clerk OF
proprietor in the place Of sancuonlns
any immortality And | shall consider
The showing up Of the place not as an
attack upon me, but as a personal
favor. ~,
What is more. Mr. Edmondson viii
consider it as a favor.
The Jackson Building is owned pN
five persons. the heirs of my fathers
estate. These also will thank the m
dividual that puts an end to anything
wrong upon their property.
And in future the public viii ap-
praise at their proper value the men
who in seeking to discredit a work OF
the churches of Atlanta. make at
tacks upon me which do not hurt me-
but iniure others who have done them
no harm.
l 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 W. JACKSON.
Here IS a statement by Edmondson;
Atlanta, Ca. June 10. 1919
MY attention has just been called
TO an article i'm Sundays American
wherein Carl Hutchinson states IN
substance that Mr. Marion jackson is
"A party to the keeping of disreputa-
bic house i'm the Empire Hotel in the
city of Atlanta
beg to state that / have leased
from the jackson estate, of which Mr..
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
proper manner Is slanderous and IN
true.
If Mr. Hutchinson can establish that
enc Of my clerks has ever greeted a
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