The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-30
WOAlAN'S BELIEF IN FRANK,
A Letter Sent to Him to Show South.
crn Womanh0Od's Attitude In Case.

New York Times.
The Times has received q copy OF
following letter written by Mrs. Pattie
Stone Of Farill. Ala. to Leo. M. Frank
who Is under sentence OF death at At
lanta, Ca, for the murder Of Mary
Phagan. The letter was written, Mrs
Stone says. so that the belief Of South
ern women that Frank Is the victim
Of "a lie born Of alcohol in the testi-
mony of the negro. Conley, might be
known. Here is her letter:
Farill, Ala, Dec. IL. 1914.
Mr.. Leo Frank, Atlanta. Ga.
Dear Sir: The hearts Of the women
Of the South who have made a per-
sonal and q prayerful study of
your case are broken over the way
the Georgia court has treated you. /
have done what ! could to make the
unknowing see the light Of truth and
justice. but I find the ones against
you are hypnotized with the tale Of
that debauched and drunken negro
so much SO that they have never
studied the case from q human mature
standpoint.
From the abundance Of the heart
the mouth spsaketh. Every word
from your Aps stands challenge to
every word from the lips Of the negro.
Your beautiful rhetoric stands out in
contrast to the rum-besotted notes of
the negro. The Fountain cannot
send forth both bitter and sweet. 1t
was as impossible for you to drop to
the state OF the negro. as it was i'm
possible for the negro to have risen
to your position.
live in the country. and I read the
closely, and studied your
case as I did the Dryfus case, and I
saw that you had even more to con-
tend with than Dryfus did. for /
felt that the lie Of the negro had
burned itself into the mind Of the
mob, and that there was no man
there to fire into tho mob. And
yet. have never felt the super
iority Of man as I have felt it
since your martydrom. Just to think
we can make ourselves q part that
the mob cannot touch! How surely
and truly the Christian heart has felt
this since your Imprisonment. hope
to God that your people will not get
the Christian mixed up with the
Georgia court.
II the worst comes to the worst in
our lives. our souls are ours to rise
triumphant. I feel that from your
prison cell will 60 light into dark
places hat will rouse sleeping souls
into horror that the word Of drunk.
en- negro stood for more than the
truth Of sober people. and that this
will work against alcohol and agains
ignorance. prejudice and ungovern
able passion.
Your God and my God Is the sam
though you In your way know Hir
and I in my way know Him; and +.
In His way knows us ALL and as +.
children. We will I'll. In the end. %;
saved from the powers OF OWL. -.
Is enough. though 1t Is hard t a.
reconciled to pain and misery.
II there Is aught that ca d, /
will be 50 siad to know ii. Iv.sh ''-
preachers would set q spec i.~
for US all to pray that the 80 .'
truth will be revealed to you" .. "'.. g
before 1t is too late. so u .5 ,h.r
world goes. I fear that 80 !. aH
that is left to us; but tt . .'H' "a
to know. The good a.'.,I .. ne
South know you as t ~.alJyr } a
lie that WIS born Of ot,oc.
Yours In deepes -,Ip'''
(Mrs it'.7 -,"ne.
In q postscript. 49,. ..e' e let
ter be made public il e.. N-r,n. Mrs.
stone adds:
"For I want the ,pla 'N g" that
there Is a multitudo 90. I,af., in the
South as much o. ied g. ,.e great
and cruel injusticc .,1, >. u. by a
hypnotized mob. a.. >. h is.
LAWYERS UNIT ToU FRANK.