The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-11-25
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sion on an Interesting feature OF the
FRANK case is from the esteemed Sa
vannah Press:
Our attention has been called
through the medium of the Charles
ton News and Courier to very re
n arKaDie statement printed in the
Baltimore sun in connection with ita
| investigation Vi the l.. NJ. Frank
case in Atlanta. SThe Sun sent a
special investigator to make diligent
INQUIRY into the Frank case, and il
printed lengthy review of the en-.
tire matter embelhshed with the
opinion and views OF the seeker
alter truth. lie gees over much well
worked territory that mas
been raked and narrowed and titled
by every newspaper man who has
seen put on this assignment. But
In addition he makes this charge:
There is no lack Of Responsible
men in Atlanta who weigh their
words ana who have no reason for
beng especially friendly to Frank
who say that the clamor from the
lower and Iessinformed classics
against Frank has inundated the
Judges, who are elected only for
four years. who usually want to be
reelected and who are under the
necessity OF being popular"
This arrangement OF the men who
SIT upon the bench in Georgia we are
lutte sure is undeseryed Were II
true that Judges a.e moved by popu.
Jar clamor, or whai ID made to .4oun.
Tor that, Frank would have Leen
granted new trial long before tnis.
We know of no representative news
paper, for instance, that is demand
ing franks life for the crime OF
which he has been convicted, but we
Gnow Of one that has made his fight
tor life It's light. AMI is demanding
tEat he be given another trial. Hun.
drcds of letters have been written
~ FRANKS behalf ana published ~
this newspaper, and the frank prop
uganda has been tireless in its eff.
forts at building up sentiment IN
favor OF the condemned man. And
Ne are qalte sure that IL a vote
should be taken today in Georgia il
would result in an overwhelming ma
Jotlty In favor OF his sentence being
cemmuted to life imprisonment II not
lor his full pardon.
No sane man in Georgia believes
that lntimidated Judges have ilept
Frank In the shadow of the sailows.
TO the contrary the man who prose
cuted him ana was urged to run for
governor by Few partisan support.
ers was atraif to make the venture
ana base his campaign upon the tact
that he had kept Frank from going
tree. II the conclusion Of the suns
correspondent is true wny would 1t
mol have been the natural conclusion
that Hugh Jersey should have been
elected governor of Georgia practical.
~ w reclamation?
The judiciary of the state is big
ger than the Frank case. II mas
withstood criticisms Of this kind ON
icrmer occasions, We do not know
a Judge in Georgia sitting upon any
superior court bench who We believe
would permit his opinions to he warp
ed by public clanor Il may be M
fortunate Tor Frank that this IL true
because, except perhaps, at his ini.
tai trial when we are advised there
Was sonle feeling among certain class
es in Atlanta against him, the whole
tenor q opinion among those who
nave spoken mas been in demanding
that he be either given new trial o..
that he be freed.
There are other states that elect
their Judges by the direct vote Of
The people and 20 sey that this plan
Ia Georgia gives us members of the
judiciary ruled by the will of the
mob puts the Judges in every state
that selects the wearers of the
egmlno at the ballot box in the same
category,
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