The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-22
WHAT SOME OF THE NORTH
FELT.

space 0HOuSH Ill your valuable paper
to say that wrong impression has
gone out regarding the feeling exist
ing IN the North. / read your paper
when | get the chance, and admire
the way you stick up for the right.
While it is true that lot Of people
IN the North, who have never mingled
with the good people of the South,
are under the wrong impression as
to how these people conduct them
selves, yet when they come here
and meet the people, the curtain is
lifted, and they appreciate the many
things they have to contend with.
And to my mind the South has been
criticised, when, if the Northern peo-
pie only knew the true state of affairs,
they never would raise their voice.
[ live in New York, and a glance at
the papers will show YOU how crimi-
nails are dealt with in my State
Becker is to die in the electric chair
for instigating the murder of a gam
bier. In your State (God knows my
head is bowed in grief with the good
people Of Georgia, for l have mingled
with them and have learned to love
them) Governor, either for gold or
thinking he would not receive the
universal condemnation of his people,
and tie all the Jews to his political
string, has let murderer and rapist
live. He did this in the face of all
the courts of this grand old State,
and without any reason therefor.
My stomach was made to feel weak
when [ read in the papers today
where he had the effrontery to re-
mark, when he handed the Seal of
State to his successor: ''This Seal
has not been abused while in my
charge If he felt that all the best
people are with him, why make the
\ statement? Why try to make the
buns and riff-raff take notice? Their
opinion does not amount to anything,
and they are not in the majority,
thank God. No, deep down in his
sinful soul he felt the pangs of guilt.
His reference to Jesus Christ is
shameful. Would he have the people
compare Leo Frank to Jesus (that
good man without any faults whom
the Jews crucified) Anyone who
knows anything about the Bible
knows that Jesus Christ was not ac-
cused Of murder or rape.
Stations successor must be a great
and good man He could not say
anything in his speech in behalf of
his unworthy predecessor, so he
doubtless stretched his charity
enough to say nothing at all upon the
Frank subject. Doubtless, he felt
that too much has been said, and
doubtless he feels that his State has
been outraged. He only used one
sentence which might be construed
as having any bearing on the awful
case. He said: 'Let us hope we may
have no more trouble" Possibly he
meant, let US have the law enforced,
and thereby avoid a recurrence of
this awful and willful notification of
the law.
Let not the man who has sold him
self be fooled into thinking that all
those who might not say anything are
siding with him. Let him not think
that he is held in respect by good
Jews Like Benedict Arnold. he will
be despised by those who bought him
and will die in ignomy and shame.
He brought it all upon himself, and
he has himself alone to blame. He
occupied position which he could
have gracefully gotten around if he
sor But when the Hon. Nat Harris
said that only the interests of Geor-
gia would be considered Franks law
yers knew there was no hope for hiri
except through man who was will
ing to say to the world ''The grand
Jury the petit iUry, the Supreme