The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-23

orders Of the court
Thousands of Jews and Gentiles 4
believe an innocent man has gone to
his death. cau easily see how they !
ma believe this. Jews have been |
persecuted. murdered and robbed by |
brutal governments for generations. |
i myself believed and hundreds Of |
thousands Of others believed that the |
Mcnamara brothers who dynamited |
me Los Angeles Times were victims !
RI n conspiracy against organized /
labor, simply because organized labor
had always been prosecuted. / con-
tributed Of my meager funds to their
defense. only to find myself victim
led, even as the Jews have been vic
timized in the Frank case. My mon
ey. Ike the money Of the victimized
Jews, went toward corruption of wit
uesses and other illegal avenues for
. the Cefeating of justice. Proof and
/ indisPutable evidence there was in
plenty, even as there was in the
( Frank case. But organized labor, ac-
( CUstomed to persecution and faxed up
3 evidence, branded their evidence as a
network of lies, even as the Jewish
4 organizations branded the evidence
/ aga;nst Frank as lies.
But organized labor was wrong,
and the evidence produced against
the McNamaras did not lie.
Is it too much 10 believe Leo
( Frank even though a member of
that race which prides itself justly
that it is the most virtuous of races,
is guilty of the crime which all the
evidence shows that he committed?
Let US leave off, then, our TRADES
against Georgia. In this case, she
has been more sinned against than
SHINING. A Georgian.
One of the things that has been
most forcibly impressed on us in the
course of some thirty-odd years of
study of news-mal1ing events is that
the writer or speaker who takes>~ex-
treme ground, right or wrong, on any
public question, has no difficulty in
, making himself understood. But the
man or public journal that takes mid
Gle ground is often accused by people
who are on one side of being on the
, other. Yet what place except mid
die ground is possible for the con-
scientious man who is not sure that
either side is right?
We are somewhat disappointed in
our friend, Georgian" who is man
of more than average intelligence
and information, and who, he says,
reads the Star every day. Where did
) he see in it the assertion that Leo
, Frank was innocent, or any abuse of
r the people of Georgia? Hasn't the
| Star maintained the people of Geor-
r gia were as good as any other people
r and hadS acted only as the people OF
!. any other state would probably act
E Has it not maintained that a major
D ity of them firmly believed in the
: guilt of Frank, and would not have
/. insisted on his death if they hadn't
Why are these positive assertions OF
J, the Star on one side overlooked anC
n its arguments on the other side
(: pounced on so fiercely?
T So far from saying Frank was in
|, nocent, the Star has frequently saiC
d that the evidence against him wa.
}, very strong. 1t has only said, anC
d the great majority of the people il
/, the country join it in saying, that tn,
: evidence was not quite strong enough
It to hang him on.
: All the evidence the Star has, ant
o all the evidence 80 80 per cent o
r, the country have, and all the evidenc'
o 95 per cent of the people of GeoFgi;
n have, is in the Associated Press re
i ports. OF these the Star knows a
I? much as anybody and more thai
n most. We doubt that "the evidence
n that can be bought anywhere for ;
', dime" would be admitted in an.
Is court. We are told of much evidence
It given in the Frank trial that wa
l. never printed. No court has a righ
e to suppress any evidence given at ;
< trial, and the Star has never known
e the great newsgathering association
d to fail to obtain and publish all tn
# evidence at any famous trial in tn,
: United States.
e And so the Stars position has beer
d and is, that Frank was probabl.
d guilty and possibly innocent, and a
/ long as there was a possibility of hi
# innocence it was wrong to hang him
That is the general view of the coun
l. try.
# AS for the evidence that Slaton wa
l. bribed, there isn't any. Governo
k Slaton is public man; has been il
s the public eye'for years. He has al
d ways been highly thought of AM
d popular. He is well to do and had m
e. need to take bribe. He knew jus
Y, how unpopular the communication o
Y Franks sentence would make him; h
It knew it would put his life in danger
It II he was a law partner of Frank
ID attorney, it is impossible that
ID should not have been known to man.
men in Atlanta for the last tw
W years. If ROsser paid him a visit
If secretly, in the night, a few hour
% after the prison commission had de