The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-07
PAGE EIGHT
What Edmund Burke Said Could
NOT Be Dome, Has Been Dome
I'm Behalf of Leo Frank.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

evidence Of Conley. You cannot learn. from
the Worlds history of the case, that anyone
excepting the negro, testified against Leo
Frank
Therefore, this great Democratic, metro
polltan newspaper, which is supported largely
by Southern patronage, lends its mighty in
fuence to the outrageous falsehood, that we
Condemned white man to die, upon the evil
dence Of one negro. who, by his own state
ment, was more or less of an accomplice.
Of course, every lawyer knows that such a
thing cannot be done, and that it never has
been done and probably never will be done.
But the World uses those mis-statements in
ats circulation among hundreds Of thousands
OF good men and women, who are not lawyers,
and who therefore, cannot know what a
shameful SANDER that is upon our courts and
our people
That idea of the case has gone abroad, and
as error can outrun truth, the truth probably
wall never overtake the falsehood.
AS an example, | find in the 'Rural
Weekly" of St. Paul, Minnesota, an article
by Herbert Quick, occupying the editorial
page, in which Mr.. Quick positively asserts
IAN eloquent prosecuting attorney got him
IFrank,) convicted on the evidence of
criminal negro, who lied over and over again"
Mr.. Quick further states that Frank was
"railroaded to conviction" and Mr. Quick
says that he cannot conceive that "a decent
man In the Governors chair, given the power
to do away with such iniquites, will let him
die"
The publisher of the Rural Weekly is L. B.
Ashbaugh and he claims for his paper a
circulation Of 287, 600 Assuming that five
people read each copy of the Rural Weekly,
100000 Northern people will read that rank
falsehood, and will never read anything which
will open their eyes to the real truth.
In the St. Louis Post Dispatch (which [
believe is Pulitzer paper) there are two
recent letters by VIM. Preston Hill, NJ. D. Phi.
ID. in which the State of Georgia is violently
arraigned.
VIM. Preston Hill, M. D. PHI D. starts out
by stating that "anybody who has carefully
read the proceedings in the murder trial of
Leo Frank must be convinced :. the whole
trial was disgraceful display Of prejudice
and fanatical unfairness. This whole
proceeding is disgrace to the State
of Georgia, and will bring on her the just
contempt of the whole civilized world
Everywhere thoughtful men will judge
Georgia to be filled with semi barbarous
fanatical people of low mentality and strong,
Uncontrolled passions, race to be avoided
by anybody who cares for liberty, order or
Justice"
Then to show what thoughtful man IS
VIM. Preston Hill, M. D. Phi. D. and how
carefully he has read the record in the case,
he proceeds to state that "Fq0qsk ecas con-
Victed on the unsupported evidence Of q dis
s0zate negro Of bad character" who was con-
tradicted in 20 different instances!
Then VIM. Preston Hill, M. d. Phi. d. gives
himself away by advising people to study the
case-how?
BY an examination of the record that went
up to the Supreme Court?
Oh no! Study it by the paid columns of
that shallow hack writer, c. T. Connolly, who
got bis idnaS Of the case from the .aeca lIu