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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16

ever, on the unsWorn statements of interested
parties!
Let us go to the record and see what the
witnesses said under oath
That's the only way to try law case.
We did not carry this Frank case into
the newspapers; the other side did it.
The Jeffersonian never said one word
about the case until after the Atlanta Jour
nal came out with a flaming editorial, accus-
ing the jury and Judge R0on, and our ST.
p9e3ne court Of INTENDING TO COMMIT
"yUDICIAL MURDER!"
That editorial was published on Tuesday
evening, March 10, 1914.
1t marked new era in Southern journal
ism. Never before had any newspaper ar
raigned the judiciary, after the highest Court
had announced its final decision.
Remember the facts! Judge Roam had
most carefully and conscientiously consider
ed the motion for new trial. and had re-
fused it.
that the evidence was sufficient to support
the iurys verdict.
Then the case was taken up to the SUI
preme Court, and one of the points made by
Franks lawyers was that the verdict was
contrary to the evidence
Therefore, the Supreme Court had to say,
and did say, qohethcr the Evidence qoaS suff-
cient; AND THE COURT SAID THAT
VERY THING, to-wit: 1t aoa8 sufficient!
(See 141st Georgia Reports, page 284, and
Goth head note).
Yet the two lies that have been told oft
enest, and used with more effect, perhaps,
than all the others are,
~ That Judge Roam considered the ev-
idence insufficient, and,
(2) That the Supreme Court of Georgia
did not, and could not, pass on the evidence
at ALL
q notice that the Savannah railroad law
yer, Samuel Adams, has repeated that stale,
but popular falsehood).
The Supreme Court said:
"T'hc record IN this case IS vozun2in0u8.
We have attempted to group the various as
signments Of error SO as to bring the deci-
sion within reasonable bounds.
We haze QiUeR CAREFUL CONSIDER
ALTON TO TIE EVIDENCE, and aoe be-
Ecre that the same Is sufficient to uphold
the rerdict, and as no substantial error was
committed in the trial of the case, the discre-
ton ofthe Court (Judge ROAM "in refus-
ing new trial, will not be disturbed"
In spite Of this language in the decision it.
self the assailants of Georgia and the de-
tenders of Benedict Arnold, who betrayed
us, continue to assert that the Supreme
Court did not consider the evidenced
The decision covers 81 pages of close
print; the dissenting justices occupy %
pages, and the dissent of the two justices
was not based On the insuficiency Of the evil
dence to support the verdict.
Upon what point did Justices Fish and
Beck differ from their four colleagues?
| will quote their own words:
at is perfectly clear to us that evidence Of
the prior acts Of zaScivi0uSnesS committed
By the defendant aoith other qoonaen, at or
near the place where deceased was assaulted
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16

the right to be Judged By the evidence of
Sa0or7a witnesses, all of whom were put
through the ordeal of discrimination?
Be fair to us, and JUDGE Us BY THE
SWORN TESTIMONY; that's all we ask
of you.
Is it asking too much?
ARE you UNWILLING TO GIVE
IT'S 4 HE4 RTNG2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
THE REPUBLICAN SUCCESS.

Significant, indeed, is the announce
ment from the White House that there
will be no comment from that source
on the results of elections in the sew
eral states. 1t is nothing more than a
confession that there was little if any
thing in them that might bring cheer
and solace to the Wilson administra-
ton. And this is a fact. If off-year
elections are an indication, as it is in
sisted that they are, of the sentiments
of the people in the states where they
are held in respect to the national adj
ministration, those of Tuesday cannot
possibly be construed as anything ap-
preaching an endorsement of the pres
ent regime at Washington. The re-
verse then becomes true. OF course,
the wise men in the Democratic coun-
ellis will be busy for the next few days
with explanations and interpretations
that will tend to show that the state
elections of Tuesday and their results
are of no national significance. 'Lo-
cal conditions" and this and that will
be emphasized. But the outstanding
facts are that the results of thu cleo
tions were generally most favorable to
the Republicans and their party. And
this is about all the evidence needed
that the Republican party has started
to come back" and is travelling
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
WORD FROM THE OUTSIDE.

Much has appeared in the newspa-
pers of late concerning Edward Pay
son Ripley, president of the Santa Fe,
and his accomplishments in that posi-
ton. Most of it, of course, has been
written by reporters and editors. And
perhaps a word from the outside will
not be unwelcome. One such is voiced
by Mr.. H. C. Hall, of Udall, Kan, who
favored this paper with his opinions
in the premises, as follows:
Shakespeare says a good play
needs no epilogue. Neither does the
history of some men need a eulogy. To
use some comment should, rather than
be understood in the form of an
eulogium, be known as plain record
of how a man does
Mr.. E. P. Ripley, president of the
Santa Fe, in a public way does edify
and dignity the high position. Other
railroad presidents of whom less can
be mentioned, have, so far as general
observation in the past has gone, got
by with the presidency and so far as
fulfilling the requirements of the time
have done comparatively well. In a
public or rather discursive way, all
we have of many is about a para
graph from strictly a financial point
of view. They make no utterances
worth while respecting the relations
of the railroads and the public. Times
are changing. The railroads and the
nave conspicuous ICldlIOhS Will
each other, and the president may or
may not do justice by these relations
whether he does or not the people will
know it.
so far as the better interest of the
railroads and the better interest of
the people are identical, it comes as
being in very bad form to have the
interest of both left entirely to po-
, litical speculation Some politicians
are just and speak only upon qualifi-
cation; some are corrupt, and would
be wise, and have no hesitation in
taking the advantage of whatever
misinformation might yield to their
better interest. If a politician, as a
result of misinforming the public sue
ceeds in carrying out his project, who
believes that for the sake of the truth
he would be willing to reverse the
existing condition of the election if it
terminated in his defeat?
Henry Clay said he would rather
be right than be president. 1t made
his name imperishable- Some politi-
clans have reversed the noble senti-
ments of that distinguished Kentuck-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
Jayh awker Jots

Several Kansas towns are complain
ing of a shortage of houses.
Wheat has become so valuable that
thieves are stealing it in western
Kansas.
A Kansas widow is suing a paper
for saying in an obituary that her hus-
band went to a happier home.
The Lyons people report 291 adults
and SIS babies using the community
rest room there in one day recently;
Az a place of rest Lyons may yet rival
Philadelphia and st. Louis.
The report that the men who have
purchased the Wright Brothers aero
plane plant intend to reduce the price
on these machines hasn't caused the
good roads boosters to pause in their
work as yet.-Leavenworth Post.
OF course Kansas had to get in. In
addition to reaping a harvest from the
European war through the sale of its
grain and livestock, it is deriving an
enormous profit from the sale of wal
nut lumber to be used in making gun
stocks. Wichita Eagle.
Professor Mutt of Kansas university
claims to have invented an instrument
by which he can measure child's
mental capacity. 1t may be. In this
age it will not do to dispute anything
without proof, but really, says the
Leavenworth Times, Professor Nuts
name is rather suggestive.
Charles F. Scott admits that nothing
exaSperateS him more than to see a
big strapping man walk down the
street accompanied by his small and
wizened wife carrying the baby. This
prompts the Chanute Tribune to COM
mend Mr.. Scott for his righteous in
.dignation and to add that the Register
editor is adopting the right policy if
he would succeed in lining up the
women vote in his race for senator.
The Kansas and fede raj health au-
thorities, who recently barred Fort
Scott water from use on Frisco trains
because of its alleged impurity, have
had one put over on them. The Frisco
company has been getting it's water
from a fountain somewhere down the
line that is acceptable to the state and
federal health departments. This wa
ter is shipped into Fort Scott for use
on trains and by the employees. The
other day the city water department
had a physician slip into a Frisco
coach. steal a specimen of the accept
ed water and send it to the state
chemist for analysis as a sample of
Fort Scott water. He has analysed it
and has advised the city that it is Jun
fit for human consumption Fort
Scott Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
SUFFRAGE MERELY DELAYED.

Woman's suffrage would seem at
first glance to have met with a crush
ing defeat in the elections of Tuesday
by the tremendous majorities that
were rolled up against it in New York,
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. But
these defeats will only serve to stiffen
the purpose of the suffrage workers
to fight on with more determination
than ever, so the defeats of Tuesday
are nothing more than a postponement
of the day when the cause will tri-
umph even in those states where it
received such apparent serious set
backs on Tuesday. There must be
eventual success for a cause that is so
just And if folk will take the trouble
to look up political history they will
find that the struggles of the men for
universal suffrage for themselves were
as long drawn out during the first
quarter of a century of the life of this
country as that of the women has
BEEN In some of the states where
woman's suffrage was defeated on
Tuesday all of the men did not have
the right to vote until as late as 1880
or whereabouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04

to handle the cotton situation, and
scores of other purposes. There are
already 100 many commissions. The
expense of them is enormous. Until
there is budget system, the people
of the country will not be able to
know how much these commissions
are costing, but it is probable that
the figure is about SIS, 100000 a year.
Moreover, new offices constantly are
being created by congress, as for in
stance, at the last session, when the
new banking law created five new
offices with salaries of $4,000 each.
and increased the salary of the comp
trolIer of the currency from $4,000,
at which sum it had remained for
many years, to $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
AUTUMN MEMORIES,


When the goldenrod blooms by the hedge
rows
And the locusts are loud in the trees
when the autumn haze dims the horizon
And the odor of falls in the breeze,
Memories long lying dormant
In some out of way place in my heart
Awake, and with fingers unsteady
Inc curtains of yesterday part.
A white school house stands on the prairie,
The wide fields lie warm in the sun,
Inc children are thronging the play ground
For the season of school has begun.
among the gay group in the school yard,
And gayer than all of the rest,
Is one that my eye ever follows,
The one that nv boyhood loved best.
She touches my arm only lightly
AND thrill as none but a lad;
she tosses smile DER her shoulder
And sends my heart beating like mad.
That was yesterday, far away yesterday,
Win It's dreamfngs, its hopes and its
How great and far reaching the changes
Wrought by the hurrying years.
Inc schooI mouse is gone and the wheat
fields
Now. wave where the children once ram
The playmates in far lands are scattered,
The lad has grown into a man.
Yet, whenever haze wells the distance
And the odor of falls in the breeze
And the goldenrod blooms by the hedge
rows
And the locusts are loud in the trees
Inc VISIONS of childhood come thronging,
And among them, more clear than the
rest,
Is girlish face dark eyed and dreamy,
The face that my boyhood loved best.
IMRI ZUMWALT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
MILLIONS FOR COMMISSIONS.

1t may well be said that the govern
ment is running amuck in the estab-
lishment of commissions, writes
Thomas F. Logan iE Leslie's. At the
last session of congress bills were in
troduced to establish nearly zoo COM
missions of various kinds, including
waterways, railway mail, International
commerce, industry, to codify the
mining laws, to take charge Of
finance, to enroll Indians, to arbitrate
labor disputes, to survey the battle
field of The Crater at Petersburg, Va,
to rule the corporations. to handle the
conservation problem for water pow
er, fine arts, to provide a tablet to
mark the birthplace of Thomas JEFF
ferson, to settle the Colorado coal
strike, to fix the rate of exchange be-
tween gold and silver using countries,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
When marriage is a failure 1t isn't
always a case of bankruptcy.
Beauty is only skin deep, but is that
any reason why a woman should be so
shallow?
Every man should carve out his own
fortune, but he needs pretty sharp
tools these days.
Some men seem to think they are
above reproach just because they hap
pen to be stilted.
1t is just as we'll to confess a weak
ness. Sometimes it enables you to
conceal a greater one.
You never can tell. There are times
when the smooth talker will use pretty
rough language.
Wigg-"I wonder how old Miss
Antique is?" Wagg-"Well, 10 years
ago she confided to me she was %. so
now 1 suppose she must be about 30"
Milly-"Scientists tell us that kissing
is mighty dangerous" Billy-"That's
right. A girl never knows what she
might catch that way; even hus-
band"
Willie-"When father starts to drive
the sprinkling car, can 1 ride on be-
hind?'' Wi1lie's Mamma-'The sprink-
ling car? What are you talking
about?" Willie-"Why, I heard him
tell Uncle George he was going on the
water wagon the first of the month"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Patience is largely devoted to fish
ing and other outdoor sports
The days are growing shorter, and
the coal pile will soon follow suit.
While the office should seek the
man the reverse is true about a job.
You can walk quite a ways around
pool table without getting anywhere.
1t is usually easier to get encour-
agement than to raise the necessary
capital.
It is difficult to make a boy
ashamed of himself by telling him he
ought to be.
take a great deal to discourage him.
You may have observed that the
Young Thing rarely regards work as
an accomplishment.
The fact that his writing was hard
to read wasn't what made Horace
Greeley a great journalist.
Eggs are useful. but not particular
ly ornamental when used as a decor
alton for vest or shirt fronts.
After a man has been married a
few years he doesn't blame a bride
groom for having stage fright
The way some personals should
read: Jude Johnson is in town.
Thought his creditors ought to know
Dresses are being worn so short that
the celebrated London busman now
has a lot of company. You know him,
AL
If you ever start in that general di-
rection, stop before you get so you
can tell one brand of booze from an
other.
A henpecked man just dropped in to
remark that there isn't necessarily
such difference between the lady
and the tiger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
FULL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau OF Odrcu11o0n1-
American Newspaper PubNAheEw
Association.

A battle of the size of Aqua Prieta,
that is considering the number of men
involved on both sides, would be a
trifling skirmish in the European war
and would be fought to a conclusion
in about eleven minutes, while this
Aqua Prieta affair promises to con-
tinue indefinitely. But then the Euro
pean generals have something to fight
with besides their mouths. A consid-
cradle part of a Mexican engagement
is devoted to threats and counter
threats, boasts and counter-boasts,
and the issuing of manifestos of one
sort and another by the leaders of the
opposing forces. Then when the time
finally comes for fight one side runs
away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
R1DDER's UNTINIELY END.

Fate's capers are cruel. Probably
no man in the whole country was
more intensely interested in the war
and it's outcome than Herman Ridder,
the distinguished editor of the New
Yorker Stats Zeitung. Nor did Ger
many have a stronger or more power
full friend here, a more earnest cham
pion and fighter for what he deemed
a square deal for Germany on this
side of the Atlantic. Yet no one
could rightfully question the fidelity
of Mr.. Ridder to this, his adopted
country. And now death has stepped
in and called Mr.. Ridder to his grave
before the war is ended. Possibly
his un1iring and enormous efforts in
behalf of his Mother-country has
tened his end. They may have been
unacceptable to many Americans, but
then the man who forgets his Mother,
or his Mother-country in her hour of
travail is the poorest kind of a stick,
after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04

ian and in evidence of their projects.
motives and acts, have said they would
rather be elected than be right. II all
the railroads in the country, like the
Santa Fe, had been defended from
their most eminent sources their con-
dition generally would be better.
THE railroads and the people are
as yet to have the right kind of ap-
probation of each other. What If in
a railway accident a man should get
a sprained ankle and the court award
him a damage of $1,000 and within
few weeks afterward he is entirely
We'll? He congratulates himself on
his fortunate accident. Should this
in any sense on the part of the public
give cause for just Indignation? 1 do
not think it would. 1t is because the
force of argument and the overwhelm-
ing weight of opinion has always been
on the wrong side.
I'm some probability Mr.. Ripley has
set new precedent, and it works well
to the best interest of Ardmore, Ok,
that the accident happened the
Santa Fe instead of some of the roads
of late gone into bankruptcy, or as
generous a concession could not have
been offered. While this, together
with the damage done by the Calves
ton storm have reached enormous por
portions, the president not only assum
ed the responsibility in question, but
at once in the most practical way sub
mitted the matter to the people of the
city for their own adjustment. If in
this way the damages awarded are as
reasonable as might have been award
ed by the courts, both the city and the
company will be the winner It will
eliminate court costs and in being
fair and equitable should reflect the
confidence expressed in the city by the
company"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
Kansas Comment
THAT ILLINOIS EXECUTION.

THAT ILLINOIS EXECUTION.
That situation, surrounding the exc
cution of Deberry, the negro, at Muir
physboro, which has developed be-
tween the sheriff and the governor of
Illinois, shows that capital punishment
would not survive in this country if
executions were held publicly. Gov
ernor Dunno is indignant because the
execution took place in the presence
of large and morbid crowd. He says
that it lacked decorum, decency and
privacy. The sheriff retorts that the
killing of Deberry was carried out in
accordance with the law and the order
of the court. The sheriff is telling
the court that a man be hanged by the
neck until he is dead does not con-
template any supervision over the de-
pertinent of the audience. And, when
all the facts are out and the sheriff has
established his case to the governor,
it will be found that the affair was
solemn enough. AS a matter of fact,
solemnity can not be kept out of an
execution. Even the lawless drunken
mob of lyncherS recoilS from its own
work, and in the cases where electro
cution is employed the identity of the
eXecutioner is not disclosed, largely
out of respect for him. Capital pun
ishment is a survival of barbarism.
The grim officers, the newspaper re-
porters. the quota of visitors permit
ted, all leave a death chamber with a
feeling of loathing and disgust for the
deed. Private execution will keep
capital punishment going for decades
probably. Public executions would
soon wipe it out. But private or pub
lie, it is a method of the law that
civilization sooner or later will forbid.
Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04

could have been more nearly correct,
noted Virginia's critical eye.
She was introduced to him ct once
and the tete-a-tete that followed over
their teacups was interesting-so in
teresting that Virginia was full 20
Overlooking when she got home.
"Father!' she cried to that aston
ished gentleman, 81 met Mr.. Shaw,
the man from the west today, and
he's grand, just grand I think he
knows everythjngi And what's the
difference if he doesn't dance? Say,
do you know" coloring guilty, ''he
helped the police to track the thief
that stole his aunt's diamonds. They
found him in a fashionable restau
rant last night. They say he is very
good looking andf superb dancer I
think he was IA servant or some
thing in the house!"-iC copyright,
1915, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04

OF all the questions, causes and
parties that were put to a test in the
Tuesday elections, the poorest show
ing, without a doubt, was made by the
Bull Moosers. There doesn't seem to
be even remnant or the Progressive
party left. and in some of the sections
where it was strongest. Maybe Victor
Murdoch saw the handwriting on the
wall and that's why he figured he
could spare the time from whooping
it up for the Bull Moose cause and go
to Europe as a war correspondent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-04
From, Other Pens

EVANGELISTS NOT ABOVE LAW
Arbitrators in a libel suit started
against an evangelist in Wilkes-Barre
have awarded $2,700 damages to the
plaintiff. Three similar suits against
the same man are awaiting trial. All
accuse him of making false and de-
famatory remarks about them while
he was conducting revival services in
HaZelton. This is in line with the
action of a congregation in an Ohio
city some time ago in refusing to al
low an evangelist to continue holding
services in it's church on account of
some of his unbridled remarks. All
these instances GO to show that evan
gelists are not above the laS.-Pitts-
burg Post.