The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-02
THE JEFFERS OMAN

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leaves all language powerless to condemn the
h1deous bafbarity. 1t is not a question Of
whether Frank was guilty innocent of the
hideous crime with which he was charged. When
he was convicted it was with bowling mob
raging around the place where the trial was held.
Judge Roam, who presided at that grim farce
which in Georgia they call trial, confessed
while the hand Of death upon him that he
was not satisfied that Frank guilty. Judge
Roam valiant Confederate soldier. He had
faced the bayonet, and yet that wild, surging
throng of human hyenas that surrounded the
court house overawed him, and kept him from
doing what is the manifest duty of every Judge
in such case to do. We may therefore readily
understand that jury in that frenZied, mob
ridden community, would bring upon itself the
dangers Of an acquittal, matter what the evil
dence might have been. The trial in itself
therefore travesty upon justice and disgrace
to the State.
meUer changed his opinion qaever asked COM
mutation, and died in the firm conviction
that, under the evidence, the verdict was
right.
Evidently through the conivance of the mis-
cradle scoundrel who is warden of the prison the
lnhuman hyenas were given free access to the
prison, and not hand was raised, not protest
voiced in behalf of defenseless whom
this wretch had sworn to defend. And those
his sleep this man under the protection of the
great State Of Georgia and took him out into
the night and butchered him as though he had
been wild beast. 1t is useless to waste words
upon the degenerates that actually perpetrated
the brutal murder. A State whose courts have
become the play thing of mobs, whose Judges
confess themselves to be common towards whose
mObs Of leading citizens" sought to lynch the
only real man it seems to have because he dared
exercise a right given him by the Constitution;
whose prisons are filled with assassins who in
trusts~its prisoners to the tender mercies of
potroon knave that it calls warden, who
turns a prisoner over to gang Of midnight
marauding assassins, has right to claim po-
stion among civilized communities. more
unspakable outrage perpetrated than
this infamous butchery. There are bad peo-
pie in hell who would not only have regretted it,
but who would turn away from it in horror The
plain fact is that Georgia has everlastingly
placed a smrch of ineradicable barbarism across
it's fair escutcheon. New Guinea or Abys-
sna, or the jungles of Bengal are safer places
for the stranger than in this State which has
seemingly reverted to a complete and hopeless
barbarism. The thing cannot be explained or
palliated. It is horrible in it's cold brutality.
It's absolute bestiality and it's cowardly cruelty
are unspeakable pack of famished coyotes
could not have done worse, a band of PPiutes
would have turned away from it in disgust.
Georgia is a good place for every decent man and
to stay away from.
Such being the case. the Haas brothers
should vamoose, and Slaton should stay out.
The California papers take shots at us,
also. The Bulletin, of San Francisco, says:
Georgia is mad with her virtue, cruel un
reasoning, bIood-thirsty, barbarous. She is not
civilized, she is not Christians he is not sane.
She is not attaining the sole avowed object
of her madness: the sanctity of women's lives
and honor. Nothing is safe in a community
which has ceased to reason.
Georgian chivalry makes proud boast of
sentiment which exists in every normal
heart, and then degrades itself almost to the
level of Mary Phagans murderer by committing