The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-14
TIE .JEFFERSONIAN


est heroes. Little Mary was wont to
join herself to the happy throng.
She was penniless. A thought struck
her. 1t was payday, and she was
due $1.60 by the National Pencil fac
tory. She called there to obtain her
dues. She was there strangled,
larcerated and bruised and foully
and brutally murdered. Heaven
alone knows her torture before she
expired. But she's dead and why is
it SO. Life was as sweet to her as
the Queens daughter. But life had
no charms when it involved the sac
riflce of principle or compromise Of
virtue. Oh, Angels weep. The dust
Of her father must have wept in his
cold grave. Jim Conley, an illiterate
negro was there. Leo M. Frank, an
exceedingly intelligent Jew was there.
Both were tried. Conley was repre-
sented by an ordinary lawyer Frank
was represented by talent, genius,
learning. courage and eloquence. The
negro was penniless Frank has been
supplied with millions Various le-
gal talent has watched every nook
and Granny for the semblance Of a
loophole for technicalities. Some of
his lawyers possessed the most exqui-
site lnutellect ever housed in a hui
man skull. Frank was found guilty
and condemned to die for the most
atrOcious murder ever committed.
Every appeal has been promptly de-
MED. The Famous Sleuth," w. J.
Burns was employed. He entangled
affairs more and more. Every move
OF this eminent legal talent only
frightened the rope around Franks
neck. At this late hour you and your
allies seek to intervene. You say
Sin the hope that some day such evil
dence may be brought forward as will
necessitate a new trial" You are
hoping against hope. Such evidence
is impossible unless purchased like
poor old man Ragsdale's was. Dope
them and bride them. That will only
continue the moose. Some DAY.
will never come. It's impossible to
bring evidence where there is none.
They cried mob spirit" race
prejudice" ''unfairness," and every
other conceivable cry that would free
this inebriate, alas,--all in vain. He
is guilty-thrice guilty. The court
has SO found, higher courts affirmed
and this, in spite of talent, genius,
eloquence and GOLD.
God knows that if there is a spark
of sympathy in my breast, that it is
for the Israelites. God experienced
untold difficulty in handling them,
they are so slick. He came unto
His own, and His own received Him
not ooh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem; .
Thou that stonest the prophets. :"
And 'They parted HIS garments and
cast lots They begun the second
hand store right then and there and
today the majority of them will sell
you solid piece of ''WOOL" woven
out of cotton, provided you don t
happen to know the difference. It's
sad indeed, that people so highly
favored of God should be so rebel
llous. l have no prejudice on earth
against no race under the sun. I
highly sympathize with some races,
the Jew first.
l am surprised beyond words to
express, to see Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills name attached to your letter.
Can it be possible that the ministry
is approached in an effort to thwart
Justice? If he occupied an Atlanta
pastorate l would think he would be
asked to retire, quickly.
Don't Oh, don't use nv name on
your communications.
Very respectfully,
G. A. HENDLEY.