New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Residents Not Anxious to
Discuss Frank Lynching
with Outsiders.
NO MEMBER OF MOB
FEARS PROSECUTION
Georgians Say Criticism from
Other States Will Only Stir
More Race Prejudice.


who has been in Marietta and
Atlantic returned to Ne,U York
yesterday. His report Of his &C.
n,riences and impressions going
TO- in and leaving Marietta are
here presented to Tribune readers.
By JOHN J. LEARY. Jr.
have been asked if l found Mari
eta ouiet after the lynching of Frank
aid. II was as quiet as a dynamite
factory; so quiet that il seemed as
though a healthy sneeze would start an
explosion; but, as it proved. absolutely
cafe for any man who went into the
Mace knowing his business and mind
ing it. 1t was not a place for one
given to careless talk 10 visit.
This, however. was not the descrip-
ton Of the place ! received on my
wav south or even in Atlanta, twenty
miles distant On the train. where my
identity became known through tht re-
CENT Of kilograms en- route, friendly
Southerners advised that | keep away
from Marietta if / valued my personal
safety; one man, a prominent banker,
declared that | would do the State OF
Georgia a favor by keeping out OF the
place. :.
I'VE have had enough trouble as 1t
Is" he declared, land while | know
that YOU are a gentleman and would
be welcomed as such month from
now. your going there now Will do no
GOOD. Northern newspapers have been
verv unjust to Georgia and Atlanta and
there's a lot Of feeling in consequence.
II Won 90 in there and anything hap
rens 10 vou-and il is almost certain
there will be something VIII get
nell"
u do not propose TO make myself
obnoxious" | answered. Il am gong
N there 10 see things as they are. MY
orders are to present this thing as IL
;s-to give a square deal to everybody
I'm no muckraker, neither have ! any
ME- against the people of Georgia"
81 know that. sir" replied the banker,
"ard the best people in Marietta will
eDpreciate that and be glad to see you,
mn some Of the hot-headed ones won
know il. and there's the danger. lake
nv advice and stay away
Postcards Show Hanging
In orc form or another that advice
was given dozen times before l
reached Atlanta, the trst northern
newspaper man to put foot IN the state
after the lynching. The hrst man man
whom | met in the station after hau
roceipted for some kilograms gave me
the same advice. ;1
Marietta is a nice place, he salu'
but -well-don't go there.
A few minutes later. after ! had
called AZ the Western Union office IN
The Journal building, the Atlanta rep
resentative of one OF the largest cor
norations in America, a Georgian born
and hired. advised that | do my lnVes-
+igating in Marietta by telephone ne
did not predict violence, as others dld'
hut his manner left no doubt that ne
thought the place a good one for me
"a avoid Others gave the same ad-
vice hut when ] arranged for wire SER
vice North that night the advice ceased
Arparentlv nv friends thought 1t no
use advising a fool. ~
Atlanta was then in the aftermath OF
the excitement following the lyncnlng
~ Frank. On the streets and IN the
,ubic squares takers were peddllh
rostcard pictures of the body OF r ran * x
DANGLING from the oak tree IN SherllI
Frev's woods in Marietta. Grewsome
things. they went like hotcaKes a1
twenty-five cents each, no reducVioh ioi
dozen lots. x.,.i~
told me. "when we can sell them SS
fast as we can get them, H.,
Who is buying them Z! as6eu'
no rpDllpd. But our
host customers are Northern men. like
yorrseif IN bet you'll find the drum
ners at the Piedmont have bought hve
hundred OF them. and there are not so
many drummers there. elther
"Be Fair TO Georgia"
Later in the day the sale Of these
things was stopped. ! imagine II "as
nv order of the police officials, though
] did not have time 10 ask. Inc lac'
that the postmaster ruled them IN
mailable and destroyed several hun
bred helped also.
crank case. Ell" was the salutation
Of the clerk at the Piedmont Well
] must saw that The Tribune is quick
on the trigger to get you here so soon:
hone You'll treat US fair. Some OF
the men from the North have not been
very kind"
That sentiment, want to say right
here. was expressed on every side:
"Re fair TO Georgia" was the fare
well from Governor Nat +. Harris. a
fine type Of old soldierlawyer. as left
the executive Offices. BE talr was
what Judge Newton A. Morris, one OF
the strong men of the South-the man
who saved William J. Burns from beng
lvnched and TO whom Franks family
nf
able TO give their dead decent burial
asked as | left him.
81 hope YOU won't do like other
Northern reporters did and make US
appear like bloodthirsty barbarians.
said the telephone girl at the Pied
mont. "Some of the folks who have
come here have been mighty unfair to
US here in Georgia
At the hotel ! received word that
knowledge Of my arrival and plans had
reached Marietta, and that Josiah Car
ter, ir., editor of 1.-The Marietta Jour
nal" would be looking for me.
Stick 20 Carter" was the advice,
"and you will be all right and find out
all you wish Otherwise somebody may
mistake you for a Burns man or Sc
cret Service officer"
In Marietta. a town Of 1000 people
as in nearly all Southern towns, life
revolves around the public square
Here there were many automobiles and
perhaps 200 young men lounging about
When we entered the square all in.
terest centred in the car, and when
stopped at drug store to ask where
Mr.. Carter's Office was another car
turned in beside mine in such way
as TO prevent any one getting TO it ex-
eept from the front. Several young
men came along to look it and its occu,,
pant over, and the inevitable small