The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-15
THE .JEFFERSoNEAN

Judge Roam, qcAich qca8 an audacious fake
And with his latest breath, old man
Umphey protested his innocence!
When Slaton isn't talking, Burns is; and
/ therefore return to Burns. He said to
the Denver Times:
'And it made them angry when I offered $5,O 600
reward for the slightest evidence showing i'm
morality in all of Franks life. That offer still
stands and has never been sought-and still the
stories continue in Georgia that he is a pervert.
Il have never known cleaner more honest
more God-fearing than Leo Frank Only his
abiding faith in his God has, according to my be-
lief kept him up through the ordeal he has ex-
perienced. And that faith will be rewarded, for
he will be proven innocent.
The $4,000 which the noble Burns men
tally offered for evidence of Franks i'm
morality, seems to worry Burns: the dacats
are a burden to him. they fatigue him as
he totes them around: he grows warm and
indignant because no one will relieve him
of the load.
"The offer still stands!" Where?
IF he will place $4,000 in The Georgia
Railroad Bank Augusta, Georgia, and a0W
authorize the cashier to give 1t to the
morality, I will undertake to have the aft
davits made.
Now put up your S. ,000-you hsty liar!
Daisy Hopkins is entitled to finger in
that pie, and so is Rebecca Carson.
And if attempts to seduce white girls
initiate against Burns clean, God fearing
man." and create any presumption that he
isn't much more moral and God fearing
than Burns is, can easily produce about a
dozen such white girls whom Frank vainly
sought to debauch.
Commenting on this record-breaking
Frank case, the Miami, Florida, Daily Me
trOpoils says:
All the South Dshonored.
The better manhood of old Georgia must feel
sadly Inundated by the action of Georgias Gov
,ernor in the Frank case; the Communication of
the Frank sentence is not to be taken merely
the saving of a man from capital punishment
1T means that the pressure dollars has been
strong enough to sway justice, strong enough
to undo verdict of twelve jurors, who were con
WINGED beyond doubt that Leo Frank guilty
of that heinOus crime!
Governor Slaton has yielded to outside pres
sure-either through weakness through some
potent infuence-and has cast blot upon the
history of his State never to be effaced. He has
told the people of Georgia, by this action that
riches will buy pardOns; that the treatment of
man with rich friends should be different from
that OF poor man! And from his action, crimes
will germ1nate; and men will become more help
less in their attempts to get justice i'm the courts
Suppose that the negro Conley had been found
guilty of that vile crime; suppose that the negro
Conley had been surrounded with identically the
same doubts as have been trumped up for Frank;
suppose that the negro COnley should have been
found to be the same sort of degenerate as is the
fellow Frank-wOuld Governor Slaton have COM
nlUted his punishment yesterday? Isn't it en-
tirely probable that the negro COnley would have
been lynched before he had had a trial?
But Frank had thousands of dollars spent for
him; not by "friends''-we cannot believe that
Frank has real friends-but by members of his
race who abhOr the thought of jew dying on