The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-17
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Where one State is ruthlessly trampled on,
all the States are endangered
| quote from the New York World an
editorial which Mr.. Gregory would do we'll
to read, AND TO HEED:

10 TeNU, AND ~ HEEO:
Is it possible that Democratic Attorney Cen
eral has forgotten the humiliation of a
recent Republican predecessor, Charles j. Bona
parte by name, who, acting under the orders of
Mr.. Roosevelt in 900 procured criminal indict-
ments at Washing ton against editors of the World
and the Indianapolis News for ''libeing the Gov
eminent and sought to remove the defendants
to the District OF Columbia for trial? If So his
memory is in desperate need of tonic.
When United States Attorney Joseph B. Keal-
ing, Of Indianapolis, was asked to move in this
matter he refused, saying that the principle in
VOWED was dangerous, and promptly resigned his
office. When the came up before United
States Judge A. b Anderson at Indianapolis he
dismissed it instanter with the remark that if
the history OF liberty means anything and if con-
stitutional guarantees mean anything, such pros
ecutions must be looked upon with apprehension.
When a similar issue was presented to United
States Judge Charles NJ. Hough in New York the
World being under Indictment for belling the
Government by circulating copies of the publica-
ton in the city Post Office and at West Point,
Government reservations, that magistrate quashed
the indictment on the ground that it unau-
thorized by law. On January 3, 1911 the Su.
preme Court Of the United States unanimously
affirmed this Judgment
What Attorney General Bonaparte ATTEMPTED to
do was to drag editors from their homes for trial
IN washington, or, as in the New York case, by
strained construction of complaint against
newspaper because few copies of it had been
delivered or sold property owned by the Gov
eminent. What Acknowledgement Gregory threat
ems is the same thing in spirit and purpOse-to
pick from many Jurisdictions in which he
thinks conviction will be certain and then proceed
against his victim under the postal laws with all
the engnery of despotism. President Wilson's
urgent duty is to forbid this indefensble misuse
Of power.
Everybody knows that the use of Govern
mental power against citizen is, in this case,
a malicious, dishonest, hypocritical prostitu-
ton of the law.
Everybody knows that if Gregory. and
those back of him, were really concerned for
public morals and the virginity of the mails,
Watson is not the only man they would be
bounding down.
An Attorney General who shouts to the
whole world, that prospective defendant
as guilty, Nv ADVANCE OF THE ~
DICTNENT, is an official who totally lacks
the sense Of judicial propriety, and who has
no Just conception of legal and decent pros
ecution of fellow-citzen
Mr.. Gregory is singularly ignorant of
human nature, if he is not conscious of the
fact that his contemptuous treatment of
Judges Speer and Lambdin of the District
in which [ live, kindles in them a natural
resentment.
He must be blind if he doesn't see that his
wholesale condemnation of the people of
Georgia, drives even my ancient enemies to.
my support.
In the meantime, let him do his do, and
quit talking about it so much.
do not ask him the least bid of Odds and
he can crack his whip whenever he gets ready.
The Attorney General has been reported as
having said, that the Government cam iadict
me acberever 1t pzeases.
THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT L.
GALLY DO ANYTHING OF THE KIND.
To legal arrest, at the hands of the Sheriff
of McDufie County, or of the Marshal Of
this q. S. District, l will cheerfully submit,
any hour of the daY. whenever they come with