The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-24
Major C. E. McGregor
Writes a Letter to
the Mac0m Tel
egrapll.
s'Lay on McDuff and Did be he
Who First Cries Hold, Enough"

10 The Macon Telegraph:
The tone, language, and intention
of the editorial entitled Something
Else Again, in your issue of the
fourth instant, and the one appear
Ing on the 18th, entitled THE Jour
malt. E. W.-The Party" evil
dences to my mind an effort to re-
instate John M. Slaton in Georgia
Politics by communicating Thomas
e. Watson and his influence at any
cost. In as much as you have
honored me by mentioning me by
name, as one Of the fifteen or twenty
thousand "Old Guard" scattered
throughout Georgia who will win or
lose. sink or swim with Watson |
claim the right to the use of your
columns, Notwithstanding you have
heretofore refused it, in feeble eff
fort to expose, criticise and refute
your unAmerican effort to instil into
American citizens the Monarchial
doctrine that THE King (Wilson)
can do no wrong" and that an
American citizen has no rights which
tyranical democratic administra-
tion is bound, by the American Con-
stitution to respect. All Of which
rights your editor attempts to ridi-
cule by sneering illusions to the
Hero-Barons who wrung, by force of
arms, Magma Charta rights from
King John.
The most virulent enemy of T. E.
w, if he has Georgia blood in his
veins will unite in resisting so
usurpatory an act by the Wilson ad-
ministration,-an act more heinOus
and destructive of liberty than Re-
publican administration, dominated
by the Negro-loving Thad Stevens.
dared sanction in the darkest days of
the reconstruction period, when the
Military Governor of Georgia, at
tempted to force I<irksey and other
Citizens of Columbus to trial in At
lanta when the alleged crime was
committed in Columbus. Even
military despot in that case recog-
nized the doctrine of "Circles OF
Villages" which your Alien editor so
flippantly ridicules.
Soon after the execution Of the
legally imposed death sentence upon
Leo NJ Frank, I suggested to you an
investigation of a rumor current in
Atlanta, might develop an under
standing or a tentative agreement
entered into by the William r.
Hearst influence representing the
rich Jews, and John M. Slaton, Cover
nor, to secure Slaton the nomination
for Vice-President upon the National
Democratic ticket, if he, the then
Governor, saved the rapist and muir
derer, Leo NJ. Frank, from the death
penalty then pending. You declined
publishing the suggestion, stating you
had decided after publishing Judge
Adams letter defending Slaton's
communication act to exclude the
Frank case from your columns" or
words to that effect, but you didn't
play fair, for the very next day or
two or three days thereafter your
Atlanta News Bureau teemed with it,
and the unfortunate Frank case,
now un earthed by Wilson'S admins
tration to compel a citizen OF Geor-
gia to surrender his convictions to
his enemies and the righteous def
ance of that citizen to submit pass
lively to such an unconstitutional de-
mand, appears to be the immediate
gravamen of your frenzied editorials.
| cannot say, nor could / prove by
positive testimony, that such an un-
derstanding or tentative agreement
existed, but I believe there is suffi-
cient circumstantial evidence to war