The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-03
A Letter 60 a Georgia Congress-
man On the Watson Case.
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Hon. Carl Vinson, Washington, D. c.
My Dear Sir: Your two letters received. 1t is
my purpose to take the public into my confidence
in next week Jeffersonian, and to let the world
know how this Democratic Administration is
threatening to commit, upon native Georgian,
one of those outrages which provoked the Rev
dictionary War My ancestors fought in that war,
and an officer Of my name lost his life in the
battle of Kettle Greek, in Wilkes County, where
his tomb remains to this day.
In the Declaration of Independence, Mr.. Jefer-
son enumerates, as one of the grievances of the
Colonists against King George that he had trans
ported American citizens from their native and
legal jurisdiction, to be tried in England for pre-
tended offences.
Mr. Wallace knows perfectly well that he can
not class a neWs-dealer in Pennsylvania with an
editor in Georgia, calling them conspirators.
Those who order our books, magazines and papers
are not in any sense, agents. The Govern
ment might we'll call me the agent of a New
York publisher, when subscribe for his paper
send order for his books
The Jeffersonan Publishing Company has no
agents whatever, outside the State of Georgia, or
outside the corporate limits of the town in which
l live.
Our literature circulates in the Panama Canal
Zone, in Alaska, and in the Philippine Islands,
and the Government has just much right to
drag to Alaska for trial, as it has to drag me
to Pennsylvania.
for this Democratic Administration to say, as the
Department of Justice is now saying that the
government is unable to OBTAIN fair trial this
jurisdiction.
Is this the reward which the Democrats of
Georgia are to receive for having voted the Demo-
cratic ticket, since the days of Andrew Jackson?
Is this Democratic Administration offended
with the Democrats of Georgia. because they
voted for Oscar Underwood, in preference to
Woodrow Wilson?
With what degree of confidence and self-respect
can the Georgia delegation, or any other sup
porters of the President face the people of Geor-
GA in the coming elections, after the President
shall have Initiated the tyrannical methods of
King George, and shall have put upon one of the
thirteen original Colonies, the stigma first placed
on it by arbitrary monarch to-wit: the SLAM
derous charge that justice cannot be administered
by the courts and the juries of Georgia?
is there State or Federal judge who will not
feel that his authority is threatened and his char
acter impugned?
Is there juror in Georgia who will not feel
deeply insulted by the accusation that he Will
periure himself to defeat the law?
Is there single Georgian, high or low rich or
poor white or black, who will not feel that a
precious portion of his personal security is taken
away if this Democratic Administration estab-
fishes the precedent of dragging Southern
into the Northern environment, to try them for
pretended offences?
1t seems to be the idea of the Government, that
tried by his enemies.
If he has offended the Roman Catholics he
must be flung into Roman Catholic Jurisdiction;
if he has offended rich Jews he must be delivered
to jury selected by the rich Jews
Such al idea is abhorrent to every true con-
ception of legal procedure Even in the days of