Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-18
THE COUNTRY HOME


IS IHe cheapest Inlng IN LnlS COuntry-dnu
no big business can be conducted without |
day and night watchmen to guard the papers
and money of the concerns from burglars.
1t was pitiful to know that one such night
Waterman was beaten to death with heavy
window weights and his eyes punched out
with sharp-pointed iron things used to hold
the papers used as notes of the days work
on office desks, and this occurred in the city
of Atlanta last Saturday afternoon Poor
soul! He died at his post of duty, but was
conscious long enough to give the facts of
this brutal murder. These were white men
or rather white-skinned men who killed the
night Watchamn.
During last year, about the time the poll
tcians were organizing and picking candi-
dates for high Offices in Georgia, l was over
taken one day after leaving the railroad
train near the Kmball house, by a judge
of one Of the courts in Atlanta and Fulton
county. I had been we'll acquainted with his
father nearly forty years ago, and he was
returning from the court room, going to his
dinner. He had doubtless been excited by
some bad experience that forenoon for he
said to me: THE courts are so deep in dirty
politics that we are not SO situated as to do
what is needed right here in Atlanta to pro-
tect the innocent punish the guilty" +
asked no questions because l was also pain
fully aware that the same condition existed
wherever judges and solicitors were to be
elected or defeated everywhere in Georgia
in this direction, or the Ku Klux law, which
works all the way in methods of punishment
from peonage and mayhem to murder and
uses everything in sight from tar and feath-
ers to arson, would completely paralyze
courts of justice all over the southern states
Atlanta and Chicago being pointed out
as the two most notorious towns in tn,
United States in their respective sections for
lawlessness and violence UNRESTRICTED
The daily exhibit Of killing wives or kill
ing husbands by guilty wives is fearful.
Frank Du Pres case was one of few,
When he, young man, egged on by a mis-
cradle woman, committed enough theft and
murder and attempted murder inside of one
h0ur to have made it plain that he was unfit
10 i've IN a civilized community, but politics
got In behind his case and it is disgusting
to recall the frantic abuse of the governor
of Georgia who allowed the judgment of the
courts to stand to punish this degenerate
desperate. This very political hysteria has
prompted the brutal instincts of scores of
other youths of degenerate nature to rob and
Kill and mutilate their victims in Atlanta
The murder of a young CHICAGO bow bv
the sons of two millionaire families to see
what sort of thrills would come over them
IN Killing boy of their own sort and quail
lty has infamed a whole lot of youngsters
who would like the same experience to graf
lily their instincts. Twenty-odd years ago
the courts in Georgia were kept busy send
ing negroes to the gal3ws and the chain
gang. Nowadays they are kept busy in try
ing to convict white men and boys to the
penltentiary who have the murder urge up-
permost in their degenerate mentality There
IS Iamentable use Of dirty politics in par
dOnlng rich cOnVicts out of the state prison
II anybody is selling pardons around the
state capitol, the release of two men who de-
Ilberately robbed many owners of cotton in
Augusta, Ga, and whose guilt was so clear
ly proven that they received a twelve-year
PRISON sentence, it is evident somebody is
making money ION the side"
That sort Of thing will soon open1v
eviscerate the body polite and not only
make 1t unsafe to try to do business in
Georgia but will make our so-called courts
Of justice kissing and by-word throughout
the state of Georgia.
When rich thieves with millions in their
concealed underpockets can be pardoned
from the state prison and turned loose on
the public to brazen it out and go scot free
1t IS time for honest people to move their
goods and chatteIs to another locality.
am informed that Fox, who killed Coburn
will get his promised pardon ere long. and
other rich conyicts are already moving to-
wards the counter where such damaged
GOODS appear to be up for barter or sale to
the pardon authorities
A few years ago a colored woman was vio-
Iently raped on the plantation not many
miles from where I live, by a man with
white skin and a white wife and two chill
dren after dark Sunday night The grand
jury pronounced him guilty by their indict-
ment. Inc court, the jury gave a verdict of
guilty. This man with a white skin was
turned loose for appeal on small bond and
HnaIly sent to misdemeanor camps working
with conY1cts on the public roads and with
short term of sentence he is now as free
as you and I, my dear readers
If he had been colored and had said !
sIngle word to any sort of sorry white
woman, inside her own house that looked
toward assault, he would have been in ashes
before daylight, by mob law. [ did not hear
OF the trial or the court sentence until if
was over, but this white man, with a white
wife and two children was pointed out to
me by the attorney who prosecuted the case
riding around in the streets of Cartersvi11n
IN buggy, perfectly shameless in his man
ners and perfectly obIivious to his own vile
oegeneracy [ went in person to the COVER
nor OF the state, in early 1920. and laid the
matter before him, and that was the end
OF 1t, so far as I know Penitentiary for
such crime against the helpless victim. and
the awful shame he put upon his white
wife and innocent children I think the
records of the superior court in Rartow
county will emphasize what here recite. and
| am ready to substantiate nv own anpea1
10 the governor of the state for some pro-
lection to the Colored women Of this conn
try IN their own homes from sorry white
men infamed with lust and liquor.
Hon. A. H. Stephens many times re-
marked within my hearing that an honest
judiciary was the only sure hope for the
continuation Of our republican form Of gov
eminent. When the courts were put under
the domination of infammable party politics
we would 90 down grade to final ruin. The
late effort to abolish the supreme court of
the United States would have made the Old |