OF THE11, No. 52 DAWN Thursday, NEW ERA. VoL Thomson, Ga., December 31, 1914 Price, Five Cents Where Ought Law Cases to Be Tried? And How? And By Whom? DEADERS of The Jeffersonian that * know, Shall a lot of preachers and lawyers, living I have never had anything to say about In Re in a distant State, usurp the functions of our law-cases that were pending in the courts. Courts? A person accused of crime ought to be tried Leo Frank Or, shall the modern Trial by Battle take by the men who are set apart by the law for the shape of and No such thing had ever before been done in a contest between the Money that purpose. He ought to be tried at the Georgia! the Law, between the Big Purse and the little place pointed out by the law. He ought one, between the Rich and the poor? to be tried in the forth the Why was an exception made in favor of manner set in Frank ? Already, there is a most hurtful, demoraliz- Code. idea abroad—that cannot If a newspaper can be allowed to bombard ing the Law grap- Y e Georgians did not act as though we ple with the monsters of the vast deeps of had the court with thousands of copies of a violent any Patterson, can only business trying Nan Harry editorial, why not station mob-orators around crime, but pin-hook the minnows. iThaw, Albert T. Patrick, or ? Police-Lieuten- the court-house, to denounce the judges, in Is that true, in Georgia ant Becker. advance IVe shall see! We of their decisions? left New York to handle her own cases. Where would that kind of thing lead us? Last Friday, the State of New Jersey, put Y e assumed that New Yorkers knew all If the newspapers are to resort to mob to death a 17-year-old boy, who had com- about them, and knew how to try them. methods, why.not turn loose the mobs, them- mitted murder. We assumed that the sworn jurors, and the selves. and let them fight it out? The killer was an Italian: the man killed sworn judges of New York were honest, com- In olden times, there w as Trial by Battle. was an Italian: and the crime was one of petent, and conscientious. The strongest man won the case. revenge, a normal human passion. The boy Ye would have taken it as an insult to our Shall we have that again? Shall the big shot the deceased, not intending to hit him own intelligence, and a gross affront to the mob convict the criminal by routing the small at all, but to kill another man whom the boy’s people and the courts of New York, had we mob? Shall a mob of newspapers undo what uncle wanted “removed.” gone to prostituting our newspapers for or the sworn officers of the law have done? New Jersey tried this 17-year-old boy, con- against Patrick, Becker, and Thaw. Some prominent New York preachers are victed him, and executed him, without caus- • We would have laughed to scorn the propo- flooding the country with a circular letter in ing a ripple of excitement anywhere. sition that we Georgians go to holding mass- which they say that the State of Georgia has He was poor: his people are poor; and he is meetings to influence the lawful, responsible denied Frank a fair trial, and that “such de- dead. authorities of New York. nial constitutes the gravest possible infringe- Why didn’t the New York World, the Bal- .The Jeffersonian didn’t have anything to ment on the rights of an American citizen.’’ timore Sun, the New York Times, and Col- say about the Frank case, until after the At- This circular is signed by Dr. Parkhurst, lier’s make an effort to have that little boy’s lanta Journal had published its outrageous Dr. Hillis, Dr. Remensynder and several oth- sentence commuted? editorial, endeavoring to intimidate Judge ers. Why didn’t Doctors Parkhurst and Hillis Ben Hill and the Supreme Court, in the. dis- Upon what, do they base their accusation ? make an effort to get him off, with a sentence charge of their duty. They base it on the Connolly-Burns articles for life? ' The extra-ordinary motion for new trial in Collier's. Just a waif of Italy, a land of hot passions, was then pending, it was a contempt of court Those* New York preachers have never read of much squalor, and of much lawlessness: for the Atlanta Journal to publish that edito- the record in the Frank case, and they know just one little boy who had had no raising, rial. nothing of the evidence which proves his guilt. (CONTINUE.) OT7 EAGE EIGHT.)

Do the Roman Catholic Editors Try to Tel! Their Readers the Trsith ? MORE than once. The Jeffersonian has After all, the high-priests of Rome gave Luther made a mistake in one exceptional called attention to Truth, the Catholic Jerome Bonaparte his divorce-; and he mar- case, under exceptional circumstances, and at magazine published in New York, Senator ried a Wurtemburg Catholic, while his Balti- a time when the Reformation was in desperate Ransdell of Louisiana being a member of its more wife, also a Catholic, was living. need of princely support. honorary directory. The Roman high-priests also divorced Na- But Luther did not systematize liis wrong, When a periodical gives itself such a name, poleon from his Catholic wife, Josephine; and and his one bad example was never copied by it ought to strive earnestly to live up to it. his second wife, the Austrian arch-duchess, the Reformers. Truth does not do so. was also a Catholic. Now let me tell you a fact which Senator It not only publishes positive falsehoods, Therefore, Napoleon had two Catholic wives Ransdell and his magazine will not dare to but it deals constantly in the half-truths that living at the same time; and the Pope, that deny: deceive those who are not acquainted with same Pius VII., saw fit to wink at the * The Catholic princes of the royal houses the whole truth. —for from the Papa's point of view, it was in Europe are all permitted to keep acknowl- Speaking of the celebrated Elizabeth Pat- bigamy. edged concubines, and, to have two Catholic terson who married Jerome Bonaparte, Truth In spite of papal favoritism to those who wires, If they so desire: lauds Pope Pius VII. for refusing to grant are rich and in power. Senator Ransdell's Usually, the Catholic concubine of the Cath- the divorce which Napoleon sought for his magazine digs up that one bad “break” made olic prince is as well known at court as his young mad-cap brother. by Luther and Melancthon, away back in the wife is. She is “the mistress,” and she gener- Senator Ransdell's magazine should have popish Middle Ages, when they sanctioned ally has more influence than the lawful wife. given its readers a more correct statement of the bigamy of the Landgrave of Hesse. She always has her priest, and this, priest the case. Luther and Melancthon were wrong in that rules the prince through her—and she is often Napoleon and the Pope were at outs, over instance; but there is this much to be said by his concubine, also. that eternal question of Temporal Power. way of explaining their conduct: the Roman As to the morganatic wife, she is simply the Consequently, the Pope gratified his spite by Catholic church had taught Luther its own legalized concubine. She does not share her refusing the divorce. doctrine in regard to indulging the powerful. husband's or title; and her so- As every student of history knows, divorces What is called the morganatic , is sial position is about the same as that which can be obtained from Popes, whenever the the Catholic form of bigamy, and it prevails the favored concubine used to have under Jew- Poj)e can get his price. in Roman Catholic Europe even.to this day. ish kings, Oriental despots and Turkish sult- Only a few months ago, the rich Drexel It also prevails in Russia. ans. family of Philadelphia- got a marriage “an- Under that form of marriage, Catholic This system of bigamy, is a strictly Homan nulled,” that being the word which Catholics princes have two Catholic wives, at the same Cathodic invention and institution. use in place of the Protestant word “divorce.” time. The Protestants have never endorsed it.