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Watson's Magazine I : t .M-M^-M^^^^^ ^.M-M^^. »» M M t t t f Watson's Magazine I Lncered as second-c(ass maUer January 4. 1911, at the Post Office at Thomsor,. Georgia. Under the effct of March 3, 1879. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR _ TEN CENTS PER eOPY X ^ Vo{. XX, MARCH, i 1915 No, 5 I eONTENTS FRONTISPlEeE-"The Shaming of Georgia." by Puck. f === ¥•f SPECIAL X JlRTieLES AND EDITORIALS-T/ios. E. Watson > cJI FULL REVIEW OF THE LEO FRANK CASE 235 t EDITORIAL NOTES AND CLIPPINGS 282 t -f FOR THE GOOD OF THE X SERVICE (^ Poem) Ralph M. Thomson 278 I FREE PRESS f^^^^y Weinberger 279 t BOOK REVIEWS ^g^ ^» » Published Monthly by THE JEFFERSONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Thomson. Ga. t ..M-M-4»» » » » : K» »-• >^^M-^M"M>^ ^^^t Watson's Magazine j | Entered as second-class matter January 4, 1911, at the Post Office at Thomson. Georgia. Under the Jlct of March 3. 1879. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR .., TEN CENTS PER COPY '^^^^^^^ ^ »-M-M-M>^>-M-^^^^>^^^<r4 ^f VoL XX. MARCH, 1915 No. 5 I X CONTENTS FRONTISPIEeE—"The Shaming of Georgia," by Puck. f f -f X SPECIAL cffRTieLES AND EDITORIALS-Thos. E. Watson X X <Jl FULL REVIEW OF THE LEO FRANK CASE 233 X . EDITORIAL NOTES AND CLIPPINGS 282 ^ f f f f X FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE (g/? Poem) Ralph M. Thomson 278 FREE PRESS Henry Weinberger 279 BOOK REVIEWS 292 Published Monthly by THE JEFFERSONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Thomson, Ga. t !: Watson's Magazine THOS. E. WATSON, Editor A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case Ox the 23rd page of Puch^ for the gia. The advertisement states that the week ending January 16, 1915, Keely Cure is "John Barleycorn's Mas- there is, in the smallest possible ter," and that during the last thirty- type, in the smallest possible space, at five years half-a-million victims of the the bottom of the page, the notice of drink appetite have been cured. oionership, required hy laio. Therefore, the Strauss magazine m Mankind are informed that Puck is open to contributions from both sides. published by a corporation of the same Those who don't want the Keely Cure, name, Nathan Strauss, Jr., being Presi- are told where to get the liquor; while dent, and H. Grant Strauss being Sec- those who have had too much of the retary' and Treasurer. You are author- liquor, are told where to get the Keely ized, therefore, to give credit to the Cure. In either event, the Strauss Strauss family for the unparalleled family continue to do business, and to campaign of falsehood and defamation add diligent shekels to the family pile. which Puch has persistently waged Puck is one of those magazines which against the State of Georgia, her peo- indulges in fun, for the entertainment ple, and her courts. Inasmuch as the of the human race. You can nearly Strauss family once lived in Georgia, always tell what sort of a man it is, and are loudlv professing their ardent by the jokes he carries around with devotion to the State of their birth, him. In parallel column to the ad. of you mav feel especiallv interested in the Sunny Brook Wliiskey, Puck places Puck. a delicate little bit of humor, like this Looking over the pages of this "We stand behind the goods we sell!" Strauss publication. I find a character- The silver-throated salesman said. istic thing: on page there is an 22, "No! No!" cried pretty, blushing Nell, illustrated advertisement of "Sunny "You see, I want to buy a bed!" Brook Whiskey" which is recom- mended as "a delightful beverage, and Another bit of refined fun, which is a wholesome tonic.'' To give force to so good that the Strauss family went the words of testimonial, there is a to the expense of a quarter-page car- picture of an ideally good-looking man, toon, represents a portly evangelical and this smiling Apollo is pointing his bishop, seated in the elegant room of a index finger at a large bottle of the young mother, who is at the tea-table, delightful Sunny Brook fire-water. close by, pouring "the beverage which On the next page, is a strikingly cheers but not inebriates." Her little boxed advertisement of "The Keely boy sits on the bishop's knee, and the Cure Treatment." with references to kindly gentleman, with one hand on such nationally known stew-it-out re- the lad's plump limb, exclaims, "My sorts as Hot Springs, Arkansas: Jack- my! AVhat sturdy little legs!" and the sonville. Florida ; and Atlanta. Geor- boy answers, "O, you ought to see — 236 WATSON'S MAGAZINE. mother's!" and the mother is in arm's But, to continue: length of the bishop! That whiskey is killing daily more men in the United States than the war is taking The tone of Puck, and its sense of away in Europe, was one of the staleiiients responsibility to its readers, when dis- emphasized by Mr. Hobson. —New York cussing matters of the gravest public Tribune. concern, is shown by its treatment of Is it to be wondered that the cause of the profoundly serious and important Prohibition, championed with such rubbish as this, met with a decisive and well-de- subject of Prohibition. I quote what served defeat? Puck says, not to exhibit Kichiiiond Pearson Hobson, or the pros and cons The prominent feature of this num- of Congressional legislation on that ber of Puck, is another full-page car- question, but to exhibit the levity and toon, by Hy Mayer, representing Leo dishonesty of Puck: Frank, this time, as an innocent prisoner barred from his freedom by Congress was treated to an excellent vaudeville a few days ago as part of the the symbolic columns of "Wisdom, prohibition propaganda engineered by that Justice, and Moderation," as they ap- earnest young white-ribboner, Richard pear on Georgia's coat of arms. The Pearson Hobson. From all press reports Strauss accusation is, that the State has of the session, it must have been an inspir- falsified ing sight. her ow^n motto, and converted her temple into a Bastille, through Mr. Hobson had placed in the "well" of the House—the big space in front of the wliose bars the innocent Frank is gaz- clerk's desk—twenty large lettered plac- ing outward for the liberty of which ards pointing out the alleged evils of the lie has been so unlawfully deprived. "liquor curse." Some of those placards A paragraph on another i)age runs were: "Alcoholic Dogs Had More Feeble and Defective Puppies," "Destructive thus: Effect of Alcohol on Guinea Pigs," etc. New York Tribune. IN SAFE HANDS AT LAST. Puck has long pointed out the terrible Perhaps the Georgia mob that hooted effects of alcoholic indulgence among our its way to fame outside the court-room canine friends. It feels, with Mr. Hobson, where Frank was being tried for his life a heartfelt pity at the picture of a tipsy will now pack up its carpet-bags and terrier going home to a boneless doghouse journey to Washington. and a hungry litter. But Mr. Hobson's The Supreme Court of the United States flapdoodle did not stop here. He rants: would doubtless be tremendously overawed "The national liquor trust in America by a demonstration of mob violence on the opened four different headquarters in Ala- part of an Atlanta delegation. bama and conducted the major part of the great c'ampaign against me, with their one What are people to do, when merce- hundred stenographers and eight hundred nary detectives, and newspapers, and men on the salaried payroll. I found out Hessians of the pen, hire themselves to also that Wall Street—and I am not guess- ing—raised a fund which was sent there to push a propaganda of libel and race defeat me."—New York Tribune. prejudice, in the determined effort to Poor old Wall Street! No sooner is it hide the evidence of Frank's guilt, out of the doldrums of an enforced vaca- nullify' the calm decisions of our high- tion than it is dragged into action to lead est court, and substitute the clamor of that peerless force of "one hundred stenog- the impartial raphers and eight hundred salaried men" Big Money for stern, against Mr Hobson. It is a heart-rendii;g mandate of the Law? picture, this spectacle of impoverished In this same issue of the Strauss financiers passing 'round the hat to coiloct magazine, is another cartoon, bv M. a fund to be used in behalf of the Demon De Zayas, labelled. "ALONE IN HER Rum. Wall Street reeks with whiskey—if we believed the oratory of Prohibition's SHAilEr The subject of odium is Alabama advocate. the State of Georgia, and she is pic- WATSON'S MAGAZINE. 237 tured as being pointed at by the scorn- Georgia as a masked ruffian, with a coil ful fingers of all the other States, of rope in his hand, trying to seize Leo If this kind of thing could work a Frank, and lynch him, without a legal mercurial public into hj^steria, or hyp- trial. The witnesses to the scene are notize a governor into blue funk, what Uncle Sam, and a touring-car full of rich criminal would ever go to the the other States in the Union! A "SHAMING" THE STATE OF GEORGIA IN THE STRAUSS Pt/CA" MAGAZINE. scaffold ? If Big Money can hire Hes- guide, with a megaphone, is proclaim- sians enough to fight Frank's way out ing the infamy of Georgia.
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