Show GEORGIA'S GEORGIAS S 'S SHAME What It Really Is and How It May Be Wiped 0 Out ut 4 I By HERBERT QUICK Georgians 8 shame A great Atlanta paper published an n editorIal edi- edi tonal orial o on of Leo eo Frank under that title Georgia Georgia's fi shame lies hes less in In the killing of Frank than thon in what went before that I It lies in the Georgia press which pandered to the blood lust I II I of the mob which adopted the thc them theory of his guilt which tried fried him before the jury ury reported its verdict c condemned him in advance I L and did it its ts devilish worst to d develop vel p that mob spirit which para paralyzed par par- a with ith cowardice the jury the judge on the bench and the I better letter citizenship ott e s state ate Georgias Georgia's shame lies in the city ty government of Atlanta which L I railroaded Leo Frank Jo to o an unmerited conviction in iii her police force orce which made him a victim of the demand of an inefficient L I constabulary to convict someone at all haz hazards which turned loose the he degenerate Conley because it hail had made up its mind too soon that hat it could and would c convict Fr Frank fh The shame of the state is H no DO greater on a account count of the lyn lynch lynch- hI h- h I ing Hg of Frank than titan because of an any pf of the file other almost innumerable which have nave preceded it iL in n tha that st state and others p But because of these other othe things which preceded his conviction 1 tion her shame is black and anci continuing It will continue until it m may y be said in Georgia that that a man man can be prose prosecuted no matter mutter what his crime or how clear his guilt I without the presence of the police in the pr prisoners prisoner's do dock do k asking 1 for the vindication of a detective e theory a and d without a press which panders to the lowest passions of or the mob by such methods metho s 68 as males makes a fair t trial i l and aid a just sentence beyond the power of ordinary t t. n nary ry men in the jury box or Q on l the bench to render render Georgias Georgia's sh shame me would soon pass and be wiped out by the adm admiring ing regard of a charitable nation for a great and admirable s state if the killing of tee Leo Frank Tank were all nIl But it is not all I t t There lies in the deep deep malice alice of his taking off off certain t sinister i e symptoms to 8 which cannot at n be e explained i a away a save sayo by years of history of ueTt r character |