Show I Franks Frank's Murderers i Should Pay Penalty One mu must t read rend the details of the Leo M. M r. r Fr Frank lynching to realize how far hatred led the Georgians toward insanity So bitt bitter r was the thc spirit of f t the mo mob the lust hiis for lor vengeance on the accused accused ac ac- ac- ac man was vas not satisfied with the mere p passing of his life from his body The maniacal crowd even v n attacked the dead end an and mangled mangled man man- the body as it dangled from the gallows tree The Atlanta Journal in the gruesome scene after the rope had lone done its deadly york work shows that the mob sp spirit Lit Litt t turned men i into to wild beasts and made mad wom women n and children children- forget the meaning of horror h Clippings from the Atlanta Journal describing the fiendish actions of Ge Georgians at the scene of or the l lynching ching are reproduced elsewhere on op this page age That the better ele element in G Georgia ol gia joins the J e rest of the country country country coun coun- try in denouncing the terrible action of the mob and in demanding the punishment of the time guilty is iR shown b by re resolutions adopted in Atlanta The board of directors of the Atlanta chamber of commerce unanimously adopted resolutions urging the governor and other state officials tf to exert every effort to apprehend and nd convict the themen themen themen men who lynched Leo M. M Frank The calls upon all true and brave Georgians to lift their voices In denunciation of this foul crime and Its perpetrator per per- L Let t every man show that he Is IIi on the side of law and order giving no countenance to truckling demagogues who j pander to the mob and let every man who Is a man stand ready to support and nd actively ely aid the officers of the law In stamping out the mob spirit wherever it Is found It will take blood to purge Georgia of her disgrace the disgrace the blood of or Leo reo M. M r. r Franks Frank's murderers It is the law that sa says 6 he j I who kills in n premeditation must die clie and it is th the law that Georgia must uphold if she ever expects to regain the respect of her sister states Now the they stand pointing to her as an outcast as an accused accused ac ac- ac creature who must clear her name before she can be taken back into their theil society y Because the Georgians had so much time in which to think of their responsibility because the they r acted only after mature deliberation deliberation and not in ill the heat of sudden passion the lynching of Frank became unmistakable murder in the first degree grec Therefore by bJ the rope Franks Frank's slayers must perish if Georgia is to redeem herself in the eyes of her civilized sister states state |