- Collection:
- McDuffie Museum Collection
- Title:
- Jeffersonian, 1915 September 9
- Creator:
- Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922
- Date of Original:
- 1915-09-09
- Subject:
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Georgia
Lynching--Georgia--Marietta
Antisemitism--Georgia
Populism--Georgia
Methodist Church--Georgia
Anti-Catholicism--Georgia
Newspaper publishing--Georgia
Journalists--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, McDuffie County, Thomson, 33.47069, -82.50457
United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977 - Medium:
- newspapers
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- September 9, 1915 issue of The Jeffersonian, a weekly newspaper published by Thomas E. Watson from 1907 to 1917. This issue focuses on Governor Slaton's involvement in the trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish engineer and superintendent at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia. Frank was convicted of murdering 13 year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. Although Governor Slaton commuted Frank's sentence from death to life imprisonment, Frank was extrajudicially executed by hanging in Marietta, Georgia on August 17, 1915. This issue alleges that Slaton had a law partnership with Frank's lawyer, Luther Rosser, and therefore legally represented Frank while he was ruling on the case. The issue also responds to national criticism, specifically from Boston and Louisville newspapers, aimed at Georgians in the wake of Frank's death. Other articles assert the South's moral superiority over the North, despite its economic inferiority. Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922) was a politician, attorney, publisher and author from Georgia. Watson was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920). Nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896, he is remembered for being a voice for Populism and the disenfranchised, and later in life, as a southern demagogue and bigot. 11 images.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:mcdm_mcd_mcd0002
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/mcdm/mcd/do:mcd0002
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- McDuffie Museum
- Rights:
-
