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wmmmim,n,g,w .,M.V WW4I,BJ JJJUW SOUTHERN JUDGE PROTESTS AT INDICTMENT OF WHOLE STATE A few days ago the W. G. N. print ed an editorial about the Frank case. Southerners felt insuItedThey were accused of countenancing the lynch ing. The Tribune also stated that the south "needed better blood." On Wednesday morning, the same day the editorial was printed, Judge Alvin Douglas of Birmingham, Ala., arrived in Chicago, making a tour of the courts of the country. He read the Tribune editorial and wrote a reply, which he handed per sonally to the city editor. The Tri bune refused to print it. Here it is: "LEO M. FRANK "Please allow a few words from a southerner who feels keenly the at tack you made on the south Wednes day morning in an editorial published under the above head. I live in Bir mingham, Ala., and was in Atlanta just after Gov. Slayton commuted the sentence of Prank. Many people thought Gov. Slayton made a mistake but they were submissive to the law and the action taken by Slayton. It was a rough, lawless and rowdy ele ment that, at the time, would do vio lence to the governor, and who bru tally murdered Frank. The good peo ple of Georgia and the south do not approve of lawlessness. I am sure I do speak for the south when I say they do condemn and disapprove of such acts of lawlessness. "There may be fault on the part of the authorities at the prison; there may have been fault in lack of or ganization; there was fault and bad spirit in the breast of the mob, but does this warrant you in attacking the southern people as you have? It is to be regretted that the editor of a great paper anywhere in our coun try should so forget himself in the heat of passion and attack and con demn all the people of any section of his own country because of the Slolence and mob spirii of about 254 men, who were not willing to let the law take its course. "You say: 'The south is half edu cated. It is a region of illiteracy, bla tant self-righteousness, cruelty and violence. Until it is improved by the invasion of better blood and better ideas it will remain a reproach and a danger to the American republic' Shame on you! Do you know the southern people? Have you ever been south of the Mason and Dixon line? Some one has said: 'Do the best you can with what you have, where you are. I grant the south is not as high ly educated as some other sections of our great country, but have we not done well with the opportunities giv en us? " 'Better blood.' God forgive you this, the most unkind words of alL T know not what kind of blood courses through your veins and care not Your unwise and uncalled for words probably burst forth from a lack of training and education and regard for the feelings of others rather than from the cause of 'blood.' Moreover, I challenge you to show in this country any purer Anglo-Saxon blood than flows through the veins of our southern people. They are loyal to country, true to state, obe dient to law, chivalrous to women and hospitable to mankind every where. "As the mob who lynched Frank does not in any way express the sen timent of the southern people, I am sure your editorial does not express the sentiment of your section of our country. I have heard expressions this morning in Chicago condemning the editorial The mob committed a great wrong; you have erred. Do edi- P torials of this kind help to make our common country better" or worse? You should use your brain for the uplift of the nation and the better ment of mankind, rather than ex-' pressing sectional feeling. Think it ' over. "I resent with all the force of my soul this attack on the people amonft;