The Jeffersonian was a newspaper published by Tom Watson and based out of Thomson, Georgia. It was a weekly newspaper that ran each Thursday. The first link is the telegram from A.D. Lasker to Adolph Ochs blaming the Jeffersonian for Frank’s death, and the rest are pages from the Jeffersonian in chronological order that mention Frank.
If there are multiple headlines in one document, the headlines will be separated by a semicolon. If there is a […] in a headline, there may have been a word that was missed in the scan due to the pages being bound, or the paper may have been damaged due to age.
August 17, 1915: The Telegram Blaming Watson’s Jeffersonian for Frank’s Death
March 19, 1914: The Frank Case: When and Where Shall Rich Criminals Be Tried? (Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 1 & 8)
April 2, 1914: What Some of the Jeffersonian Readers Think of “The Frank Case” (Volume 11, Issue 14, Page 2)
April 9, 1914: The Leo Frank Case. Does the State of Georgia Deserve This Nation-Wide Abuse?; Shall the Atlanta Politicians and Corporations Dictate to the People of Georgia? (Volume 11, Issue 15, Pages 1, 7 & 8)
April 23, 1914: How Much Longer Will the People of Atlanta Endure the Lawless […] of William J. Burns? What Right Has This Sham Detective to Tamper With the Witnesses That Told the Truth On LEO FRANK, THE FOUL DEGENERATE WHO MURDERED LITTLE MARY PHAGAN?; Why Do the Atlanta Papers Ignore the People, in the Frank Case? (Volume 11, Issue 17, Pages 1, 2, 9 & 10)
April 30, 1914: Opinions of the People at Large, Regarding the Frank Case (Volume 11, Issue 18, Pages 3 & 10)
May 7, 1914: William Jackass Burns at Marietta, Georgia, As Reported by the Natives; William Jackass Burns, at Another Angle: Some Tarnished Lawyers; Some Bought Newspapers; and the Murder of a Little Georgia Girl (Volume 11, Issue 19, Pages 3, 5, 9 & 10)
May 14, 1914: Opinions Regarding the Frank Case (Volume 11, Issue 20, Pages 3 & 7)
May 21, 1914: An Oklahoman Who Was Born in Cobb County, Georgia, Writes About Burns and the Frank Case; Cobb County Citizens Thank T.E.W. (Volume 11, Issue 21, Pages 4 & 5)
May 28, 1914: A Good Man’s Blessing is Better Than Gold. (Volume 11, Issue 22, Page 4)
June 4, 1914: This Old Confederate Soldier’s Letter Was Too Hot For Howell (Volume 11, Issue 23, Pages 3 & 4)
June 11, 1914: Nobody Wants To Drag the Frank Case Into Politics. But- (Volume 11, Issue 24, Page 1)
June 18, 1914: An Alabama Preacher is “Strong” In His Sentiments. (Volume 11, Issue 25, Page 5)
June 25, 1914: William J. Burns, “The Great Detective.” (Volume 11, Issue 26, Page 10)
July 23, 1914: Watch The People Wheel Into Line For Joe Brown; Hoke Smith Playing Both Ends Against the Middle, As Usual, On the Negro Question. Plain Case of Nigger in the Bed With the Hog-Eye Man. (Volume 11, Issue 30, Pages 5 & 10)
August 6, 1914: The Record of the Self-Commissioned Senator, Hoke Smith, on the Negro Appointments (Volume 11, Issue 32, Page 1)
August 13, 1914: The Hog-Eye Man, the Nigger in the Wood Pile, the County-Unit Plan, and the Collarless Hardwick. (Volume 11, Issue 33, Page 7)
October 8, 1914: The Leo Frank Case Campaign Opens Again!!! (Volume 11, Issue 41, Page 9)
October 15, 1914: The Frank Case Brings in Another Horse – A Smaller One Than Usual. Smith Defies Lynchers and All Other Low-Down Riff-Raff. (Volume 11, Issue 42, Page 8)
October 29, 1914: His Father Owned Atlanta, and Swapped It For a Blaze-Faced Pony. (Volume 11, Issue 44, Page 3)
November 19, 1914: The Leo Frank Case Again Decided […]; Money is Scarce, But She Needs the Jeff.; The Leo Frank Case Again Decided by the Supreme Court. (Volume 11, Issue 47, Pages 1, 2, 3 & 5)
December 3, 1914: Leo Frank, As A Regular Newspaper Contributor. (Volume 11, Issue 49, Page 6)
December 17, 1914: Leo Frank Sentenced Again: Another Campaign of Big Money Begins: Burns and C.P. Connolly. (Volume 11, Issue 51, Pages 1, 8 & 9)
December 31, 1914: Where Ought Law Cases to Be Tried? And How? And By Whom? In Re Leo Frank; The Leo Frank Case. (Volume 11, Issue 52, Pages 1, 8 & 10)
January 7, 1915: What Edmund Burke Said Could Not Be Done, Has Been Done in Behalf of Leo Frank. (Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 8, 9 & 12)
January 21, 1915: [Headline missing] (Volume 12, Issue 3, Page 11)
March 11, 1915: The Democratic Administration After Two Years of Fair Trial Under the Most Unhampered Circumstances (Volume 12, Issue 10, Page 1)
May 27, 1915: Why Are Frank’s Hired Champions Afraid to Publish the Official Record, and to Let the World Read the Evidence Which Convicted Him? (Volume 12, Issue 21, Page 1)
June 10, 1915: The Statement of Judge Roan’s Pastor (Volume 12, Issue 23, Page 9)
July 1, 1915: Slaton Misstates the Law, the Supreme Court Decisions, and the Evidence: The Next Move Is, to Get Frank Out. Watch the Game. (Volume 12, Issue 26, Pages 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 8)
July 8, 1915: Aftermath of Slaton’s Treachery in the Frank Case: “A Sad Day For Georgia,” Says Judge Ben Hill.; Regarding the Commutation of Frank Sentence. (Volume 12, Issue 27, Pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11 & 12)
July 15, 1915: While Leo Frank Is Loafing at the State Farm, the Rich Jews Continue to Defame the People and the Courts of Georgia (Volume 12, Issue 28, Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6)
July 22, 1915: The Leo Frank Case; John M. Slaton; A Forgery or Two; and a Hidden Mesh-Bag (Volume 12, Issue 29, Pages 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8)
July 29, 1915: Sentiment of the People Regarding Frank Case (Volume 12, Issue 30, Pages 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11 & 12)
August 5, 1915: A Gentile Put to Death on the Evidence of a Negro for Killing a Jew: A Jew Virtually Pardoned, After Conviction on Evidence of White Witnesses of Killing a Beautiful Girl.; Why Did Creen Cut Leo Frank?; Even the Michaels Objected to Evidence in the Frank Case; From a Georgia Friend.; From a Former Georgia Citizen. (Volume 12, Issue 31, Pages 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11 & 12)
August 12, 1915: Why Do They Keep Up the Big Money Campaign Against the People and the Courts of Georgia?; The Commutation of Frank’s Sentence Is Null and Void!; Will the Jew Bootlicks Who are Defending Slaton Answer These Fair Questions?; Do the Jew Business Men Want to Provoke Us Into a General Boycott?; Judge Benj. H. Hill Corrects One of Our Correspondents. (Volume 12, Issue 32, Pages 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 11)
August 19, 1915: John M. Slaton Talks in Alaska. Attacks Senators Smith and Hardwick: Is Coming Back to Run For the Senate; Our People Seem to be Waking Up.; Resolutions From Some Canton People.; Pardon for a Midnight Assassin!: Who Next? (Volume 12, Issue 33, Pages 1, 3, 5 & 9)
August 26, 1915: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”; Frank Virtually Confessed. Ceased to Claim Innocence.; Did Frank’s Lawyers Mismanage His Case?; The Voice of the People is the Voice of God!; What is the Law as to Pardons, in Georgia?; These are the Laws Which were Violated by Governor John M. Slaton.; Sentence of Law was Enforced on Leo Frank.: Irregular, But Right.: May a Convicted Criminal Commute His Own Sentence?; Editorial Notes (Volume 12, Issue 34, Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 & 12)
September 2, 1915: “Leo Frank Wrote His Own Alibi.”; When Are the Northern Jews Going to Let Up On Their Insane Attempt to Bulldoze the State of Georgia?; Mayor Woodward’s Speech in San Francisco. Slaton’s Venomous, Forked Tongue.: The Jews Started This Fight, and They are Keeping it Up.; A New York City Resident Writes His Opinion.; A Minnesota Farmer Writes About the Frank Case; Florida Friends Becoming Numerous. (Volume 12, Issue 35, Pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11)
September 9, 1915: A Few of the Lies Against the State of Georgia, Told by William J. Burns.; The Boston “Review” Is Mighty Hard On Us Low-Down Georgians.; Dorsey and Watson Threatened With Assassination By Infuriated Jews.; The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Takes Hold of the Frank Case!: Against the Law and the People, in Favor of Money and Crime. (Volume 12, Issue 36, Pages 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 & 12)
September 16, 1915: H. Katz, Principal of Hebrew Institute, Writes a Review of the Frank Case; How a Railroad Lawyer, Samuel B. Adams, Falsifies for John M. Slaton.; Three Statements Made by Leo Frank Just Before He was Executed.; A Letter to the Atlanta Journal From a Georgia Citizen.; A Socialist Friend Writes Us.; Here’s Where Stockbridge of the Ruralist Loses Another One. (Volume 12, Issue 37, Pages 1, 3, 5, 6 & 10)
September 23, 1915: The State versus John M. Slaton: Indictment for Treason.; From an Old Confederate.; The Jews Plan a Separate Nation.; This Jew Could Not Sit with a Reader of the Jeffersonian. (Volume 12, Issue 38, Pages 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 & 10)
September 30, 1915: Further Features of the Rosser-Slaton-Haas and John Grant Gang.; From Bulloch County GA.; A Kentuckian Writes on Some Live Topics.; A Travelling Man’s Sentiments.; How Much Longer is Georgia to be hounded in the Jew-bought Papers?; Some of the Commuters that Slaton and Grant and Rosser are Banking on.; An Atlanta Doctor of Divinity Writes an Amazing Letter on the Frank Case.; “By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them.”; A Veteran Writes of the Frank Execution.; Getting Ready for Nathan.; He is 78 Years Old and Full of Fire.; How an Illinois Man Changed His Views.; An Episcopalian Lashes the Episcopal Minister, C.B. Wilmer.; Haas in New York After the Cash. (Volume 12, Issue 39, Pages 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 & 12)
October 7, 1915: John Slaton’s Declaration of War: John Grant’s Artillery; Methodist Preacher Thinks T.E.W. a Liar-But He Borrows the Jeff.; From a Georgia Lady.; Who the Mob Was. (Volume 12, Issue 40, Pages 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10)
October 14, 1915: What an Ohio Physician Thinks of Slaton’s Conduct; A Letter to a Jeff. Friend From an Iowa Socialist.; A Man From the West; The Kerlin Case and Mrs. Camp. (Volume 12, Issue 41, Pages 3, 5 & 8)
October 21, 1915: From an Old Thomson Boy Now in Mississippi; Preferred to Read the Jeffersonian; General A.J. West and His Cut-Throat Friends; T.E.W.’s Trial Will Come Up in November.; What Are We Men to Do, Without Coats and Breeches?; A Cheering Voice from North Louisiana.; All Georgians Believe in Fair Play for Jews and Gentiles.; Elberton Folk Endorse T.E.W. (Volume 12, Issue 42, Pages 2 & 11)
October 28, 1915: An Endorsement of T.E.W.; Yardmaster On Duty Night Frank Passed Macon Here; How About This, Commissioner T.E. Patterson.; The Support of His Friends Is All T.E.W. Asks For.; From a Florida Doctor. (Volume 12, Issue 43, Pages 3, 11 & 12)
November 4, 1915: A North Carolina Farmer Opposes Warehouse Bill, and Praises Grover Edmondson.; Watson Endorsed by Neighboring County.; The Modest Jew.; Answer His Questions Stockbridge.; Stop the Rotten Ruralist. (Volume 12, Issue 44, Pages 2, 3, 11 & 12)
November 11, 1915: What About it, Socialist Editors?; “Non-observance of the Law.”: Sunday-School Address by Samuel W. Adams. (Volume 12, Issue 45, Pages 5 & 9)
November 18, 1915: Random Notes on Things in General. (Volume 12, Issue 46, Pages 7 & 8)
November 25, 1915: Tom Watson Fights in Right. (Volume 12, Issue 47, Page 2)
December 9, 1915: Leo Frank Official Evidence (advertisement, appears in other issues) (Volume 12, Issue 49, Page 9)
December 16, 1915: Leo Frank Official Evidence (advertisement, appears in other issues) (Volume 12, Issue 50, Page 9)
December 23, 1915: A Word From Kansas. (Volume 12, Issue 51, Page 12)
January 6, 1916: Leo Frank Official Evidence (advertisement, appears in other issues) (Volume 13, Issue 2, Page 10)
February 3, 1916: (No headline) (Volume 13, Issue 6, Page 9)
February 10, 1916: Is the State of Georgia to be Raped by Wilson’s Administration?; Is Georgia the Worst of all the States?; John M. Slaton Assumes Control of Mr. Hearst’s Atlanta Paper–The Georgian. (Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages 7, 8 & 10)
February 17, 1916: A Plain Talk to the Attorney-General of the United States.; If We Had A Few More Like “Uncle Jim” Parish, We’d Like It.; A Chicago Doctor on the Frank Case. (Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 6 & 10)
March 2, 1916: Why Not Prosecute All?; A Dangerous Proposal.; Still Libeling the State of Georgia.; Crisp County People Adopt Resolutions. (Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 5, 9 & 11)
April 6, 1916:Once a Georgian, Always a Georgian.; From North Dakota. (Volume 13, Issue 15, Page 3)
April 27, 1916: The Final Confession of Leo Frank’s Guilt.; The Final Confession of Leo Frank’s Guilt.; A Fair Specimen of the Burns “Detectives.” (Volume 13, Issue 18, Pages 1, 9 & 10)
May 4, 1916: Paid for “a Receipt” that Leo Frank was Innocent? (Volume 13, Issue 19, Page 10)
May 11, 1916: The Truth About the Settlement of the Frank Case. (Volume 13, Issue 20, Page 1)
May 25, 1916: “The Truth About the Murder of Mary Phagan, for Which an Innocent Man Died.” (Volume 13, Issue 22, Pages 6 & 7)
June 1, 1916: Sorry to See ’em Worrying About Hugh Dorsey.: They are Lugging in the Frank Case. (Volume 13, Issue 23, Pages 6, 8 & 9)
June 8, 1916: What is the Meaning of the Constitutional Words, “a Public Trial?” (Volume 13, Issue 24, Page 6)
July 6, 1916: Shall This Man be Hugh Dorsey’s Successor in the Solicitorship?: John A. Boykin, One of Leo Frank’s Lawyers, Wants it? (Volume 13, Issue 28, Page 4)
August 3, 1916: (No headline) (Volume 13, Issue 32, Page 2)
August 10, 1916: Notes on Georgia Politics. (Volume 13, Issue 33, Page 4)
August 24, 1916: Shall the Pope’s Law Override the Law of Georgia? (Volume 13, Issue 35, Page 2)
August 31, 1916: Notes on Georgia Politics. (Volume 13, Issue 36, Pages 5 & 6)
September 7, 1916: (No headline); From Hon. Frank Park. (Volume 13, Issue 37, Pages 8 & 9)
September 21, 1916: (No headline) (Volume 13, Issue 39, Page 5)
September 28, 1916: Casual Comment on Affairs in Georgia. (Volume 13, Issue 40, Page 4)
October 12, 1916: Does Kansas See a New Light on Lynching? (Volume 13, Issue 42, Page 7)
November 23, 1916: Georgia Matters Briefly Treated (Volume 13, Issue 48, Page 4)
December 14, 1916: Who is “The Most Dangerous Man in Georgia?” (Volume 13, Issue 51, Pages 2 & 3)
December 21, 1916: A Most Important Special Election in Georgia For Congress. (Volume 13, Issue 52, Page 4)
January 11, 1917: “Why Was Frank Lynched?”: Frank’s Own Lawyers Caused the Irregularity of the Execution, One of Them Undertaking to Act Both as PEOPLE’S EXECUTIVE and as FRANK’S ATTORNEY. (Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 1, 4 & 5)
February 1, 1917: Brief Notes on Big Topics. (Volume 14, Issue 5, Page 6)