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Vol. 12, Mo. 26
Slaton Misslates the Law, the Supreme Court Decisions, and the Evidence
QI U millionaire friend, Nathan Straus, Next Move Is, tO Get Frank Unanimous, is it? Only the insane believe
who has always lived in ixew York, and „ T Frank guilty?
never came back to Georgia until he slipped (Jilt. WatCd th© GSRIS. Whv, then, is Mr. Straus proud of a
G)UR millionaire friend. Nathan Straus,
who has always lived in New York, and
never came back to Georgia until he slipped
into Atlanta, last jear, to do some mole-work
for Leo Frank, blossomed into enthusiastic
fragrance, when he learned that the noble
partnership of Rosser, Slaton & Phillips
had been nobly loyal to itself, and had saved
its client from the scaffold.
This is what Nathan said to William Ran
dolph Hearst’s paper, The New York Hebrew-
American:
I am a Georgian. That is my proudest boast
now, since its chief executive, Governor Siaton,
by the simple act of following the dictates of
conscience in commuting Leo Frank’s sentence,
has lifted the State from the mire which threat
ened to besmirch it to the highest pinnacle of
upright, clean, just Americanism.
Just as men of all kinds, regardless of re
ligion, rank or station in life, united in the
defence of this boy, whom all sane people be
lieve innocent of the horrible crime charged
against him, so will they now all join their
voices in one large song of praise for his savior.
Consider how queerly Nathan, the modern
millionaire, mixes his mind on this modern
case, where a modern Jew, not only took the
other person’s one ewe Tdm,b, but after hav
ing used it. slew it.
Nathan says that Slaton ‘‘'has lifted the
State out of the mire.''
Really ?
Os what did the mire consist?
There was the accusation made by the
grand Jury, four of whom were Jews.
Not a single member of that grand jury
could be induced to sign a petition for a
commutation.
FOUR JEWS ON THE FRAME JURY!
They were sworn officers of the State;
they heard the evidence in secret, as it was
delivered under oath; they said, in writing,
that the charge of murder against Leo
Frank. WAS TREE.
They stood before the whole world, as the
official accusers of Two Frank; and they
stand before the whole world, now, as ad
hering to that awful accusation, and refus
ing to unite in the clamor for the criminal.
Again, there was the unanimous verdict
of the twelve petit-jurors, selected in part
by Frank himself—a unanimous verdict,
reached after the most patient and ex
haustive hearing of all the witnesses, all the
attorneys, and the faultless instructions of
an impartial Judge.
Herculean efforts were made to get those
twelve jurors to ask for mercy for Frank,
and not a man of the twelve could be moved!
They had observed the witnesses, had
heard their voices, had noted their demeanor,
and had listened for eight hours while Sla
ton's partner, Rosser, had flung himself
upon Jim Conley, and worn himself out,
trying vainly to entrap the ignorant negro
into a material contradiction.
These, jurors had also seen Frank every
day, during the month of the trial; they
had studied his sodomite face, and watched
those furtive eyes; had seen him cower be
hind his legal privilege., and screen himself
k from being asked a single question; they
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, Jufy 1, 1915
had heard his lame and bungling attempt to
give an account of himself, at the time when
his little victim was being assaulted and
killed — they had, no doubt of his guilt. AND
THEY HAVE NONE NOW!
As to our Supreme Court, only two
escaped the mud: the rest of them are stuck.
Our Prison Commission, also, is in a very
bad way: only Slaton's schoolmate man
aged to stay out of the mire: Rainey and
Davison are loblollied: but Patterson, noble
patriot, has not the smell of mud on his
garments.
Even the Supreme Court of the United
States is woefully begrimed: only two out
of the nine would intimate that, if what
Frank's notoriously truthful lawyers averred
to be true, was' true, then the State of
Georgia ought to hear evidence on the sub
ject.
Seven of those nine Supreme Court Jus
tices were so deep in the mud, that they
actually and deliberately made the following
decision, giving the lie to Burns, to Con
nolly, to Ochs, to Hearst, to Pulitzer, to
Abell, to Rabbi Vise, to Dr. Parkhurst, and
to sundry jackass governors, and the Parlor
Car Philanthropist and lollywops who
came from Chicago to Georgia, to remind
Slaton of the Declaration of Independence:
“His (Frank’s) allegations of hostile public
sentiment in and about the court room, improp
erly influencing the trial court, and the jury,
against him, have been rejected BECAUSE
FOUND UNTRUE IN POINT OF 1 FACT UPON
EVIDENCE PRESUMABLY justifying that find
ing, and which HE HAS NOT PRODUCED IN
THE PRESENT PROCEEDINGS; his contention
that his lawful rights were infringed because he
was not permitted to be present when the jury
rendered its verdict, has been set aside, because
it was waived by his failure to raise the objec
tion in due season, when fully cognizant of the
fact.
“In all these proceedings the State, through
its courts, has retained jurisdiction over him,
and accorded to him the fullest right and oppor
tunity to be heard.”
“In our opinion he is not shown to have been
deprived of any right guaranteed to him by the
Fourteenth Amendment, or of any other pro
vision of the Constitution, or laws of the United
States; on the contrary, he has been convicted,
and is now held in custody, under ‘due process,
of law’ within the meaning of the Constitution.”
What an awful “mob atmosphere" must
have invaded the Capitol building, in Wash
ington City, when these seven lawyers—sup
posed to be the best in the world —virtually
accused Frank’s regiment of attorneys of
making the foulest charge against the
Georgia courts, without being able to pro
duce one scintilla of evidence to support it!
In the mire? Why, the highest court in
the Union is up to the hubs: and even the
noble law-firm of Rosser, Slaton & Phillips
can never cleanse that -record!
Nathan Straus told Mr. Hearst' Hebrew-
American that “all sane people believe"
(Frank) “to be innocent of the horrible
crime charged against him.”
Unanimous, is it? Only the insane believe
Frank guilty?
Why, then, is Mr. Straus proud of a
State which condemns the innocent “boy”
to lifetime imprisonment?
Straus himself does not believe “this boy”
to be innocent, else he would not exult, un
less, indeed, he knows, as Frank's family
seems to know, that the boy “ WILL SOON
BE FREE:'
In the New York Hebrew-American, of
June 22. the Burns Detective Agency gives
out the following:
. William Sherman Burns, Chief of New York
Office of W. J. Burns —“There is no doubt now
that a fijfbt will be made to free Frank abso
lutely. Commutation of sentence by Governor
Slaton shows that lie is convinced of Frank’s
innocence. Personally, both my father and my
self believe Frank innocent. We have fought to
obtain his release from start to finish, and
staked our reputation on the outcome.”
Inasmuch as Frank's family, and the
Burns Detective Agency announce the early
renewal of “the fight." and their determina
tion to have “this boy" set free, it behooves
every Georgian to acquaint himself with the
reasons which Slaton gave for his interfer
ence with the- sentence the law imposed,
and which two Supreme Courts, and a Prison
Commission, refused to disturb.
STUDY THE FACTS IN THE CASE.
When a Governor follows the .decision of
one man. on the Pardon Board, ignoring
the unanimous stand of the grand jury, the
unanimous stand of the petit jury; the ma
jority of the two Supreme Courts, the ma
jority of the Prison Commission, and the
vehement protest of the State's Attorney,
he creates a situation whose like was never
known before.
Let me tell you one peculiar thing that
has already become noticeable in the North
ern newspapers: They are dumbfounded,
at learning, from Hugh Dorsey's statement,
that Governor Slaton has. all along. RE
MAINED .1 MEMBER OF THE'LAW -
FIRM TUA T IE IS E NOR MO I SL} ’
RAID TO SAVE FRANK'S NECK!
This disgraceful fact lias fallen upon the
North like a wet blanket.
It sums too shameful to be true; yet they
know that the Solicitor General of the State
wouldn't have said it. had it not been true.
Let us calmly review the statement which
the gubernatorial partner of the firm of
Rosser. Slaton & Phillips gives for having
decided in favor of THE CLIENT OF
THE FIRM.
There are some portions of Slaton's re
markable paper which I can hardly believe
lie wrote. He was so busy getting barbed
wire, martial law, machine guns, and armed
soldiers around bis premises, to protect him,
from, the men who had elected him. that he
must have overlooked some passages in his
15.000-word message.
He says:
Under onr law the only authority who can
review the merits of the case and question the
justice of a verdict wh’ch has any evidence to
support it, is the trial judge. The Supreme Court
Price, Five Cents
