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Vol. 12, .No. 29
The Frank Case; John M. Slaton; A Forgery or Two; and a
COM ETIMES our memories do not put
two and two together as they should;
and we, therefore, lose the connection be
tween past events which are related to one
another.
For instance, neither you nor I paid as
much attention as we should have done, to
an item of news which quietly made its ap
pearance in the Atlanta papers, during the
month of Mav. 1913. towit —
That John' M. Slaton had become a mem
ber of the law firm of Lather Rosser.
I remeinber that it made a disagreeable
impression, and that many of Slaton’s
friends were painfully surprised.
Rosser is well known as the coarsest of
men, in language and manner: an overbear
ing swashbuckler, who bulldozes every man
that will submit to it.
On the contrary, the idea prevailed that
Slaton was a gentleman: hence those who
gave him credit for being one. were aston
ished when he entered into so intimate a
relationship as that of partner with a person
of Rosser's type.
Somehow, we failed to remember that Sla
ton had been elected Governor at the Octo
ber elections of 1912: and that Mary Pha
gan had been murdered in April, 1913: and
that Rosser's firm bad been employed on
Sunday, April 27th? 1913. to defend Leo
Frank —secretly employed by Haas and
a time when not a single finger
AUSTRIA was made trustee of the small
Greek-Catholic provinces, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, after the close of the war be
tween Russia and Turkey, in 1878.
Being Roman Catholic, the Austrians were
the very worst of Custodians for the Greek
Catholics, for the hatred of the two great
divisions of Catholicism dates back to the
time of “the great schism."
(The bishops of Rome and of Constanti
nople both wanted to be the universal bishop;
and as neither would give way to the other,
each became universal bishop, the one in the
East, and the other in the West.. The Greek
pope goes by the name of Patriarch, and he
lives at St. Petersburg-Petrograd.)
The Jesuits govern Austria, and they cov
ered Bosnia and Herzegovina with their
emissaries, making converts to Romanism
wherever possible.
Finally, Austria sent armies into the two
provinces, crushed their opposition, and
treated them with the utmost barbarity.
Greek Catholics were thrown out of all
places of influence, and Romanists installed.
These new officials were nearly all from Aus
tria.
Having conquered the provinces. Austria
annexed them to her empire, Europe being
unready to protest, because Germany stood
back of Austria.
Then the Jesuits began on Servia, which
is also Greek Catholic.
The poor old King of the Serbs was so
intimidated by Austria that he signed a
- treaty with the Pope, agreeing to recognize
Ttie FTrst Year of file War
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, July 22, 1915
Hidden Mesh-Bag
of Gentile suspicion pointed to Frank as the
man who had killed the girl.
On Monday. April 28th, Besser appeared
on the scene, as leading counsel for Frank,
when Frank himself was trying to fasten
the crime on Newt Lee: and when some
body, working for “the innocent martyr of
race hatred.'’ had sneaked into the negro’s
premises, and planted a bloody shirt in his
clothes barrel ’.
Os course, neither Rosser nor Haas have
any idea how that gory garment came to
meander into Newt Lee's possession.
Rosser's employment as Frank's leading
lawyer became publicly known Monday, the
28th.
Frank was not detained to await the ac
tion of the Coroner’s jury until the 29th.
Os course, those noble attorneys. Rosser
and Haas, and Rube Arnold, all trooped
upon the stage, then.
Almost immediately afterwards, the Gov-
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Romanism as the State religion, and agreeing
to pay salaries to the Romanist archbishop
for Belgrade, and to bishops in other cities.
Four days after old King Peter signed
this humiliating paper, a young Servian shot
the Austrian prince, whom the Jesuits had
converted into a blind tool of their own.
Austria demanded of Servia the right to
send her own officials into Servia to try the
persons involved in the crime.
Servia could not do this, without abjectly
surrendering her National independence.
She begged for delay, and she begged to
have the matter referred to The Hague Peace
Tribunal, and she agreed to everything de
manded by Austria, except the exercise of
judicial power in Servia, by Austria.
Germany backed her Romanist neighbor,
and virtually warned all Europe to hands off,
while Austria chastised all Servia for the
crime of one young man —a man so young
that when convicted the law did not allow
him put to death.
I restate the origin of the war, in order
that you may see that if Austria and Germany
are now ‘‘fighting for existence,’’ they
brought it on themselves.
And when the inner secrets are revealed—
as they may be some day—it will be found
that the Jesuits were deceiving both the Aus
trian archduke and the German emperor.
It was a Pope who revived the Roman Em
pire of the West, after it had been dead for
centuries; and it was a German who was
crowned as the first Emperor of the Holy
Roman Empire.
ernor-elect was taken into a co-partnership
with Rosser!
Slaton was to be inaugurated in June, you
must remember: and it would have been so
excessively illegal to unite an actual gover
nor with Frank's defense, that they had to
anticipate the inauguration.
Slaton went into Rosser's firm a few days
before he actually became Governor.
Now. stop and think!
A Governor cannot practice law: why,
then, does he need to form a new partner
ship. at the very time he is about to dis
qualify himself for two years?
What did Luther Rosser want with a
partner who could not render any legitimate
service to the firm, for two whole years?
Ah, gentlemen, we are getting close to the
unparalleled rascality, shame, and corrup
tion of this case!
Let me repeat: Slaton became Governor
elect, in October. 1912: Rosser became
Frank's leading lawyer during the last days
of April, 1913: John M. Slaton became part
ner to Rosser during the latter part of May,
1913: and Slaton became Governor in June,
1913.
Os course, he and Rosser knew that his
term would not expire until June, 1915.
A Governor cannot openly practice law.
Now. then—JT/mZ Slaton need with
a new firm that he might never live to prac
tise with?
(continued on page seven.)
Napoleon put an end to it in 1808; and the
Jesuits have never abandoned the hope of its
restoration.
What a tempting bait to hold out to an
ambitious Hapsburg, to be crowned by an
other Pope, as another Charlemagne!
And how easy to secretly bait William
Hohenzollern in the same way!
“Me and God'—and the Pope; and “Me’’
on the throne of the Caesars; and my army
laying down the law of the spiked hemlet to
all Europe; and my submarines sinking
every non-combatant ship—the trawler of the
poor fisherman, and the passenger vessel
crowded with neutrals!
The Holy Roman Empire is the dream of
the Jesuits, and of the recent Popes; and the
medieval ceremonies, superstitions, saints, etc.,
are all coming into vogue again, preliminary
to a ruthless militarism which harks back to
the Feudalism.
Under the Feudal system, the iron-clad
man, on the mail-clad horse, was monarch;
and his law was that, of Might.
That is German law, today: the military
caste declares with brutal frankness that
Germany has the right to do anything which
she considers to her interest.
When a ruling class gets into that state of
mind, it is a menace to civilization.
After a year’s bloody carnage, on two v?st
battle-fronts, what are the results?
Austria has already lost the Adriatic Sea,
(continued on page nine.)
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