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THOMSON, GA., AUGUST 12, 1915.
The Commutation of Frank s
Sentence is Null and Void.
(continued from page one.)
Men like Rosser do not form academic
co-partnerships.
Men like Slaton do not go into firms that
cannot use them, or be used by them, for two
whole years.
Rosser knew why he needed Slaton, and
felaton, knew why Rosser needed him.
W hen Rosser was hurredly retained by
Franks kinsmen, that Sunday, while Mary
Phagan Jay at the Morgue, Rosser soon saw
what a desperate case lie had.
To save his client from capital punish
ment, he needed a partner who could weiid
the pardoning power, and he hurried off to
associate the Governor-elect.
M hen Slaton became Rosser’s partner, he
became, in law and fact. THE ASSOC I ATE
COCNSEL OF LEO FRANK.
The law says that one partner of a firm
is the same as another: a partner is for
all purposes.
He cannot be both in, and not in: being
a member of the firm, he is as much the firm
as any other partner.
Therefore, under the law, and the de
cisions, Jack Slaton’s decree relieving Leo
Frank of the thrice pronounced death pen
ally, is absolutely Invalid.
If the Solicitor and Attorney General will
move a re-sentence of that guilty murderer
of a little girl—a most revolting and atroci
ous, crime—Rosser and Slaton will be utterly
unable to show legal cause why that man
should not be re-sentenced.
They would have to plead the commuta
tion paper signed by Slaton, and the State’s
attorneys would merely have to prove the
fact that the Governor who signed it, was
tian the partner of Frank’s lawyers.
I he courts would be compelled to treat the
cr mmutation as a nullity, and to re-sentence
Frank to be hanged.
rhere is nothing that I know of to prevent
the State's attorneys from moving for a Writ
of Habeas Corpus and having Frank carried
back to Atlanta, for a hearing on the plea
that lie is illegally detained at the State
Farm, under an illegal commutation; and
that the State is entitled to have him
brought back to Fulton County for re-sen
tence. . ,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Will the Jew Bootlicks Who
are Defending Slaton Answer
These Fair Questions?
I 1 \ DO you know that the Altanta dailies
—after Mary Phagan was murdered
and Rosser employed to defend her—an
nounced the formation of a partnership be
tween Governor-elect Slaton and Leo
Frank's leading attorney ?
(2.) As Slaton was scheduled for in
auguration in June, and would be unable to
practise law for two years, why did Frank’s
lawyer need him as a partner?
(3.) As Slaton was scheduled to be Gov
ernor for two years, and would be unable
to practise during that period, what use did
he have for a partnership with Frank’s
leading lawyer?
(4.) Do you know that Governor-elect
Slaton was assigned his own private office,
by his firm, after he became Rosser's part
ner, and that John M. Slaton’s name ap
peared on the front of the door of this pri
vate office?
(5.) Do you know that the files of The
Jeffersonian will show that I called Slaton's
attention to the fact that his private office
was being used by C. W. Burke, the detec
tive of the Slaton-Rosser firm; and that in
this private office of John M. Slaton vigor
ous and criminal efforts were being made by
Burke to bribe some of the witnesses against
J rank, and to scare others into changing
their evidence?
(6.) Do you know that the affidavits in
the official record prove this, and that when
I called Governor Slaton's attention to it,
he made no denial, and no change in his re
lations to Burke and Rosser?
(7.) Do you know that before Ex-Con
gressman Howard was employed, Luther
Rosser wens in person to see Senator Ollie
James, of Kentucky, and offered him a tre
mendous fee to appear before Governor Sla
ton on the application for commutation?
(8.) Do you know that Luther Rosser
told Senator James that the argument in the
case would be prepared for him?
(9.) Do you know that Luther Rosser
said to Senator James, “As. a lawyer, you
need not be afraid to take the case. YOU
HAVEN'T A CHANCE TO LOSE?"
(10.) Do you know that Senator James
manfully refused to play an ignoble part in
a drama of infamy, and that they then
turned to William M. Howard, who had
already expressed his belief in Frank's
guilt?
(11.) Do you know that, after they fell
down on Bob Davison, and lost one of their
expected votes in the Prison Commission,
Luther Rosser hurried up a back street, late
that night, for a secret, and lengthy, inter
view with his partner, Slaton?
(12.) Do you know that I learned, next
morning, of this clandestine meeting of the
rascally partners, and that 1 caused each of
them to be informed that I was aware of
their midnight juggle, the night before?
(13.) Do you know that neither Slaton
nor Rosser could deny it; and that Slaton’s
explanation was, that Rosser had come to
confer with him about the appointment of
Judge in the Griffin circuit?
Rosser is not supposed to care who is
judge of the Griffin circuit, and a confer
ence on such a topic is not supposed to re
quire back-street travel, midnight conceal
ment, and a prolonged conference.
(14.) Do you know that a Rabbi in Co-
lumbus was telephoning mysterious “good
news to the Columbus Israelites, on Satur
day morning, at about the time the Atlanta
Jews were preparing for the celebration
banquet they held at Frank’s house that
Saturday night?
(15.) Do you know that Slaton virtually
said he would commute, before the case ever
reached him, and that Frank’s wife was so
certain of it she did not appear before the
Governor at all, as Mrs. Becker did before
Governor Whitman, and as so many wives
have appeared before Governors in Georgia?
Let the Georgia editors exercise their priv
ilege to take sides against their State: let
them join in with those' who accuse our
courts of a felonious purpose to judicially
murder an innocent man.
Let them lick the feet of Jew advertisers,
and chime in with the Burns detectives, the
paid hack-writers, and 1 the Jew papers of
the North.
Let the editors who enjoy this outside
defamation of their own people, keep it up.
They are free to crawl and cringe, if they
want to; but let them try to stay somewhere
in the vicinity of the truth; and let them
use nice, smooth, molasses-like verbiage.
They get too mad over their glorious work
of villifying their State.
1 hey use language which convicts them
of having guilty consciences.
They lost their temper when thev lost
their virtue.
They became violent in proportion as their
cause grew weaker.
Like the lawyer who “bellowed like hell,”
M’hen he had neither law nor evidence to go
on, some of the I rank-ite organs are deaf
ening the jury with bovine noise.
Easy, gentlemen! You are not going to
ruffie my temper, I assure you: therefore,
you may as well control yours.
In the meanwhile, you may soothe your
passions by a perusal of the following ‘ affi
davit:
Georgia, Fulton County.
In person before the undersigned authori+y an.
officer duly authorized by law to administer oaths
appeared A. W. Nolan, who being duly sworm
deposes and says on oath, that on Friday and
Saturday before the Monday on which Hon. John
M. Slaton, then Governor of Georgia, commuted
the sentence of Leo M. Fra,nk, deponent was in
Memphis, Tenn.
On said two days, towit, Friday and Saturday,
the Jews of said city were openly betting “four
to one’’ that Governor Slaton would commute
Frank’s sentence to life imprisonment. *
Deponent was recently conversing with one of
the most prominent Jews in the city of Atlanta,
who stated to deponent that he knew on Thurs
day, before the sentence was actually commuted
on Monday, that it would be commuted, but that
the Jews of Atlanta had agreed among themselves
that they would refrain from making any bets
on the outcome of the application for commuta
tion. This same Atlanta Jew further stated to de
ponent that the Jews had a cipher code which was
used in communicating to the Jews throughout
the United States the information that the sent
ence would be commuted, in or,der that they might
place bets and win back as much as possible of
the money they had contributed to Frank’s de
fense. A. W. NOLAN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Ith
day of July, 1915. A. A. OWENS.
Notary Public and Ex-Officio J. P., Fulton Co.
Do You Want to Understand
Why Our Country Is in Its
Present Condition?
'THE business depression and financial cri
-1 sis now afflicting the people are the re
sults of evil laws.
Ihis is fully explained in two books that
wo sell.
Read our “Handbook of Politics and Politi
cal Economy,” and Watson’s Speeches which
treat of these very matters.