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Vol. 12, No. 33
John M. Slaton Talks in Alaska. Attacks Senators Smith and Hardwick
TO the kindness of a friend in Skagway. Jg COUIIHO tO RIIH FOI" Let’s see what else Nathan's Jack told the
Alaska, I am indebted for a copy of * Alaskans:
The Daily Alaskan, of Monday. July 26, tllC SCHHIC
'"TO the kindness of a friend in Skagway,
Alaska, I am indebted for a copy of
The Daily Alaskan, of Monday. July 26,
1915..
It contains several columns of talk on the
Leo Frank case, Slaton being the talker.
The farther off Jack gets, the bigger his
lies are.
For instance, he told the Alaska people
that he was so rich in his own right, that
no monetary consideration could have in
fluenced him in commuting Frank’s sen
tence.
Well, he may be independently rich now,
but he wasn’t when he formed that law
partnership with Rosser, in May, 1913.
As Rossers’ partner, Slaton was legally
entitled to a share of whatever Rosser made
out of the McNaughton case, for it was in
September, 1913, that Slaton commuted the
poisoner.
As Rosser's partner, Slaton was legally
entitled to a share of whatever Rosser made
out of the Frank case, for he was Rosser’s
partner when he virtually pardoned the
client of the firm.
They were able to offer Senator Ollie
James a huge fee, just to recite one speech
before Slaton, and Rosser assured the Ken
tucky lawyer that he could not lose the
case.
Rosser, you see, was sure of his partner,
and as they were to pay Senator James so
hugely for reading an argument that would
be typed out for him, the fee of the- firm of
Rosser, Slaton & Phillips must have been
stupendous.
In looking over the Alaska paper, I find
\ that Jack did not tell those distant people
that Leo Frank was his client.
He did not tell The Daily Alaskan that
he was Rosser's partner.
He did not explain how Rosser needed
him in the Mary Phagan case, and in the
case of McNaughton, and used him.
Let us see what Slaton told the Alaskans:
“I could not,” said Governor Slaton, “as a con
scientious official, permit the hanging of Leo
Frank. My decision in this matter was not
reached until I had investigated every shred of
evidence in the case. I spent days and nights
ploughing through the testimony; I visited again
and again the scene of the crime; I weighed every
word of evidence pro and con. I realized that
there was a clamor for the blood of Frank, but I
knew full well that it did not emanate from the
sober, serious-minded citizens of Georgia. It was
the result of the inflammatory articles that ap
peared in several Georgia papers, and had its
origin in a desire to subserve ulterior purposes,
largely political in their character. I would have
been indeed recreant to my great trust had I wan
tonly permitted the sentence of the court to
stand.”
Thus does John M. Slaton go up and
down the earth, lying about the case, and
slandering the people who had taken him
for an honest man.
He arraigns the jury, arraigns Judge
Roan, and arraigns the Supreme Court of
Georgia, virtually charging that the high
est tribunal in the State yielded to mob
clainor, and not to the legal testimony.
He asserts that he re-tried the case, and
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, August 19, 1915
reversed all the courts, just as though he
had a legal right to do so, when in every
other murder case brought before him, he
had said that he had no such right.
Slaton didn't spend any days and nights
plowing through the evidence in the case.
His mind was made up, from the time he
practically became Frank's attorney, by be
coming Rosser's partner.
No well regulated lawyer will intention
ally hang his own client. He may do such
a thing by misadventure, but not by de
sign.
Jack meant to save Leo —the juiciest client
that ever came Jack's way —and all the peti
tion racket, and United States Supreme
Court racket, and Doctor of Divinity racket,
and Chicago delegation racket, and Prison
A Vigilance Committee redeems Georgia,
and carries out the sentence of the Law on
the Jew who raped and murdered the little
Gentile girl, Mary Phagan.
Slaton was Frank’s lawyer, and the com
mutation was void.
In putting the sodomite murderer to death,
the Vigilance Committee has done what the
Sheriff would have done, if Slaton had not
been of the same mould as Benedict Arnold.
Let Jew libertines take notice!
Georgia is not for sale to rich criminals.
Commission racket, and William M. Howard
racket, and John W. Moore fake-letter
racket, was done for effect.
Partner Rosser meant to do all he could
to save Partner Slaton's face, while Partner
Slaton was saving their client's neck.
The probability is, that Nathan Straus
went plowing over the evidence with Jack,
when Nathan came down to Georgia, to see
dear old Talbotton once more, before he
died and went to glory.
It was a rainy day, and Nathan did not
get a very good look at his dear old Tal
botton, but it wasn't raining so hard in At
lanta, and he enjoyed a fine view of Jack.
You'll remember that Jack went up to
New York quite a few times, last year; and
he explained that the bonds were the cause
of these mysterious trips.
Very troublesome bonds, these were: the
Governor even had to go to New York to
overlook the printing!
He may have carried the record in the
Frank case along with him; and he and
Nathan Straus may have plowed through it
together, in Nathan’s restaurant, where Na
than makes white girls serve negro men.
Nathan says he is going to run me out of
the State, and is going to fling me out of
the mails, and is going to have a hog-kill
ing, and is going to show’ up some dreadful
things about my private life.
All right, Nathan! Come right ahead.
Bring your Jack with you, when you come.
Ijd's see what else Nathan's Jack told the
■Alaskans:
“Nbw I want to tell you,” continued the Gov
ernor, ‘‘of the thousands, nay hundreds ol thous
. ands of letters, appeals and petitions that poured
in onto me. They came from every walk in life,
from every civilized country on earth. They
would fill an ordinary size room. They camo from
every city and hamlet in the United States, and
the tenor of one and all was ‘save Frank.’ I can
assure you, however, that these appeals would
have fallen on deaf ears had not my own investi
gations, quietly and thoroughly pursued, con
vinced me beyond a peradventure that Frank’s
conviction was in defiance with every rule of law
and evidence.”
‘Every civilized country on earth!' 7
So, you see, according to John M. Slaton,
the nations of Europe found time in the
midst of the war, to send petitions to the
heroic Governor of Georgia.
“From every city and hamlet in the
United States.”
Really? Then the Texas town in which
Leo Frank was raised, must have changed
its mind, for when Burns attempted to get
the Council to pass resolutions in favor of
Frank, the motion was voted down!
“Frank’s conviction was in defiance of
every rule of law and evidence."’
So bad as that?
What a despicable old State we must
have, to be sure! Ws never could find out
how mean and low down and prejudiced
and ignorant and psychicaly inebriated we
were until we tried to punish a Jew, and
his lawyer—in the Governor's office—would
not let us do it.
Frank's conviction was in defiance of
every rule of law, and every rule "of evi
dence !
My! That was enough to make both of
his lawyers angry —Rosser and Slaton both
—not to mention Partner Phillips, of Jeru
salem.
If it is true, that Jack himself is part
Jew, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin had
a majority on us, from the word go. and we
never did stand any chance to punish Leo
Frank for killing our little Gentile girl.
If Frank's conviction was in defiance of
every rule of law, what's he doing at the
State Farm?
If his conviction was in violation of every
rule of evidence, why did a forged letter —
purporting to have come in December. 1914,
from a judge who died during the last days
of March, 1915 —play such a prominent part
in the sham fight for commutation?
That Alaska interview is the worst slam
we have had yet.
The Jews will be prosecuting us for the
false imprisonment of Frank, if Jack Slaton
keeps on talking.
It’s a shame to keep that man deprived
of his liberty, when his conviction was the
crime of a sworn jury, a sworn Judge, and a
sworn Supreme Court.
Continuing his Alaska talk, Slaton said:
“I cannot stress too strongly that among those
who begged for exHutive clemency for the noted
prisoner was the trial judge in the case. He waa
convinced that there was too much doubt as to
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