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cess, by signing a commutation which he, as
a lawyer, was bound to know was null and--
void:
(6.) He colluded with his partner to vir
tually abolish capital punishment; and his
conduct in doing so was so different from
his conduct in the Gentile cases, last year,
that he created the suspicion that he was
hribed. by the Jews.
The Vigilance Committee disregarded the
illegal commutation as null and void: they
went, in a quiet and orderly way, to where
he was illegally detained — and from which
Frank was illegally detained— and from
which he was planning an early escape—AND
SENTENCE OF THE LAW.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
SENTENCE OF LAW WAS EN
FORCED ON LEO FRANK.
Irregular, But Right.
May a Convicted Criminal Com
mute His Own Sentence ?
A DEFENDANT acts through his law
yers, unless he chooses to act as his own
attorney.
What the lawyer does for his client is, in
law, the act of the client.
When the lawyer waives any legal right
for his client, it binds the client.
When the lawyer moves for a continu
ance, a mistrial, or a new trial, the client
does it.
In other words, the lawyer is the client,
in the conduct of the case.
The client could question his witnesses,
and could cross-examine those against him,
if he wished; but when his lawyer does it
—as in almost every case —it is the same, in •
law, as though the defendant himself had
done it.
If the lawyer makes admissions, or de
nials, concerning matters of fact, or of law,
it is the same, in legal effect, as if the de
fendant had admitted or denied.
Now, when John M. Slaton, one of
Frank’s lawyers, told the New York mil
lionaire-Jews that he would re-try the case,
it w’as the same in law as saying that
Frank would be his own judge.
When Slaton did afterwards re-try the
case, upsetting the jury, as to the facts, and
overruling all the judges, as to the law’, his
act w r as, in legal contemplation, the act of
his client.
When Frank's attorney, John M. Slaton,
signed a decree of commutation, it was the
same in law as though Frank had signed it.
Is a convicted criminal, condemned by all
the courts, and three times sentenced to
death, legally released from the sentence
wdien he himself, through one of his law
yers, annuls the decrees of the courts?
May a man use his own lawyer, to vir
tually abolish the courts?
It is monstrous, to contend that he may.
There is a God’s lavish of “Georgia’s
shame,” but it does cling to the bold,
true men of Cobb County w’ho executed
upon a legally tried, and thrice condemned
murderer, the mandate of the Law.
The Law had said, three times, “Hang
Leo Frank by the neck, until he. is dead:”
the Vigilantes did just that, and no more.
The attempt of Frank's lawyer to annul
the mandate of the Law, 'was itself a crime,
AND A NVLLITN.
Slaton had no more legal right to act in
that case, as commuter, than Rosser did.
The commutation, signed by one of
Frank’s lawyers, did not exist in law, at
all. It was void. IT WAN NOTHING.
Consequently, the mandate of the Law
stood, in all of its integrity, and the man’s
life was FORFEIT.
To compare such a case with the ordi
nary lynchings, w’hich pain us so much
when Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania
swing niggers, is unjust.
There have been somb aw T ful lynchings
in Springfield, Illinois —the home pf Abra
ham Lincoln—and caused us Southern
savages much dolor and depression; but we
managed to survive it.
Indiana had a psychic drunk, and a gen
eral epidemic of jungle fury, some years
ago, and scores of the sons of Ham fell
sudden victims to a superior civilization.
Wasn’t it in Ohio that our brother in
black W’as shot clean off the map of a towm,
just a few years back?
It seems to me that an affliction of that
sort fell upon us, and caused us illiterates,
brutes, barbarians,, and low-lifers of the
South much misery in our spirits.
Yes, “Georgia’s shame” is abundant, but
it doesn't rest on the men w ho, f; r two
years, waited patiently for the authorities
to enforce the Law’.
The patient waiting would have been
rewarded, and the Law’ enforced, bad not
one of Frank's own attorneys been Gov
ernor.
“Georgia's shame” is, that this man took
his client's case away from the Lawn and
made it an asset of his firm.
“Georgia’s"shame” has been, that none of
the Atlanta dailies would w’arn Slaton
against committing such a crime.
“Georgia's shame’’ has been, that nearly
all our daily papers have betrayed the
State, and become accomplices in a nation
wide campaign of villification, in which
the Law, the facts, the people, and the
courts have been venomously and persist
ently misrepresented.
“Georgia's shame” is, that the Jew ad
vertiser, the Jew banker, and the Jew
owmed railroad system of the Louisville and
Nashville, throttles the Atlanta papers, and
makes a pliant tool of the Atlanta Cham
ber of Commerce.
“Georgia's shame” is, that those who
should have defended her at the bar of
public opinion, did not: Georgia’s glory is,
that the great mass of her common people
w’ere true-hearted, and were determined,
that there shall not be, in this State, one
law for the Rich, and another for the Poor.
The Law which hangs' Gentiles on the
verdicts of juries, J/UN7 7 HANG JEWS,
whether they like the rope or not.
The Law 7 which, in 1914, hanged the 17-
year-old Cantrell boy, and the old North
Georgia tenant, and young Nick Wilburn,
should, in 1915, have hanged Leo Frank.
We can t allow Justice boxight and sold
by the Haas Finance Committee.
Last week, three negroes were lynched in
Decatur County, for poisoning mules.
Has the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
heard about it ?.
Has Clark Howell heard of it? Has the
Journal, and the Georgian?
Why are they not harassing the Gover
nor, and offering rewards for the Decatur
lynchers, who did not wait on the Law for
two long years?
Frank had been regularly tried, and
legally convicted, after having had the
benefit of counsel, three trips to the State
Supreme Court, one trip to the United
States Supreme Court, and a full hearing
before the Prison Commission.
The South Georgia negroes had no regi
ment of lawyers, no trial, no hearing before
any legal tribunal; and their crime w’as not
the rape and murder of a little white girl-
The negroes had killed mules.
Yet the North hasn’t gone crazy over the
Decatur case; the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce has not Resoluted on the sub
ject; Clark Howell sees none of Georgia’s
shame in it; and no Chicago and New York
committees are raising money to come
down here and teach us how to attend to
our own business.
Is it because Frank was a Jew of aris
tocratic connections, while his little victim
was nothing but a Gentile “factory girl,”
that such a furore is raised over the execu
tion of this convicted, and THRICE SEN
TENCED Jew?
If that is not the reason, tell us w’hat the
reason is.
In the meantime, I say that the Cobb’
County Vigilantes have not, in morals,
committed any crime, in executing a legal
sentence which had been illegally ob
structed.
And all over this broad land there are
millions of good people, not doped by Jew;
money, and lies, that enthusiastically greet
the triumph of Law in Georgia.
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