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Vo(. 12, No. 56
Here Is the Positive Evidence Against John M. Slaton
readers will remember my statement
that Slaton was Rosser's partner in
May, 1915, just a few days before he com
muted Frank’s sentence.
Os course, a certain clique in Atlanta, and
its weekly-editor ramifications, have denied
that Slaton and Rosser were partners, when
Slaton saved —as he thought—the client of
the firm.
To a friend in Atlanta, I am indebted for
the positive evidence to sustain my asser
tion.
It is contained in “The Daily Report,” a
paper “devoted to the Courts and the Busi
ness Interests of Fulton County.”
It is recognized by the members of the
bar as The Official-Court Bulletin.
In its issue of May 14th, 1915, the follow
ing professional advertisement appears:
“L. Z. Rosser, Sr. Morris Brandon.
Jno. M. Slaton. B. Z. Phillips.
ROSSER, BRANDON, SLATON & PHILLIPS. :
719-23 Grant Bldg. Phone Ivy 2800.”
The advertisement appears under the class
ification —
“ATTORNEYS."
You see by this undeniable testimony that
at the very time Governor Slaton was prom
ising the New York Jews to re-try Frank's
case, TIE lU4& ONE OF FRANK'S LAW
YERS.
At the very time that the Chicago philan
throps and lollywops came potracking down
to Atlanta, in Pullman palace cars, to plead
with Slaton, that profound hypocrite was
one of Frank's lawyers.
Mary Delaney Fisher —who is dubiously
described as “a club woman" —telegraphed
her sob story to the Northern press. She
wept this weep into it:
“Mrs. Fisher urged the woman’s appeal
that brought tears, etc.
“The Governor said to me when I pre
sented the plea:
“ ‘When the case shall be presented to me
by the Prison Commission, I shall give it
‘every consideration, and go thoroughly into
every detail, being guided by the facts pre
sented in the record. I am glad to receive
the plea for mercy from the women, but if I
find, in my opinion, that Frank is not guilty,
I shall exercise my prerogative, and grant
him a full pardon.'’
“Then Higinbotham. in his excitement,
jumped up and said, ‘Do you mean a par
don?' and he said, ‘Undoubtedly.’ to which
Higinbotham answered, ‘Thank God, I knew
you were a man.’
“I interviewed Mrs. Slaton today in her
country home, where I was escorted by one
of the prominent Gentile women of the inner
circle of the Governor, in her own private
car. Os course, she could not tell me she
would help the Frank cause, and I would
not ask her: but she did say her own brother,
John Grant, one of the prominent men ot
the city, had signed the Frank petition.”
This telegram, which screamed its way
through the Northern papers, bore date June
1, 1915.
At that very time, the official advertise
ment of JOHN M. SLATON, as the PART-
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, September 9, 1915
NER OF FRANK'S LEADING ZAIT
YER, was standing in the official Fulton
County Daily Report!
Therefore, Mrs. Fisher, and Mr. Higin
botham were pleading Frank's case, virtu
ally, with Frank himself!
O it's a horrible mess!
A Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of one
of the original Thirteen States, writes me:
“The cause of lynching is, a loss of confi
dence in the administration of Justice.
“It is a protest of society against anarchy,
in the administration of the courts.
“The lynchers do not expect any benefit,
neither money nor fame, but they are simply
discharging, in most cases, what they sternly
believe is A DUTY TO SOCIETY, in securing
that IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF
JUSTICE, which, by reason of the technicality
of the law, or the favor of a pardoning judge,
too often does not exist.”
In contrast with these true words of an
eminent jurist and pure man, we find the
Straus magazine, Puck, clamoring for the
murder of the Editor of The Jeffersonian.
Referring to me, the Strauses say, in their
last issue of Puck:
“Will Georgia continue to allow her
name to be defamed, her public morals
debauched by this beast? No act can
bring the martyred boy to life, nor wash
his blood from Georgia’s shield. But
atonement and reform is possible. To
punish the meb end exile or HANG WAT
SON, is the first step toward decency and
justice. All eyes are on you, Georgia.
What do you intend in your Wisdom to do
to Tom Watson? To what course does
even extreme Moderation point to pre
vent the recurrence of those lynchings
and murders that disgrace you in the eyes
of your forty-seven Sister States?
“As Puck foresaw and foretold, Tom
Watson accomplished the murder he plot
ted. Neither Tom Watson, the murderer,
nor any of his accomplices in the mob,
will be punished f-or their crime. A
State that permits such a criminal as
Watson to live in its midst, thereby shows
itself indifferent to crime. Only when
TOM WATSON IS HANGED, or' exiled,
can a restoration of decency or order be
hoped for in Georgia. And for that we
may have to wait for another General
Sherman and another ‘March through
Georgia.’ ’’
In his statement to the jury, “the martyred
boy’’ said that he was born in April, 1884.
Therefore, he had completed his 31st year,
when he was executed under a legal sentence,
three times imposed.
This “boy” of thirty-one years, had already
ruined many Gentile girls in .Georgia, had
endeavored to ruin eleven more, and was in
pursuit of another, when her resistance
angered him into brutally knocking her down.
The rest of it you remember, and I need not
repeat.
Jews do not love a bad investment, and the
millions invested in the propaganda against
the Law in Georgia, turned out to be a very
bad investment, indeed.
THE PEOPLE refused to recognize John
Slaton’s right to pardon his own client: THE
PEOPLE considered the thrice pronounced
death-sentence still in force—AS IT WAS!
THE PEOPLE ROSE, AND EXECUTED
THE SENTENCE OF THE COURTS!
That’s all.
The united rich Jews and Catholics rule
New York, but they don’t rule Georgia.
Kiss the Pope’s toe, Messrs. Straus and
Hearst: we Georgians save our kisses for our
wives and children.
And the more you find out about it. th©
worse it stinks.
In the same “Report." under date of Au
gust 24, 1915. I find that the law-firm of
Slaton appears thus:
“L. Z. Rosser. Sr. B. Z. Phillips.
Jno. M. Slaton. Stiles Hopkins.
ROSSER. SLATON. PHILLIPS & HOPKINS.
719-29 Grant Bldg. Phone Ivy 2800.”
So, you see, Morris Brandon had stepped
out, and Stiles Hopkins had stepped in.
Did Brandon quit, when he saw what a
storm of indignation and hatred Rosser,
Slaton, and Phillips were about to arouse?
Did Brandon withdraw because he felt
that it would he the unpardonable profes
sional and political sin for Slaton to act. as
Governor, on the case of his own client ?
At any rate. Brandon got out. and Stiles
Hopkins got in.
Stiles has a disappointment coming to
him, I think.
Ihe old firm needed four rooms in the
building of Slaton’s wife's father's estate.
The new firm thought it needed ten.
I don't think it will need that many. Ten
rooms! () no. not ten!
And I don t think they need to keep any
elegant quarters awaiting John M.
There are many attractive spots on this
planet that John has never seen: now is his
time to go and see every one of them.
He can take his own time about it. too.
The Louisville, Kentucky, “Her
ald,” Lambasts the People
of Georgia.
A BAPTIST cl ergyman sends me a clip
ping from the Louisville Herald, which
reads as follows:
Well we knew the unlovely record of the sov
ereign State of Georgia. Well w e know it and
well we lament it. She has great names on her
roll of honor. She has in the past been typical
of refinement and breeding and a high sense of
honor, personal, National, State. It is of the past
we speak. Today she reads with avidity such
rabid travesties of Holy Writ as would scarcely
have passed a censor of the Days of the Terror
and that was not a breed unduly squeamish or
critical.
In the percentage of white illiteracy, Georgia
ranks forty-first—and Georgia was of the original
thirteen. Her school advantages are slight, and,
as slight as they are, they seem to have been neg
lected. Almost a third of her white children be
tween the ages of 6 and 14 are returned as not
going to school at all.- Os those from 15 to 20,
k two-thirds do not attend school. Taking in the
whole white population from 6 to 20 years of age,
close upon forty per cent were not in attendance
at any school at all. Nine out of ten learn to
read, and go no further. Some probably forget
that much. There is lawlessness because there is
ignorance; illiteracy; gross and scandalous preju
dice; a hunger for flamboyant criminality.
The glorious past to which this Roman
Catholic paper alludes, was the period pre
ceding the Civil War.
We then managed our affairs, in our own
way.
If any corporation asked special favors,
from our Legislatures, the petitioners were
mostly Georgians, seeking to give their State
Price, Five Cents
Ten
