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ords-reek with the blood of Christian mar
tvrs.
I detest a church which declared that ‘‘lg
norance is the mother of devotion,” and
which destroyed libraries, closed the schools,
penalized mental research, outlawed science,
and plunged Europe into darkness and hor
ror and carnage for a thousand years.
No Roman Catholic who known the law of
his foreign church, and obeys it, can be a loy
al American citizen; for the one master is
the enemy of the other, and a Catholic cannot
serve both. M ■;
Samuel Adams, whose sudden interest in
this particular murder case was mystifying,
called for all the commuters to come out and
light Slaton’s battle for him.
Samuel gallantly showed them the way.
Dr. Wilmer fell into line, with extraordinary
grace and vehemence.
Rosser flings to the breeze the names of
the few scattering patriots who followed the
lead of John Cohen and James R. Gray.
In spite of the fact that men were hired to
circulate petitions, hardly any names at all
could be Leave oft the Jews, the
railroad lawyers and the Atlanta Doctors of
Divinity, and that bunch of commuters looks
very much like thirty cents.
The questions I put to Samuel Adams last
week remain unanswered.
It’s not polite to ask the same questions
twice; therefore I will vary the catechism.
Samuel, when did You first feel the symp
toms of your'sudden and violent interest in
criminal law?
I thought you were a civil lawyer; and the
poor figure you cut in trying to argue the
Frank case, inclines me to suspect that you
rushed into it without much preparation.
Samuel, where do you say that Leo Frank
and Mary Phagan were, at the time Monteen
Stover was in Frank’s vacant office.
Account for Frank, and account for Mary,
too, at that time.
Do it, Samuel! Get Rosser to do it, if you
can’t.
Why was it that Mrs. Leo Frank wouldn't
go to see her husband in jail, until after Rab
bi Marx and others had worked on her for
three weeks?
Why was it that the Jews employed Rosser
on Sunday, the day Mary's body was found?
No Gentile then suspected Frank.
Who, in your opinion, bloodied that old
shirt, and put it in Newt Lee’s clothes-barrel?
Who, in your judgment, hid the genuine
time-slip of the clock, and forged a new one
w’hich gave Newt Lee an hour unaccounted
for, the night the girl's body lay in the base-’
ment ? i
Who, in your judgment, has Mary Pha
gan's mesh-bag?
Samuel, put your mind on one queer de
tail: When the two officers w’ent to Frank’s
home, early Sunday morning, on the day the
corpse was found/he presented the rickety,
nervous appearance of a man who had been
drunk, the night before. Neither the night-
W’atch nor the officers had been able to get
him on the telephone, though they had tried
long and hard. One of the officers advised
Mrs. Frank to give her husband a drink of
whiskey. He was told that the whiskey had
all been used up during the nighty by Emil
Selig—the father of Frank’s wife. Selig, it
was said, had had an attack of acute indiges
tion during tile night, and had consumed all
the liquor.
Selig swore at the trial that he ate break
fast and dinner as usual, that Sunday, and
he did not swear to any indigestion and to
drinking up all the whiskey in the house.
Now the cook said, Frank drank the whis
key, and got so wild in raving about the mur
der, that his wife had to sleep on a rug, on
the floor!
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Now*, Samuel Adams, give us your view’s
about this detail.
Sunday morning, following the crime, Se
lig did not look, or act, like a man who had
just got over being drunk, to cure indiges
tion, but Frank did look and act like a man
whose nerves were all to pieces.
Who, in your opinion, Samuel, drank that
whiskey ?
Does not this neglected detail give power
ful corroboration to the cook's story ?
Samuel Adams, tell us how’ Jim Conley
could have described the night-watch in those
notes, when, Rosser proved that one of these
negroes had, never seen the other?
Samuel, explain why the notes indicate un
natural use of the girl, refer to the toilet and
describe New’t Lee twice.
Tell us why Frank, at the trial, would not
offer to answer a single question, and why
Rosser was afraid to ask those white girls
any.
Tell us why every bit of the work of the
detectives was limited to attempts at chang
ing the evidence of the state's witnesses and
to finding a man, or men, who would swear
they heard Jim Conley confess that he
alone committed the crime?
Samuel Adams, why w’as it that Rosser
was afraid to try to show’, as the defense
alone could lawfully do, that the finger
prints of Leo Frank were different from the
bloody finger prints on the back door?
Tell us why the Jew shielded the negro,
and tried to “frame-up” an innocent man,
until after the negro confessed and told all
about it?
And since you have made your advent into
the criminal law’, tell us, do tell us, your the
ory of the hair on the handle of the lathe ma
chine and the blood spots on the floor near
the toilet, where Frank said he might have
been while Monteen Stover was in his office.
Give us your theory of the hands folded
across the breast, in the basement, and the ab
sence of any sign of blood in the basement, on
the ladder, or on the floor at the trap door.
Give us your theory of the trail of the
dragged body, a trail 136 feet long, leading
directly from the elevator to the corpse.
The Jeffersonian is singled out by Slaton,
Rosser-Grant for venomous attack. What
have I done that the people condemn? How
can Slaton succeed in making the Docket
sound, Watson Slaton?” There is no
such case on the Docket. The case sounds;
“The State rersus John M. Slaton: Trea
son.”
“If he w’ants to come home, and stand his
trial at the bar of public opinion, let him
do it.
The-evidence is all in; the jury is atten
tive; the Great Judge is on the bench.
Let the battle begin—and God defend the
right!
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“The 4th Degree Oath of the
Knights of Columbus/*
'T'O meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
* those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles, and have become oath-bound
subjects of a foreign power, I have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens.
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts for
yourselves. Priced ten cents.
This question of Popery is the most import
ant question now facing the people of
America.
How the Government Has Aided
the Wall Street Gamblers to
Rob the Southern Cotton
Growers.
TT HE older men will tell you, that we had
flushh times right after the Civil War,
and on up to the. Panic of 1873.
This seems strange, until you consider that
flush times in business means, plenty of money
in circulation.
Those who understand political economy,
will explain to you how it is that commerce
languishes when money is scarce, and
flourishes like a green bay tree, when money
is abundant.
There was never any Resurrection of pros
trated industries, such as took place in the
South, after Lee's surrender.
Cities sprang out of their ashes, new towns
began to rise ail over the country: Hie fields
were soon covered with corn and cotton: and
nearly everybody had some greenback money
in his pocket.
Why was this?
It was, because the Government had used
its supreme power to create money: and this
money had been issued directly to the Union
soldiers, sailors, contractors, officials, etc.
It paid salaries to the civil officers, it paid
the salaries of Generals Grant and Sherman
and Sheridan, amt it paid the wage of the
men in the ranks. It paid the bounties for
enlistment. It paid the men who sold arms,
ammunition, provisions, horses, &c., for the
use of the armies.
In this way, the new’ money filled every
artery of trade and industry; ami probably
the first greenbacks that came South were
brought by the ragged Confederate, who had
sold a part of his tobacco to the friendly
Yanks.
How much of that new’ paper money was
created and put in general circulation during
the war?
In Senator John A. Logan's speech of
March It, 1874. in the Lnited States Senate,
I find the following:
1 will give the following tables showing the
amount of currency in circulation in the years
1856 and 1866:
1865.
National bank notes $ 171,321,903
Legal-tender and other notes.... 698,918:800
State bank notes 58,000,000
Seven-thirty notes 830,000,000
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