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Further Features of the Rosser-
Slaton-Hass and John
Grant Gang.
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says that Watson said in his presence during the
trial of Frank:
“Why, Rosser and Arnold are bigger fools than
I thought they were for risking their client’s
nec'k in Atlanta, wliefe there is so much excite
ment and where public sentiment is so overwhel
mingly against him. He has about as much
chance for his life as a snowball in h —l; or as
I would have should I be arraigned in Thomson
and tried, not by a jury of my peers, but my en
emies. It would be like trying a rat before the
old cat and a litter of her kittens.”
A Laser falsehood has not been published.
It is the malicious invention of an unscru
pulous liar.
No softer words can describe it.
I have never had. in my knowledge about
the Frank case, a single fact that would au
thorize me to believe that Frank could not
get, and not get, a fair trial.
I have never said, in any form of words,
that his lawyers had no chance in Atlanta.
/ hare never expressed any other opinion
that than Frank was guilty.
On the occasion referred to. Miss Tutney
Bell, and my son. J. I). Watson, were both
present.
They now express the natural indignation
they feel, at the mean conduct of the person
who, after enjoying the hospitality of my
home, and securing my help in a venture
which was to put money in his pocket, tells
such an outrageous falsehood on me.
Miss Tutney Bell lives at Thomson, and
any one who wishes her version of the con
versation, can apply to her for it.
Has John Grant denied that he refused to
let John Slaton have the money to run for
the Senate against Hoke Smith?
Did he not finance, in part. Slaton’s cam
paign against Hardwick and Felder?
■ B ill lie swear that Slaton told the truth,
when he assured those California people that
nobody, outside of his family, had ever con
tributed to his campaign expenses?
Will John Grant deny that the late Cap
tain AV. S. AVest had been a heavy contributor
to Siaton’s campaign funds, and that the
Captain was in Atlanta, raising sand about
it, when Slaton was sweating blood over the
question as to Senator Bacon's temporary
successor?
AVhl John Grant “dare” me to tell what
proposition Slaton sent me by a certain per
son, a short while before the Senatorial cam
paign .closed last year?
John Grant dared me to deny that I tried
“to bribe Slaton to hang Frank-” The dare
was accepted:: what about it?
Is that incident closed? Did my clear
statement of what took place take Slaton
and Grant by surprise?
Are they in doubt as to where to hit, next?
John Grant digs up an old editorial in
which I came out for Slaton when he was
running for Governor, against Hooper Alex
ander and Joe Hill Hall.
AVh.at does that prove?
Nobody had denied that I had supported
Slaton for governor.
The men who wanted to lynch him, had
done the same thing.
The enraged men against whom he had
to war-zone himself, had been his friends.
The men who almost seared the life out
of him, on the day of Governor Harris’ in
auguration, had voted for him, just as I did.
To quote my former opinion of John Sla
ton, is just about as silly as to quote Wash
ington’s warm, trustful letters to Benedict
Arnold, before the Treason.
If President Madero had not. placed con-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
fidence in General Huerta, and put him in
charge of the military, Madero would not
have been betrayed and murdered,
If we had any way to tell, before hand,
what people will do, no cashier would loot
the bank, no Board of Directors would steal
the railroad, no girl would ever be led astray
by a promise of marriage, and no man would
ever marry a woman who would wreck his
life.
If Slaton had'proved himself to be what
his political supporters thought he was, he
would not now be using John Grant's little
jackass to ride home on.
Since John Grant has selected the editori
al which I wrote in favor of his brother-in
law. I will reproduce it, so that everybody
can see upon what grounds I supported
Slaton:
First: Jack Slaton is a true man, clean, hon
est and loyal. His home realtions are beautiful,
and his public life has never been tained by the
breath of scandal. While in some cases his votes
in the legislature were not those I would have
cast, I have never suspected him of dishonesty.
Like Jim Flynt, of Griffin, he sometimes took a
position that was antagonistic to mine, but as ev
erybody knows, I consider Jim Flynt the soul of
honor, and a splendid specimen of Georgia man
hood.
Second: When the Income Tax Bill was be
fore the legislature, Jack Slaton left the presi
dent's chair, took the floor, and made a forceful
speech in favor of it. To his influence the meas
ure owes its adoption. Nearly enough states have
ratified this proposed constitutional amendment,
to insure its passage through congress. When
that event takes place, we shall see the federal
government supporting itself on the net incomes
of the rich, instead of upon the necessaries of
life, which must be purchased by those who have
neither wealth nor net incomes. When Jack Sla
ton took the floor for such a law as this he proved
in the most indisputable manner that his heart
is with the under dog.
Third: He is in favor of having the state print
the text-books in our public schools, to be fur
nished to the patrons at actual cost. The state
does this for the lawyers, furnishing them su
preme court decisions which are practically text
books of the attorneys. Should not the state do
as well by the school children, as by its lawyers?
Fourth: Jack Slaton is in favor of abolishing
the fee system, which is such a carnival of graft,
and such a burden upon the citizen. He is in fa
vor of putting every officeholder upon a salary.
This reform would work untold benefits to the
taxpayers.
Fifth: Jack Slaton is in favor of putting our
county unit plan into law, so that the city poli
ticians cannot take it away from us, every time
some hog-it-all office-seeker appoints a rotten
committee, such as we now have. Such a law is
absolutely necessary, to preserve to the country
counties that proportion of political power which
the Constitution of 187 7 intended that they
should perpetually enjoy.
Sixth: Jack Slaton is in favor of making elec
tive the office of game warden and attorney to the
railroad commission. Only by appointment could
such men as Jesse Mercer and James K. Hines
hold the positions which they now enjoy. We
will make those offices elective and fill them with
men who can be trusted.
Seventh: Jack Slaton favors direct election
of Senators by the people.
Eighth: With proper safeguards to prevent
the invasion by the majority of the constitutional
rights of the minority, he favors the initiative,
referendum and recall.
Ninth: He is in favor of doing away with so
many obstructions between the voter and the bal
lot-box. He believes that when a man is once
registered, he should never have to do anything
more than to pay his taxes, to remain registered.
In other words, he comes mighty near to my old
platform of “a white face, arjd a tax-receipt,” as
the only things to be required of the voter who
ought to be encouraged to exercise the franchise,
instead of being discouraged by so many confus
ing technicalities.
Are not these good reasons for making Jack
our next governor?
As a candidate. -Slaton bad declared him
self in favor of all those things that I men
tioned.
As governor, lie did not do anything, so
far as I know, to bring those reforms into
effect.
Ihe Book I rust held its grip: the fee
system remains: the offices of Game War
den and Attorney for the Railroad (Com
mission were not made elective: the Initia
tive. Referendum and Recall did not materi
alize.
Ihe main “reform of Slaton's adminis
tration was the new Tax law which has in
creased the taxes of every merchant and
land-owner: which exempts from its opera
tion the property of the foreign corpora
tions. and which added over GOO new offices
and salaries to the machinery— none of those
officials being elective, and one-third of them
holding office for six years!
If our taxes had to be raised, wo might at
least have been given the democratic right to
select the men who were to do it.
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