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Jolm M. Slaton Assumes Control
cl Mr. Hearst’s Atlanta Paper—
Tite Georgian.
SOME two months ago, it was rumored that
John M. Slaton had gone to New York,
accompanied by his brother-in-law, John
Grant, to purchase the Atlanta Georgian.
It was said that Mr. Hearst refused to sell,
but appointed Slaton to be general counsel for
the Georgian, and geneial manager of its
political policies.
It will be remembered that Mr. Hearst
came to Atlanta, to see Slaton, who was then
occupying the dual position of Georgia's
governor and Leo Frank's lawyer.
It will also be remembered that Mr. Hearst
brought his great editor, Mr. Arthur Brisbane,
to Atlanta, to write in the interest of Frank,
but Mr. Brisbane was attacked by a severe
illness, and was unable to do the work.
Mr. Hearst also imported into Georgia his
personal attorney. Clarence Shearn, who had
been elevated to the Supreme Court of New
'York. by the Hearst influence.
This little Jew lawyer. Shearn, pretended
to make a careful re-examination of the offi
cial record, in the Frank case, and the result
of his impartial labors was, to reverse the
Supreme Court of Georgia, and to nullify the
statement of the Court, to the effect that the
verdict of the jury was sufficiently supported
by the evidence.
After Governor Slaton had given his client
a new trial, and had upset the decision of all
the courts, the Hon. John Temple Graves
made a speech to the Press Club in Pittsburg,
in which he stated that the Hearst papers
would support Slaton, either for the Senator
ship for the Vice-Presidency.
It is to be presumed that the Vice-Presi
denev has been selected, inasmuch as there
now stems to be Harmonious relations between
Slaton and the Georgia Senators.
The happy union of thought and purpose
which they manifest in regard to the outlawry
of the State of Georgia, in the Frank case,
and the determination to prosecute a Geor
gian in four or five cutside States, at once,
is unite suggesliie.
It remains to be seen whether Mr. Hearst
will find Slaton to be an asset, or a liability.
it also remains to be seen whether their
acquiescence in the gross insult flung at the
State of Georgia, by the Attorney General,
will Income to them a political asset or a
lia bilit v.
The Attorney General states that twenty
citizens of Georgia camejo his office, and de
clared to him that the Government could not
get a fair trial about the Frank case, and
against Watson, in this State.
Who these twenty gentlemen are, has not
been revealed to us: evidently they were men
of the highest standing, and most ponderous
weight.
The Attorney General took the bare word
of these twenty Georgia patriots, and im
mediately black-sheeped the other two hun
dred thousand.
These twenty men stand so high, and weigh
bo much, the Attorney General did not even
require them to sign an affidavit; he did not
ask for any corroborating evidence: he did
not call for an opinion from Judges Newman,
Speer, and Lambdin. Apparently he did not
cg; suit the District Attorneys.
Don't you wonder who were those twenty
men that outlawed the State of Georgia, by a
lew words, spoken in private, not under oath,
and net corroborated?
Don't you think that the Atlanta, Georgian,
should publish their names?
If it should appear that one of those men
was John M. Slaton, what would you think
about it ?
Suppose it should appear that John Grant,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
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and the Haas brothers, and Sig Montag, and
the two Seigels, and Nathan Straus, and
Lewis Marshal, and Hooper Alexander, and
John Cohen, and Luther Rosser, and Ben
Phillips were in the bunch that put the bar
sinister on their native State, what would you
think of the Administration which outlawed
a sovereign State in a secret, one-sided, star
chamber proceeding?
If the Congressmen from Georgia do not
demand of the Attorney General that he pub
lish the names of those twenty traducers of
their own State, their constituents will con
sider it strange.
How America Got its Name.
'T' HE daughter of the lady who wrote the
* “Grandmother’s Stories” has requested
me to give my authority for the statement
that America is the native Indian name for
this continent.
She, of course, does not remember that I did
this, some years ago, in the beginning of the
sketches of “The South and V est."
For the present, it will no doubt be suffi
cient to explain that Governor J. M. Brown,
and the well-known author of standard works
on money. Delmar, devoted a great deal of
study to this question, and collected a large
amount of data, which conclusively proves
that “Amaraca” was a favorite with the
Indians of South America, and that, under
many variations, it was given to provinces,
rives and mountains in remote interiors,
where Americus Vespuccius had never been
heard of.
Governor Brown, in his wonderful book,
“Astyanax,” presents a map of South Amer
ica, which shows that the word “Amaraca’’
was literally sprinkled all over the Southern
part of this hemisphere.
Indeed, Governor Brown seems to prove
that Vespuccius got the nick-name of “Amer
igo’’ from the fact that' he had discovered
Amaraca, just as “Chinese” Gordon got his
nick-name from service in China, and just as
individual scouts and Indian fighters w T ere
called “Texas” Jack, “Buffalo’’ Bill, “Coman
che” Bob, “Pawnee’’ Bill, &c.
The Italian voyager visited Western Amer
ica at the time it bore the original name of
Cundin Amaraca, the word Cundin meaning
Western.
He visited the empire of ancient or primi
tive Amaraca, while it still bore the name Hue
Amaraca, the word Hue meaning ancient, or
primitive.
The god of the Brazilians bore the name
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of Hua Amaracan.
They have a river which they call Mara cay,
and a town named Amaruca, with many other
towns, lakes, mountains and rivers bearing
such names as Amaragi, Maraca, Merooca,
Miraki, Maracana, &c.
Maraca was also a tribal name, throughout
all that vast Amazon region, up to the Pan
ama territory, and thence to the Rio de la
Platte, the Indians used a sacred rattle called
the Maraca.
Thousands of miles in the interior, where
none of the early discoverers and explorers
were ever seen, or so much as heard of, these
names were in constant use, to-wit: the name
which a different race, with a different way
of pronouncing, would readily change to the
present form America.
It is quite probable that, with the Indians,
the soft-flowing pronunciation placed the
accent on the third syllable, where we place
it on the second; just as the Indians always
accented the last syllable of such names as
Ogeechee, and Chattahoochee.
We make an effort to pronounce Toccoa,
when we put the accent on the second syllable,
but the Indian more easily and musically pro
nounces the word as if spelled Toc-co-way,
with the accent on the last syllable.
On the map which Governor Brown pre-
sents in his book, you find the word “Marft
cas:” you will see at once that it is a mere
question of accent to make the word appear
as “Americus.”
It seems that Chili bore the ancient name
of Marukas, while Brazil was divided into
provinces called Western Amaraca, Primitive
Amaraca, &c.
The map shows that one of the rivers bore
the name, “Amerique;” there was an island
on the coast of Brazil, and off the Amazon
River, which bore the name “Amarioca.”
It is utterly impossible to account for all
these various names, bearing a family resem
blance, without attributing them to a native
origin.
No Italian discovered could have plastered
a whole continent with IIIS name in such a
manner.
Governor Brown mentions that Vespuccius,
in his last voyage spent five months collecting
Brazil wood, in the region where that name,
Amaraca, was familiar, and built a fort, near
the mouth of the Mucuri River, one of whose
tributaries is the Amaricanis River.
I have no doubt that ex-Governor Brown,
whose address is Marietta, Ga., would be glad
to correspond with anyone who is especially
interested in this fascinating subject.
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Roman Catholics of Macon,
Georgia, Appeal to “AllFair- <
minded Citizens.” <
'T'HE two daily papers in the city of Macon,
1 publish as an advertisement, the un
signed card of certain local Romanists, who
deplore the fact that the Protestants engaged
an ex-priest to deliver a series of lectures.
These local Romanists, who refrain from
signing their names, allege that during the
last 75 years, a cordial friendly feeling has
always existed between themselves and the
votaries of other faiths.
These anonymous Catholics sav, that dur
ing all that period of 75 years, they have beeiij
“attending to their own business, and alwaw|
ready to work for our city, and respond t™
every call of charity.”
Were they attending to their own business
and doing charitable work, when they com
pelled the Hotel Dempsey to discharge its
manager, because he declined to allow the
Romanists the use of the ball-room, stating
that he would have to fiist consult the
owners ?
Were these Macon Catholics attending to
their own business, and serving the cause of
sweet charity, when they pursued that dis
charged manager, with malignant letters and*
telegrams to Atlanta, warning the hotels
there not to employ him?
Were the Knights of Columbus working
for the city, and for charity, when they beat
up a fellow citizen who had exercised his
legal right to join the Guardians of Liberty?
Were they serving the city, and the cause
of charity, when they published a card in
the Macon Telegraph, insolently telling the
Protestants of Georgia that it was none of
their business if the Roman Catholics of
State obeyed the marebige laws of a fore Cl
potentate, instead of the marriage laws
this sovereign commonwealth ?
Was Mr. A. J. Long working for the cit m
and for charity, when lie rudely affronts®
Rev. Augustus Davisson, agent of the JeffeS
sonian Publishing Company, end told hi!®
the city of Macon should never give our cm®
pany a single, dollar of advertising patronng®
if he could prevent it ? ®
He not only threatened (he boycott, bi®
carried it into effect: an.l the weekly paper!
which has by far the circulation in
Georgia, lias never Peru a•, ed to carry a
single iruh of mlv- rt : i:;g Mr ftp dtr* <>(
Macon, or for t c S . e Fair one of the
chief feeders of the cdy.
