The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-30
NOW A CANDIDATE FOR U. s. SENATE, SAYS WIFE AIDED
 HIM IN DECIDING FRANK CASE


 New York, June 3O.'T shall be three times stronger in Georgia, with in a month than I ever was before I have lost sleep in the last week be- cause of the mob. but had allowed Frank to go to the galIoWgss I would not have slept for forty years with his blood on my oozscaence-''
 EE4aov. Jo1hnvM. Slaton Of Georgia, the man who saved Leo Frank from death because he was convinced that the evidence did not prove the guilt Of the young man. spoke earnestly and garden of the Wajdorf-Astoria last evening HR had just arrived with Mrs. S4aton from Georgia flor a short vacation in this city, before going west for a. few months
 The sentences quoted summarized not only his own altitude on his act in coEnnutRng the sentence of Frank, but his view of the feeling of the peo- pAe of Geo1g5a toward him and also his plans for the fa1tune- He said frankly tha4 he would go back to Alt 1anta, would ratRFn to the practice of law and if the poole of the state ex- pressed any sentiment for him he would be a oaa1d7dabs for e1ection as United States SenaAoE
 There was no word of Sear or of doubt as sho. heWsstsae people of hds; own Hnan4xss dsath ssak1&azzse
 VgalEe Adxaed Occasion
 aBshouRd havs .Agsk Hauesan assassin had I done otnezA1ase,y hes aid. 'sos1t f1 vgass fzEsf1nssIhle, there was nothing else to 1t could see no other way sOl1E Of IL I ETDrAped over the evidence In sEle case for nights and EnaltH, at s3 o'clock on Sunday morning, had I went to my w'fSea8 room aznd calling her II sa1dS
 s.sa8sse. saapeas a 4Esan,arxdc41s, ao41bt in nnyA mind asete tt1e eHguf4t of.aFsgank- I don't vzesrt t,o worry yssEs but f1swant you to l7Ils1sxs5tand t4iasf ffsfI commute Franks sentence, 1t may mean my life and it a4Tnost certainly means my po- Et5caI dsatf-,'
 Well, r1y wife came eHer.to me and kissed me and said: 'sWeu, if there is any doubt in your n1nd about the case, why, commute We won't Wor- ry about the future
 But believe the people na. Georgia are with me. I know that there are a ceEtain class of the peopIe-they are 1ust as good as a1la.7-wl1o think haEe fnterfRred-s They believe that way because they believe in the law and believe in uphold1ng the courts, They have asked me why tnter6ered aEeer the jg1r=y the Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court had acted, but those people do not 1 UuQGEsSGanG that the COnSaLuuOn Ol the State makes the Governor a safety valve for wrongs that may be done by legal technicaIit1es. respect those people for their opinion, and be Heve that eventually they will come around to my way of thinking.
 There was only one court and one 1 jury that passed on the facts in the case and Judge Roan, vino presided at the trial, wrote me 9, letter asking me to commits Franks death sen tence, imposed by that judge, to life sentence He said he had a. doubt about the young mans guilt AnG since the case was tried, many things have come up that have added to the doubt.
 To Praetfce T4aw Again 'eThe whole affair is not a. matter to be used for political capital or fol spectacular advertisement I just dit 1F4y plain dtrty