Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-22
SLATON RETURNS
To STATES WORK.;
ATLANTA| IS CALM
Governor Leaves Country Home
for Capital in Auto With
out Guard.

ATLANTA, Ca, June 22.-Governor
Slaton was at his desk in the capitol
again this afternoon.
He made the trip from his house
in an open automobile, but there was
no hostile demonstration, No guard
accompanied him.
Nobody awaited him in his office.
On his desk, however. was a huge
stack of telegrams. They were con-
gratulations on his action in the Leo
M. Frank case.
Among those who telegraphed were
the governors of West Virginia and
Kansas. Another telegram was from
Richard Harding Davis.
In the city the near-beer saloons,
closed by the authorities Yesterday,
were allowed to reopen this morning
and there were no crowds in the
streets.
At the governors home it was
stated that the militia probably will
be withdrawn tonight
For Mary Phagan Monument.
Reports continued to come in OF
trouble at other points. AT Wood
stock, as well as at Marietta, Gov
ernor Slaton was hanged in effigy,
and at Newman images of both Sla-
ton and Frank were bdrned. Citi-
zens of Yandosta were subscribing 81
each for a monument to Mary Pha-
gan.
Officials of the State and city in
sisted that last nights desnonstra-
ton probably had ended the possi-
bility of any menace to the governor
by the people most bitterly opposed
to the commutatlon of Franks SEN
tence. A state of preparedness was
maintained today, however, both by
the police and the military authori-
ties. The soldiers stationed at Gov
ernor Slaton's suburban home at
tracted attention from passersby to-
day. but time hung heavily on their
hands, for there appeared no further
evidence of the gathering of a crowd
in that vicinity. One of the reasons
stated for maintaining the guard
were the repsrts which persisted
throughout the night that crowds of
men had started for Atlanta from
neighboring towns. These 1t was
thought, might arrive late this morn
ing. None appeared and efforts to
verify the reports of the invasion
failed
The Frank case still was discussed
on the streets today, but the groups
were those ordinarily seen on the
buster street corners. The calm OF
today was in striking contrast to the
tension of yesterday, and it apnar-'
entity was welcomed by the majority
of Atlanta residents
The local newspapers gave very
little space TO the case today.
summary OF the arrests made yester-
day in the city and last night in the
neighborhood of the Slaton home
showed a total of twenty-four per-
sons taken into custody. They were
mostly young men, some without oc-
cupation, while some said they were
clerks. All were held on a charge of
failing to move on" when directed to
do So None of the trials had been
he d UP TO noon today.
So far as could be learned no
arrangement had been made for an
organized protest against the gov
ernor's action. The impromptu mass
meeting at the capitol yesterday,
when resolutions were passed con-
demning Governor Slaton, seemed to
appease the wrath of those immedi-
ately concerned.
The troops had been called out
after a crowd of several hundred men
and boys had marched there late last
night and made demonstration in
protest against the communication of
Franks sentence.
The crowd was quickly dispersed
by the soldiers, after the governor
had declared the zone within half a
mile of his home under martial law.
When first ordered to leave. some of
the demonstrators called to the sol
diers to Shoot and accompanied
their retort with disultory lombard
menr of the troops with missiles. Two
officers and a private were slightly
hurt. No shots were fired, the sol
diers advancing with fixed bayonets
No civilians were injured.
The appearance of the crowd fol-
lowed several street-corner gather
ings at the centre Of the city. At
first only few score started for the
Slaton estate. but the number in
creased as the march of four miles
continued.
Governor Slaton was surrounded by
a few personal friends who previous
ly had been deputized by Sheriff
Mangum at the governors residence.
Three battalions of militia had been
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