New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
Send Appeal to Atlanta
Asking for Police
Protection.
SIATON MAINTAINS
GUARD AT HOME
CAPITAL Quiet, but Measures Are
Taken Against the Mob
Scenes Saturday.
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Atlanta. June 23.-Jews of Marietta
frigbtened by warnings to leave, nave
annealed for aid to their friends IN
Atlanta. Every effort Is being maze
here 10 end all feeling over the FRANK
case now that the prisoner has begut.
70 eerye his life term in the prison
farm. 49,. -
MANY Jews who live in the city IN
which Mary Phagan was born and IN
which her body lies have received
ANONYMOUS notes warning them tna'
Cobb County is not a good place lor
them. Posters, too' nave pee"
lated. H.,
Friends in Atlanta appealed to-da'
n Solicitor Hugh Dorsey, who prose
cuted Frank. and he took the matter
up with Herbert Clay, Solicitor Genera
OF the Blue Ridge Circuit Mr.. Ciay
was not inclined 10 take any OF the
warnings seriously. but he agreed 10
take every precautIon.
Troops Still at Slaton Home
Governor Slaton announced toni ght
that the military guard at his SUBURBAN
home :yould be maintained ior several
DAYS because of reported threats 10
damage the property by persons UP-
posed to the commutatlon OF RAM y
Seath sentence. No such attempts nave
been made, and quiet mas preValled
since the demonstration Monday.
No further trouble is expected in
Atlanta. but there has been some talk
If demonstration on Saturday, when
Governor Slaton is expected at the
state Capitol. He will go out of otfce
and Governor-elect Nat Harris will be
sworn in. Saturday is always bad
day in Atlanta, when there is any eX-
citement brewing, and every precaution
will be taken to prevent any demonstra-
ton.
The Legislature convened in annual
session here to-day, heard Governor
S,aton's farewell address, and began
the work of organization. The Gov
ernor did not refer directly to the
Frank case, but in conclusion said:
"While many of the duties have been
arduous and unpleasant and especially
so because their performance involves
Misunderstanding, | have acted &C
cording to my conscience, and solely
with the view of complying with the
mandates of the constitution Of the
state.
Slaton Praised and Condemned.
The action of the Governor in COM
muting the sentence has been de-
nounced in many cities Of the state.
He mas been deluged with letters and
kilograms. Many praise his stand and
tell him he has done wise and patrl-
otto thing, but scores of messages de-
nounce him in severe terms. Thomas
Watson's publication attacks him.
John r. Cooper, a well known Macon
Ia 20
United States Senate, issued q hot
statement to-day, in which he called
attention to the Wilburn case, in which
the Governor refused to interfere, say
ing ne believed the law should take its
course.
There is no justice left in Georgia,
now that the Governor has repudiated
his own words in the Wilburn case by
turning Franks sentence to life i'm
prisonment," he asserted. "He has re-
pealed the code of capital punishment
and has brought the law into con-
tempt"
Cooper declared there was absolutely
no more reason why the Governor
should have shown clemency to Frank
than to Wilburn. The only difference,
he pointed out, was that Frank has
friends and influence, and the pressure
was more than the Governor could
stand.
A. II. Henslee, one of the jurors in
the Frank case, has issued the follow
ing statement:
ITO my fellow citizens of the grand
old commonwealth, not only the Empire
State Of the South, but one grand
among many:
"As juror and a citizen wish these
few words could go to the very depth
of every true Georgian's soul and take
thoughts: Our chief executive has
fallen, defied, debased and conquered
our courts. Would | could only know