The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-31
THOMSON, GA, MAY 81, 1917.
The Ex-Priest, DIR. Slattery, and
His Gifted Wife DO Grand
Work i'm Birmingham,
Alabama

,;.aDeaF Sir: The enclosed clippings speak their
nWR story, and 1t is glorious story. Drs Stat
gerry have taken this cdty by storm The fool
gaplstsl as soon as they hit town, tried to deny
fhem the constitutional right of lingual express
SION, The newspapers fairly rank with this
GAaracteristically papal action, thus making the
S4atterys, though we have got the organized
forces here to do the work regardless of what the
papers may do.
/ prs, Slattery high-class scholarly, godIy per-
sons nave already lectured in this city proper
nlne times, and they are billed for two other lee
tyres extra ones, as you will from the en-
closed clippings. Today they began lecturing in
f4e h1gh-school auditorium at Bessemer, subrub
Qt $4,000 population, twelve miles out. have
an appointment with them for tomorrow to go
over the railroad map to indicate the more popu-
sQus towns in North Alabama in which commune
yes they are to do much work The action by the
1901 Roman1sts has already made them we'll known
al over North Alabama, so they will find large
audiences every where they may go.
Ihese two persons are scholars and are capital
IN every way. They are not of the celulod-collar-
cuff stripe. They deal in abuse or vitupera-
uop; they tell no smutty tales. He is regularly
Ordained Baptist minister. They spoke here, in
Seals hall, twenty-five years ago, in 1895.
AT no one of the nine lectures could half the
applicants for admittance get into the hall the
frst seven lectures in Macabee hall, and the other
two in the Jefferson theatre, the classiest hall in
the city.
We put patriotic fervor to the carbolc-acid test
by charging twenty-five cents at every lecture
and you see the result. where thy treasure is,
lHeIe VIII my neaft be also. When they viii
turn loose the filthy luCre'' they did on these
occasions there's something gosg on.
But it's the last two lectures the two at the
Jefferson theatre yesterday, Sunday, May 20,
1917, to which direct your notice particularly.
This building will seat something like 1000, yet
we "sardined' $500 into the place and turned
away 1000 more from each lecture, making A.
500 who heard and tried to hear each lecture.
In brief, 5000 persons heard or sought to hear
the two lectures at the Jefferson theatre alone,
on Sunday, May 90, 1917, one in the afternoon
and the other at night Thus some 5000 per-
sons have attended sought to attend the nine
lectures thus far, and the two return lectures of
this Wednesday and Thursday will likely run the
figures up to close to 1000 And in addition
several thousand will hear them al Bessemer and
elsewhere III this county.
The coming OF Governor Cats, in December,
1916, and the advent of Drs. Slattery now, have
given the already thoroughly organized movement
such added momentum that nothing whatever
can stop it, FOR it will knock down anything that
gets II its way. We now ready to apply
the # retaliation" and we'll do they know
this Al ey are now eating out of our hands.
Pic down Birmingham as the Belfast
of the ted States, though Birmingham is far
more thoroughly Protestant than Belfast Belfast
claiming to be only 40 Protestant, while this
city is 9 per cent, and half the remaining three
per cent are nOn-citizen Dagoes.
Fraternally and faithfully,