1915 newspaper MOB ATTACKS GEORGIA GOVERNOR SLAYTON after he commutes LEO FRANK

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1915 newspaper with front-page bold banner headline and long, detailed report announcing the mob moves to attack GEORGIA GOVERNOR Jack Slayton agter he commutes LEO FRANK 's DEATH SENTENCE to Life in Prison
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inv # 7Q-224
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This newspaper contains a bold banner headline and long report of
Georgia Governor JACK SLAYTON defending the governor's mansion after commuting the DEATH SENTENCE of LEO FRANK to life in prison
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This is one of the BEST display newspapers I have seen with the commutation of LEO FRANK 's death sentence to life in prison.
John Marshall "Jack" Slaton (December 25, 1866
– January 11, 1955) served two non-consecutive terms as the 60th Governor of Georgia. His political career was ended in 1915 after he commuted the death penalty sentence of Atlanta factory boss Leo Frank, who had been convicted for the murder of a teenage girl employee. Because of Slaton's law firm partnership with Frank’s defense counsel, claims were made that Slaton's involvement raised a conflict of interest. Soon after Slaton's action, Frank was lynched. After Slaton's term as governor ended, he and his wife left the state for a decade.
In 1915, Slaton commuted the sentence for Leo Frank from death to life imprisonment. "I can endure misconstruction, abuse and condemnation," Slaton said, "but I cannot stand the constant companionship of an accusing conscience which would remind me that I, as governor of Georgia, failed to do what I thought to be right.... It means that I must live in obscurity the rest of my days, but I would rather be plowing in a field than to feel that I had that blood on my hands."
Because of the almost universal hostility towards Leo Frank by the general public in Georgia, Governor Slaton's decision to commute his death sentence was widely viewed as interference. Public disapproval of Slaton persisted for a long time afterwards.
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