Sunday, 12th October 1913: Governor Slaton Personally Investigates And Verifies The Circulation Of The Georgian And Hearst’s Sunday American, The Atlanta Georgian

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Daily Sunday - Georgian American

October 4th 1913.

At the request of the management of The Atlanta Georgian

and The Sunday American, I personally examined on Friday after

noon their various circulation statements, in detail. This work

required sometime, but it was willingly given, because I regard

these newspapers as enterprises of which all Georgia should be

proud. The figures the papers furnish, under oath, to the postal

authorities show a marvelous growth for the time The Georgian

and Sunday American have been in Mr. Hearst's hands"

particularly The Sunday American, which is only six months old.

These circulation figures I have checked up and verified in

person. I have examined the sworn statements of the circulation

and the cashier of The Georgian corporation, and cross

questioned them in detail about the circulation figures. I believe

the figures to be absolutely correct.

Purely from a business man's viewpoint, both The Georgian

and The Sunday American, in points of quality and quantity of

circulation, should be, and I have no doubt are, highly satisfactory

and effective advertising mediums. Certainly, they are most

excellent newspapers, and should commend themselves to

merchants for business purposes.

The fine circulation showings furnish me ample foundation

for warm congratulations. I sincerely wish for Mr. Hearst and his

Georgia newspapers the fullest measure of prosperity and

success"both of which seem assured. I am persuaded this great

publisher means to be consistently a firm and powerful friend of

Atlanta, Georgia, and the whole South, and I well know his ability

to do big things in a big way.

PAGE 7, COLUMN 1

DORSEY MAY

ASK FOR

DELAY

IN FRANK

CASE

Information From

Valdosta Is That

Solicitor Needs Week

More

of Preparation.

HENSLEE IN

CONFERENCE

Juror Under Fire

Declares His

Visit to South

Georgia Was

Unimportant.

That Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey will ask for a still

further postponement of the hearing of the motion for a new trial

for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, when it

is called before Judge L. S. Roan on next Saturday, October 18, he

indicated by information received in Atlanta Saturday night from

Valdosta, where he and his assistant, A. E. Stephens, are working

on the answer the defense's lengthy petition for a new trial.

Solicitor Dorsey issued a positive statement that he will

require at least another week in which to complete his answer,

and express doubt that he will be able to have his case ready by

next Saturday. Both he and Mr. Stephens have been working on

the case twelve and fifteen hours a day, and Solicitor Dorsey said

this hard work would be necessary up until the time of the

hearing.

He said he had made more rapid progress than he would

have been able to make had he undertaken the preparation of his

case in Atlanta, but even under these favorable circumstances

hardly expects to complete his work within another week.

There was nothing in Judge Roan's ruling Saturday, in which

he postponed the hearing for another week which excludes the

possibility of a still further delay, and it is thought that further

time will be granted the Solicitor should her request it. The

execution of Frank is stayed automatically by the order delaying

the hearing.

Juror A. H. Henslee, who was so violently attacked by the

defense in its motion for a new trial, spent Saturday in Valdosta,

and was closeted for several hours with the Solicitor. It is thought

that deep significance attaches to the visit, although Henslee

would give out no inkling of what his conversation with the

Solicitor General was. He stated that he had dropped into

Valdosta on his accustomed trip to the town, and that his

conference with the Solicitor was merely incidental.

Henslee, while in Valdosta, reiterated his innocence of the

charges brought against him by the defense in its motion, and

stated that he was absolutely unprejudiced one way or the other

before the trial. His statements regarding Frank's guilt, he said,

were made after the trial, when he thought he had a right to talk.

PAGE 15, COLUMN 6

TWO HELD AS

ROBBERS

UNDER $1,000

BOND EACH

Oscar Wright and Sam Reid, two negroes charged with

robbing Attorney Frank Hooper of a gold watch, were bound over

for highway robbery in the Recorder's Court Saturday. Bond was

fixed at $1,000 in each case.