The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-10-21
HIS COLOR HIS CRIME

Nathan BleQSer, the Fort LaWCOn SOlQler cndTgeu
with having attempted to assault a woman living IN
the neighborhood of the fort, was found guilty last
Saturday. and from the bits of evidence that was
heard s safe to say that he got his but with such
a counsel he had he could have been convicted OF
treason high crimes and misdemeanors just as well.
The case is that thinking men should stop and
consider, with the view of guarding against such
repetition in the future From the time the man was
arrested until the moment he convicted his color
and not his criminal act trial. The prosecuting
attorney in order to convict the did not hesitate
to recall the horrors of Brownsville despite the fact
fact that the trial had seen Brownsville
and not in the service when the shooting up
cf Brownsville committed The defendants own
counsel while making feeble effort to prove an abi
for his client only plead for mercy for him account
of his color and that point if Bledser had had
spark of manhood in him he would have arisen in court
and demanded that the attorney say no more and If
he had persisted then appealed to the judge for pro-
lection from such Misrepresentation.
Any person charged with having committed crime,
and whether guilty innocent should try to beat
by taking advantage of every legal echnicalty known
to questionable law practices, but should thousand
times prefer to be burned at the stake rather
than beg for mercy account of any racial human
imperfection differing from the When per-
son commits crime he she should be tried for the
crime committed, but under no circumstances for the
color of his skin. There more use of dwell
ing on Bledser's color than his religious belief
Twelve seemingly honest men, jury of his peers,
had been selected and were in the jury box to lis
ten to the law and the evidence and for attorney
to intimate that they would not give human being
fair and impartial trial. because forsooth, such human
beings differed from them in complexion, either
branding the jurymen as gnoramuses or criminals.
To ask juryman. would you believe black
as quickly as you would a wife MANI" is but asking
the juryman is he damnphool or a liar. Judges
should not permit this racial question to be injected in
to courts trial The who is so predjudiced to
another not to give such person charged with
crime square deal will perjure himself to remain on
jury in order to do the despised injury, and
such question therefore is absolutely superfuous
Weman's failure to fly across the Atlantic
and reach Europe by the air instead of the water
will prove greater incentive for him else
equally ambitious to sooner or later turn the trick.
It begins to look as if the attacks on the regular
nominees of the Republican party for members of the
supreme bench of Washington the part of the Star
of Seattle is prompted by personal animosty
than in the interest of the dear people,
Perhaps that ball of fire that was seen all agow in
the sky Portland Oregon was red hot shot con-
tanning the fraud of that city, which will return
again within few days in the shape of boomerang.
Senator AIdrich has at least been commended by
the Republicans of his state but the convention was
small and perhaps it did not take much mezuma to fix
the fellows.
Chicago's baseball cubs are getting drubbng
from the Philadelphia colts that they will never forget
Out of three games (Thursday) the cubs had lost
every and made very few points.
1t begins to look if the Lexow Committee of Sea-
tie will find that great many higher up are mixed
up in the graft game that has been going in Seattle
since H. c. Gill has been mayor. Some time ago the
Times by THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN, if he had any in
terest in the Arcade dance hail. but he still has it
under advisement