The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-10-23

Sunday afternoon, Hon. Bernard A.
Barasa, one of the fair minded
judges of the Municipal Court, who
led the Republican ticket in this city
and in Cook County, when he was ele-
waited to the Municipal bench in 1913
addressed the small attendance at the
Peoples Movement Club rooms, $40
Indiana ave-, and Judge Barasa had
the nerve and the manhood to re-
premand and to score the colored
leaders and the colored people in gen.
eral residing in the Second Ward for
their failure to nominate Col James
A. Scott for Judge of the municipal
Court. Judge Barasa who proudly
boasts of the fact that he is an Ital-
ian, whose race furnishes the largest
number of street sweepers in Chi
eago which is classed as a scrub race,
informed those present that when he
recently ran for the nomination for
States Attorney that every Italian
man and woman in this city and
throughout Cook County, through
race pride felt themselves highly
honored in being permitted to vote
for him that in the 10Th Ward the
stronghold Of the Italians in this city
went strongly for him; that in some
of its precincts that Hon Robert E.
Grove utterly failed to receive one
vote and he did not hesitate in let
ting the Colored people know that the
leaders of the Italians can give the
so-called leaders of the Colored race
in the Second Ward cards and spades
and then beat them in playing. at the
game of politics; that if the Colored
leaders in the Second Ward would
have discharged the solemn duty
which they owe to their race and for
once brushed their cold-blooded self
ishness aside and urged the rank and
file of the Colored people to roll up
great majority for one of their own
flesh and blood, that today Col. James
A Scott would be running for Judge
of the Municipal Court, and being
Presidential election year, that without
the least doubt he would have been
elected; that his shameful defeat by
his own race and not by the white
race, for If he had ran behind the
Thompson ticket in the other wards
at the same rate as he did in his own
ward, that he would have been de-
feated by more than one-hundred thous-
and majority.
Judge Barasa very wisely con-
tended that the Colored people
through their indifference have been
Iset back in this city IN their failure
to nominate Col Scott, at least fifty
or one hundred years, and that the
chance may never come to them again
to have representation on the Mu-
nicipal Court bench.
Col. Oscar De Priest, in presiding
over the meeting, attempted to throw
many barrels of cold water on the
bold and truthful talk of Judge
Barasa, for Col. De Priest, who
claims to be the whole breastworks
Of the one hundred and fifty thousand
Colored people IN this city, asserted
that by the time the Coiored people
in the Second Ward got down to the
name of Col Scott on the long ballot
that they were tired out and did not
feel like doing any more voting.
Judge Barasa minated that that was
rather a lame or a mighty poor ex-
cuse, and that no one but fool or
a blind or a deaf and dumb man
would take any stock in such state
ment.
Then Col De Priest in order to
make his followers and Col. Scott
feel good and to give Judge Barass
the horse-laugh, exclaimed that with
out being compelled to consult any
of the Colored people in this city, that
he would have Col Scott appointed
assistant States Attorney If Hon,
Robert E. Grove lands in that Of
fee.
| As stated in the heading of this
article that all the leading nationali-
ties in this eity aside from the Jap
anese, the Chinese and the Colored
race, have representation on the Mu-
lnicipal Court bench and on the bench
of the higher courts of Cook county.
The so-ealled leaders Of the Col
ored race in this city continued to
sleep at the post to the last minute,
for if they had been wide-zwake all
the time they would have found ont
1.-TWO or three days after the primaries
that Col Scott was defeated and then
they would of had plenty Of time to
have called a great mass meeting
and had the beat interest Of the Col
ored race AZ heart; some high class
Lawyers could hare been selected
Withouf any knocking down OF drag
lEing OF, % make the race for Judge
LOT the Municipal Court, and we have
leyery reason to believe that owing to
the loyal support which Mayor VII
Han Hale Thcmpson has received
from the cOioTed people y The past
thaf Sc wontd have greatly assisted
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