The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-09-11
Ex-Assistant States Attorney
of Cook County; Repub-
lean Candidate for the
Nomination, for Judge of
the Municipal Court. Prim-
aries Wednesday, Septem-
Der Is.

True merit should be the determining
factor that entities men to the public
confidence. Worthy men are always
modest men because intelligence has
no disposition to blow its own horn Of
fitness choosing rather 20 serve the
world of its day leaving entirely to
others the task Of commanding that
service. Just such an individual is
the Hon. James A. Scott who is pow q
candidate for Municipal Court Judge.
Mr.. Scott has lived In Chicago for
more than thirty years and has always
been actively engaged in the practice
Of the law at the Chicago Bar and has
won the respect Of the judges Of the
various courts and Of the lawyers gen
orally who have had the good fortune
TO know him he Is q man Of inteIli-
genee and learned in the law, Is eour-
teous and afable choosing under the
most adverse circumstances always to
be q gentleman first. His belief in
justice is unimpaired BY selfshness or
class hatred being assured from ex-
perenee that the greatest safety Of the
nation lies in the fullest protection Of
all Of its citizens regardless Of any
other considerations Of difference. The
doctrine Of fullest freedom Of the indi-
vidual citizen under the law meets his
entire approval and his confidence in
the supreme viii of al the people is
without faint. Mr.. Scott sprang from
the loins Of the common people and
shares their feelings without any de-
sire to prescribe those who have been
more fortunate at birth, believing that
loWly birth may Inconvenience but
should not deter the individual citizen
to ultimately share the greatest glories
Of this nation. His long and varied ex-
peTience at the Bar and his thorough
understanding Of people together with
his ability as q lawyer and his tempera-
ment eminently fits him to do credit to
the bench in Chicago, thus rejecting
upon the race which nature gave him
and the people Of Chicago generally
since his belief in justice is without
= racial lining. Thus must needs be 50
for he learned early in life at the Bar
IN Mississippi how hateful Is colorful
justice which undertakes to draw a line
between races and classes netting out
one kind Of justice to one class Of in
iividuals and another kind to another
slass Of individuals thus rendering
good government impossible and max
ing the law an object Of public con-
Tempt. Mr.. Scott believes in one jus
ice for all men and that 9 Just justice
administered in the interest Of the
rood Of AL and with a willingness
.hough kindness to achieve the ends
ought.
Mr.. Scott is the suthor of Scott on
Rendition which IL one Of
he most valuable and useful law
looks in existence at the present time
md it is freely admitted by the most
Iminent lawyers residing in al parts
4 this country that there is no ADLER
ext on the subject in the United
Itates.
For four long yeas Mr.. Scott, hon
orably served a. assistant states attor-
iey under the late John E. W. Way
nan and As such he acquitted himself
Ten and honorably. h
During the trial Of the riot cases, in ,
his city in 1919, more particularly,
he Washington, Scott and Brown