The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-05-14
JUDGE KIcKHAM ScANLAN
FRIEND OF THE coLoRED
RACE AND HE WILL BE
REELECTED JUDGE
OFcIRcUTT COURT
oFcIRcUTT COURT
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never had but one case OF eoiOreo
man charged with crimes against chill
dyen.
"The most prevalent crimes or types
of crimes amongst Negroes according
to my observation are gambling, assault
eases caused by drinking or women, and
petty theft.
Susceptibility Of the Negro to Arest7
Negroes are more likely - be ar
rested on suspicion than white persons.
If you win teIl,me why race prejudice
exists in this world, 1 win tell you
why this is so. / DON Z think all the
police are quite as careful in arresting
eolored men as they are in arresting
white men. think they are apt to
hesitate a little longer when a white
man is involved.
Discrimination in Court
'fThere is another thing concerning
the eOlored man on trial in the Criminal
Court that has to be kept in mind. It
is peculiar thing about human nature,
that no man wants to admit that he has
prejudices. A man will say on the out
side that he doesn Z like the Negro, OF
doesn Z like this person or that person,
but you get him under oath in the jury
box and in my twelve years on the
bench I have never known a juror to
admit that he was prejudieed against
w~fk
ing that under such q state Of affair
you viii probably get men on the juries
that try eolored men that have q leaning
against them. would say that where
there is a eolored defendant and q white
prosecuting witness that there would
be . grave danger that the jury might
uneonseiously favor the white side Of
the case. I win say that some juries
will convict a eolored man with less
hesitation than they-will convict q white
man on the same kind Of evidence. For
that reason in the cases in which q
eOlored man is involved, watch the |
evidence like a hawk.
Ac84 nSpEcScuS81AOu AOL NNBEO Oc-
PENDANT
"The Negro usually hash t the money |
to employ proper sttorneys-competent
attorneys. In two out of three cases
tried before me in which there were
eOlored defendants, I had to appoint at
torneys to defend them. I appointed
white attorneys because when I asked
them whom they wanted they told me
and I appointed the one they asked and
made him serve.
Economic and Industrial Aspects Of
Negro Crime
"At one time that sat in the Grim
inal Court there were $50 old bail cases,
some Of them or years Of age, pend
ing on the docket. have no reeollee-
ton that any of these cases involved
eOlOred people. Now there is a reason
for that: the eolored defendant as a
rule is unable to give bail. These $50
cases were old bail cases, and therefore
il was natural enough that you would
not find colored defendants even in this
large number of cases. Ny experience
in the Criminal Court is that the eolored
is usually unable to give bail
He has to stay in Jail and therefore his
Ease is very quickly disposed Of by the .
prosecutor. Defendants locked up are {
usually tried frst.) The eolored man,
having less opportunities, is more apt to ,
be out Of work than the white man and ,
hat is one possible reason for the large |
number of arrests of eolored men. :
would say that the eolOred man is neees-
'arily more apt to be out of work than ,
he. white man. His sphere is very
imited.''
In passing it might not be out of
place to state that for more than II :
Tears or before he was first elected to
he Circuit Court bench Judge Seaman :
las been a constant subscriber to this
PAPER and he is one Of our very warmest
friends in Chicago.
The writer has nothing whatever to
10 with any of those big leaders Of the
Republican party who for one reason OF
mother feel that it is their duty to ?
wage a fight against Judge Seaman; y
hat is their business and not ours. P
AS this newspaper is strictly indie a
'endent in politics it has friends on the '
Thompson judicial ticket and on the v
judges ticket which it win
oyally support and as Judge Seaman 6
llways tempers justice with mercy he T
VIII march on to victory for the third v
ime at the judicial election Monday, {
Tune 8.