Judge Lynch,Lynch Law,South,1912,Will Crawford,cartoon

Title: Start the recall of judges with this one / Will Crawford.
Creator(s): Crawford, Will, 1869-1944, artist
Date Created/Published: 1912 Feb. 8.
Summary: Cartoon shows the ghostly figure of a manic-looking man, labeled 'Judge Lynch,' carrying a book labeled 'Lynch Law,' and a lighted torch, hovering over a procession of people. The procession is led by three solid citizens followed by farmers, unruly elements, and finally a long line of regular citizens including women, who look back at a small column of smoke in the distance -- presumably a lynching. One of the unruly men shoots a dog. 'Judge Lynch' was the personification of the practice, frequently found in the South, of executing African Americans suspected of crimes, without the benefit of trial. In the second decade of the Twentieth Century, Progressives advocated various reforms designed to circumvent the state governments viewed as the tools of entrenched interests. The Recall was intended to allow the citizenry to directly vote officials out of office. The cartoonist suggests that this first be used to abolish the practice of lynching.
Notes:
Date stamped on verso: Feb 8 1912.
Uncolored copy printed on verso.
Published in PUCK, Feb. 21, 1912.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Crawford.247
Source: Puck, Feb. 21, 1912 ljr
Subjects:
Lynchings--United States--1910-1920.
Parades & processions--United States--1910-1920.
Ghosts--1910-1920.
Editorial cartoons--American--1910-1920.
Line photoengravings--American--Hand-colored--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2005676912/
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