Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1914 — SPEER A “CZAR IN COURT” [ARTICLE]

SPEER A “CZAR IN COURT”

Savannah Witness Accuses Judge of Colossal Conceit and Injustice In is Court. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 30.—When the congressional inquiry into the conduct of Federal Judge Emory Speer was resumed, W. W. Osborne, a Savannah attorney, was the first to testify. “Judge Speer is a good lawyer,” he said, "but he is a czar as a judge. He is unfair and is possessed of a colossal conceit which makes him crave the spotlight, and if someone else happens to get into it, it greatly angers him. His court is one in which there is little justice, and this is one reason litigants will travel through the city of Macon, where he lives, to appear before Federal Judge Newman in Atlanta. I regard him as a great egotist and devoid of personal courage. He has used his judgeship to satisfy his conceit by administering punishment to those who will not truckle to him.”