Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

is a similar Office to q notary of the publ,
in Pennsylvania. A police justice could
take Wishart's cases, but, as in Pittsburg
there are only five of them, and there is NJ
more likelihood that Wishart's cases will
be received by them than there would be thai
Judge Gripp would give Mcclure chance te
bring suit against Sunday newspaper.
Even if Wishart should succeed in getting
a police Justice to take his cases, they
would still go to ajury on appeal, and if any
Law and Order man imagines Newark
jury would convict man for selling on
Sunday all that is necessary to remove
that idea is to listen half an hour to curb.
stone talk about Captain Wishart. The
Newark newspapers have made him almost
as we'll known as in Pittsburg, and it is not
the least exaggeration to say that his work
is as generally disapproved.
Boarding the Lion in His Lair.
The Captains home is few rods from
, the city line, just beyond cemetery from
the business part of town. The place is
reached by horse car line on which the
horses 60 so slow they have to be given
house in which he lives is as small as the
Law and Order League lin Pittsburg.
When I went to see him to-day,
Mr.. Wishart answered the doorbell him.
self. He has the same appearance he had
when prosecuting soda water dealers in
Pittsburg 1t would be impossible to tell
that he is nearly year older. His neck is
just as long. his mustache has the peculiar
droop and his nose the exact Roman curve
as when 1 first saw him in an alderman 8
Office when he appeared as prosecutor of a
Southside woman who had sold a milk
shake to characteristic Law and Order
detective There was blank look on the
Captains face when he was told that Pitts
burg people want to know what he is doing
in Newark.
''of course, you know the good work Mr.:
Mcclure is doing in suppressing the sale of
Sunday newspapers" I suggested.
"It's noble work, he replied. ''I had
hoped to do it myself, but I was called to
another field"
"And how are you getting along here?"
"Well, that's none of the public's busi-
ness" answered the Captain, suddenly
dropping his first effort to be unnaturally
pleasant 81 haven't been here long enough
to do much" he continued somewhat
civilly.
Glow do you and the police get along?"
"None Of your. 1 have no quarrel with
the police, and you can't pull me into one" I"
81 understand the police have refused to
grant you special license?"
"Ask the police
"Well, Captain, how do yon like Newark
in caparison with Pittsburgh
Il haven't been here long enough to find
out"
Hit Him in the Right Spot.
"How are the laws in New Jersey?"
The question pleased him. Wishart
would sooner talk of Blue Laws than read
for over half an hour he explained the fea-
lures of the law under which he hoped to
operate. He did not, however, mention the
fact that there is no provision for summary
conviction for violation of the Sunday law.
A man doesn't like to mention the princi-
pal stumbling block to his success and
Wishart is no exception to the rule. He
said he was determined to enforce the law.
"And do you think you will be success
ful?"
"Was I successful in Pittsburgh" he
questioned in reply, with smile that car
ried with it the evidence OF determination.
"Do you expect to enforce the Sunday
law with regard to worldly enjoyment OUT
side of selling liquor?"
II expect to enforce the entire law"
"And how are you going to do ito"
"Tbat will be made known later on.
Captain Wishart's mistake when he came
to this town was in letting it become known
that he was going to try and give Newark
the same puritanical Sabbath he had estab-
lished in Pittsburg. If he had attacked the
Sunday saloons alone, he would have had
many friends on his side, but Newark is not
prepared to 60 into oblivion one day in the
week, and there are only handful who
have come out openly on the Captains side.
City officials, newspapers and all men of
prominence are against him.
j. w. STEVENSON