The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-20
CONDEMNS THE COURT
DR.. Seudder Breaks Loose Over
the Remission of the Big
Four's' Imprisonment

In the prelude to his sermon last even
ing the Rev. DR.. Scudder spoke of the re-
cent action of the Court of Pardons IN
RENTING the imprisonment of the big
Four"
Last Thursday the self-respecting peo-
pie of New Jersey received a blow in the
face which they will long remember. Not
being used to such treatment in these
days of political regeneration they were
positively dumbfounded when they learn
ed that the Court of Pardons had REMIT
ed the sentence of imprisonment pro-
nounced by the Supreme Court of this
commonwealth upon the 'big four OF
Gutenberg notoriety. Mclaughlin,
Walbaum, Crucius and Carr.
GAS the result of this action every de-
cent citizen feels himself Inundated and
~disgraced, and has nothing but condem-
nation for those members of the Court
Of Pardons who voted to release these
convicted criminals. If ever men de-
served striped suits they were these no
torious offenders who continuously md
contumaceously maintained a gigantic
gambling hell in defiance of the laws of
the State. coined hundreds of thousands
of dollars in their ~disreputable, d~ebauch-
ing establishment, rae indictment by
controlling Grand Juries, derided Law
and Order League, and suffered its agents
to be openly assaulted, bioeas2 the
wheels OF justice, and acted throughout
their infamous career with exasperating
insolence and high-handed oppression.
THAT they have escaped their well de-
served punishment fills the law-abiding
people of this county with regret and
shame. and maledictions mountain high
are rising upon this ~despicable Court OF
Pardons for this unexpected and aston
ishing action. For the two protesting
members of this Court, Chancellor McGill
and Judge Clifford S. Sims, the people
have great admiration and praise. They
stood up like men and did their duty.
"But the members of the court who
pardoned these law breakers will never
be ~pardoned in the high court of public
opinion. Here are their names and mark
them well, We citizens of New Jersey.
The perpetrators of this foul deed were
Governor George T. Werts, John w.
Bogart. Gottfried Kreuger, Geo. Smith,
Albert Tallman and N. H. Brown. These
are the men who have brought contempt
upon our beloved State, and 1 hope they
will never again receive positions of
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public servants should be taught that
they have something else to do besides
please themselves and serve their
self interests. The people must hold
them to strict account and pursue them
with stern displeasure if they play false
to their trust.
For this recent astonishing action the
Governor of u State is especially re-
sponsible, for without his signature the
pardon could not have been granted. BY
II a @xaox 10 hnc apn nn CT "a Tod
what any tyro in politics knew before,
that he is part and parcel of the old ring
which recent elections have shatterse
others, viii soon be relegated to an
ignominious obscprity.
when justice, long delayed, open the
prison door to receive sssi,x t thes so nofsd m Mbo
closed the door and said these men shall
not enter. In signing this pardon ne
has signed his own political death war E.
regarded as the last inflated acton o.
the moribund gubernatorial OF
the Huds9n Count Eysfr ringi ba II v Is fhe si idss
out of sight in the dark waters of uni
versal contempt.
NEEDS NO FURTHER COMMENT.
P phaslaes fh the IS g aspag siA' pelief in this
country that men with money can
flowed to grow, it will certainly lead
to a general disrespect for law and the
development of anarchy. When four
penniless u men were recently sent
to prison for engaging in policy, but
these "B;g Four, arch-operators at Gut,
fanhere. with their pockets distended
With iiii..gotten gain, went scott free, the
object lesson is luminous and demon
strates tha something Is essentially
wrong IN our mode of government.
sThere is rottenness at the core. Unless
some radical cure is found for this gen,
erai oficial willingness to be influenced
and dictated to by the monied classes,
the revolutionary sentiments of Euro
mean importation will certainly gain 9
foothold in this country ana help 10 un
the past week carries it's own lesson and