The Monmouth inquirer., 1895-11-14
Liquor at Asbury Park.

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PEOPLE THERE AND AT OCEAN GROVE
AGITATED OVER JUSTICE BEAs-
LEY DECISION ON THE SALE
OF RUM.
There is no law, outside Of a
deed clause. TO prohibit the sale Of
nquor IN this summer resort. In his
decision Thursday, Chief Justice
Beasley, OF the Supreme Court. de-
clared unconstitutional the law Of
1874, which prohibits the sale Of
liquor within one mile of Wesley Lake
bridge
The history of Asbury Park.and
Ocean Grove exhibits in detail Mr..
Bradleys grand fight for the temper
ance cause in the home be has made.
But however earnest the fight, the
laws which have been enacted for
tine special protection of this baiIi-
wick have signally failed Of their
purpose. The Court now decides
that the last remaining special pro-
tective enactment relied on bv Mr..
Bradley and the friends of
temperance in Asburv Park is
void.
Three cases we're brought ND on
appeal, and each of them involved a
seperate point of vital Importance
to the community The case of John
Ryno was appealed under the s'One-
mile law The Court decides that
under the new Constitution OF 1876
this law is void The Rogers case. so
called, was an appeal from an indict
ment under the general law against
the illegal sale of liquor In the State.
This Indictment is now nuIlified by
the Supreme Court, on the ground
that it was not properly founded
and did not apply TO this sec
tfon.
In the multiplicity OF law the peo-
pie Of Asbury Park forgot to modify
their original charter, which prohib-
tied the sale of liquor in the present
borough limits, and became incor-
porate under the new Borough law,
which gives them no power to regu
late the sale of infoxicants- It's
freely admitted on all sides, with
men, that Asburv Park is now
placed in the category of license
towns
That any application will be made
just now or even in the spring for
license TO sell liquor is doubtful.
That any application will be granted
by Judge Conover is all together i'm
probable. The safety of the town
depends now and for many months
to come on the moral sentiment Of
the people. No hotelman OF any rep
utation, it is asserted, would dare to
apply publicly to the court for license
TO sell liquor
Judge J. @ Conover has much
respect for the temperance prejn-
dices of the people of this section. and
frequently expressed determination
to keep the town free from the LIQUOR
traffic. But among temperance men
there is no little solicitude as to the
future Even the deed clause in
serted in Mr.. Bradley's parchments
prohibiting the sale of liquor has no
legal effect. Vice Chancellor Van
Fleet held that where the clause was
left out of one deed it nnIlified the
same restrictions in all the other
deeds. As the restriction clause has
been omitted in deeds for lots in As
bury Park, Mr.. Bradley himself long
since recognized it's fntility as pro-
tective measure.
men hold that the law requires every
application tor license to be signed
by twelve citizens of Asbury Park,
and as they claim that that number
cannot be found who would affix
their names to an application, the
town is saved.
President E. H. Stokes, of the
Ocean Grove CampIneeting Associa-
ton, said:
Since that law has been wiped
out we will take into consideration,
in cooperation with Asbury Park
i friends. the framing of q new law.
We will keep liquor away from with
ia mile of the bridge at all costs.
{ Our association, at their annual
meeting next week, viii discuss the
matter fully.r
There is Just one trouble, it is said.
with the doctors plan. There can
be no special law passed for the pro-
lection of any single locality. AS
bury Park must now come under the
general State law, and there is no es-
cape from this conclusion.