The sun., 1900-12-21
PERIL OF GARDENERS HEAD
DisrEirr ATTORNEY mas ssvr ms ~.
SWIM TO AIHAkt.
in'ims'irm rhs, " u .. M, Cons,s.,,. p's Ds,'
Are Numbevsd Gew.ssi and speoiac Ds-
nisis rhst Ne Htndsred the Attorney '0en'
srai In tho Pres- estioW Of Election Cases.

"'"'- '""' w sss"Usr~O WV N's"'""'
'rsi In the pros. s.cs,ioa Of Eiso'io" Cases
tin'SY. bee. 20 - Gov Roosevelt, esked hls
secretary to-day II District Attorney Gard.
ner had ned HE answer " the chsrsen served
upon him on Monday N wW found that the
answer had not been fled. and the Attorney
General was asked to telephone Immediately
To Cot Gardner
Tho answer arrived later and Deputy
Attorney General Hammond. who was IN
town to-day. went ovcr n with his chief.
Attorney General Davies AZ noon satur-
day Col Gardiner 10 TO appear before Gov.
Roosevelt and answer the charges In person
The Governor will pass upon the oharges
shortly afterward
II Is not expected that at the hearing On
saturday Col Gardiner will DO able to meet
thess charges successfully. In which event
he will be summsrly removed by the Governor.
In that event John Proctor Clarke IL mentioned
as Col. GARDENERS successor.
when Gov Roosevelt wrote TO Mayor
Van wyck. sheriff Grell and District A.
torney Gardner to see that the laws we're
enforced at the last election. notwith-
standing Chief Devery's order To the police,
Col Gardiner was the only one OF these Officers
who did not ackno wledse the receipt Of the
Governors communication. Gov. Foose-
welt gave Col Gardner the beneht OF the
doubt in deciding not TO remove him from
office on the charges fled by the City Club
Col Gardiner will not get the benefit OF the
doubt this time. and the Governor Is dster-
mined that he must conclusively dsprove
the charges made by the Attorney Generals
department
Col. EdwsrdS. a southern man, who has
Just been appointed TO the stan oi Dlstrict
ttp.a
to the charges to Albany Yesterday. The
answer according N the summarized account
Pegsred ey ass .p.dc denis OF asy
attempt 20 hinder the ATTORNEY. Generals
Office In the prosecution Of VIOLATIONS OF the
tion. are made that the District Attorney
expedited such business.
- Specifically the answer says In part that
asked for assistance In the conduct OF any
case. and would have got II had he asked;
tha wa, not the duty tS o' x, .he o
Hammond. not on the District Attorney:
facilitate Mr. Hammond's work in the case;
that the District Attorney submitted tho
McArdle election case TO the Grand J9ry M os s,
that Mr. Hammond should have all such cases,
and that the dismissal OF the case by the
STsa JUN ss css wa. ub%a
before the clerk 81 the District Attorneys
ottice had notice Of the arratngenent t oi oet;
were refused to MIR. Hammond ana are never
issued to anybody, and that MT HAMMOND
has IL bs Issue S hs Sors the the
Grand Jury. also refused. were properly
refused. and that there Is no law reanlTinS
in law and that the Attorney-Genernl could
have moved any Of his cases AT any time ~
any part OF the court that the chadTso ,het
hinder the trial of election cases was answered
by the statement that fredoriek a. Ware
Sns 4 the fspoSes ppouHse on Hf tie a
In regard 70 the charge that Col Gardiner
had Appeared PerGsa 4 Bars GsGs of hli
in police court OF ile gal rcgistratioa. the
answer SAWS that Col Gardiner Informed
Maei i-trate Crane that Gen. Bartlett wa;
member OF the military order. of the 10y nj
Legion; wa. Federal General IN the Re-
bellion. was promSted @ by ancoes;i,e ,t eTHd.s W
/ nited nit State. Inisntry and was r.eident
and ta.pa1 er Of this city. Maaistrate Crane
'SsL Mr. '. Ha@%gnd nm .sS. .hst tSs interview
With Col! GaddineT Wherein g., he ~ Quoted N
Asf1 As pfSs'. Sc %r Is:.!ss 3
diner remembers giving but one interview
which occurred on Franklin street, and was
70 syS repcrtssr SonSsrnns ,Ss the one re,
ANY conversation had between Amos Il.
Ensign and himself was casua! conyersa-
ton held In one Of the public thorouehfares
In the city of New York and was intended
% express only the personal view OF the
District Attorney.
The answer concludes by saving that the
professional and administrators stan OF
the District Attorneys o.ilce had helped the
Attorney Generals orlce in every way pos
sible not merely from a sense Of obligation
Of the Law. hut FOR the reason that false regis
trstion and illegal voting strike at the liberties
NJ republic and should be punished promptly
aud vigorously"