The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-11
WHAT VOORHEES, WILL Do
Governor Consults With
Secretary ofState About
Anarchists.
Especial to ..rhe Jersey city News"1


TRENTON, Sept. II, 1901-Governor
Voorhees, had a conference with Secre-
tary of State George T. Wurts, yester-
day, and the outcome was that he dis
patched kilograms to number of per-
sons denying the allegations that an
archists in Paterson had been allowed to
hold jubilee over the shooting of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The Governor said to a reporter
81 had conference with the Secretary
upon the subject, with a view to learning
the true state of affairs in the Paterson
case, and, if the allegations were true,
I wanted to look into them.
II can say that the reported meeting
of. the anarchists in Paterson for this
purpose was mistake, as l am told that
none sucn took place.
The Governor added that his statements
had been exaggerated by one of the
metropolitan papers, wherein he was
charged with criticising the Mayor and
Chief of Police of Paterson for not break
ing these meetings up.
The Governor feels keenly the need of
more rigorous laws for the suppression
of anarchy. Discussing the matter yester-
81 believe the time has come when the
addition of a new law and the rigorous
enforcement of the immigration law will
be demanded. 1t should be made an Of
tense punishable by the seyerest penalty
to belong to any society which promul-
gates the doctrines of anarchy. The laws
should be so amended as to make those
connected with conspiracy against the
rulers of any country. including the
President of the United States, criminals.
81 would not go so far as to say that
a penalty of death should be inflicted for
an attempt upon the life of the Presi-
dent, but so important is the life of the
Chief Executive of the country that l
think we could we'll justify law Of much
greater severity for an attempt on his
life than on that of private citizen.
public sentiment 1 am convinced,
would favor a law providing for life i'm
prisonment for those who conspire to
murder the President and it would ap-
prove an act which would punish by a
long term of Imprisonment those belong
ing to any society advocating such ac-
tions.
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nor, will, believe, work its own cure"
Secretary of State Wurts was seen at
his office, and he was very emphatic in
denying that Paterson was as it has been
painted, and, among other things, said
There was no meeting of that kind
held at that time, and therefore the police
could not suppress thing which did not
take place.
Paterson is accredited with being such
a bad place that its citizens (Mr Wurts
lives in Paterson) can only hold up their
hands and say Shoot away until some
Of the papers get ready to let us alone.
Paterson was even named as the home
of Bresci, who assassinated King Hum
bert, of Italy, when, as a matter of fact
he only lived there a short time, and was
in Hoboken before his departure to Eu-
rope.
1.-THE Bosschieter case was a Paterson
affair, but these others were not and the
city should not have such a stigma cast
upon it for something of which it is in
nocent.
"There might have been crowds in more
than one saloon drinking that night, but
they were not drinking the health of the
weuld-be slayer of President Mckinley
because if they had the police would have
stopped it at once"