The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-20
John G. Kaiser, Shrievalty
Nominee Eleven Men
Named for Assembly.
RECORD BALKS AT SCOTT
MAKES SPEECH AGAINST LONE
RBPUBLICAN ASsEMBLYMANSS
DENOMINATION, BUT SCOTT
SCORES VICTORY.

At the Republican County Convention
hst night the following ticket was nomi-
nated:-
For Sheriff. John c. Kaiser; for As
Bembly. E, Jersey. John ]. Coyle, Joseph
Calvin, John I. Cannon, james E.
Woolley, E. Jordan. Theodore L. Bierck.
Herman Berg: Bayonne, Robert Scott;
Hoboken, E. W. Arrowsmith, Jr., and
II. Thomas.
Congressman Marshall Van Wrinkle
was president of the convention. anG
among the delegates appointed were Col
Dickinson and Mayor Pagan. but Mayor
Pagan was not present.
Corporation Counsel George L. Record
vigorously opposed the nomination of
Robert Scott for the Assembly, but Scott
was chosen. He is the lone Republican
elected on the Assembly ticket in Hudson
County last year Mr.. Record said he
had nothing personal against Mr.. Scott.
but declared that he consistently voted
In the Assembly against every measure
embodied in the platform, especially
equal taxation. in the last legislature,
and he advocated that no man should be
nominated on the Assembly ticket whose
views were not in accordance with the
platform adopted by the convention. He
declared that from a party standpoint it
would be very unwise to go into cam
paign and allow the other side to say:
s'You do not practice what you preach"
Mr.. Record further declared that while
Mr.. Scott got all the credit for the pas
gse of the polieemen's salary increase
bill. it would never have become law
had not Col. Sam. D, Dickinson been
behind it
While there was on the surface much
enthusiasm, harmony was by no means
the most conspicuous feature of the con-
yention
The following platform was adopted:
I'VE, the representatives of the Repub-
licans of Hudson County. in convention
assembled. declare that change is
needed in the manner in which the busl-
ness of the Sheriff is conducted in this
county. 1t is a notorious fact. comment
ed on by the Court. the bar and the peo-
pie generally, that the administration OF
justice is hampered and defeated by the
kind of grand and petit juries which have
been provided. Certain classes of law
breakers have been immune from prose-
cution and others have been set free by
trial puries.
These gIaring miscarriages of justice
are responsible for the general belief
that this failure to convict has been sys-
tematic. and they have caused not only
the discharge of such petit juries by the
Court. but also the public refusal of the
Prosecutors office to try cases before
them.
1--WE hold that the administration or
the civil and criminal law should be hon
est. in order that all men may have an
equal chance before the law and to Sc
cure justice. The Grand Jury should
not be part of any political machine and
petit juries should not be packed to pro-
tect litigants who have money or politi-
cal influence. or both.
1--WE believe that the Grand Jury
should be representative OF onr best cit
izenship that the petit juries should be
composed of intelligent, responsible men,
capable of cooperating with the courts
in the administration Of justice, and that
in the language of Judge Dixon:
It is the duty of the Sheriff to Sc
lecf men of estate and standing to pass
upon the liberty and property of our
citizens. and that the highways and by
ways should not be searched for the
lame. halt and blind and men who can
secure no employment anywhere else.'
"we believe that the election of the
Democratic candidate for Sheriff at this
fine win perpetuate the evil justly com
plained. of supaer the existing Sheriff and
we eordiallx invite all good citizens, all
who desire a fair and impartial admin
istrxtion of the Sheriffs office, to join
with US in securing the election of the
1onlinee of the Republican party.
we call attention to the Importance
If the coming session of the Legislature,
and earnestly ask the cooperation of all
good citizens to aid in the election Of the
Republican Assembly nominees. There
will be Republican majority in both
houses next year, as there has been for
the last dozen years, and the interests