Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-16
SUSSEX COUNTY
BACKS INDICTED
MEN IN MILK CASE
Farmers, Press and Public Re-
sent Charges Against Nc
Bride and Bailey.

NEWTON. Marcel 16.-Sussex county
friends of Senator Mcbride, Captain
Daniel Bailey and their associates are
fight against the charge that they had
conspired to raise the price OF milk half
a cent q quart to the farmers.
The press and public of h county
are with the accused men, declaring the
charge an outrage. They declare that
it is a case of a mountain made out of
a molehill and friends are ready to sub
scribe any amoun of ash bail for a
charge which they declare is entirely
without foundation.
In commenting on the indictments
the Sussex papers talk a decided stand
In favor of the indicted men.
The Sussex Independent says:
1.-The universal opinion throughout
New Jersey and New York, wherever
the matter is discussed, among the
farmers Inc people generally, concern
ing the indictment of Senator Mcbride,
Captain Bailey and their associates is
that the whole proposition is an out
rage. 1t is the opinion of many law
yers tina upon the facts no offense
whatever has been committed, and that
the indictments cannot be sustained.
New York World hysteria would evil
IDENTIFY force a district attorney to the
point that he was not doing his duty
unless good men are constantly in
dicted for criminal offenseS, on some
sort of a plan, and yet this very journal
is bowling in every issue because its
editor was indicted for criminal libel
in the Panama canal misrepresentation
when it attempted to cast aspersions
upon President Roosevelt and his ap-
pointees during the last presidential
election. The injury it has done the
rme in dollars and cents in the milk
investigation during the past three
years will take a long time to over
come"
The Sussex Register says: 1.-THE in
dictment of Captain Daniel Bailey, of
Glenwood, and former Senator John A.
Mcbride, of Vantage, by a New York
grand jury, for conspiracy in restraint
of trade is an absurdity, and is so re-
garded by their friends and ~neighbors.
These men are the friends of the
farmers, and have acted in that
capacity time and again. They were
selected as directors of the milk ex-
change to represent the producer, and
at the meeting last June didn't fix the
price at which milk should be sold;
they voted hat they believed the
farmer should receive $1.41 for a can of
milk. They had no more to do with
fixing the wholesale or retail selling
price of milk than a resident of Kam-
schatlSa. They didn't restrain trade.
Certain members of the exchange were
not indicted because they were given
an opportunity to testify, and a pro-
vision of the Donnelly law provides
that those who testify at a regular
hearing shall not be indicted. Those
who were permitted to testify, there
fore, escaped indictment. OF those who
did not take or have that opportunity
four are Jerseymen, n two of them
are esteemed neighbors of ours, and no
Indictment of that sort can cast Il
shadow over them in this milk-produc-
ing centre. Why were these eight
directors selected? The indictments
may give them a lot of trouble and
anxiety, n viii cost them some
money, but we doubt if a jury will CON
Wet them; but whatever the legal out
come may be, a big Sussex county
jury, made up of every producer within
its bounds and their neighbors. too.
will shout out a verdict of not guilty.