The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-04
billiard BRUCE
IN UNIQUE CASE
FORMER PENSACOLA NEWsPA-
PER MAN Is IN A HOT PoLITI-
CAL FIGHT, WHICH HAS BEEN
CARRIED TO THE COURTS.

Hillard Bruce, formerly on the star
of The Journal. but who is now on
the Bayonee Evening Times of
Bayonne, N. J., Is engaged In a unique
political fight in that city, and the
case has been carried into the courts
OF the case the Norwich. Conn, Record
of recent date. says:
A unique case that may have more
than statewide interest will come UP
this week in New Jersey, when at Jer-
sey City former City Recorder Lyman
Lazarus Of Bayonne makes application
to Vice Chancellor Garrison to have
the receiver of the Bayonne Evening
Times remove Col James T. r. Proc
tor from the management of the
paper or else direct him to cease criti-
cising the former recorder in the edi-
torial columns of the paper he con-
trolls.
There is bad blood between Col.
Proctor and Judge Lazarus. They do
not speak as they pass. 1t has long
been claimed by the judge that he
owns 81 per cent Of the stock In the
company that publishes the Times.
Col Proctor denies this. and last No
vember he sued the Judge for the pos
session of stock he claims was fraud
ulently secured by Judge Lazarus In
the chancery corut the coloners MEM
DRY, as he claims, failed him on the
witness stand and he could not re-
call what he says is the correct story
of the transaction by which Lazarus,
as the latter maintains, became the
largest of Times stockholders. He
has appealed that case and the SUI
preme court, it is expected, win reach
it next November.
Lately the Times has said editor
tally that Judge Lazarus is not MT
person to be judge Of the Bayonne
district court, a position to which his
friends have asked Gov. woodrow
Wilson to appoint him. The Times
also fought the ambition Of Lazarus
to serve another term as president OF
the Bayonne Board Of Trade. Hugh
C. Colville, a real estate man, was the
Proctor candidate. He was elected at
the last meeting of the board without
a contest.
billiard Bruce, whose home is here
and who edited daily papers in Ohio,
North Carolina and Florida before he
went to the Times, is editor of that
paper under the receiver. Col Proc
tor, the president Of the company and
the dictator Of the policy of the pa
per, never writes. an editorial. Mr..
Bruce took hold Jan. 1 and has been
In the thick of the anti-Lazarus cam
paign, which at one time got so hot
that the friends of the judge. who is
bright young Hebrew, hired hall
and planned to hold an Indignation
meeting to protest against the news
papers attacks on Lazarus, who
ebout that time was given a testimon-
ial dinner py prominent Hudson coun-
ty Democrats. The Judge told. them
to cut out tia indignation meeting and
let the courts decide the matter.
Judge Ls.aeus is mistaken" said
Col. Proctor vgho is a pugnacious
Scotchman &.,A the last man to run
away from a asht whether of the le-
gal or fistic variety. He cannot
muzzle the pres. That was tried by
Theodore RooseV cit when he tried to
prosecute Pulitzer. He failed, and
the newspapers of the land now know,
as they never knew before. that the
free speech of the press cannot be
abridged"
at welcome this fight. AS an adver-
tisement II is worth thousands Of dol
lars to me. have sunk large amount
of money, and have just reached the
point where can truthfully say am
conducting the first paying daily pa
per in Hudson county. / am free to
say this effort of Judge Lazarus to
muzzle the press is the best thing
that ever happened to Proctor. The
muzzling might work in darkest Rus
sia, where Lazarus comes from. It
did not work in Pennsylvania. where
Gov. Pennypacker tried to put through
law to keep the papers from print
ing uncensored political matter. 1t
will not work in New Jersey"
Robertson & Demarest, the solicitors
for the Times, laughed when the long
typewriter deposition of Judge Laza-
rus reached their Office.
IF the court puts a lid ON my pen
ell will obey the court. as every good
citizen does" said Mr.. Bruce. but in
the meantime 1 believe 1 can criticise
any candidate for public office If 1 do
not lay any specific crime at his
door"
The case is attracting much interest
in New Jersey and New York. Judge
Otto A Rosalsky of the New York
court of general sessions. a cousin of
Judge Lazarus and a speaker at the
Lazarus dinner, is involved-that is.
Judge Lazarus is trying to involve
him. Judge Rosalsky reissues to talk
about the case. though he admits he
went to the Lazarus dinner and made
a speech. along with Mayor John J.
Cain. Judge Robert S. Hudspeth of
Jersey City. and other notables-
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