New-York tribune., 1912-03-19
MAYOR DENOUNCES
ROOSEVELT THEORIES
Declares There Are Three Rem
edieS Which Make Recall of Ju-
diCiaI Decisions Bad Policy.
COURTS BAR TO PROGRESS
Severely Criticises Delay and
Technicalities in This State
Taft Sends Letter Prais-
ing SocietY's Purpose.

Mayor Gaynor stirred the two hun
dred diners at the first annual dinner Of
the Efficiency Society at the Aldine Club
last night by a speech in which he at
tackled the courts, and more particularly
the state courts, as a bar 10 progress,
but he aroused even greater enthusiasm
when, near the end of his address, he
absolutely repudiated the recall Of ju-
dicial decisions by popular vote. This
Mayor said that those who advanced the
judicial recall as something new Should
go back to school,"
The recall of judicial decisions, he said,
had been going on for years by three
distinct methods. The first Of these he
described as a process of shedding, in
which the obnoxious law was discarded
lust as a snake discards his skin. The
other two were constitutional amend
ment and legislation.
After taking a characteristic fling at
Hearst and those people who think that
they are the only ones fit for any office" ="
the Mayor began his attack on the ju-
dietary. He said
I suppose you don't want me to blow my
own horn, so you have put me down TO
talk about the efficiency OF the judiciary,
or something like that. Efficient methods
I'm legal procedure" about which the less
said the better. This society Is organized
for that purpose. and suppose to help us
I'm that direction the courts which you have
made the subject for me tried to help us. II
seems to me they are trying TO run the
whole government now from Washington
down. but ! am bound to say that as long
az | know anything OF history up TO the
present time they have made very bad
fst OF Il. They teach other departments Of
government what TO do and how 10 run,
but | am afraid If we look closely into the
matter we will have TO admit that they are
the least efficient department or govern
ment that We have.
Those of YOU who live here In the city
NJ New York will scarcely gainsay that
The merchants OF this Guy w VIII LIS scarcely
with the disputes. 1t Is useless for them to
wait for three years before their case can
be tried Witnesses dead, Witnesses gone.
The thing almost forgotten ana on the
scrap heap at the time 1t is called In court
And then the trials are not only long de-
iaved but the uncertainty of the result is
almost enough to deter people from going
into the courts with civil iusauoh. Ihere
is NO excuse at all for the delay
In London cases are brought one month
ond literally tried the next. so efficient Is
Tho judiciary over there. And relatively
NJ, NJ one-third the size and number of ours.
They tn, simply have a system. Their judges
are also trained for the place. They had
careers at the bar and they are able to
enter into the work. But here II Is now a
innc Grievance in this community, and the
same sam NAV be said elsewhere.
And this is a subject that President Taft
has spoken upon more than once; Litiga-
ton Is DELAYED. Litigation is technical.
IIit,Igation IiUuI Is uncertain. And when We get a
t,dement then comes the tug of war-to
Jgnneai from one court to another and TO
spIit hairs over whether the Judge can
make a remark that influenced the jury
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