Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-02
DENIES
CRITICS ACCURACY
Answers Inquiries of Attorney
MunrOe for Anti-SaI0On
League.
MAYOR PRESENTED WITH
WHITE ~CHRYSANTHEMUM
Makes Tour of City, Address
ing Voters in Various
Districts.

answers to allegations mace py IA
opponents with reference to the al
legged vice conditions, Mayor JacoI
Haussling, at a number of meeting
last night again Weplied to the in
nuendoes Of the Republican candi
date and commented on the latter
refusal to name the men behind
The thousands who listened to tn
mayors speeches could not help bu'
comment upon the straightforward
manner in which he met every issue
and there were no clouds thrown
about his explanations of questions
relating to the public welfare.
Because of the number of meeting:
at which he was scheduled to speak
i the mayor was able to spend only q
few moments in each place. He dis.
cussed at some length at all the
meetings a letter from G. Rowland
Monroe, attorney Of the Anti
Saloon League. Taking up the charge
of Mr.. Aronson that several men had
"a rope around his neck" the
mayor said:
He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last.
MY opponent asked me to name
the men whom I said were behind
| him. 1 did this Immediately. I ask
ed him to name the men whom he
| claimed had a rope around my neck,
| He has SO far refused to do so and
met the challenge with a laugh. I do
not think much of such an answer
from a man who seeks to be the head
Of the government of this city. 1t
would be an extremely unfortunate
thing for Newark's good name if a
citizen in the event of Mr.. Aron-
sons election Il do not think this
will be brought about) should be
greeted with a laugh when he went
to the City Hall. There is an old
adage which everybody knows, He
who laughs last, laughs best I have
been informed of Mr.. Aronson's
laugh, but 1 am confident that it will
be my turn to give vent to a hearty
laugh on the day following election"
zone thing I cannot help
speaking about" the Mayor contin-
ued, "is the sending of a cartoon to
my home in which there is a depic-
ton of vice being closed out by my
opponent. 1 can only say that where
morality is concerned l will compare,
insofar as my life ID concerned, in
every way with my opponent. I think
this is going to considerable lengths
when they send that kind of litera-
ture into my own home"
Mayor Haussling then went into
the question of vice in the city and
declared again, as he had often be-
fore, that Newark was as well regu-
lated in this respect as any city in
the country and that whenever he
had been made acquainted with the
existence Of vice in any form he had
Immediately taken steps to put a
stop to 1t. He also recalled the fact
that Mr.. Aronson had been a .nem-
Der of his cabinet for * considerable
length If time and had only brought
I'D the question of vice in the city
when he was seeking an Office.
Presents Ch~rysanthemum to Mayor.
At a meeting of the Italian Political
and Pleasure Club, on Hoyt street, a
pretty incident occurred which was
looked upon as being rather an inter-
esting and expressive one. AS the
Mayor was introduced a young Ital-
ian girl stepped forward and present
ed the Mayor with a pure white
chrysanthemum.
ST have received anoter letter from
Mr.. G. Rowland Munroe, Attorney Of
the Anti-Saloon League. l presume
most Of you are familiar with it, SO
that I need not give it in full, but 4
will try to take up each question,
allegation and suggestion fairly.
"Mr. Monroe suggests that, as I APP
proved of the requiring or a bond of
81, 900 to guarantee costs in a hearing
where a complaint has been made to
the Excise Board, no person except
one able to pay $1,000 could have a
heard by that body. In
reply thereto 1 would say that each
case is governed by the circum-
stances surrounding it and it is well
that whoever the complain
of record were in this instance,
the actual prosecutor was the Anti.
League, an organization
which, from appearances. would seem
tc be abundantly supplied with funds
and well able to pay the small
a mount of money involved.
HE asks me also to explain what
the costs would be and enters into a
long argument to show that they
could not possibly amount to the sum
in question. / am not sufficiently
familiar with such proceedings as to
say exactly what costs might be in
volved or to how much they might
amount, and I presume that Mr..
Munroe does not want me to take
advice on this particular point
in order to answer him. / would
venture to suggest, however, that II
the costs, as he has argued, would
necessarily be small, then the risk
would, as a matter of course, be
In other words, the whole
amount of the bond would not be
taken for costs, If Mr.. Munroe is
right, but only such an amount as
was actually and properly expended
therefor.
sure to Lose.
MIR. Munroe assures us that he
can produce public testimony If need
be- from one who reported to his or
.ganization, I take it that Mr.. Nj.
gent had said that the compliments
in the case in question were certain
10 LOSE l can produce like testi
mony to the contrary. 1 submit to
him, as a lawyer, the possibility tl.at
the gentleman, of whom he speaks,
might, In all honesty, have mistaken
a suggestion that the compartments
might lose for an assertion that they
would lose.
In my reply to Mr.. Munroe's iIrst
letter l called attention to the fact
that the onn..a -