Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-16

his honesty, I would be bold to sug-
rest that his statements should be
received with caution and his judg-
.nents not accepted without due de-
liberation. The sensational methods
which he employs would also seem to
Indicate to me that he is less con-
rerned in righting conditions than in
winning recruits for his own peculiar
propaganda.
calls II "FaIse Representation
1.-THE circumstance also that, with
all his obvious zeal and s~elf-evident
incentive, he can find but seven
places in Newark against which to
make complaint would show tina the
general charge of rampant vice and
disorder which he brings against the
ETY. is beyond all question a gratuit-
ously false representation.
you request me to let you know
what | will do in view of your COM
munication. In reply | beg to say
that will continue a careful watch
over conditions, and If at any time
offic al action be necessary it will be
taken. This | would do without the
prompting of your letter, as | con
ceive it to be my duty. Yours very
truly, JOHN F. MoNAHAN,
"Sheriff Essex county, New Jersey.
The Governor also sent copies of
his letter to Mayor Haussling, Chief
of Police Corbitt and Prosecutor
Mott. The prosecutors letter came
into the hands of Assistant Prosecu-
tor Lehlbach, Mr.. Mott being absent
from his office today on account of
q death in his family.
Mayor Haussling is in Canada, at
tending the excursion of the Gottfried
Kruger Association, and will not re-
turn until September %.
The petition signed by representa-
tiyes Of the Anti-Saloon League was
presented to Governor Wilson at an
open hearing in Trenton. August u.
1t was alleged that efforts of the
league to put an end to the reported
vicious conditions in this city through
the authorities were u%navailing and
that City Counsel James r. Nugent
had made it impossible for the league
to push its case through the Excise
Board.
The Governor that day old the
A~nti-Saloon League men that he
could do little more than call the
attention of the local authorities to
their complaint.
Governor Wilson'S Letter.
Governor Wilson's letter is Is fol-
lows:
THE inclosed papers explain them
selves. They set forth very explicitly
and with a good deal of detail on
ditions of lawlessness and of scandal
Gus public disregard of law In the
city of Newark, which. If true. are
deeply demoralizing and disgraceful;
and the evidence with which the re-
cital is supported is direct, the evil
dence of eye-witnesses of scenes
which mean IL they mean anything,
that the police and civil authorities
of the city not only connived at the
lawlessness, but in some instances
c~ountenanced 1t in person.
1T nay be that this evidence can
be successfully rebutted. But it is so
strong, so explicit, so direct and so
shocking hat 1t is plainly my duty
as governor of the State to act upon
1t to call your attention to the abso-
lutte necessity of a searching investi-
cation and a thorough-going correc-
lion of these conditions, If they exist.
No Means Of Enforcing Advice.
II have no means of enforcing this
advice under the laws of the State,
except public opinion; but that is a
very powerful and prevailing force in
our day.
lit Is perhaps my duty also to call
your attention to the provisions of
chapter 173 of the laws of 1901, page
1856. 1t is there provided hat when
ever the Governor of tine State or the
encouragement or a judge of the
Court of oyer and Terminer or Quar-
ter Sessions or a prosecutor of the
pleas of any county in which such
municipality is situated shall have no.
tilted the mayor or other chief execu
live or the chief of police or other
head officer of police of any city or.
other municipality of this State that