Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-18


know the members and know nothing
about the transactions with these
firms. testified to before the F'rawley
committee, until recently threatened
with exposure and the alleged trans
actions were brought to my attention
by the Frawley committee.
THE stock matter with Harris &
Fuller was not a speculative account,
but a loan account made upon atocks
as collateral. which stocks had been
acquired and paid for years before
my nomination for the Office - ;oy-
ernor and from other sources than
Harris & Fuller. certain checks given
to me during the campaign We're de-
posted to my personal account and
thereafter ! paid the amount of said
checks to the campaign committees.
I'm filing my statements Of receipts
and disbursements with the secretary
of state l relied upon information
furnished me by the persons in i'm
mediate charge of my campaign, and
in whom | had, and still nave, the
most implicit confidence. and / be-
lieye the statement furnished by them
to me at the time to be accurate and
true.
mo legal evidence was adduced on
the trial which disproved that state
ment.
Tells OF statement of Sept. Ia.
subsequently, on September IA,
gave out another statement, as fol-
lows.
"The stories that I am going to
resign are false and malicious. The
purpose in circulating them must be
evident to everyone. I am not going
to resign. | am going to stand trial.
no unfd hard fhinRa
about some of the Senators and they
have said some hard things about
me: but this Is trial, not political
fight.
and / believe most of them are largo
enough and honest enough to rise
above any personal feeling they may
entertain toward me because of what
I have said about them and do me
justice.
"These are the only statements or
interviews l have made or given out
since the Assembly, by the order OF
The Boss passed the resolution OF
Impeachment.
"Of course. when I issued the last
statement on September IA, | did not
think Senator Wagner. Senator Fraw-
ley. Senator Transporter, Senator
Sanner. Senator Brown, Senator
Blauvelt and Senator Thompson
would act as my jurors and judges,
as they We're either interested per-
sonally in the outcome of my trial, or
had acted as my prosecutors and con-
demned me before trial or on ac-
count of personal grievances had ex-
pressed an opinion as to my guilt.
The improperly of these Senators
voting for my conviction must be ap-
parent and vitiates the judgment, be-
cause had they refused to vote--as a
sense of decency should have induced
them TO dol would not have been
convicted on any one of the articles
of impeachment.
Says Trial Was n Farce.
MY trial from beginning to end,
as far as the Tammanyized part of
the court was concerned was a farce,
q political lynching, the consumm-
ton of a deep laid political con-
spiracy to Dust me from office. / am
glad 1t is all over. I am tired of
being eliminated, tired of being hunt
ed and bounded, tired of trying to
do my duty and being traduced.
THE court ruled in everything
against me and ruled out everything
in my favor. The well settled rules
OF evidence were thrown to the winds.
A horse theft, in frontier days, would
have received a squarer deal.
'Mr. Murphy controlled the Assem-
bly, and ordered the impeachment.
He controlled most of the members
Of the court and dictated its pro-
cedure and wrote the judgment. He
was the judge and the jury; the pros
ecutor and the bailiff.
1.-THE meetings of the court were in
secret and behind closed doors. 1t
was a star chamber proceeding, where
the enemies of the State could ask for
my conviction undiscovered.
"They called it The High Court of
Impeachment, but history will call 1t
'Murphy's High Court of Infamy.
The trial was a human SHAMELESS;
libel of law, a fragrant abuse of con-
rights, disgrace to our
and the verdict over
turned the safeguards of liberty and
the presidents of three centuris. The
judgmnt will not stand the test of
time. The future historian will do
ne justice and posterity will reverse
he findings of the court.
"There Is "a Higher Court"
"There is a higher court than Muir
ohy's-the court of public opinion. |
appeal from Murphy's court of politi-
eal passion, to the calmer judgment
IF the future and the sober retiec-
ion of public opinion.
when l declined to obey the or
1ers' of the boss about patronage;
when l refused to call off Hennessy
and prevent further Investigations of
graft, and, finally when I set in mo-
ton the wheels of the machinery of |
the courts to bring the criminals to
Justice and to stop the looting of the |
state, then and not until then did |
Mr.. Murphy threaten me with deg |
relation, and with removal from Of |
ice. From that day to this all that |
all that power, all that influ-
ence can do to disgrace me and de- |
stroy me has been done. 1t is a long |
story but it will all come out sooner |
,r later. Mr.. Murphy and the special |
interests, which | antagonized, have |
won a temporary victory; but the |
light for reform and for honest gov
ernment will go on. The farce of my |
rial will have a good effect in the |
md. 1t has opened the eyes of the |
people to the graft of millions of dol |
ars annually, and it will hasten the |
adoption of the initiative and refer
,ndum, bring about the recall of pub
ic officials, including judges judicial (
decisions, and write upon the statute |
looks other reforms, especially a di-
ect primary law, so that the voters,
instead of the bosses, will nominate
Is well as elect all officials to public |
,fflce.
The people now know that the