Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-23
CLAQUE ACTIVE AT
Jury BILL RALLY
IN EAST ORANGE
II Cheers for Fielder When He
Declares for Judge
Made Inquests.
THEN KISSES M'CABE, WHO
URGES A REFERENDUM
And 100 Disappointed Office
Seekers Leave Meeting in
High Glee.

League, most of them disappointed
offtce-seekers. are elated today over
the result of a jury bill rally held
last night in the East Orange High
School auditorium.
They are elated because Assembly
man Lawrence McCabe was hissed
when he said he was going to stick
by his constituents and vote for a
referendum jury bill. and Governor
Fielder was applauded when he told
why judge made juries should be sad
died on the people without their con
sent.
THE opposition of 10000 working
men and also 1000 politicians, includ-
ing county committee members at
the Jefferson day dinner is enough to
convince me that the people do not
want judge-made juries. and I intend
to stick by the people, said the as
semblyman.
This statement was greeted with
shouts OF derision and loud Kisses.
The audience was composed of the
ringleaders of the Woodrow Wilson
League of Essex County. few more
men, about a dozen and half
women and a group Of high school
boys. Altogether they didn't total
100 Curiously enough. Governor
Fielder chose to refer to conference
he had once with City Counsel James
r. Nugent, in which the latter told
him there was no sentiment in Essex
County for the kind of jury law
change that the Governor was adyo-
eating. Apparently not realizing that
the audience was made up of men
whose activities in the last campaign
brought more or less derision on
them, the Governor said he thought
their presence ought to convince the
Essex County Democratic leader that
there was sentiment for Jury bill
without a referendum Governor
Fielder did not refer TO Mr.. Nugen
by name.
Among the Wilson League mer
present were several whose homes
are in Newark. but whose presence
helped to make q showing in the hall
AS those present passed out of the
hall. copies of the two speeches which
former Senator John d. Prince, Re-
publican, of Passaic, has made In
favor of the retention of the present
system of sheriffs drawing jurors, and
condemnlng in strong terms the pass
age of any jury commission bill
without a referendum, were given
out.
When Governor Fielder had finished
previous occasions at Asbury Park
I,.Ifa A
Gregory. who acted as chairman
asked those who were in favor OF
having the Legislature pass a jury
commission bill without a referendum
say aye, and of course, most of them
being Wilson Leaguers, did say aye
But there were few who responded
in the negative. and among them
were Assemblyman McCabe.
81 see that Assemblyman McCabe
votes in the negative" said the
Mayor. "Will Mr. McCabe come up
on the platform and explain his po-
sition?"
Just about that time the members
of the league and others began to
shout and hoot. the meeting hitherto
having been peaceful Mr. McCabe
was sitting at the rear of the room.
He walked down the aisle a short
distance and said:
"Mr. Chairman. refuse to take
the platform. You rendered your
invitation to the Governor, a very
worthy gentleman and my es-
teemed friend. You knew my att
tude and how / voted, and why didn
you. as the Mayor and as a gentle
man, invite the Assemblymen you
had attacked in the newspapers?
my attitude in the special session
will be just the same as It was in the
last session and will continue TO be
so until the people by a referendum
vote convince me that they want tc
take jury drawing away from the
sheriffs, however properly safe.
guarded"
The Wilson men got in few Kisses
during Mr.. McCabe's remarks, and he
commented upon their interruptions
only by saying he was surprised thai
| such treatment should be accorded
by East Orange gentlemen"
At the meeting in Elizabeth which
Governor Fielder addressed on Mon.
| day night the two Union County AS
semblymen who are going to vote fol
a referendum, were invited to sit with
! the Governor, although their views
were opposed to his, and they did so
and spoke their minds after the Gov
ernor had defined his stand.