Bridgeton pioneer., 1916-08-24
NOT FOR
LOCAL OPTION
Senator Colgate on Brew.
cry Excursion.
NEWS" EXPLAIN
Essex County Candidate SUP.
ported by "News" Is Not
Strongly Opposing
Liquor

1t will be interesting for Republi-
can leader, J. Ward Richardson, who
is supporting Senator Colgate for
Governor, to read the following story
| taken from the American Issue. the
| organ of the Anti-Saloon League, and
as matter of information will be
reprinted for the News" The story
in full follows:-
Senator Austen Colgate was an
| honored guest of the Home Brewing
Company on a beer-fest excursion of
| the steamer Ajax to Witzers Grove,
| College Point Staten Island. August
2. The Home Brewing Company con-
trolls a string of 1awless saloons in
| Essex and Hudson counties. In the
| Senator's retinue were his campaign
| manager, Frank J. Book, who, while
! postmaster, permitted employees to
| arrange with the brewers to supplv a
carload of beer for a Sunday excur-
sion; and Sheriff Ralph B. Schmidt,
Who has been repeatedly furnished
with lists of keepers of saloons and
lives in Newark that fiagrantly vio-
late the laws, and who permits Sun
day booze selling and protected COM
| mercialized vice to continue.
"Other honored guests of the brew
ers were ex-Mayor Jake Haussling,
| who readers of The American Issue
will remember, received a 'call-down'
from Governor Woodrow Wilson for
his protection of disorderly houses in
the city of Newark, and ex-Sheriff
John F. Monahan, who shared with
Haussling in the responsibility and
In the "call-down" and who replied
to the Governor that the charges were
'unWarranted and in essence false
A rebuke from the Chief Justice fol-
lowed, and these protectors of vice
had to see every one of the gang
whom they guarded go to the peniten-
tiary.
This is the bunch that Austen COL
gate consorts with in search for votes
to elect him Governor of New Jersey.
AS State Senator he cast in his lot
with the brewers and did their bid
ding In opposing the Gaunt local op-
ton bill. A word from him as a. citi-
zen of Essex county sustaining the
fight waged by church forces to COM
pei saloons to obey the law, and to
close disreputable resorts, would
have made him persona non grata
with the brewers and the birds-of-a-
feather with whom he hobnobbed on
the steamer Ajax. He did not speak
the word, and is therefore worthy of
their highest esteem and the support
that he seeks from the underworld.
'Ye cannot drink the cup of
the Lord and the cup of devils;
We cannot be partakers of the
Lords table and the table of dev-
U.s.
y" hASAi, OOlHS pIet6u, means.
No man can do the work of the brew
ers and saloonkeepers in the New
Jersey Senate; be hale-fellow-well-
met with their political servants:
and at the same time deserve the es-
TEEN and support of gudly people in
his ambition to become Governor of
New Jersey.-'You cannot serve two
master''
Then Mr.. Richardson will also glad
ly tell the readers of the News" this
paragraph taken from Justice, the
official organ of the New Jersey Lii
quor Dealers Association:
George E. Kaegi, a former officer
OF the Newark Retail Liquor Dealers
Protective Association, attended the
recent midsummer social event of
the State Wholesalers as a represen-
tative of the Essex county Republican
committee having in charge the gu
bernatorial candidacy of Senator Aus
ten Colgate. He was cordially re-
ceived."