The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-28
ALL JERSEY WET
DECLARES NUGENT
Says Dry Law Cannot Be En-
forced Because Public Opin-
ion Is Not Behind It.
CERTAIN OF NOMINATION
Candidate for Governor Says
He Is for Less Law and More
Personal Rights.

That there are enough red blooded
men in New Jersey to stand behind him
in his eight against prohibition and that
prohibition will never prevail In New
Jersey was the declaration made yester-
day in Newark by James r. Nugent
anti-prohibition candidate for the Demo-
cratic Gubernatoria1 nomination in New
Jersey this fall
Mr.. Nugent said the prohibition law
Is being violated throughout New Jersey
to-day for the reason that no law can
be enforced that does not have the
power OF public opinion behind 1t.
He said that public opinion is against
prohibition.
The candidate took a fling at the
agents OF the Anti-Saloon League and
said that II the anti-saloon enforce
ment measure Is to stand 'let us tear
up the Federal bill Of rights
The only true theory of government
and the one to which he subscribes, he
said, Is minimum OF law with a
maximum of personal rights and privi-
leges." He said:
Dry Law Not Enforced.
That the prohibition enforcement
bill which has Just passed the House
of Representatives Is a monstrosity of
fanaticism and fundamental lawlessness
10 apparent to every Jersey man who
has sense enough to walk the streets Of
will not stand the acid test of the SUI
preme Court of the United States ALSO
is apparent to every lawyer who has
passed the bar examination.
Despite the fact that the measure
which passed the House allows a man
&c store liquor in his own cellar. still
maintain that the measure Just passed
by the House of Representatives author
ICES search and seizure and is in plain
defiance OF this fourth article. 1t also
Is In direct contravention and contempt
of those traditions and provisions Of
Anglo-Saxon law which respects a
mans house as his castle.
THE recent anti-saloon bill, which
was passed while the agents OF this
nefarlous organization were sitting in
the galleries directing every move and
cajoling and coercing every Congress
Inan, also is in direct contravention and
subversion of the right of trial by jury
end in violation of the bill OF rights.
Creates New Crime Class.
ut prostitutes the equity powers Of
the Federal courts to the uses of the
prosecuting agents of a fanstical and
sectarian body and In the enforcement
of its DEGREES, clothes these courts with
arbitrary powers, which also are dicta-
tcrial powers, and goes beyond anything
ever known under q government or law
rather than Of men. It creates a new
class of crime and includes among them
the hitherto considered harmless actA Of
housewives in reducing fruits of the
orchard and the vineyard to liquid
form.
eff this anti-saloons measure Is to,
stand, let Us tear up the Federal bill Of
rights; let us put the Magma Charta Into
the waste basket, and let us stand alone
CI the Eighteenth Amendment-the only
constitutional amendment worth con-
sidering and the only part of the whole
Constitution OF the United States en-
titled any longer to the notice of the
American people when they come to
consider what has become Of that great
instrument In protection of their rights
of person and property.
Throughout the State to-day the pro-
hibition law is being violated. and be-
cause of the fact that no law can be
the power OF public opinion. Public
opinion is against prohibition public
opinion is against sumptuary legislation.
The only true theory Of government and
the one to which I subscribe Is a min
mum of law with a maximum of per-
sonal rights and privileges
I'VE will never go back TO the days
OF the blue laws: we will never go back
to the days Of sacerdotalism. Tolerant
as we are. we men of New Jersey will
rever submit to intolerance, which in its
last analysis this whole programme Of