Show NEW ARK NEVARK ARK PUBLISHER CHARGED WITH GRAFT DRAfT Former Formel Senator James Smith Accused of Taking Tainted Money Ne Newark arI N. N J Ia 1 May 24 James 4 James JamesSmith Smith jr ir former Cormer United States senator senator sen sea ator front from New v Je Jersey e recently elected elected elected elect elect- ed delegate elegate at large to tho Democratic national convention and proprietor of th the Newark D Daily ny News New's was accused in the court of or chancery in Trenton n yesterday esterday of having collected 1440 1 in securities from the public service servIce ser ice corporation eo of ot New ew Jersey as the price of or the support and protection of the corporation by Smiths Smith's news news- paper This suit is one of ot the amazing sequels sequels se so- to the New York Americans American's exposure of ot the enormous amount of ot crooked election work In New York City CHy b by the cohorts of ot the notorious lu Smith Smith-Nugent ring of or Newark Senator Senator Sen Son ator Smiths Smith's nephew James Nu Nugent ent city counsellor of or Newark was jointly joint joint- ly Iy in indicted with Philip Looser Loeser the king Icing of ot election repeaters To Jo Compel Accounting The charge chargo is made by b Redmond 1 F. F Kernan a stockholder of ot the news news- paper and the action Is brought to compel former Senator Smith to account account account ac ac- ac- ac count to tho time stockholders of ot the Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper c company for the enormous sum The plaintiff declares that Thomas Nevins e president of ot the Consolidated Gas company of Newark knows personally personally per per- of the payment to Smith and that he furnished the information on which the tile action is base based Mr Kernan Kernan Ker Ker- nan the plaintiff declared today to ay that he lie expect expected d to be able to prove that I this lH alleged to have havo been paid in 1902 was only one of a number number num num- ber of sums which the millionaire politician 1011 poli had extracted from corporations corporations corporations corpora corpora- to protect them from attacks by lJ his newspapers s |