The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-02
Enters Campaign for Jury
Reform in New Jersey,
With Denunciation Of
"Whispering System.
ENORMOUS CROWDS
HEAR AND APPLAUD
President Admits That De.
mocracy Is Having Its Last
Chance in the State, as
Well as Country.

NEWARK, n. j., May president
Wilson battlcd bard tonight in two
speeches at Newark and Elizabeth to
wrest New Jersey politics from what
he termed a resumption of control by
jim Nugent and the old political ma
chine
Great crowds, frequent interruptions
of applause and demonstrations Of ap-
proval greeted the president when he
put OH his "war. paint, - as he described
II, and campaigned in earnest to have
the power Of drawing iuries taken from
the sheriffs and placed in the hands of
pleaded for the calling of constitu-
tional convention and pointed out that
it no longer was regarded as a radical
procedure to change constitutions in the
United States.
His two speeches were filled with
satirical characterization OF what he
called the old gang in New Jersey, -
but he made it clear that his fight for
apparently a local issue was made for
the rank and file Of the nation,
Willing to Battle.
81 am sorry,'' he said at Elizabeth
q that 1 should have to come back to
speak words Of criticism, but [ must
say that it is familiar to have the war
paint on in New Jersey again, And is
1T not singular that we should ALWAYS
have to be fighting to get control Of
our own affairs?
We want to redeem the urispru.
dence of this state, not only of the s,ls
pIcIon but Of the stain that men are
not equally treated in the courts of law,
Where the political machine is misused
IN this state as in every other state
of the union, is where the machine con.
trolls the sheriff s office The machine
lnstinctively fights for the sheriff s Of
flee,
1.-The machine instinctivelv fights for
the sheriff IS office, the citadel of power
and immunity from punishment. If Won
want to strike at the center and heart
OIL corrupt policies, see to it that you
put the control Of grand juries into i'm
partial and non political hands.
Why He Returned.
When 1t was suggested that return
10 New Jersey to speak, - said the nres
ldent at Elizabeth ''I was asked if IL
was not imprudent for ME to leave af
talrs which hourly needed my attention
in Washington, Would ! come TO nv
beloved state? 1t was like being asked
would go back and take a hand in the
fight for the rank and file of the Ameri
can people. | am not of sanguinary
or belhgerent nature, but / got on
the train today with light heart, for
if YOU II tell me that there is some.
thing afoot to cheat the people in get.
ting something for themselves, L am
your man, enlisted for the battle
Hands Kisses to Nugent.
"Before Mr.. James Nueent of Essex
county took charge of the legislature
Kissing began in the crowd and the
president waited moment and con.
tinued:
81 dou' know for whom those Kisses
arc, but hand them over to Jim Nu
gent. to whom they bcIong-a sinister
private agent openly conducting nffairs
on the floor of the legislature who did
not dare do 1T as long as some one
would go home and point him out as
n man not commissioned TO speak for
the people, and as the man opposing
the process of law which he dare not
submit to. -
The crowd cheered and the president
announced that he would be willing 10
submit the jury reform question 10
4 referendum, as had been proposed by
the Nugent faction, but he knew, he
said, that it would not be n genuine
count the votes at the polls to suit
themselves. since the processes Of the
election law were controlled in certain
counties by sherffs in league with the
political machine.
These counties. he added, were tho
ones most in need of the reform.
Wilson Closely Guarded.
President Wilson left TO spend the
night In New York after his two
speeches In New Jersey, Extraordinary
arrangements were made to give him
protection while campaigning. william
F1lnn. chief OF the United States secret
service. was In charge OF n big squad
OF secret service operatives who were
distributed In the crowds everywhere
The president Will meet the members
of the legislature at Jersey CITY tomor-
ROW and make a final speech there to-
morrow night.