The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-03
PRESIDENT AGAIN
FLAYS THOSE Who
OBSTRUCT REFORM
Continued From First paseo


yened to prevent an embarrassing sit
uatton.
your very generous reception of me
Tonight" remarked the President.
makes me feel very much more COM
Portable than I did this forenoon. TOR
example. in another part of the city.
where the tender sensibilities of one
of the assemblymer from this county
led him to conclude it an affront to
his personal dignity that i should.
without his invitation. have como into
the county over which his influence so
beneficently presided. You do not
make me feel that come with so cold
y welcome and TO face so direct re-
buke. / wish that YOU might 90 TWO
opposite things tonight. | wish that
YOU might forget that | am President
of the United States. because l come
here as a Jerseyp,an fulfilling all prom
Uses that I made to Jerseymen and
Vet. l want YOU TO remember that
am President of the United states ne
cause il Is the business OF the Presi-
dent TO see 10 il wherever lie can that
the people set what they have right
10 expect.
For l am no, the servant OF the
Democratic party. am the servant
OF the people acIinE through the Demo
cratic party which has now under
taken some OF the most solemn obi
cations that 4 party ever undertook,
for IT has stepped forward AZ mo-
ment OF universal disappointment and
said: We pledge YOU our honor as
men and rs patriots that YOU shall not
be disappointed asain.'
Justice Touched at Sources.
'This is the situation in which the
Democratic party finds itself and in
the midst OF this situation there are
particular promises which the Demo-
cratic party. for example IN New Jer-
sew has given the people. One OF the
things which has made thoushtful
men in this country most uneasy Is
that criminal justice was touched at
it's sources by preventing political in
nuence. and that when man stood in
with the sherifis Office he was safe
from prosecution, and that when he
did not stand in with the sheriffs Of
ace he was in tine position in which
ne all ought to be-responsible FOR
everything that ne did against the
Jaw OF the land.
Il was present 3, conference to-
Gay. at which one OF the gentlemen in
the assembly from tho county oS Els
sen asked me II had said that the
sroater part Of the delegation from
that county exercised no choice OF its
own. but took orders He did not ask
me in those words. but the words do
not maxi any difference.
That is wha; said, and ! said IL
not because | suspected IL. but because
have lived i'll the State good many
years | was an observer and very
close observer. Of the cosrse OF politics
before I vcntured upon that uneasy
sea. and when | ventured upon that
uneasy ! was not the landlubber
I looked. | know the gentlemen who
controlled the politics of Essex CAunty.
Knew them? Why. the whole United
States knew them"
He Is Not Disturbed.
The President indicated that he was
not disturbed by the opposition ne had
encountered among members of the
Legislature.
Somebody told me- he said. that
things were tangled up here that
jury reform was going to lose anyhow.
and they said; Why come up and fight
for losing cause" Well. ] know my
fellow citizens in New Jersey, and
deny that il is losing cause But
suppose IL was, | would rather have my
body one of the first TO fall by the wall
than one of the last. Anybody can
come on with the battalions that mar
shall millions strong before the war is
ovs<, but only mon of sturdy courage
can go with the little handful that
starts the battle. And whether we win
or lose. the battalions are coming on
and the eventual outcome OF the da y
of battle is not in doubt. There Is a
God in heaven and all is well. and |
am not going TO be impatient.
The supreme test which the Demo
cratic party has now 10 respond to IL
this: ls ii ready to give the citizens
Of New Jersey final guarantees OF dis
interested Justice
Did YOU ever hear bigger ques-
lion than that stated Is there any
suspicion abroad that equal justice is
not administered in the United States
If there is such ;t.saspcion, who ought
~ all others. 10 ramoV% it? The men
who arc responsible for the administra =
tion of justice finally, or The mon who
make the laws which underlie the ad
roinistration OF Justice? I do not know.