The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
PRESIDENT WILSON URGES new
JERSEY DEMOCRATS TO
CARRY out JURY REFORM
Incidentally He Promises to Give His
Opinion Upon Local Questions If
Asked-Democrats Must Garry Out
Their Campaign Promises or Lose
Ont Before the People.

President Wilson Thursday NIGH
in two speeches at Newark and at Eliz
abeth, New Jersey, made good hi:
promise to return to New Jersey tt
fight for the reforms which were
pledged to the people while he was
governor, but which failed Of accom-
plishment since his departure fol
Washington. The president was
greeted with cheers and enthusiasm
as he faced the big crowds.
1T made my pulse beat" said the
president in his speech at Newark
Ito think that I was to come to this
great county of Essex that wants tc
govern itself but does not. have
come therefore to speak not to you
but for you. I have exercised 6
great self denial about New Jersey
My great temptation in choosing a
summer home was to pitch my tent
where I used to. But there is going
to be a contest for governor il New
Jersey next summer and did not
want anybody to think wanted to
boss the job. I have no candidate fol
governor, but I am opposed to who
ever is desired by certain gentlemen
I don't want to see any governor pri-
vately owned. I am going to New
Hampshire next summer but New
Hampshire is in telegraph comunica-
ton with New Jersey. Any one who
wants to know what l think can learn
by asking.
"But l want to say a few words
about the Democratic party. l want
everybody to realize that I have not
been taken in by the results Of the
last national election. The country
did not go Democratic in November.
It was impossible for it to go Repub-
lican because it could not tell which
kind of Republican to go. The only
hopeful and. united instrument
through which it could accomplish its
purpose was the Democratic party.
There were certain things which we
want, the country said, not certain
persons elevated. There were certain
things we want demonstrated, such
as that the government Of the United
States can not be controlled by pr1-
vate interest. Now the Democratic
party is going to have q try at max
ing these things successful and if not
we're not going to have another try"
The president applied his reference
to the national election to State stu
alton deducipg that If the Democratic
party in the state did not redeem its
pledges, including jury reform, the
people might try another political
party in the next election.
Mr.. Wilson declared that when the
Democratic party in New Jersey three
years ago came into power, every
body wondered "if the old gang
would run it, but it did not"
The speaker said that when he was
preparing to go to Washington from
the governorship he was told that
1.-The old gang would come back"
"I did not believe it," he contin-
ued, until I saw it.Once more that
bulky form of the gentleman who US
ed to personally lead the New Jers-
eey legislature into disgrace reap
peared on the very floor Of the legls-
lature; that great system with a big
snake-like s. that great, sneaking,
whispering system had established
itself in Trenton"
The president used a quantity OF
adjectives to describe the gang and
charged that the system had been SO
corrupt as to permit grand juries to
indict at strategic moments and they
can withhold grand iuries from lndlct
ing when all is quiet and you kno"
that the mastery of certain gentlemen
this state would be impossible il
the things they did were subject to
the dispassinate judgment OF grand
'uries."
The president was unsparing In his
attack upon the eleven assemblymen
from Essex county who were oppos-
ing Jury reform.
"It is a disgrace" he said amid ap-
plause, "to the judicial system OF the
State and the Union and I come here
to protest as representative Amer
lean citizen that these things should
not be allowed to exist"
EATS THOUGH A TUBE.