Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-05-09

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.
81 am sorry" he said at Elizabeth,
chat l should have to come back to
speak words of criticism, but l must
say that it is familiar to have the war
paint on in New Jersey again. And is
it not singular that we should always
have to be fighting to get control of our
own affairs?"
1--WE want to redeem the iurispru-
dence of this State not only of the sus-
picion but of the stain that men are not
equally treated in these courts of law.
The political machine where it is mis-
used in this State is in every other State
of the union where the machine controls
the sheriff's office. The machine in
stinctively fights for the sheriff's office,
the citadel of power and immunity from
punishment. If you want to strike at
the center and heart of corrupt politics,
see to it that you put the control of
grand juries into impartial and non
political hads.
After speaking of the pleasure it gave
him to come back and fight, Mr.. Wilson
continues:
" Before Mr.. James Nugent of Essex
county took charge of the Legislature
r. -" Kissing began in the
crowd and the President waited mo-
ment and proceeded;
81 don't know for whom those Kisses
are, but | hand them over to Jim
Nugent to whom they belong, a sinister
private agent openly conducting affairs
on the floor of the Legislature who did
not dare do it as long as some one would
go home and point him out as man not
commissioned to speak for the people
and as the man opposing the processes
of law which he dare not submit to. ~
The crowd cheered and the President
announced that he would be willing to
submit the jury reform question to a
referendum as had been proposed by
Tic 4NuSCIlJ ldCllOll, Dub lie hIlCW nC
said, that it would not be a genuine
referendum and that the machine would
count the votes at the polls to suit them
selves, since the processes of the cleo
ton law were controlled in certain
counties bp sheriffs in league with the
political machine. These counties, he
added were the ones most in need of
the reform.
Speaking of the needs for the consti-
tutional convention, Mr.. Wilson pointed
out that most of the States of the union
gave the governor the right to remove
sheriffs but that the governor of New
Jersey had no such power.
eve are not going to disturb the orbit
in this planet If we have a new con-
sttution in New Jersey we are going
absolutely to obliterate the orbit or
some gentleman whom | could mention.
We are going to get jury reform.
We do not need to get it through these
gentlemen. There are other gentlemen
through whom we can get it. These
gentlemen are moths around the candle.
All public men are moths around the
candle. | am trying my best to keer
my wings out of the flames"
The President had come to Elizabeth
by motor after addressing a big turn
out in Newark, the hotbed of his OPP
position on the issues he was discussing.
Eleven of the IL assemblymen from
Essex county had fought Mr.. Wilson s
: idea of jury reform in the last session
of the Legislature.
1.-THE people of this country and OF
this State" said the President at
Newark, ARE going to have what they
ought to have by one process or an
other. pray that it might not be a
: wrong process. But warn these gen
tlemen not too long to show the PEG.
pie of this country that justice cannot
be got by the ordinary processes of the
law. warn them to stand out of the
, sovereign's way
The President left to spend the night
in New York after his two speeches ir
New Jersey. Extraordinary arrange
ments were made to give him protection
while campaigning. William Flynn,
chief of the United States secret ser
vice, came on from Washington to take
charge of big squad of secret service
I operatives who were distributed in the
crowds everywhere. The President
i will meet the members of the Legisla
= ture at Jerfey City tomorrow and make
I a final speech there tomorrow night.