Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-05-06
INTEGRITY OF THE courts.
President wilson Continues Brave
Battle for Right.
JURORS MUST NOT Be GANGSTERS.

JUnUnO mUuk NUl DL uhNuulLuc
Real Liberty Depends Upon Proper Ad.
n,inistration of Justice and There
Can be no Proper Administration o'
Justice Unless Jurors are Drawn
from Among Honest Citizenship.
Jersey City, N. T., May 2-Presi-
dent Wilson tonight interpreted the
fight in New Jersey for jury reform
and constitutional revision as a part OF
the struggle of the American people to
obtain through the Democratic party
equal justice to all and special priv
ilege to none. Though he made no ref
erence to legislative policies pending
in Washington, the president indicated
that the protests being voiced against
the tariff bill were those Of the special
interests and not the masses.
Some of my fellow citizens and
some Of their colleagues in Washing
ton city," he said, now think that
they are hearing the voice Of the peo-
pie Of the United States when they
are only hearing the part that has be-
come vocal by moving down to Wash
ington and insisting upon its special
interests.
Call for Privilege.
"As sit In my Office in Washington
there are windows only on one side of
the room and those windows look out
upon a park and the Potomac river
and the shores Of Virginia on the other
side and I can not see Washington
from these windows, though some-
times think that can, because Wash
ington behind me is seething with spe-
cial representatives of little things who
are almost storming at the doors Of
this office itself, whereas, out here are
the cool, large spaces Of the United
States. And would rather hear the
whispers coming in at these windows
than the strident arguments coming in
at those doors"
The president had spent strenuous
day, urging throughout, the reform
which he came to New Jersey to advo-
cate.
Tonight in the last speech Of his trip,
applause and expressions Of approval
interrupted him frequently as he as
sailed the influences in the state which
he claimed were managing the popu-
lous country for their own purposes.
The president referred to the incl
dents in the legislative conference dur
ing the noon hour when Assembleman
McDermott openly defiled him and di-
rected such a series Of questions at
Mr.. Wilson that Acting Gov. Fielder
interviewed to prevent an embarrassing
situation.
Very Different.
your very generous reception Of
me tonight" remarked the president,
makes me feel very much more COM
Portable than I did this forenoon, for
example, in another part of the city,
where the tender sensibilities Of one Of
the assemblymen from this county led
him to conclude 1t an affront to his per-
sonal dignity that should, without his
invitation, have come into the county
over which his influence 80 beniflcent-
ly presided. You do not make me feel
that I come with so cold q welcome
and to face 80 direct a rebuke. wish
that you might do two other things to-
night. wish that you might forget
that I am president Of the United
States because come here as a Jersey
man fulfilling all promises that made
to Jerseymen, and yet want you to
remember that am president Of the
United States because 1t Is the busi-
ness Of the president to see to 1t where
ever he can that the people get what
they have a right to expect. For am
not the servant Of the Democratic par
ty; am the servant Of the people, act
ing through the Democratic party,
which has now undertaken some Of the
most solemn obligations that party
ever undertook, for it has stepped for
ward at a moment of universal disap-
pointment and said, We pledge you
our honor as men and as patriots that
you shall not be disappointed again.
Must Make Good.
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 Jersey
has given the people. One Of the things
which has made thoughtful men in this
country more uneasy is that criminal
justice was touched at its sources by
perverting political influence, and that
when a man stood in with the sheriffs
office he was safe from prosecution
and that when he did not stand in with
the sherif's office he was in the posi-
ton in which we all ought to be-re-
sponsible for everything that he did
against the law Of the land.
Knew It.
II was present at conference to-
day at which one of the gentlemen In
the assembly from the county Of Essex
asked me If had said that the greater
part of the delegation from that county
had no choice of its own but took or
ders. He did not ask me in those words,
but the words do not make any differ
ence. That Is what l said and I said II
not because I suspected it-but because
have lived in the state a good many
years. I was an observer and very
close observer Of the course Of politics
before I ventured upon that uneasy
sea, and when I ventured upon that
uneasy sea was not the landlubber i
looked. I knew the gentlemen who
controlled the politics Of Essex county.
Know them? Why the whole United
States knew them!"
The president indicated that he was
not disturbed by the opposition he had
encountered among the members of
the legislature.
Somebody told me-" he said, that
things were so tangled up here that
jury reform was going to lose anyhow,