The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-03
NEW JERSEY FIGHT Of
NATIONAL INTEREST,
SAYS THE PRESIDENT
Tremendous Ovation Greets
Last Speech on Home
State Trip
SPENDS STRENUOUS
DAY OF SPEAKING
Declares Constitutional and Jury
Reform in New Jersey a Part
of Struggle of Ameri-
can People

JERSEY City. n. j., May 2.-Presiden
Wilson tonight interpreted the fight il
New Jersey for jury reform and consti
tutional revision as part of the strug
gle of the American people to obtair
through the democratic party equal JUS
tice to all and special privileges to none
Though he made no reference to legis-
iative policies pending in Washington the
President indicated that the protests be.
(1ng voiced against the tariff bill were
those of special interests and not the
masses
Some of my fellow citizens and some
their colleagues in Washington city,
lNAssid. now think that they are hear
ing the voice Of the people of the United
States when they are only hearing the
part that has become vocal by moving
down to Washington and insisting upon
its special interests.
LAS I 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 cannot see Washington from these
windows, though / sometimes think that
/ can, because Washington behind me
Is seething with special representatives
pf little things who are almost storm
ng the doors of this office itself, where
IS out here are the cool. large spaces
the United States And ] would rather
bar the whispers coming in at these
dndows than the strident arguments
nnling in at those DOORS
- Strenuous Day
The President had spent a strenuous
fs, fighting throughout for the reform
yhch he came to New Jersey to advo-
Aate Tonight in the last speech Of his
applause and expressions of ap-
bval interrupted him frequently as he
ealed the Influences in the state which
claimed were managing the populous
untry for private purposes The Presi-
INT early in his remarks referred to
he Incidents in the legislative confer
nce during the noon hour when Assem-
Lyman McDermott openly defed him and
ired such series of questions at Mr.
Wilson that Acting Governor Fielder in
tervened to prevent an embarrassing sit
uation.
Your very generous reception of me
Eht" remarked the President, "makes
very much more comfortable
this forenoon, for example, IN
1t of the city, where the ten
lies of one of the assembly
us county led me to CON
front to his personal dig
d. without his invitation
khe county over which
eficently presided. You
that L come with sc
to face so direct a
you might do two
| wish that you
President of the
come here as
promises that
vet | want
m President
Sc it is the
% see to Ii
pie get what
For ] am
ratio party,
ple acting
which has
pst solemn
undertook,
"a moment
knd said:
Tor as men
Ehall not be
bple
phch the dem
d in the midst
Are particular
Ratio party, for
has given the
fngs which has
in this country
mina justice was
Pby perverting po-
That when man
eriff's office he was
ton and that when
in with the sheriff S
the position in which
Pbe-responsible for every
lid against the law of the
sent at a conference today
lie of the gentlemen in the
bm the county of Essex asked
Id said that the greater part
egation from that county exer-
choice of Its own but took or
lie did not ask me in those words,
the words do not make any diff
Ince That is what ] said and ] said
not because / suspected it-but be
ause / have lived in the state a good
many years. | was an observer and a
very close observer of the course OF poll
kics before I ventured upon that uneasy
-. and when I ventured upon that IN
aasy sea I was not the land lubber [
looked I knew the gentlemen who con-
(rolled the politics of Essex county. Knew
Ehem? Why the whole United States
knew them''
The President indicated that he was
lot disturbed by the opposition he had
Encountered among members of the
sgislature.
A Losing Cause?
ssSomebody told me-" he said that
hings were tangled up here that
nv reform going to lose anyhow
hd they said, Why come up and fight
r losing cause? Well, know my
lIoW citizens in New Jersey and |
nv that it is a losing cause. But
ppose 1t was ] would rather have my
XIV one of the first to fall by the wall
n one of the last. Anybody can come
with the battalions that marshal
lions strong before the war is over,
only men of sturdy courage can go
the little handful that starts the
tle And whether we win lose,
battalions are coming on and the
ntual outcome of the day of battle
n not in doubt. There is a God in
Aoayen and all is well, and / am not
wo1ne to be impatient.
s.The eupreme test which the demo-
cratic party has now to respond to is