The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-12-10
PRESIDENT READS BIS ADDRESS
TO REGULAR SESSION
GETS WARM RECEPTION
Enthusiastic Demonstration at Its
Conclusion-Party Leaders Regard
it as Utterance Of q Statesman and
Democrats Are Delighted With His
Recommendations.

For exactly uwenty-eight minutes
on Tuesday President Wilson stood
before the assembled Senate and
House, in the chamber Of the latter,
and read his first annual message.
Applause punctuated important ut
terances, and when he had finished
there was an enthusiastic denonstra-
ton, with hardclaDoins and cheers.
With close. almost eager attention,
members of the two houses listened
and time and again the legislators
gave vent to their enthusiasm along
with the crowded galleries. Repuo-
licsns and Democrats alike pronounc-
ed the message as the utterance Of
statesman.
"I like the idea Of the President
coming before Congress, said Rep
resentative Mann, Republican House
leader, "and reading short message
pithy and to the point. In the main
I liked the message today. think
everybody will recognize it as the ut
terance Of a statesman, regardless OF
whether he agrees with its deails."
OF particular significance was one
outburst regarded in the National
Capitol-the unmistakable approval
that greeted the presidents remark
etThere can be no certain prospect Of
peace in America until Gen. Huerta
has surrendered his usurped author
ity in Mexico"
The scene Of Tuesdays function
was much the same as on the three
previous occasions, when President
Wilson has addressed Congress-gal-
leries crowded with men and women
Of Importance in public affairs, mem
bers OF the Cabinet, the diplomatic
corps and the White House family.
The message was one Of the brief
est and most novel Of American State
papers, being less than 5000 words
long-a marked contrast, as present
ed by its author, to the hitherto
lengthy documents averaging 10000
words or more, droned through a
reading clerk to an inattentive Con-
gress.
There was another contrast con-
spicuously apparent, President Will
son had read three message before
on the tariff. the currency and Mexi-
can affairs. The first time he address
ed a joint session in person. early
In this term, there was an atmosphere
OF stifr formality. applause was liber-
eral but perfunctory, and there was
an indefinite air of precedent being
broken-or a century old custom be-
ing revived. Also there was an ex-
pectant curiosity IS to how the Pres
Sdent would be received. Tuesday the
Presidents reception was warm, al
most uproarious, as he concluded his
reading.
Democratic leaders were enthusias-
tic In their comments on the message
and it's recommendations. They lik-
cd the emphasis placed by the Pres
ident on the need for early action on
the currency. for dealing with monop-
oily through antitrust legislation, the
importance Of rural credit legislation
to benefit the farmers, the recommen-
dations for Government construction
Of railroads in Alaska, the develop
ment Of the nations resources by a
conservation policy alike acceptable
to the State and the Federal authori-
ties. the enactment Of employers liza
bility legislation and the selection OF
Presidential candidates by the pri-
mary system.
The suggestion Of the President
that party conventions as at present
constituted be abolished won much
applause. AS Mr. Wilson declared that
the party convention should be held
only to ratify the verdict Of preferen-
tial primaries, that the personnel OF
the conventions should be, for the
most part, chosen from those mem
bers Of Congress and Congressional
nominees upon whom would devolve
the duty Of carrying out platform
pledges, there was wave OF hand
clapping, In which Secretary Bryan
and members Of the Cabinet Joined.