Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-05-03
WILSON REVIEWS
STRUGGLE WITH
PARTY MACHINE
President Cody Received at
Ae Legislative Conference
In Jersey City Yesterday
PEOPLE EN- HUSlhSTIC

Jersey CfSy, \. j., May 3.-President
Wilson returned to Washington hope
ful that rrre- SagSe of jury reform and
the calling of constitutional conven
ton would come to u successful issue
at next weeks session of the New Jer
sey legislature. He was well aware
however, tLat the opposition had put
new energy into its fight because OF
the two nights and a day he had spent
In the state demanding that the prof.
ects be put through.
The opposition to his demands be
came open and pointed at the confer
ence he held yesterday with the Demo.
cratic members of the senate and the
assembly at the Corteret club, Jersey
City. He was told there by Assembly
man Walter L. McDermott Of Hudson
that he was interfering" and was
challenged TO debate on the merits OF
the bill introduced by McDermott at
the regular session, passed by the as.
sembly and rejected by the senate be-
cause 1t provided for referendum In
stead Of making mandatory the change
in the system Of choosing juries.
Last night In the auditorium Of the
Jersey City high school the president
spoke to 5000 enthusiastically cordial
people.
"feur very generous reception OF
me-" he said. makes me feel very
much more comfortable than | did ip
another part of the city, where the
tender sensibilities of one of the as
semblymen from this county led me to
conclude that he considered 1t an af.
front to his personal dignity that ]
should without his invitation have gone
into the county over which his inf1u'
ence so benefcially presides.
''You do not make me feel that
come with so cold q welcome and to
face SO direct . rebuke. | wish that
you might forget that | am president
of the United States and that at the
same time you might remember that
am president Of the United States.
want you to forget it because | come
here as a Jersey man fulfilling old
promises that / made to Jersey men
and | want you TO remember it be
cause it Is the business of the president
OF the United States to see to it wher-
ever he can that the people got what
they have a right to expect.
s-zsene of the things which has made
thoughtful men in this country most
uneasy Is that criminal justice is
touched at Its sources by pervertine
political influence and that when q
man stands in with the sher1fY's office
he Is safe against prosecution.
1.-THE Democratic party undertook In
It's platform to see that that suspicion
was removed. and if it doesn't do 1t II
ought not again to be trusted by the
people Of New Jersey. But unscrupu
lous men have their pet schemes. and
so 1t has been brought about that once
more Hudson county is being played
by the managers at Essex.
How long are you going to play sec.
ond fiddler How long are you going
to elect men that whether they intend
to do it or not manage your affairs In
such a fashion that they are, as mat.
ter Of fact, subordinated to the pur-
poses entertained by the managers, lei
us say the governors, Of the party in
Essex2
II was present at a conference at
which one of the assemblymen from
Essex asked me If l had said that the
greater part Of the delegation from
that county exercised no choice Of Its
own but to take orders. He did not
ask me In those words, but the words
do not make any difference. That Is
what I said, and l said it because
knew the men who control the politics
of Essex county.
Knew them? Why, the whole Unit
ed States knew them. Their names are
synonyms of the corrupt management
of politics from one Of America to
the other.
- The Democratic party had a plat
form, but these men had little private
platform of their own In which they
undertook to say how the Democratic
party in the state should do the thing
which the Democratic party all over
the state had promised to do. and be
cause you elected them as Democrats
they told me that you also voted for
their private platform.
II do not know any more solemn
thing than happens when these men
get together In those chambers down In
Trenton There is the temple in which
Is worshiped the god of Justice or the
god of intrigue. and there is a high |
priest who is to be seen lurking about |
the corridors of the temple. He did |
not lurk In very obvious bulk a few
months ago. but he turks to the view
Of every casual observer now.
Are you going to burn incense to
this god or are you going TO burn In
,ense to the god Of mankind. the god |
If love and of Justice and of purity
and Of righteousnessT