Woodrow Wilson to James F. Fielder

We are watching with the deepest interest down here the course of business at Trenton. The feeling grows upon me every day that it is absolutely necessary for the prestige of the party not only, but for the vindication of the reforms we all stand for, that the Jury Reform bill should be put through in its integrity. Nothing that we have done in the past two years will be safe without it. The enforcement of the Corrupt Practices Act, the effective administration of the Geran law, will be impossible unless we put this bulwark between the people and those who try to break down those wholesome measures of control, enacted in the people's behalf.
I feel these things so deeply that I think it would be fatal to submit to any kind of defeat. I take the liberty of suggesting with great earnestness that if it should prove impossible to get the bill through at this session, you call an extra session for a very early date for the special purpose of putting that through, and also a plan for a constitutional convention. We can not escape the responsibility for these.
If you desire, I might make it possible in between the regular and the extra session to come back and make at least one address to the people.
With the deepest desire to help, I am