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 WOODROW WILSON 213 Law, fixing the responsibility on officers of cor porations for all violations, and vesting power in a commission to make rates and physical valuation of public service companies. (3) Accidents to workingmen were provided for by a workmen s compensation law, providing for automatic payments for injuries or loss of life, in all industries, and doing away with the old fellow-servant responsibility of the common law. (4) An act was passed enabling cities to adopt the commission form of government. (5) A law was passed providing for the com plete reorganization of the complicated state school system, whereby politics was eliminated. (6) A law was passed regulating cold storage and other laws to purify the milk supply and to keep oysters from contamination. Governor Wilson s extraordinary success in put ting reforms through the New Jersey legislature gave him a strong lead for the Democratic nomina tion for the Presidency, and when the Democratic convention met at Baltimore on June 25, 1912, the New Jersey Executive was in a forward position as one of the people s favorites. Feeling that he was not the representative of progressive politics, the selection of Judge Parker as temporary chair man was earnestly opposed by Honorable William J. Bryan, who sent telegrams to every presidential candidate asking whether Parker was satisfactory