New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-29
VICTORY SURE WILSON
New Jersey Governor Tells Tex
ans Democrats viii Win.
THREE SPEECHES IN DALLAS
Takes Issue with Monetary Com
mission-Sees Danger in
Federal Power.

Dallas. Tex. Oct Ex-Governor woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey to-day asserted that
Democratic success in the elections Of next
wear was certainty He described the
party as controlled by the real progressives
Of the country and urged that If the Demo-
Gratis acted wisely large part Of the Pro-
gressive Republican vote might be gained.
Governor wilson's political talk was at a
luncheon which preceded his address at the
Texas State Fair. where he was the guest
of honor this afternoon. Early in the day.
an hour after his arrival he spoke TO sew
eral thousand persons at the First Baptist
Church on "Isfe and the Bible" Tonight
he delivered an address at Fort Worth and
returned 10 Dallas at midnight He Will
leave early tomorrow for New Jersey to
take the stump IN the legislative campaign
IN that state.
Incidental to his political utterances, Gov
srnor Wilson discussed currency reform
briefly ard took issue with the National
Monetary Commission.
Al the fair grounds Governor Wilson said
In part:
Governor wilson paid a tribute 10 Texas,
noting in how many matters now occupy
ing the foreground of our thought in Amer
Tea the state had set a notable example"
he referred 20 the states as the labOra-
tories Of a free people. and said the danger
q too great q concentration of authority
In the &c, eminent at Washington was not
50 much a constitutional danger as a prac-
teal danger.
Governor Wilson continued. saying in
part:
There has been going on all over the
4 a.
lounG political change. The change has
MOI ottn uniform In one state IL was
produced Or one set of conditions; in an
other by another. but almost everywhere
there was this common difficulty that the
government ola lOI seem easily responsive
10 opinion. mat the people seemed caught
IN an elaborate machinery Of politics which
could be manipulated against them. which
cOuld De SO used as again and again and
again 20 cheat them II the objects they
sought which seemed 70 put the whole
control Of affairs in the hands Of small
C0teTlcs Of men who were exercising not
representative but usulped authority, and
who were exercising il too often for pri-
V1te and not for public objects
Period of Politics Difficult.
Reform beson to come in our states as
The people awakened 10 these clrcum-
stances ana besUrred themselves 10 take
control Of their own affairs once more, 50
That we have come upon one Of the most
I'm ort-nt because one Of the most difficult,
uoilln- less thsn 20 revise our methods
q pOliuca action, while we are in the
midst of great economic readjustment
Our objects are clear. We want a truly
nee. thai - a truly open and truly rep
-eSen atlVe set Of governments for our
states, and 10y representative we 90 not
merely mean governments Of persons
elected % represent US, but actually and
constantly responsive 10 the larger and
more permanent movements Of public
opinion.
u is the rapid formation Of thought
upon these matters in the United states
that is producing the present alignment
IN our politics We are now divided not
81 distinctly into Democrats and Repub-
leans as we are into PrOgresSives and
those who resist change
Prosperity itself rests upon the people
and the facts. contented and hopeful
people means a rich and varied economic
development The people of the United
states are not contented They are ius-
now not rs hopeful as they should be
They are suspicious Of the foundations of
their business. They are convinced that
something inequitab,e lies AZ the basis of
the great power which small bodies of
men now exercise in the uusine world
These are The conditions not Of prosperity