The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
Says Party Is Controlled By the Real PrOgressives
 of the Country
HOPES TO GAIN SOME
 INSURGENT SUPPORT
Gov. Wilson Delivers Address at the Texas State Fair-Takes Issue With Monetary Commission
 on Currency Reform

Dallas, Tex, October 2S.-Gov Wood- row Wilson of New Jersey today declared democratic success in the elections of next year certainty, described the party as controlled by the real progressives of the country and urged that if the dem ocrats acted wisely a large part of the progressive republican vote might be gained.
 Governor Wilson's political talk was at luncheon which preceded his address at the Texas state fair, where he was the guest of honor this afternoon. Earlier in the day, an hour after his arrival. he spoke to several thousand persons at the First Baptist church upon Life and the Bible" Tonight he delivered an address at Fort Worth and returned to Dallas at midnight. He will leave early tomorrow for New Jersey to take the stump in the legislative campaign in progress in that state.
 Incidental to his political utterances, Governor Wilson discussed currency re- form briefly and took issue with the national monetary commission.
 Governor Wilson said in part:
 
 stimulation of facing this great audience, drawn from many parts of this inn peria state. An audience that represents Texas, represents q great deal of what Is characteristic of the force and initia- tive of modern times. Texas seems, from the first, to have had the capacity and to have obeyed the impulse of a state able to care for it's own people, and to look forward to the future in the regu- lation of it's own affairs. All the coun- try recognizes it one of the most progressive states of the union, state where things move forward from meas ure to measure without vacillation and without fear.
 There was time, but three or four years ago, when men who stood high in the counsels of the nation, openly asked the question: What was to become of the powers of the state?' pressing the inquiry, not because they entertained any jealousy of those powers. but because, apparently. the states were nstt nfsined to exercise tlys.ll, were 1eth'gic ard in- different in the presence conditions which neede thoughtful 5d effective remedy. But such talk ha ceased. the states have asserted ther dives. each state is attempting a sys natic freat- ment of it's own problems, dying \thern from the point of view of J own tpeo- pie and adapting the remeds to the %cir- sumstances- Texas led the ay in This renaissance of the functions oithe states. but all the country is now mick with the new life and America issbeeinnihc once again to realize the hapt circurfsa- stance that our diversified concdons ca r1.. be met without any futile attenAt to ap- ply a too uniform remedy. O. states are our testing grounds. and thy have full power and authority to ma Q trial of the remedies which commenGit them selves to them In many things it is desirable, nay imperative, that We s,ould T .xI.-, possible uniform regulation. But in oters we shall be strong only when we ad .pt ourselves most perfectly to the var. ty of our people, of our soil. of our produc ,, of our social and economic development.
 Political Laboratories
 The states are the political labora ' tories of d free people. Their self adjustment is the most vital process of our life The danger of a too great concentration of authority in the gov ernment at Washington is not so much constitutional danger as u practical danger. It is the danger of an artificial uniformity, of an arbi 1rary unity, of a system without elas ticity, of regulation without local ac- commodation.
 "One of the reasons why our states Jagged in the exercise of their powers; .ne of the reasons why the question arose whether they were going to ex- ercise them or let them lapse by neg lect, was that they did not have such political arrangements made it easy for public opinion to tell upon Legislation and effect the objects which thoughtful and public spirited men had long had in mind There has been going on all over the United States process of somewhat profound political change. The change has not been uniform. In one state it was produced lk- ..f i,, by another; but almost everywhere there was this common difficulty, that the government did not seem easily responsive to opinion; that the people seemed caught in an elaborate nIa- ohinery of politics which could be manipulated against them, which could be so used as again and again and again to cheat them of the objects they sought, which seemed to put the whole control of affairs in the hands Of small coteries of men who were exer- cising not representative, but usurped authority, and who were exercising it too often for private and not for public objects. As I said, this was not true of all the states. The utmost variety existed In this respect as in many others, but it was true in so many states that men had begun to ask themselves whether we were not liv- ing in fools paradise; whether we were not boastins of representative Institutions, when we really did not have them; whether we were not caught in an elaborate system of elec- tions and delegations of power which made our government virtually inde- pendent of the force of general opinion
 Reform began to come in our states as the people awakened to these cir oumstanoes and bestirred themselves to take control of their own affairs once more so that we have come upon one of the most important, because one of the most difficult periods of our politics. We are trying nothing less than to revise our methods of political action. while we are in the midst of a great economic readJustment. Both our instrumentalities of action and the objects we employ them to accom- plish are under debate. We are dis cussng both what we shall do and what means and instruments we have at hand by which to do them.
 A Objects Clear
 v "Cur objects are clear. We want q X truly free, that is d truly open and truly representative set of governments for our states, and by representative we do not merely mean governments of persons
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