Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-31

to have them made Into laws. of- fered myself as a leader and I hold that the people of New Jersey accepted my offer.
 Take the case of Governor Hughes. Mir. Hughes began with theory that his duty as governor was simply 10 recommend legislation. leaving it to the legislation to carry out But la ter on when he saw that things were at a deadlock, he went out to the pub lie, aroused public opinion by an az gressive campaign and directed such force of opinion upon the legis.a- tors that they were compelled to carry out the will Of the public"
 Why Not cepy Europe7
 l asked Governor Wilson whether he would advocate change giving the governor or the president. the power to initiate legislation; to give him some such status in the legislature as the English premier has. To this Governor Wilson replied:
 There is not the slightest practical difficulty in getting legislation in trodueed. What you suggest would simply introduce the British consti- tuition. But I think it is better to go on doing things Tn our own way until we hit upon a distinctiyely American way Of accomplishing what is needed"
 The practical solution is therefore, once more, leadership l asked the gov ernor how this idea could be harmon ized with the new methods, such as the Oregon plan which tended to throw all responsibility back on the individual voter. To this the governor replied with a smile and an anecdote.
 When l was in Oregon on my west ern trip. he said, and was studying the initiative, referendum and recall, they told me that if ! wished to study them all at once, l should look under Mr. U'Ren's hat 1 replied that l should much rather find responsibil- ity under one mans hat than under no mans.
 We came back therefore, to leader ship. Governor Wilson made it clear ] that the real leader is not the man who impresses his own wishes and views on others, but rather he who rightly hears and rightly interprets ! the finest and best public opinion. | lie gathers the general inspiration and brings it to a focus.
 Doing Things We'll. Tt is something like that Bagehot says of Sir Richard Peel: It was not ] that he did extraordinary things but that he did ordinary things extraordin- | arily weli- He Is the true leader who interprets the general conscience rightly. and rightly makes it opera i tive"
 In conclusion I asked Governor VII ! son whether there might not be some conflict between his views of leader
 ship, inspiring as it is, and the accep l ted theory of American government 1 that the executive and legislative pow
 CTS should be isolated and kept apart | Was 1t. not, rather, departure from l the first ideal, a departure belonging
 to the day of lesser men? Did not Jef ] ferson and Adams and most of all f Washington. himself. exert and inten i tioRally exert, an immense influence on fegislation2 Is not that the true f American ideal2"
 i A stirring and potent appeal. Then I I asked the governor whether if his
 ideal was leadership, and if the true | leader is he who rightly interprets
 and makes effective the general con
 science, he did not bring everything
 back in the last analysis to the gen | eral conscience. And was not this 2 tremendous expression Of faith in thS honesty and righteousness Of the gen
 eral miQd?
 II Governor Wilson replied.
 ' Yes, necessarily so. How could il
 be otherwise?"