Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-06
Gov. Wilson Against Recall
 of the Judiciary


 Fork club at its banquet this even ing He said in part:
 There can be no mistaking the fact that We are now face to face with political changes which may have a very profound effect upon our political lite. Those who do not understand the impending change are afraid of it Those who do under stand it know that it is not a pro 1 cess of revolution. but a process of { restoration, rather, in which there is ! as much healing as hurt. There are strain and peril. no doubt, in every ! process of change, but the chief peril comes rom undertaking it in the wrong temper. lt lies not in the change itself so much as in the method of some of those who pro mote it. It is a noteworthy circum stance that in proportion as the ! people Of the country come to recos- nize what it is that renders them uo easy. and what it Is that is proposed by way Of reformation. they lose their fear and take on a certain ir- resistible enthusiasm
 People Conservative.
 The American people are naturally a NOAHNl h1A4kt AEORLt- AA A-g N4O AAe~ wish to touch the stable foundations of their life; they have a rev yerencc for the rights of property and the rights of contract which is basel upon a long experience in a free life in which they have been at liberty Co acquire property as they pleased and bind themselves by such cCH- tracts as suited them. No other pco- rle have ever had such freedom in the establishment of personal re- lationships or property rights. They do not mean 10 lose this freedom or to impair any rights at all, but they do feel that a great many things in their economic life and in their political action are out O. gear. Thev have been cheated by their own political machinery. They have been dominated by the very instru- mentalities which they themselves created in the field of industrial action. The liberty of the individua! is hampered and impaired. They de sire. therefore, not n revolution. not a cutting loose from any part OI their past. but TeadjustMent oi the elements of tbeir life, a recon sideration of what it is just to do and equitable 10 arrange in order that they may be indeed free, may in- deed make their own choice and live their own life undOminated. unafraid, unsuspicious. confident that they will be served by their public men and that the open processes of their government will bring to them jus tice and timely reform.
 Contest of Ideals
 ! What we are witnessing now is n2r so much a conflict of parties as a contest of ideals, a struggle be tween those who. because they do mot understand what is happening blindly hold on to what is and those who. because they do see the real questions of the present and of the future in a clear. revealing light know that there must De sober change; know that progress, none the less active and determined be. cause it is sober and just, is neces- Sary for the maintenance Of our in stitutiOns and the rectificatiJn Of our life In both ths great national par ties there are men who feel this iardOr of progress and Of reform, anu lin both parties there are men whl hold back. who struggle to restrain change, who do not understand il or
 
 doubtedly the present moment offers a greater and larger opportunity to the democratic party than 10 the republican party, but this is not be cause there are not men in the re publican party who have devoted , their whole intelligence and energy to necessary reform, but because the democratic party as 2 whole IS . ifreer to move and to act than the republican is and is held back by Q smaller and weaker body of repre- isentatives of the things that are and have been;
 Reaetionary Forces.
 | We generally sum up what Wf lmean by the reactionary forces bl ispeakinp of them as embodied in tht
 interests. By that we do not meaI 1 the legitimate, but the illegiumate in iterests. those which have not ad
 iusted themselves to the public ln terest. those which are clinging tt itheir vested rights as bulwari against the adjustment which is al s solutely necessary # they are 10 b' ' servants and not masters of th'
 public. The chief political fact of th'
 day is that the republican party J b more closely allied with these inter 2 .ests than the democratic party Thi circumstance constitutes the opPor itunity of the democrats. They ar free to act and to move in the righ direction if they will but accep .the responsibility and the leadership iThe democratic party is more il 1 lsympathy with the new tendencie I than the republican Its free force a are the forces of progress and O ] PopulaF reform.
 , Both parties are of necessity break ' ing away from the past, whether the.
 will or no, because our life has bro b ken away from the past The Tiff I of America is not the life it wa ! twenty years ago. It is not the lii it was ten years ago. We haW , changed our economic condition i, from top to bottom, and with or l, economic conditions has changed ais
 the organization Of our life. The oli party formulas do not 1t the pre-
 ent problems. The old cries of fh
 stump sound as if they belonged .
 zarhfch mon have alruDe