Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-17
GOVERNOR WILSON AND ARIZONA DEMOCRATS

nomination for the presidency. HIS same element is ultra progressive" :" and it would be supposed that it con sidered Governor Wilson the foremost exponent of the progressive" prin- lciples 1t has adopted. We suspect. however, that the strongest tie be tween the governor and the more in- tense Arizona radicals is the supposed quasi endorsement of him by MT. ] Bryan, though, as a matter of fact. MT. Bryan has so far only refrained from prescribing the New Jersey gov ernor.
 The chief tenet Of the Arizona rad icaI is the recall or the judiciary. In- deed, as a progressive" newspaper stated within a week, that power must be given to the people in order that the other progressive legislation pro yided by the Arizona constitution may become fully effective Thus. with the Arizona democrat 'progressives." the recall at the judiciary is of tho 'vitaIest importance.
 In the course of his recent tour of the west Governor Wilson denounced the recall as applied to the judiciary; he also expressed doubt as to the ad. disability of direct legislation, though, after he had traversed the Pacific coast. he professed a change of views as to the initiative and referendum.
 His supporters in Arizona assume that thereby he willingly accepted the entire progressive program as it lis understood here.
 But that is far from the case, as we learn from Harper's Weekly. whose editor, Col. George W. Harvey Is, per haps, the most enthusiastic supporter, the intimate personal friend and the answering admirer Of Governor Will son. In the current issue of the Week ly. Col. Harvey ably discusses the Pro gressive Democratic League" the project of Senator Owen, one Of whose favorite ideas is that the recall should apply to the judiciary, federal as well as state.
 Col. Harvey is not sure that there is any room for distinctly Progressive Democracy" which he regards as noth- ing more than sR echo of the some what indefinite insurgent republican movement. ? r7Tz-'7v-,
 He thinks it will be hard for the democratic party to reach an agree ment "as to what is and what is not 1 progressive" Here appears something i of interest to the Arizona democratic l progessives:
 1 Governor Wilson who is frequent ] B called a progressive and who ap- l parently does not object to the desig- I nation opposes the recall of judges" This comes to us as directly as if from the governor himself, and, we may well doubt whether the governor at heart is more friendly to direct leg. islation, despite professed change Of view on that subject.
 In his Constitutional Government of the United States" President Wood row Wilson of Princeton Unfver- sity says:
 "A government must have organs: it cannot act unorganicaIly by masses. 1t must have a law making body: it can no more make law through it's voters than it can make law through | it's newspapers" This, of the ini. ustive.
 Of the referendum: "Constitutional
 Government in the United States" says:
 Where it has been employed it has not promised either progress or en. lightenment. leading rather to doubt. ! ful experiments and to reactionsry displays of prejudice, than to really useful legislation.
 | The work from which these quota lions are taken is the product Of a deep student Of government It was intended to be. aud has beer accepted. as a permanent contribution to the literature of government. though it's author once. in the language of Sen aior Sutherland, "a calm reflective col iege president" subsequently, became subject to the fevered hallucinations of the hopeful presidential candidate" 1"