Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-22
BAILEY FIRM IN OPPOSING
 OREGON IDEA
Texas Senator Says He Will Fight Recall of Judges
 to End

A special telegram to the San An tolio Express from Washington says that Senator Bailey of Texas pre- diets the organized fighters for in itiative, referendum and recall, whom he has conspicuously opposed, will succeed in establishing such a form of government in this country as result of the idleness and indiffer- lence of the opponents Of the change.
 Tt is just as certain that they will ultimately succeed as it is activity will overcome inaction,' be said.
 It was in response to a question from the Express correspondent as to his views of the anti-Bailey caucus recently held in Austin, detailed ac- counts of which have just reached here. that Senator Bailey issued a statement in part as follows:
 T began this contest against the Initiative and referendum when they were advocated by the old populist lparty neary 20 years ago. l then de. clared them to be subversige of the fundamental principles Of this gov ernment, and believe them to be !even more dangerous when advacat- ed by Senators Owen, LaFollette and Bourne in the senate of the United States than they were when advo- cated by Harry Tracy, Jake Rodes land Cyclone Davis on the stump in Texas. I did not oppose these meas
 Ires then because the populist party had proposed them, but because I be-
 ieved them to be at war with de- mocracy, as l understood it, and l will not stultify myself ty accepting them or by offering only perfume tory opposition to them.
 There are some good men and some very able men who have sought to minimize the importance of this question by declaring ttat after all it is one for the states and not for the general government. but those ] linen have given little attention to the ! persistent and systematic propaganda 7 (which the advocates of the initiative r referendum and recall have been con < lducting in this country, or else they would understand that the aim is { to apply it to every division of the : government from the smallest of oul ,, incorporated towns to the genera
 government itself.
 2 The old populist party, which wa.
 the first to propose and advocate tho initiative and referendum. ineorporat
 ed a declaration for it in its nationa . platform in 1892, and there is today a national association organized fol the express purpose of securing the adoption of that governmental sys tenn. with the recall added, not only by the states and their subdivisions
 but also by the general government and that association numbers among it's members several United States senators and representatives in con ] gress.
 Indeed. there are rally two organi- cations of that kind, one claiming to be democratic and the other claiming to be republican, but both are work ing in cordial unison for this very radical change in our form of gov ernment. With these men working day and night and with the oppon- ian.e nF tgof- e--.tov,, ;dfo o,- ;,5tao- ent, it is just as certain they will ultimately succeed as it is that ac- tivity will overcome inacticn. I in- tend no criticism against my demo cratic colleagues, for have accepted their assurance they did not intend by their votes to approve those dan gerous innovations and that they be Ii we'd they were simply voting to ad- init Arizona without committing themselves to the peculiar provisions Of her constitution. but the proPoh- ent and the advocates of the initiat i've, referendum and recall under.
 stand exactly what they were doing
 ard they were trying to force the congress of the United states to ex
 pressly approve that Arizona consti
 tuition. for the amendment offered
 by Senator Owen. though it contain
 ed some other matters by way oi
 recitation, reduced the vote itself q
 the single and naked approval of the | Arizona constitution.