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Show SAYS PM LIES ' ARE RflUGH OBSCURED Governor Woodrow Wilson Addresses Ad-dresses the City Club of Los Aneles in Auditorium. it Bv Ashoclateoi Press. "LOS ANGELES. Cal., May 13. Governor Gov-ernor Woodrow WiUon of New Jersey was the orator of tho evening at, the meeting of the City club iu theAiidi-toriuin theAiidi-toriuin here tonight. He said in part: 'It must, be evident to every one that party lines are being very much obscured;' that more and more men are holding themselves free to follow this loader or that, accordiuir as their own pen-option of the public interest dictates. dic-tates. And so a great many new tonus have come inlo our polities.. Ft is amusiii" to note their variety and the way in which men are seeking labels for themselves and for their opponents. The classification moat in fashion is that of 'progressives' and 'reactionaries'; 'reaction-aries'; anil f dare hay those terms will serve as well as any others to"expross I ho real contrasts which now begin to show themselves in our political action. "(I is intcrestnur to mo as a Democrat Demo-crat to note that while we have heard a great deal of tajk about insurgent Republicans we have heard very little about insurgent Democrats. Insur-"cuts Insur-"cuts are those who throw off author- ily. It must be that the insurgent Republicans are throwing off the authority au-thority of the major portion of their parly," while Democrats are free to be progressive without being insurgents. It would seem that to be progressive is not to defy the general authority of their narty colleagues. 1 should "like to believe that this meant that the Democratic party as a whole is naturally natur-ally progressive, and that it is easier through the instrumentality of thai party lo accomplish the new purposes of tiic dnv than through the instrumentality instrumen-tality of the Republican party." |