The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-06-04
CRAWFORD STANDS FOR
HONEST GOVERNMENT
The Present Executive of the State Has Carried Out EVtl.
Plank of the Platform Upon WhiChEHe
Was Elected
Election AS SENATOR MEANS FURTHER PROGRESS
The Confidence of the People Has Been MeTlted and Ills
Past Record is Promise of His Future Fidelity
to the People

In again calling your attention 10
the Progressive Republican Candidate
for United States Senator, nothing IS
so pertinent to the question at issue
as some of the utterances of Governor
Crawford, and we give them that you
NAV have a just and concse idea OF the
matters to be considered before cast
ing your ballot for this important Of
flee.
Under our form Of government the
people choose their public officers by
voting for them at the general cleo
lions.
The right to vote Tor public servants
Is one Of the most sacred rights Sc
cured to the citizen. While he has
enioyed this right to vote at the gen
eral elections, he has not had much
to say about the names printed on
the ticket. Those have been
selected by conventions which too
often have been controlled by schem'
ers, tricky politicians, railroad lobby
lists and bosses.
Under the new law passed last win
ter and called the primary election
law, each political party will decide
whose names shall be printed upon its
ticket by n direct vote. That is to say,
on the second Tuesday in next June
each voter in the republican party will
have the right to pick out from a
primary ballot containing the names
of two or more candidates belonging
to his party for each office the one
who is his choice, and the person
who gets the highest number of votes
cast in this way will be the regular
candidate of his party to be voted for
at the following general election in
November. This is to be the method
of selecting candidates in the future
instead of the convention. | am a re-
publican and have never voted any
other ticket. | shall be n candidate
for United States Senator at this prim-
airy election on the second Tuesday
i'm June as a republican. Hon. A.. b,
Kittredge is a republican and he will
also he q candidate for u. S. Senator,
The republican voters will at the
party primary election in June vote
for their choice between Mr.. Kilt
redge and myself. If he receives the
highest number of the votes cast by
republicans in their primaries in the
whole state, | will drop out and he
will be the republican candidate from
that time on until after the general
election in November and the election
of the United States Senator by the
next Legislature of South Dakota. If
on the other hand, | receive the high.
est number of the votes cast by the
republicans at their primaries in the
whole state, then it will be his duty
to drop out and he will no longer be
the candidate of the republican party
for the position, but | will be the party
candidate for that office. This is the
way the voters will select their other
party candidates, governor, lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, auditor,
and the ether candidates for state of
fees.
This vote at the republican primar
les in June will be between republi'
cans to decide what candidates shall
be selected and put upon their ticket
to make the fight against the demo
Gratis at the general November elec.
ton following, After this primary
election Is over and we thus decide
who our candidate against the demo
Gratis shall be, we should, Of course
remain good republicans and support
our own ticket. l have always been {
republican and believe most devoutly