Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1912-05-31

Col. Melvin Grlgsby, who began tour
of the Hills in Fall River county by a
speech Monday night at Hot Springs
Col. Grigsby is the Roosevelt candi-
date in this state for the United State
senate aud in his campaigning all over
the state he is linking his own cause to
that Of the ex-president, putting Col.
Roosevelt's welfare ahead of his own
and giving it even greater prominence
The colonel declares that the control
Of corporations is one of the greatest
issues now before the American people
and that the people have in Roosevelt
man who will represent the interests
of all aud not merely the interests of
the corporate class. He pointed to the
increasing popularity of Roosevelt and
says there is no question but he will be
nominated and elected.
On the subject of his own candidacy
he points out that with progressive
administration, which is sure to come,
it is important to the best interests of
South Dakota, that she be represented
at Washington by senator who is
also progre ssive aud in perfect har
mony with the views of the man who
is to be president, and that he is the
only candidate of the four men in the
race who can be considered the logical
Roosevelt candidate. 1t is Col. Grigs-
~ oil h,k r,k,
wish the defeat of senator Gamble,
who can in no sense be considered
progressive, should concentrate their
support upon himself.
Among the measures and reforma
tions advocated by Col. Grigsby is the
control of corporations by limiting
their capital stock and by prohibiting
the officers of any corporation from
holding stock in other corporations in
the same line of business. He believes
in graduated income taxation and in
making it easier to amend the national
constitution to suit modern progress
and the needs of the people. Provi-
sions could thus be enacted which
would make supervision and regulation
of big business easier, result in the dis.
tribution of corporations and manu-
factures, and make industrial condi-
tions better and do away with indus
trial slavery 1--WE now have a form of
industrial slavery which thoughtful
men declare is as cruel and oppressive
as was the slavery of the negro" said
the speaker
Col. Grigsby says that if he is sent
to the United States senate his first
endeavor will be to bring the corpora
tions under control and to try to secure
changes in the constitution which will
make amendments more quickly and
effectually obtained. He favors the
election of senators by direct vote;
an amendment SO that a president can
not be candidate while in office; and
advocates that federal judges shall hold
Office only four or six years by single
appointment, and that il they hold
office longer it must be by re-appoint
ment. 1--WE would thus have the power
of remonstrance and protest to hold
over their heads" he said. Senator
Gamble was asssiled by Col. Grigsby,
tho no bricks we're hurled at his other
opponents in the race for the senate.
He pronounced Senator Gamble q
trailer in all matters of legislation and
that he had never become prominenta as
leader in anything until the Lorimer
question came up, and he especially de.
nounced Gamble for his 'gum shoe"
methods of campaigning. He has gone
about whispering to postmasters and
Office holders, here and there, and not
in the whole eight weeks he has been
working in this state lately, has he gone
on record on any national question"
expressed Grigsby forcibly.
The colonel made friends for himself
and Roosevelt here and he will be- greet.
cd with crowded house any time he
comes to Hot Springs again.
ACk is Will RFNFFIT