The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-11
STATE PLATFORM
OF REPUBLICANS
is ADOPTED BY THE STATE CON-
VENTION HELD AT HURON
LAST WEEK.
CARL SHERWOOD STATE CHAIRMAN
Well Known and Popular Clark Man
Selected For This important Post.
The Platform In Detail.

The republican state convention at
Huron last week elected Carl Sher-
wood of Clark, a strong Rc"""velt
supporter, chairman of the sta cen
trail committee, and the five Re welt
electors nominated are H. C.-l Z: ton
of Dawson county, l.. T. Van S = ! Of
Brown county, Oscar Olson o q ERIK
ings county, L.. H. Rugg of P q lng-
ton county, and J. S. Tompl = of
Turner county. g
The following resolutions 2 ere
adopted: z
The republicans of South q ota
in convention assembled on this sec
ond day of July, 1912, firmly declare:
First-We are most interested in
the present and future progressive
welfare of all our people and of the
business interests of our state, and
to best promote those ends is our
highest aim; with such in view, it
is unnecessary to indulge in extreme
laudation of past achievements or
reiterate our appreciation and venera-
ton of past leaders; history has re-
corded their achievements and their
I'M and the record is secure. We
hereby reaffirm our allegiance to
the republican party and the progress
sive policies inaugurated by it.
Second-In meeting recent and fu-
ture problems we must be mindful of
the rights Of the people as distin-
guished from the domination of the
bosses and machine rule.
Third-We favor such governmental
policy as best tends to the elevation
of the laboring man and to establish
a more just distribution of the profits
of labor.
Fourth-That the masses of the
people must keep the control Of the
government from the representatives
of special privilege.
Fifth-That the people have and
should exercise through their repre-
sentatives in congress the right to
regulate and control by law all cor
porations which have been accorded
the right of eminent domain, and all
corporations which are directly bene-
fitted by the protective tariff, and all
corporations ~transacting interstate
business should be required to cur
a license from the government and to
exact no more than a reasonable profit
on the actual capital invested, and
no corporation or persons should be
allowed to use their capital to en-
able them to maintain an unlawful
monopoly. We favor the creation Of
an industrial commission Of equal dig,
nifty with the interstate commerce
commission and with jurisdiction and
powers over industrial interstate cor
porations analogous to the jurisdic-
ton and powers of the said commits
sion over common carriers.
Sixth-That the Sherman law
should be so amended as to clearly
define what acts are in criminal vio-
lation thereof and to make such VIC
lations punishable by both fine and
imprisonment.
Seventh--That each citizen should
contribute to the support of the gov
eminent in proportion either, to the
property he owns or his ability to
pay.
Eighth-The Payne-Aldrich tariff
law is unsatisfactory. We stand for
a revision of the tariff downward and
for free coal, lumber and iron ore
and we condemn the so-called recipro-
city with Canada, which in effect com
pells the American farmer to sell all
of his products in a free trade market,
while it protects the master and man.
u%facturer in all they have to sell.
The true basis Of protective tariff
is the difference in the cost Of pro-
duction at home and abroad and we
hold any increase in cost Of produc-
ton due to higher wages and stand
ard Of living of American labor should
be accorded to the American laborer,
who should be the beneficiary. We
favor the maintenance Of a non-par-
tisan tariff cimmission with full power
to ascertain the cost of production in
this and other countries, which COM
mission SHOULD be required to make
frequent reports Of the information
gained to congress and upon such in