The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-09-26
pTOgressives Name Minneapolis
Man for Cove nor.
ENDORSE FOUR REPUBLICANS
Flight In Minnesota Will Be on Issues
Outlined in the National
Platform.


lis.
Lieutenant GOVERNOR. =. A. Burn
quist, Republican, endorsed.
Attorney General-Lyndon A. Smith.
Republican, endorsed.
State Treasurer-Walter ]. Smith, Re-
publican, endorsed.
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
ers-George S. Lotus of Minneapo-
lis, siX-year term; T. ]. Sharkey of
Staples, four-year term.
Congressman at Large-James Mana
han, Republican, endorsed.
st. Paul, Sept. 23.-P. V. Collins of
Minneapolis, publisher of the North
western Agriculturist and one of the
men who seconded the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt at the Progressive
national convention, is the Progressive
candidate for governor of Minnesota.
Mr.. Collins was selected to head the
state ticket at a meeting of the Pro
gressive state central committee Fri
day evening after the committee had
decided against allowing the Progress
sive fight in Minnesota to center alone
en- the national ticket. Four progress
sive Republicans nominated at the pri-
maries were endorsed and George S.
Lotus of Minneapolis and T. J.
Sharkey of Staples were named as
Progressive candidates for railroad
and warehouse commissioners.
The committee decided that under
the Ellsworth resolution adopted at
apolis there was no other course to
pursue in the case of candidates nom
mated at the primaries failing to Sc
cure endorsement by a two-thirds vote.
The committees instructions were ex-
plicit. Nomination papers for the new
at once and will probably be ready for
filing with the nomination papers for
Roosevelt electors.
With a candidate for governor in
the field, the Progressive committee
proposes to make vigorous campaign
in the state, not only for the national
ticket but also on state issues. In
naming a state ticket the committee
decided that if the Progressive party
is needed in national affairs there is
the same need in state affairs. Roose-
welt is making his fight against the
invisible government" at Washington.
The state fight in Minnesota will be
against the invisible government" in
this state.
Mr.. Collins is well equipped to lead
the fight for the Progressives in Min
nesota. He was one of the first to at
tack President Taft on Canadian reci-
procity and advanced the nomination
Of Colonel Roosevelt before the former
president declared himself He was
prominent in the state Progressive
convention last May and was a dele
gate to the national Progressive con-
vention in Chicago, where he seconded
the nomination of Roosevelt on behalf
of the farmers of the Northwest.
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Governor Wilson visited Minnesota
last week, speaking at ST. Paul and
Minneapolis. The significant part of
the Democratic candidates speeches
was acceptance of his party managers
opinion that the fight in this state is
between Roosevelt and Wilson. 1t was
evident the Democratic candidate had
been told authOritatively that if he
wished to win Minnesota's electoral
votes he must take them away from
the Progressive candidate
President Taft was dealt with
gently; the Republican platform was
not discussed; nothing was said to Of
fend the standpatters, whose votes are
wanted to carry the state for the
Democrats. But Governor Wilson,
much advertised as progressive DEM
ocrat, did not attack the Progressive
idea; he attacked only the third party
method of arriving at results
Il want to say there is a great deal
in the program of the Progressive
party" he said in Minneapolis, which
attracts all public spirited and hopeful
men; that there is great program of
human uplift included in the platform
OF the new party. A man would be mig
gardly and untrue to himself who would
not say that, but when ask you who is
going to carry out this program, then
the thing wears another aspect"
Governor Wilson denied personal
reference to Colonel Roosevelt, saying
he criticised only the Progressive
method of dealing with economic diff
ficulties
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The Democratic candidate, who said
In his speech of acceptance that "a
platform is not program" declared
for restricted, regulated, limited COM
petition-limited in the sense that no
one should be permitted to do again
what these monopolists have DONE"
But he offered no practical method
for securing such result, unless re-
vision OF the tariff along free trade
lines and the control of big business
in some underlined way is method
The Democratic platform is gravely
silent on Governor Wilson's proposals,