The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1912-10-05
PROGRESSIVE FIGHT
BEGINS IN EARNEST
Collins Outlines State Issues IN
Speech at Madison.

st. Paul, Sept. 30.-The Progressive
campaign in Minnesota has started Ia
earnest along definite lines, and from
now on the state committee proposes
. vigorous fight. p. ". Collins, candi
date for governor, opened his speaking
campaign at Madison last Thursday
Clifford Pinchot and Noah Allen oil
Texas will come to the state this week
and the committee Il attempting to ar
range for the coming of Miss Jane
Adams of Hull House, Chicago, and
Thomas A. Edison, who announces
"Of course I'm Progressive, becaus
I'm young at sixty-flve, and this is )
young mans movement" 1t Is prac
tically certain that Governor Hiram
Johnson, who made such a favorable
impression in the southern part o,
the state, will return to Minnesots
and spend some time In the state.
Reports from all sections Of the
state are not only sncouraging--they
point to an overwhelming vote fol
Roosevelt and Johnson" says Chair
man Halbert Of the Progressive com
mittee. Minnesota, placed in tn.
doubtful column by Republican and
Democratic leaders, will give the Pro
gressive ticket a big plurality"
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Mr.. Collins, speaking at the La.
qui Parle county fair. placed himself
squarely on the Progressive state plat
form, which pledges, Absolute elimi
nation from politics in the state OF
the present alliance of brewery, cor
poration and railroad interests" Pro
gressives agree that this issue must
be determined and criticism Of Pro
gressive state ticket has subsidized
They say the fight in Minnesota IL
identical with the fight In the nation
The national Progressive party is
fighting invisible government" in ma
tional affairs; the Progressives Of
Minnesota are fighting the same thins
nearer home.
Roosevelt advises a squars-toet
fight in state and nation.
The national Progressive party or
ganized after the Republican party
had repudiated progressive principles
and stolen presidential nomination
The Progressives Of Minnesota
named a state ticket after the Repub
hcan party, with the aid Of in
visible government" had repudiated
progressive principles by nominating
an avowedly Taft candidate for gov
srnor.
Roosevelt and Johnson were nomt
mated by men who refused to partict
pate in the nomination Of q reaction,
AIRY for president.
Minnesota Progressives who refused
TO participate In the nomination of an
ether react onary named P. v. Collins
for govern.
The law prevented placing Pro
gressive party candidate on the pri
mary ballot.
Hence, the primary result was not
binding on the Progressive party, be
cause no man or body of men can be
bound. legally or morally, by the acts
Of other men.
Criticism of a Progressive state
ticket smacks Of Candidate Wilson's
criticism of a national Progressive
ticket. Wilson says: Vote for me
II you want to be progressive" Can
didate Eberhart says: Vote for me
n you are progressive"
Opposition to the Progressive party
appears to be bipartisan.
That's the big reason for the Pro.
gressivs party's existence in state and
nation.
Roosevelt has declared himself
against bipartisan invisible govern,
ment" In national affairs.
Collins says: 1T 10 the purpose
the candidates Of the Progressive
party to stand squarely upon the ma.
Aonal and state Progressive platforms
and to make an aggressive fight to rid
Minnesota of political bossism, brew.
cry and railroad control"
That's why the Progressives of Min.
Avootd ucSiuSu W INC StoI0
fight, and the only reason.
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John H. Grass of Fergus Falls Is the
Progressive candidate for the four.
year term on the railroad and ware
house commission. The selection of
Mr.. Grass was made after the with.
drawal Of George q. LOTUS, named by
the Progressives for the six-year term,
and the naming Of T. J. Sharkey of
Staples, .ginally selected for the
four-year term, to take Mr.. LOTUS
place on the ticket. Mr.. Grass was
named at the suggestion of many Pro.
gressi-es because Of his intimate
knowledge of the commissions duties,
and the selection has since been ap-
proved BY Progressivss throughout
the state.
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Chief Justice Charles M. Start, after
securing nomination at the primaries
to succeed himself as member of
the supreme court, has withdrawn
from the contest. Unwillingness to
make q campaign for reelection Is
given as the reason for Justice Starts
withdrawal. Judge G. M. Stanton of
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