The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-09-12
REFORM LEADER
TO l S STATE
GOV. JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA,
WHO HAS PUT THROUGH
MANY PROGRESSIVE MEA-
SUKES, TO SPEAK ON
FRIDAY.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-Governor Hir.
am w. johnson, reform leader of
California and candidate for vice pre-
sident on the progressive ticket will
speak at the state fair. at Huron,
Friday, and at Sioux Falls, Friday
evening.
The governor will arrive on the
Omaha shortly after s O'Clock from
Huron and will be met at the depot
by an automobile and taken directly
to the auditorium where he will de-
liver an address on the questions OF
the day and explain what the progress
sive party proposes to accomplish if
put into power.
AS "A mar of action and a fighter
for reform Governor Johnson has es-
tablished a splendid record in the
brief period in which he has been
chief executive of California.
He was elected to the office of gov
ernoT on a reform ticket and while
he has been in office for only about
a year and a half, he has already full
filled every promise made in his plat
form, ousted the railroads from poll
tics and in addition secured the enact
ment of the following laws:
The establishment of a complete
primary system including a preferen-
tial vote on presidential candidates
and the direct election of delegates
to the national conventions.
The oregon system of electing to
the United States Senate the candi-
date who receives the largest popular
vote.
Initiative and referendum and the
recall of judges.
The short ballot.
Restoration of the true Australian
ballot without party emblem.
Non-partisan election of judges.
County as we'll as city home rule.
Revision of criminal procedure.
Appropriations for a reformatory
for first offenders.
First step toward the establish
ment of a merit system in civil ser
vice.
Establish ment of a better business
system and accounting i'll public Off
ces and institutions.
A conservation system and a COM
plete reorganization of the railroad
commission of the state, and the en-
actment of laws giving the commits
sion full power to regulate the rail
roads of the state.
Employers liability and working
mems compensation act.
Woman suffrage.
A board of control for state insti-
buttons.
Revision of the system of taxation,
providing for the raising of the reve-
nue. for state purposes on public util-
ity and other corporations and re-
lieving the corporations from local
taxation.
The adjustment of the race track
gambling even oral betting.
Incorporated cities given the right
to ADOPT commission form of gov
eminent.
Regulating the employment of chill
dren under Is years of age.
Raising the inheritance AK rate.
His high fighting and strong record
as a progressive executive brought
him into national prominence and he
readily became n of the leaders OF
the progressive element in the repub-
lican national convention and when
he stepped out of the republican
party he was accorded a place as run
ming mate with Roosevelt at the head
of the new party.
Johnson first came into prominence
when he dropped his law practice and
took up the graft prosecutions when
Heney was shot. declining to accept
any fee for his services. In his fgh
on the railroads, one of his most bit.
ter opponents has been his own faith.
err, Grover l.. Johnson, n of the
best known railroad attorneys of the
West.