The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-09-18
CRAWFORD WOULD
CARRYSTANOARO OF
RE-CREATED PARTY
Says Progressive Must
Lead the Republic
cans Hereafter.
HURLs GAUNTLET
Declares Democrats Are We'll
come to His Old Oppon-
ents in This State.

entS in This State.
Huron, S. D.-Declaring that the
republican party must speedily reor-
ganize under the leadership of pro-
gressive republicans asserting that
his opposition in this state is the
same identical crowd that has fought
the progressives within the republic
can party in South Dakota for ten
years and announcing a list Of up-to-
reforms for his W plat
form of principles, United States Sen
ator Coe l. Crawford. before an open
air crowd here yesterday, opened
his campaign for denomination by the
republican party Of this state.
Senator Crawford made it clear
that he will seek the nomination from
the majority proposal committee OF
the party, as provided for in the
Richards primary system.
Senator Crawford, in relating his
own political history, likened the at
tempt to defeat Senator Sterling in
the legislature last winter to the plot
in 1906, when he said he was offered
the S~enatorship that had been won
by Gamble.
These are the planks in sthe plat
form proposed by Senator Crawford
for the ~reiuvenated republican party:
Genuine currency reform, fair to
all interests.
Federal cooperation in building
good roads.
Federal ownership of the express
business.
Control of big corporations by an
administrative board.
Adjustment of child labor.
Minimum wage for m
Adjustment of the secret lobby.
Correction of abuses in the courts.
Following in Senator Crawford's
speech in part:
Republicans Shorn of Past
THE republican party must now
take note of its, relations to the pre-.
sent. 1t can nc longer expect support
because of it's glorious history. If II
is to be regarded merely as an archaic
and static relic of the nineteenth cen
fury instead of a dynamic force in
the political life of the twentieth
century, it will never carry another
election. l want to see it become q
living dynamic force in the political
movements of today and next year
and in the years to come. Lincoln, az
It's great exemplar, could say he stood
for a government of the people, by
the people and for the people. If the
republican party is to regain its pow.
er and influence, we must be able
truthfully to say that it stands TO,
that kind of government in our day
Unless 1t does so stand, 1t will moi
suffice to tell of its past glories.
"We must turn to the needs of to-
Iday and grid our loins for the work
that is upon us now and which push
against us tomorrow. The work which
appeals to men like Theodore Roose'
Welt and Robert M. LaFollette and
Albert B. Cummins, and to womer
like Jane Addams-the work which
seeks to re-adjust laws and change
political mechanisms so that they
shall more fully meet the needs o,
Human beings who now live ant
strive under the folds of the Americ
an flag, and so that they shall more
fully reflect the deliberate judgment
of the majority. which must Away,
and forever decide all great issues il
this country-this is the work ii
which the republican party must en-
gage If it shall secure a renewal o
THE confidence necessary to win agail
the support of the American people.
leadership Predicted.
when the organization came un
der the control of men like Barnes o
New York, and Quarry and Penrose o
Pennsylvania. Foraker of Ohio ant
Cannon and Lorimer of Illionis, ant
the special interests lying behint
their leadership that organization
ceased to represent the great masse
who are the republican party, an,
who have carried its banner to vic
tory. Special interests led by Aid
rich Of Rhole Island in the Senat
and arbitrary bossism exemplified b,
Speaker Cannon in the House of Rep
resentatives, could not result in any
thing but crushing and humiiiatinl
defeat; and that came last year. 1t /
sufficient-to prove that the attemp
" ONCtiiuC pliuloIS OlCStiOu law !
the selection of delegates to nationa
republican conventions witnessed a
II Chicago, was wholly and entirel
!, wrong-to point simply to the fac
that on May last at a meeting of tn
executive committee of the republica
national committee held in Washing
ton. it was unanimously decided tina
hereafter full force and effect mus
be given to the primary election law
of a state providing for the electio
|. of delegates to national political cor
: ventions; and to the further fac
Il that steps are now being taken t
hold 8 special national republica
convention to adopt rules for the COZ
! duct of such conventions in the f,
ture, which shall prevent a repetitto
! of the practices which brought disa'
ter to the nominees of the Chicag
convention last year.
]. No Stalwart Proposed.
"'The fact that no one proposes {
suggests a stalwart or standpat n
c,,h1ton,, n n nncuih1n candidates e.