Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30
PROGRESSIVES' TICKET
ccsTIGAN SELECTED AS cANDL
DATE FOR GOVERNOR.
Delegates at Colorado Springs conven
tion Name Candidates for State
and congrsss!sna! Positions:

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Colorado Springs.-The following is
the official action of the Progressive
State Assembly in It's designation Of
primary candidates:
u S. Senator--Benjamin Griffith.
Grand Junction. 616 votes.
supreme Court Justice-Joseph G.
Ewing. Greeley. SIG.
Governor-E. P. Costigan. Denver
616
Lieutenant Governor-P. H Trout
man, Canon City, 335; II. H. Harbaugh,
Greeley 1872; Frank w. Spear. Gypsum.
Treasurer-F. L. Cretney. Leadvilie.
e18.
Audltor-D. C. Burns. Denver. GIG.
Secretary of State-Mrs. Agnes Rid
die. Arapahoe County, GIG.
Attorney General-Merle d. Vincent.
Paonia. GIG.
Superintendent of Public instruction
Mrs. Florence Dick. Denver. 272: Mrs
May f. Todd. Denver. 157; c. G. Sar-
gent. Fort Collins. 100.
2 to .elect)-Randolph Cook. Trinidad.
616; Frank Slutz. Pueblo, 6l6.
Regent ito fill vacancy)-Left to Va
cancy Committee.
Nine to Run for Congress.
The following congressional candi-
dates for nomination to Congress were
designated by the four congressional
district assemblies:
First District-A. A. Lee. 80 votes; !;
Charles ]. Downey. 20.
Second DistrictmD, D. Easement
County 81; A II. Kramer. Adams
Third District-N. N Mclean. Lamar
Fourth District-John B. Killien,
Delta, 3Sh; S. B. Wonder, Montrose.
The report Of the resolutions com
mittee Was postponed until the last
moment. A spirited contest was pre-
cipitated after the resolutions had
been read and adopted, because they
Gid not commit the Progressive party
to statewide prohibition.
The resolutions which were adopted
follow:
"The delegates of the state assem-
bly, of the Progressive party of Colo
RADIO, while not presuming to adopt a
party platform, which, under the law,
Is one of the functions of the candi-
dates nominated at the primary elec-
ton, feel that it is proper and desir-
able to crystalline their views on GER
tain important questions, and do so. in
the following resolutions:
BE it resolved, That we condemn
and declare our unalterable opposition
10 lawlessness, violence and insurrec-
ion in any and every form and by
whomsoever committed, and pledge
ourselves to the firm establishment Of
complete and impartial maintenance
Of law and orderly government in ev-
cry part OF Colorado. We deny the
right of any to wage private war and
denounce the same as intolerable and
declare that all controversies must be
settled WITHOUT violence.
"And be it further resolved, That
with the same fidelity. we declare our
devotion to political, social and induo-
trial justice, as defined by the Chicago
national platform and the Colorado
state platform of 1912.
The Progressive party has, from
Its inception. not only realized that the
Impartial enforcement of law and the
maintenance OF order are primary es-
sentials OF stable government, but
that law and order are instituted SO
that justice may be attained.
Our opposition to invisible govern
ment,' and our determination to write
into the laws and practice Of this
state the doctrine that society's rights
and general welfare are supreme. anc
that while inviting voters of every
past political faith to join with us in
our contest for wiser and more eco
nomical governmental conditions. in
line with our declared principles we
reaffirm past declarations. opposing
fusion with any other political party
and declare our opposition to the nom
ination in Progressive primaries OF
men or women not recognized as true
Progressives."