Arizona republican., 1914-02-13
The Governor of California Opens Campaign in Col den State in Address EX- alting Martyred President for His Speech in 1856
PRINCIPLES HAVE
 BEEN ABANDONED
Accuses Republicans of De- serting Platform Tn a t Still Stands Out as Prom inently as It'Did When First Constructed
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12-EXalting Abraham Lincoln as progressive and declaring that as he prophesed, Il new party has been formed from the principles of human freedom up on which the republican party was founded, Governor Hiram w. John son opened the progressive campaign here tonight by delivering an ad- dress on Lincoln ProgreSsiveism.
 Praising Lincoln for his speech at the Bloomington, H., convention in 1856, Governor Johnson said the principles upon which the republican party was founded still shine as brightly as at that time, but that they have been abandoned by it's leaders.
 He scored men prominent in the republican party councils from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and narrow ing his comments to California, as sailed the republican conference held last Saturday at Stockton and Santa Barbara.
 He said in part:
 The traditions of the republican party are glorious and no other po- litical party mas ever performed ser vices so great and so lasting to the nation. But with changing times in the kaleidoscopic process and mar vicious .metamorphosis of the last two decades have come to the na ton different conditions and new vexing problems. The leaders of the ttal nr-fxy in tot in the union today are opposing gov ernmental instrumentalities of direct primaries and direct legislation. The human problem is so acute that its attempted solution has become a re- ligion with many but it is disregard cd and suggested remedies are not tolerated even in expression by many of the leaders of the older parties.
 The common right of humanity the doctrine enunciated by Lincoln, is the fundamental principle of the progressive party. It matters not how the issue may develop whether it be q predatory class that would live upon the toll of another or whether it be a great aggregation of wealth that would exploit whole people. Exactly the same arguments that were directed against our mar tyred president are directed today against the principles enunciated by the progressive party. Destructive and anarchistic they are claimed to be by our opponents, subversive of vested rights and injurious to busi- ness They are neither one nor the ether. The progressive doctrine of today maintains and fosters, nur- lures and preserves every legitimate right and every honest business To the principles of Lincoln progressives would return the government.
 'To say that MT Barnes. of New York; MT. Penrose, of Pennsylvania; MT. Lorimer of Illinois; MT. Smoot, of Utah; Mir Guggenheim, of Colo rado, and MT. Mike De Young and MT. Harrison Gray Otis of California represent the principles of Lincoln is sacrilege. The progressive party to- day stands for those principles and the progressive party of today is the party of Abraham Lincoln.
 The men who howl loudest nov about the preservation of the repub- lican party in California, men like De Young and Otis. and the repre- sentatives of the old Southern Pac- fife machine, care nothing for any party and have but one political creed-their own avarice greed, ad- vancement and power.
 The principle for which these men contend is a delusion and a myth. It is office and power alone they seek and the office and the power are sought that they may. continue the old exploitation and that profit and gain may be wrung from the people by private interests. Is there any man so blind or so stupid or so
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