The Arvada enterprise., 1914-07-30
PRoGRESSIVES' TICKET
coeTIGAN SELECTED AS cANpL
DATE FOR GOVERNOR.
Delegates at Colorado Springs conven
ton Name Candidates for State
and Congressional Positions.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Colorado Springs.-The following is
the official action of the Progressive
State Assembly in its designation Of
primary candidates:
U. 8. Senator-Benjamin Griffith,
Grand Junction. 616 votes.
EsiIT Supreme n:,ssSs" Court !, Sustice-Joseph C.
Cove Govsrnor0E. % ?. costigan, Denver,
GIG.
Lieutenant Governor-P H. Trout
Greeley. 1872: Frank W. Spear. Gypsum
Treasurer-F. L. Cretney. Leadville
Auditor-D. c. Burns. Denver. els.
Secretary Of state-Mrs. Agnes Rid
die. Arapahoe County. SIS.
paania' a1tSrnsiy SIS aeneral-Merle D. Vincent
superintendent of Public instruction
Mrs: Florence Dick, Denver. 272; Mrs.
May E TODD: Denver l57; c. G, sar-
Regent State University dong term.
2 to elect(-aRandolph Cook; Trinidad.
SIG: Frank Slutz, Pueblo, 6l6.
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 pistrict-A. 4. Lee. % votes:
Charles gndesd J. 6;o,r1s; DoWney. e. c,..u.,.
Solorado Springs. 50; Pr; c. E. Fisher
sss soan.ys. 81 81 a Il Il Kramer. sass; A'1Shnns Hda%s
Third District-N. N. Mclean, Lamar.
Fourth District-John B. Killien,
Delta. 3S1t; s. b. Wonder. Montrose.
SOY.
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
did 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
rado, while not presuming to adopt q
party platform, which. under the law,
Is one Of the functions Of the candi-
dates nominated at the primary elec-
tion, feel that 1t is proper and desir-
able to crystalline their views on GER
tain important questions, and do so, in
the following resolutions:
BE 1t resolved, That we condemn
and declare our unalterable opposition
to lawlessness. violence and insurrec-
tion 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 indup-
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 50
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. ana
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."