The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-05
ISSUES
CAMPAIGN WAR CRY
Progressive Chairman Says the
Party Will Be In Battle
to Win Next Fall
Hopes Are High.

49, l. CdSdli Id Aug. O.-NlCCOE
Murdoch, of Kansas, national chairman
of the progressive national committee,
made the following statement today:
Il have just completed a three
months personal Of the sit
uation with progressives in the CEN
trail west and on the Pacific coast and,
after making 1t, / am ready to saw
flatfootedly that we progressives are
going into the 1916 fight as a party and
to win.
Moreover, a meeting Of represen-
tat1ve progressives held his month in
New York city reported the same con-
ditions in the east hat I have found
the next battle. This is also the SEN
timent Of the progressive national
committee. We will hold our national
convention early and nominate a can
didate.
1.-The great battle of 1916 will not
be over candidates, but will be over
platforms. The storm will a g not
in the committee on credentials, but
In the committee IN resolutions. The
board on republican leadership will
not only insist on a standpat candi-
date, but will fight for an unstinted
and unequivocal Endorsement Of the
administration of William Howard
Taft, including the Payne-Aldrich tar
iff bill.
The Same Platforms.
"The democrat leadership likewise
will point with pride to the qually la
mentable Simmons Underwood tariff
bill and against a Bryan instruction
of the first MAGNITUDE, will cancel the
one-term presidential pledge and other
Bryan propaganda, n the progress
ives will reiterate and re-emphasize
their Chicago platform Of 1912. That
platform remains the most nearly per-
feet utterance Of the principles of Abb
raham Lincoln of modern times.
Both in its protest against the in
gross materialism n in its practical
program of concrete economic rem
edfes, the progressive platform a be-
come to hundreds of thousands of ag-
gressive Americans the ark of the
covenant, and there is not a town
ship anywhere without Its group of
Gittites devoted wholly and solely to
it's preservation.
THE progressives have the right plan
for the tariff and other economic is
sues, including the trust problem. The
democratic leadership, after two and a
half years of trial, has signally failed
in solving the nations economic ques-
tons. Its tariff law, slammed together
under the old logrolling leadership, is
utterly ~unproductive Of any of the re-
suits previously claimed for it. It's trust
legislation founders, its attempt at de-
velopment Of ocean going craft has fiz-
zled. That this is the judgment of the
voter is amply evidenced by the ire
mendous anti-democratic sentiment
that has developed at the polls at viz
tually every election in the last two
years. At many of these elections the
voter cast a republican ballot because
he believed that the republican leader
ship had learned its lesson and would
hereafter take the progressive path.
Reactionary Tendencies.
But now the voters know for a GER
ta1nty that when the republican lead
ership has been restored to power it
has shown more, not less reactionary
tendencies, as notably evidenced by the
actions Of the legislatures in New
York. Ohio and Massachusetts. Hand
in hand with the progressive PROPOSE
ton to encompass social and industrial
justice goes the necessity of solving the
great economic problems Of the coun-
try, not on the basis Of political advan-
tage: of which practice both the old
parties are UNANIMOUSLY guilty, but on
the basis of service to society.
Everywhere / found these progress
sives who made the fight of 1912 with
the idea uppermost, eager now to con-
tinue the fight. Wherever they have
had a chance to make good they have
done so.
'The spectacle of republican reac-
ton in New York and Ohio, in contrast
to progressive achievement in Califor-
MIA under Governor Johnson, is a dra-
matte portrayal of the need OF the new
strong patriotic party of public SER
Will go on with its fight straight out
and flatfooted"