The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-08-05
MURDOCH ISSUES
CAMPAIGN WAR CRY
Progressive Chairman Says the
Party Will Be In Battle
to Win Next Fall
Hopes Are High.

M. Pleasant, Ia, Aug. 3.-Victor
Murdoch, Of Kansas. national chairman
Of the progressive national committee,
made the following statement today:
Il have just completed a three
months personal anvass of the sit
uation with progressives in the GEN.
trial west and on the Pacific coast and,
after making it, 1 am ready to say
~flatfootedly that We progressives are
going into the 1916 fight as a party and
to win.
Moreover, a meeting Of represen-
tative progressives held this month in
New York city reported the same con-
ditions in the east that l have found
in he west and they are lining up for
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.
"The great battle of 1915 will not
be over candidates, but will be Over
platforms. The storm will rag 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 u~nequivocal Endorsement of the
administration of William Howard
Taft, including the Payne-Aldrich tar
if bill.
The Same Platforms.
The democrat leadership likewise
Will point with pride to the qually la
inevitable Simmons Underwood tariff
bill n against a Bryan insurrection
Of the first MAGNITUDE, will cancel the
one-term presidential pledge and other
Bryan propaganda, and the progress
ives will reiterate and re-emphasize
their Chicago platform of 1912. That
platform remains the most nearly per-
feet u]tterance Of the principles of Abb
raham Lincoln of modern times.
Both in its protest against the in
roads Of the privilege f%attening on
gross materialism and in its practical
program of concrete economic rem
edies, 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 n solely to
Its preservation.
The progresSives have the right plan
for h tariff n other economic is
sues. including the trust problem. The
democratic leadership, after two n a
half years Of trial, has signally failed
in solving the nations economic ques-
NAOAASs ~ 90 u 10 " NNSNNAA~
under the old logrolling leadership, Is
utterly unproductive Of any of the re-
suits previously claimed for IL. It's trust
legislation founders, its attempt at de-
velopment of ocean going craft has fiz-
zled. That his is the judgment Of the
voter Is amply evidenced by the ire
mendous anti-democratiC sentiment
that has developed at the polls at vir-
tually every election in the last two
years. At many Of these elections the
voter cast Il republican ballot because
he, believed that the republican leader
ship had learned its lesson and would
hereafter a X the progressive path.
Reaetionary Tendencies.
But now the voters know for a GER
tainty that when the republican lead
ership has been restored to power 1t
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 I found these progress
sives who made. the fight of 1912 with
the dea 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 C~alifor-
MIA under Governor Johnson, is n dra-
matte portrayal of the need Of the new
strong patriotic marty of public SER
vice. Therefore, the progressive party
will go on with it's fight straight out
and f~latfooted." -