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Show REPUBLICAN INSURGENTS Arc in Favor of the Roosevelt Policies of Taft Huron, S, D., Feb. 25. Alter a battle bat-tle of four hours, peace settled over the conference of the progressive wing of the Republican party of South Dakota Da-kota at midnight. R, O. Richards of Huron was made chairman of tho campaign committee and, Governor Veasoy will be the Republican Re-publican party leader on a platform which is the embodiment of the Ideas of the leaders of both the Richards faction and the faction led by E. L. Senn, which opposed RlchardB. The platform says In part: "We commend President Taft for hit) reiterated declarations of loyalty to tii Roosevelt policies of progressive progres-sive Republicanism, and pledge his administration tho support of the progressive pro-gressive Republicans in his efforts to obtain the enactment of legislation embodying those principles. "The dominating Issue In the coming com-ing campaign Is tho wresting of control con-trol of natloual legislation from special spe-cial Interests Intrenched behind Speaker Speak-er Cannon of tho house and Leader j Aldrlcn of the senate and their supporters. sup-porters. It Is not sufficient that Speaker Cannon be retired. It is essential es-sential that a successor be elected who is committed to md is a supporter of progressive principles The progressive progres-sive Republicans of South Dakota will net support a candidate for the primary pri-mary who does not stand unequivo cally on this platform. "We believe tho Payne tariff law was a decided step in fulfillment of the party plodge, but that inequalities yet exist which should be remedied, when demonstrated to be such by tho Investigations of the tariff commission. commis-sion. "We denounce the practice of collecting col-lecting moneys for political campaign purposes from persons who hold, or are aspiring, to appointive government positions, and favor the prohibition thereof by amendment of the corrupt practice act "We favor tho elimination of the 'personal spirit system' by amendments amend-ments to the primary law to provide how party nominations to all appointive appoint-ive government positions shall be determined. de-termined. "We favor the nomination of postmasters post-masters for presidential postonlces by popular party elections who are resident resi-dent patrons of the office. "We favor an amendment of the present corrupt practice act so as to eliminate therefrom tho legality of 'paying for men and teams to haul tho voters to the polls.' " |