Speech of Governor Coe I. Crawford

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Excerpt from Speech of Governor Coe I. Crawford: Delivered at Eureka, S. D., December 2, 1907 Fellow-Citizens: - Under our form of government, the people choose their public officers by voting for them at the general elections. The right to vote for public servants is one of the most sacred rights secured to the citizen. While he has enjoyed this right to vote at the general elections, he has not had much to, say about the names printed on the ticket. Those names have been selected by conventions which too often have been controlled by schemers, tricky politicians, railroad lobbyists and bosses. Under the new law passed last winter and called the primary election law, each political party will decide whose names shall be printed upon its ticket by a, direct vote. That is to say, on the second Tuesday in next June each voter in the republican party will have the right to pick out from a primary ballot containing the names of two or more candidates belonging to his party for each office the one who is his choice, and the person who gets the highest number of votes cast in this way will be the regular candidate of his party to be voted for at the following general election in November. This is to be the method of selecting candidates in the future instead of the convention. I am a republican and have never voted any other ticket. I shall be a candidate for United States Senator at this primary election on the second Tuesday in June as a republican. Hon. A. B. Kittredge is a republican and he will also be a candidate for U.S. Senator. The republican voters will at the party primary election in June vote for their choice between Mr. Kittredge and myself. If he receives the highest number of the votes cast by republicans in their primaries in the whole state, I will drop out and he will be the republican candidate from that time on until after the general election in November and the election of the United States Senator by the next Legislature of South Dakota. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.