Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-17

precluded at this time BY the very fact OF
having come into this convention. he
should therefore consider himself bound by
its action, as every honorable delegate ought
to bs, and he believed that every honest man
would say he ought to be bound by it. de
hoped ali his friends would stay to see the
proper organization completed.
The State ticket, consisting of the present
incumbents, was then nominated by accla-
nation.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
the following which were adopted; Butler
making speech in which he expressed him
self as satisfied with them as whole.
Resolved, That the republicans of Massa-
chusetts emphatcally disapprove of and con-
denim the action of the members of the last
Congress, republicans and democrats. who
availed themselves of the occasion OF an in
crease of the salary of the president and OF
the Judges of the supreme court and of the
members of the cabinet, supposed to be just
and necessary for the future, to secure to
themselves disproportionate and e1trava-
CANT compensation tor past as we'll as future
service.
Resolved, Thst while we recognise the full
right of every citizen to express and act upon
mis- convictions upon all questions OF public
interest, no person holding federal Office has
the right to influence the action of his subor-
dinates by exciting their fears Of loss of place
If their opinions or actions differ from his
own; and we call upon the president forth
with to remove every public officer who has
thus improperly intertered with the inde-
pendence of the republicans of Massachusetts,
In the management of their local concerns,
wherever the fact is proved to his satisfac-
ton.
Resolved, That the adoption of policy
which shall 50 reduce frelgh hts on railroads
that the raw material, food and coal of the
West and South shall be exchanged at the
least possible cost for the manufactures OF
New England, is interesting to the whole
country and vital to the industries OF Massa-
chusetts; that the powers vested by the con-
stitutiOn in congress to regulate commerce
between the states includes jurisdiction over
| this great subject, and that we call upon
congress and our state legislatures SO to ex-
ercise all their powers over the railroads OF
the country, as, without injustice to them
may reduce freights and fares to proper rates,
| and secure the ad. antages OF these great
highways to the whole people, free from all
preference or monopoly.
| Resolved, That the republican party is the
| party OF Temperance, order and law; that it
| favors the honest and impartial execution in
good faith of all laws, especially those for
| the suppression OF crime, intemperance and
disorder that the character AMI details OF
such laws must be such as the people shall
decide through their representatives chosen
| to the two branches OF the legislature, and,
when So determined, should be obeyed cheer
fully by all iaw-abidlng citizens until repeal
ed by the same authority.
| Resolved, That We demand such legislation
| on the hours of labor as will secure the ten
| hour system for women and minors employed
IN the factories of Massachusetts.
Resolved, That every great achievement
for personal liberty, Tor the preservation OF
the Union, for education, for the elevation oil
! women, Tor the extension of the suffrage,
which has been accomplished in this country
for a generation has been due to the repub-
llcan party that while none of these great
causes has anything to hope in the future
| from any other source while every new
truth, every claim funded on justice, will in
| the future, as IN the past, fnd its earliest
| converts, It's most generous recognition, Its
strongest advocate, and its earliest victories
among the republicans OF Massachusetts /;
| that the pressing duty Of the day is to secure
| honesty and purity, the right OF the people
peaceaby to assemble and take counsel on
public matters and select their agents tree
| from violence, intimidation and fraud; the
right to hold caucuses and conventions with
| out being cheated or bullied and we there
| lore call upon all honest republicans, how
| ever they may differ ON other questions or
how far soever they may have advanced In
their reception OF new ideas, to unite ID
purging the commonwealth and nation OF
| violence. treachery and corruption.
Resolved. That the republican party of
Massachusetts feels just pride in the
achievements OF that national administration
which they SO largely helped to elect and to
which they have been SO faithful and true;
that they renew their expressions OF gratitude
to President Grant tor his great services,
civil and military; and that they Will stand
by him in All his eforts for the honest pay
ment Of the national debt in gold, To which
the faith OF the nation is pledged 10 his
Efforts TO place the civil service OF the coun-
try on a purer and higher level, SO that led
eral Offices may hereafter be used to serve
the people and not to brlbe them; and iD all
the other great measures ioresbadowed in
the republican platform OF 1872.
Resolved, That the republicans of Massa-
chusetts look with just pride upon the re-
public Ii administration of the common
wealth, and recognize IN their candidate Ior
governor, W illiam Barrett Washburn, the
same qualities OF good sense. fidelity and up
riphtnesS, the same Wa(chiuIncss for the
publican interest and care for the public
welfare when be had 30 conspicuously ex-
hibited as of our representatives IN con-
gres> and we Commend him and his asso-
ciates upon the ticket this day nominated to
the hearty support OF the good people OF this
comm nweaitn.