Litchfield enquirer., 1873-09-18

We ought to be able to do this without personal animosity or friction. 4hiR is rather self-governing State, in Mhfsh, however, the Governor is an essential per sonage. He usually after one or two or three years passes quietly into the dustT repository of history. But the state iS
 sacred, and is worthy of delicate and ten der treatment. Imay be permitted tosay
 that it has been, without any conspiCu-
 ous exception. well governed State from
 the days of John Hancock down to the present time-and not emitting the pres
 ent time. I shall be greatly disappoint-
 ed If the next year, or any of the future
 years, shall witness an exception.
 There was lively skirmish on motion
 by Butler himself to refuse seat to
 delegate who had said he should Ibolt if
 Butler was nominated. The motion was
 deated, and Butler then withdrew his
 name, saying, however, he should sup
 port MT. Washburne's nomination.
 The following significant platform was
 adopted
 Resolved, That the Republicans of Mas | sachusetts emphatically disapprove of
 and condemn the action of those members
 ot the last Congress, Republicans and Democrats, who availed themselves of the occasion of an increase 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 necessa- ry for the future, to secure to themselves
 disproportionate and extravagant com pesation for past as well as future services. ReSotUed, That while we recognize the
 full right of every citizen to express and
 act upon his convictions upon all questions of public interest, no person holding
 public office has the right to seek to in t1uence the action of his subordinates by exciting their fear of loss of place if their
 opinions and actions shall differ from his own, and we call upon the President fur
 ther to remove all public officers who have improperly interfered with the independ- ence of the Republicans of Massachusetts, 1 Tn the management of their local con- cerns, whenever the fact is proved to their satisfaction.
 ResotOed, That the adoption of policy
 which shall so reduce freights on railroads that the raw material, food and coal of the West and South shall be exchanged at
 the least possible cost for the manufac-
 lures of New England interesting the whole
 country is vital to the industries of Mas sachusetts; that the power vested by the Constitution ill Congress to regulateUom-
 merce between the States includes iuris-
 diction over this great subject, and that
 we call upon Congress and our State Legis- ! lature to so exercise all their power over
 railroads and such monopolies. Resolved, That every great achievement for personal liberty, for the preservation of
 the Uuion, for education, for the elevation of woman, for the extension of the suf- frage, which has been accomplished in
 this country for generation, has been
 due to the Republican party; that while
 none of these great causes has anything
 to hope for in the future from any other
 source, while every new truth, every claim
 founded on justice will in the future, as
 in the past, find its earliest converts, it's
 most generous recognition, its strongest
 advocates and its first victories among the Republicans of Massachusetts; and that
 pressing duty of the day is to secure hon.
 esty and purity, the right of the people 1 peaceably to assemble and take counsel on public matters and select their agents l free from violence, intimidation and fraud;
 the right to hold caucuses and conven- tions without being cheated and bullied,
 and we therefore call upon all honest Re-
 pubhcans, however they may differ on l other questions, or howsoever they may have advanced in their reception of new ideas, to unite in purging the Common wealth and the nation of violence, treach- cry, and corruption. .-...--...,-. . Res0tUed, That we demand such 1egis-
 lation on the hours of labor as will secure
 the ten hour system for women and minors
 employed in the. factories of Massachu- setts. ..... | : .
 | Resolved, That the Republican party is
 the party of temperance, order and law; l that it favors the honest and impartial
 execution in good faith of all laws, espec-
 ially those for the suppression of crime,
 intemperance, and disorder; that the 1 character and 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 cheerfully l by all law-abiding citizens, until repealed | by the same authority.
 Resolved, That the Republicans of
 Massachusetts look with pride upon the Republican administration of the Com monwealth, and recognize in their candi-
 date for Governor, Wm. B. Washburn, the same qualities of watchfulness for the public interest and care for the public welfare which he has so conspicuously exhibited as one of our representatives in
 Congress, and we commend him and his associates upon the ticket this day nomi-
 mated to the hearty support of the good
 people of the Commonwealth.