The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-09-20
MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Democratic Convention at
Worcester.
RINGING PLATFORM COVERING
THE WHOLE GROUND.
The Theft of the Presidency Properly
Denounced.

Worcester, Mass, Sept. I3.-Mechan-
les Hall was filled this morning with
delegates to the Democratic State Con-
vention, and large number of specta-
tors assembled in the galleries. The
Convention was called to order by Ed
ward Avery, Chairman of the State Cen
trail Committee, and that gentleman also
acted as temporary Chairman, the tenn.
porary Secretary being F. w. Clapp.
The usual committees being appointed,
the State Central Committee was in
creased from 40 to s. members. Chas.
Theodore Russell was made permanent
Chairman, and after his speech a recess
was taken.
The Nominations.
Upon reassembling, nominations were
made as follows:
Governor, VIM. Castor; Lieutenant
Governor, VIM, r. Plunkard Secretary
of State, Weston Howland; Treasurer
and Receiver General, David M. Skill.
ings; Auditor, John E. Fitzgerald; At
torney General, Chas, P. Thompson.
The Platform.
The following platform was unani-
mously adopted;
We affirm and announce the National
Democratic platform of 1876 as the au>
thoritative exposition of the principles Of
our party, and we congratulate our po.
litical brethren of the whole country that
these principles were indorsed in the
National canvass by the sufrages of
decided majority of the American peo>
pie. We believe the people fairly elect
ed a majority of the Electoral College in
favor of the Democratic candidates, and
while in the high interest of public tran
guilty we submit to the authority OF the
constituted Federal Administration, we
denounce upon the guilty Republican
party stern retribution for the great pub
lie crime by which the people were de.
frauded of their right to be governed by
rulers of their own choice and by which
the elective principle was wounded in its
most vital part. We challenge for 1.-THE
opprobrium of history and the indignant
Judgment of all honest men.
We congratulate the country and sup
porters Of free government everywhere
upon the happy results Of restored pub
lie order and reviving industrial pros
perity, the Inauguration of new reign
of domestic peace and liberty, regulated
by law in the Southern section of the
Union, that have ensued upon the adop'
ton of Democratic principles and meas
ures of administration by the Executive
Department of the Federal Government
in reference to the Southern States. We
recognize in this auspicious result wins
dication and practical triumph of consti.
tutional doctrines so faithfully contend
ed for by Democrats in the late political
contest and the craftsmanship of the
wise fathers which seeks the welfare of
the Republic by the support Of equal
rights and dignities of all the States in
the Federal Union. We trust that heres
after there will be no Southern policy
no Northern policy-but one common
policy for the whole Union, and equal
ty OF rights and duties of all men before
the law.
Resolved, That the present system of
taxation in Massachusetts is unequal,
unjust and oppressive, and manifestly
inconsistent with the principles Of poit
ical economy, and the time has come for
thorough reformation of the laws reg"
ulating the levying of taxes.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
re-enactment of the Prohibitory law.
The Labor Agitation.
Resolved, That we view with concern
the depression under which the laboring
interests of this Commonwealth now
suffer. We recognize the fact that the
condition of labor and the welfare of la
boring men, and the just relations of
capital and labor, are pressing questions
vet to be solved. We favor such meas
ures as will tend to the great consumma-
ton, the elevation of labor and the i'm.
provement of the condition of the labor
ing men and we oppose all legislation
with regard to labor and capital which
gives an unjust preference to either over
the other, or tends to make labor dis.
honorable.
Resolved, That the practice of bor>
rowing money for other objects than
those of a strict public necessity has
generated schemes of extravagant ex.
penditures until taxation has became
we'll nigh an intolerable burden. Hon
esty, economy and "pay as we go"
should be the rule in all appropriations
of the peoples money. The powers of
States, counties, cities and towns to bor-
row money ought to be rigidly limited,
so an end may be put to the system
which Anticipates the labor of the COM
ing ages and appropriates the fruits oft
in advance; which coins industry of fu-
ture generations into cash, and snatches
inheritance from children yet unborn.