Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-08
Massachusetts Democrats.

vention organized to- day in Faneuil hall with
Leverett Saltonstall as permanent president.
On motion of Judge Abbott John Quincy
Adams was nominated by reclamation for gov
ernor. A committee was about to be appoint
ed to name the remainder of the ticket when
delegate nominated Gen. NJ. T. Donohoe for
secretary of State. There were cries of ''No,
no. He is a Butler man; give it to us straight"
A gentleman said that the person who named
Donohoe was not a member of the convention.
A committee was appointed to complete the
ticket. Judge Abbott reported that MIR. Adams
was out of town, but would take the flag of
the Democracy and bear it where the conven-
ton wished. (Applause.)
The ticket completed follows For
lieutenant governor, W. P. Plunkett; secretary
Of state, Gen. NJ. T. Donahoe; treasurer and
receiver general, David N. Skillings; auditor,
Wul. R. Field; attorney general, Richard Olney.
J. g. Abbott, P. A. Collins Geo. w. Gill and
Reuben Noble were elected delegates at large
to the national convention.
The following resolutions we're adopted:
The Democrats of Massachusetts, in conven-
ton assembled, reaf6rm the national Demo-
cratic platform of 1876 as an authoritative ex-
position of the principles of our party, and
whole country that these principles were in
dorsed in the national canvass by the suffrages
of decided majority of the American people
and the electoral college.
We pronounce verdict of guilty upon the
Republican party and demand stern retribu-
ton for the great public crime by which the
people were defrauded of their right to be gov
erned by the ruler of their choice and by which
the elective principle was wounded in its most
vital part.
We assume that the liberties of the individu-
al is best protected by constitutional division
of power of the government between State and
federal officials, and we favor strict constrhc-
ton of that constitutional grant which shall
prevent encroachment by either State or fed
eral legislation on the rights granted to the
other, OR those which reserved to the peo-
pie, Individually collectively, to the end that
we may remain free and sovereign people.
The whole spirit of the declaration of indie
pendence, as we'll as the letter, that all men are
equally entitled to the enjoyment of ife
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. points to
the right of suffrage as the only means by
which this equality of liberty and obedience
to constitutional law can be enjoyed together
by them, and we denounce the restrictions and
abridgement of the right of suffrage by the
legislature of Massachusetts as dangerous to
liberty and subversive of the supremacy Of
justice and reason in affairs of State.
We demand that the exercise of right of suf-
frage should be encouraged and the
registry law 60 formed that the largest posi-
BILE portion of the community may be brought
under the educating influence of participa-
ton in public affairs, and voice in the max
ing Of the laws, by which they are to be gov
erned, and we believe tho present registry
laws are framed more for defranchising citi-
zens than for protecting the purity of the bal
lot box. .-@-
We believe thorough reform in the laws
regulating the levy of taxes is absolutely
necessary, We favor measures which will
tend to elevation of labor and the improve
and we oppose all legislation as to labor which
| tends to make labor dishonorable or gives
social political preference to any class in So
| ciety or special advantages over others.
! We desire to promote free thought, free
speech, free education, and free and equal
rights to every man, and protection in the
enjoyment of his own religion. ~
We believe in prosperity arising from in
dustry and economy, and We denounce the
| grant OF exclusive privileges to any body of
| men, the extravaganza of the State administra-
ton, and the laying of burdens on one class of
men for the benefit of another class, or from
| which others are exempted.
We oppose the future borrowing of money
| by States, cities or towns, so that an end may
be put to the system which anticipates the
labor OF coming ages and appropriates the
| fruits of it in advance, which coins the in
| dustry Of future generations into cash and
| snatches the inheritance from children yet I'M
| born. 49, 1=
| We believe there are too many commission
| ers in the State and too little executive and
| legislature control over them; too many and
too summary laws, too much special legisla-
| ton, too many officials, too much legislative
! effort to restrict liberty and invent new crimes
and misdemearors, and too many obsolete
! laws kept on the statute book, and we arraign
| the Republican party and all its clique, that
| its legislation in this State is adverse to the
progressive spirit of civil liberty and tends to
the depreciation Of the citizens and to the GRE
alton of an official aristocracv with long ten
| ures of Office and without responsibility to the
| people.
Our thanks are due the Democrats in Con-
gress for their efforts to enforce economy in
| public expenses, to abolish useless Offices and
to correct manifold abuses in public affairs,
not the least of which are the exclusion Of in
telligent citizens from the jury box, and the
buying and maintaining of an army of official
hirelings around the polls for partisan pur-
| poses.
| We believe in self-government by the people
and desire that the polls shall be free from iu-
reference of federal bayonets, directed by the
| intrigues of . federal partisan executive.
We believe that the purity of the baliot-bo1
can be better preserved through State author.
ity than by federal interference.
We protest against laws which authorize the
arrest of citizens at the polls without warrant
or hearing, and the suppression of their votes
by imprisoning their persons until after cleo
ton as upturning the foundation Of free gov
eminent, and we call on Congress to aid the
i people and rescue the freedom of elections, I'M
deferred by Republican clamors OF Presidentia
/ vet0es.
The Democratic party has always denied tina