Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-06
NORTHERN DEMOCRACY.
MEETING or THE MASSACHUSETTS,
DEEOcRAIlc STATE CONVENTION.
The Tree of knowledge Of Good and Evil
Growing on Abolition Soil-lhe Nom
instions-Ths National Debt -
Tariff, The Liquor Quts,
lion, &c.
STATES RIGHTS IN MASSACHUSETTS.

WORCESTER, Mass, October 5.-The
Democratic State Convention was called
to order at ll:25 An. At that hour
not over three hundred delegates were
in the hall. As Col. Jonas II. French,
chairman Of the State Central Commit
tee, appeared upon the platform ne was
greeted with cheers, and addressed the
convention. Col. French spoke teelingly
of President Garfield, who, he said, be-
4osgsd 70 the whole people, and WHOSE
death binds them in closer fellowship.
Jarius n. Dunham was chosen perma.
nent chairman, and Chas. p. Thomp-
son, OF Gloucester, was nominated for
Governor by acclamation. James H..
Carleton was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor. A committee was appointed
TO nominate the balance OF the ticket,
and the convention took recess. The
ticket was completed as follows: For
Secretary OF State, Gen. Michael Dcna.
hue; for Treasurer and Receiver, Col.
Francis Parker; for Attorney General,
General Patrick A. Collins.
The COMMITTEES on Resolutions
Reported the Following Platform:
The Democrats Of Massachusetts,, con-
vened to consult on the common veal,
once more avow our constant faith in
the expedIency and right OF Democracy
in Government as expounded by its
great teachers, those early sages OF the
Republic, Jefferson and Madison. We
believe the Government best adapted
to social welfare is the one which assures
an equal privilege of domestic tranquility
and justice with the least abridgement
of individual freedom. Admonished
by the lessons of history, we are jealous.
ly watchful OF the Government power
so liable to abuse by the ambition and
lust OF rulers, and would hold it
within the narrOwest efficient
limits, establishing its respon.
sible repositories as close as pos
sible to the people. We believe the dis.
tribution OF supreme governmental
powers in the dual sovereignty Of
State and nation as defined in the Fed
eral Constitution aud affirmed in our
State cons tuition, is most conservative
OF a pure administration and of Demo.
cratic political conditions. We deny
that the right inheres in the sovereignty
of the State to defeat the Federal sover-
eIgnty by remuneration OF allegiance to
the Union. and
We Support the Federal Constitution
as supreme in authority over Stare and
people in respect to ali matters express
lv legated to its jurisdiction in the
Union, as indestructible save by success
ful revolution or common COnsent, hut
we equally maintain the right OF the pee
pie OF each State to exercise fully all the
powers OF political sHrc-eign.y mt re-
lirquished to the genera! government,
for the assertion OF its prerogatlve and
digaity as the representative OF great
nalion. The application OF these con-
principles to all concerns Of
Federal and State, is cape.
cially important to tho safety OF demo-
cratic institutions against the inaidiOus
encroachnent OF aristrccratic tendencies
and the efforts of organized avarice and
ambition to employ the powers OF gov
ernment for their profit AMI aggrandizs.
ment by the sacrifice of the common
welfare.
We regard the national debt as a
hindrance to our commercial well being,
the removal of which, by honest pay
ment, as speedily as possible,
with simple and moderate tax.
alton, should be the strenuous
policy of the government and TO that
end We insist on severe frugaiity and
integrity 10 the public expenditures and
the most advantageous investment.
Our Interest Bearing Dob:,
which should be as that of any other
nations debt, should be 80 placed IA to
he within the power OF the Government
to pay it as rapidly as our available re-
sources stall allow. We regard the de
feat OF the Wood funding bill in the las,
Congress by the influence and under
the menace OF an organized money
power, az triumph OF prIvate setishnesS
over public interest and a financial loss
only partially repaired by the unlawful
expedient to which Secretary WindJm
resorted. Our fiscal legislation and
the management OF the Treasury De-
partment have deferred too much TO
witty operators who gamble in money
centers Our satisfaction in the
deb: reduction is qualified by the fact
that the reduction would be greater by
many millions of dollars annually but
for official dishonesty and extravaganza
No apparent zeal in correct ny abuses
when iound out, can eXnrata the party
in power from culpable responsibility
for the existence OF such abuses under
its rule. Under capable administration
such collosal frauds as are exposed in
the postal service, and similar ones
which have scandalized the three last
federal administrations would be impos-
sible. We demand that guilty officials
and their confederates, however in
pace or party favor,
Shall be Punished for Their Crimes
and made TO disgorge their plunder as an
indemnity for their past, and that such
reform be instituted in the adm nistra-
ton methods as shall prevent conspira.
cies in future.
We do strongly assert the importan' e
of an irteligently bold revision OF the
tariff laws now confessedIy III adjusted
and in fact burlensome, by which sew.
eral OF our Industries now Disseminated
against may obtain relief from invidious
injustice; that monopolies be arrested in
their spoilations and the incidental
benefits and burdens be equitably pro
portioned to all as they may consist
with the need OF revenue. Our nstjonsl
police and legislation, TO be democratic
and jusr, must discourage all
monopolies and do equal justice to each
one OF the various industries which
engage the enterprise and labor of the
people. We hold it manifest that the
permanent prosperity OF our land, in
which all industrial arts have home,
cannot be strengthened or made secure
by the destruction or by the
Impoverishment Of Certain Branches of
Industries
to build up and sustain Others The
coming government should protect all