Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-27
GOV. BUTLER TRIUMPHANT
THE MASSACHUSETTS DEMO
Gratis RE-NONTINATE HIM.

Frederick o. Prince and Strong Party
Ticket, as Well as the Greenbackers,
at His Back Governor ButIer's
Regime COmpIimented in the Plat
form
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 26.-The
Democratic State Convention to-day re-
nominated Governor Butler for Governor.
The following is the remainder of the
ticket:
Lieutenant Governor-Frederick o.
Prince, OF Boston.
Secretary of State-Charles Marke. of
Springfield.
Treasurer and Receiver-Gen. C.. H.
Ingalls,, of New Bedford.
Attorney General-John W. Cummings.
of Fall River
Auditor-Jo ohm Hopkins, of Milbury.
1t will be remembered that Governor
Butler was renominated by the State
Greenbackers. on Monday.
The denomination is regarded as a
telling Presidential boost for His Excel
lency.
The platform, after affirming the prin-
clples of the State platform of 1882, says:
we believe in the supremacy of the ma
bAOh anu Tue Integrity OI the SJaJo IN
equal rights without limitation of race or
sex; In the impartial freedom of the
| ballot; in honest and economic eXpendi-
| lures in the State and nation; in thor
Ough reform Of lthe civil service,
in which fitness, not favor,
snail regulate appointments; in
a tariff limited in amount
to sum necessary and adequate for
revenue; the abolition of excessive war
taxes in these days of peace, and in a still
further reduction of the eXtravagant
State expenditures; we oppose all sump-
tuary laws which infringe on the sacred
rights of personal liberty; we favor the
introduction of a board of arbitration for
the purpose of recOnciling the differences
between employers and employed in
order that better understanding
may exist between capital and labor, and
a more healtful condition of the industrial
interests OF State be brought about. and
commend to the careful consideration of
the Legislature the necessity of a law
which will secure to all employees COM
pensatiOn from their employers for any
personal injuries they may receive while
in the discharge of their dutles."
Resolutions three and four are devoted
to Tewksbury affairs, and after reciting
the abuses developed therein, approve the
energy and perseverance shown by Gov
ernOr Butler to prevent waste and secure
economy III SJate institutions.
The fifth resolution cOmmends Governor
Butler to the people of the State as the
only volunteer soldier ever elected Gov
ernOr of Massachusetts, and urges his re-
election.
The sixth resolution cOmmends the
nominees for State offices.
While the resolutions were being read
the presence of Governor Butler was an
nOunced, and the convention rose and
cheered him as he was escorted to the
platform. After the applause subsided,
he addressed the convention, and at some
length gave an account of his
stewardship and paid his dis
respects to the recent Legislature.
Protesting to feel no anxiety for his own
election, Governor Butler begged his hear
ers to send him Legislators this time who
would have minds of their own and not
have to run to the Republican State Cen
tral Committee before making up their
minds on any topic. There were, he said,
eight of his councillors who agreed with
him in private conversation, butdisagreed
after having got their instructions in
questions of financial and economic
nature. There never had been a
word of difference between them.
He asked that he might now have some
body to back him. When he came into
the office he found the Governor tied down
by the hair OF the head like Gulllver among
the Lilliputians. He could not even ap-
point cOlOred messenger. His prece-
dessors had found the same difficulty.