Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-20
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS
Robinson for Governor ana Ames for
Lieutenant Governor.

Boston, Sept. 19.-The Republican
State Convention nominated Congressman
George ID. Robinson for Governor and
Oliver Ames for Lieutenant Governor.
Mr.. Robinson was member of the last
Congress, and was reelected. Mr.. Ames
is Governor Buffers Lieutenant Governor.
The following is the platform:
In presenting to the people of Massachu-
setts its candidates for State offices. the
Republican party does not deem it neces-
sary to this year offer any formal statement
of political principles. Those principles
have been often declared. In national
affairs we believe in equal rights and
fairly counted vote, a thoroughly pure
and reformed civil service beyond the
reach of party conflicts; sound
currency based on an honest specie
dollar; liberal but i'm no
wise eXtravagant or wasteful eXpendi-
ture; largely reduced taxation, and wise
and well matured laws to protect and de-
Velop American industry and enterprise
both at home and o4the ocean. We in
doIse the administration of President Ar
thur as wise, conservative and patriotic
AS respects State affairs we continue to
believe in widely ditfused education: an
even higher standard of temperance legis-
lation; pure and extended suffrage: equal
taxation; an intelligent recognition of
the rights of labor as well as of capital:
and we would take no step backward
in regard to those philanthrOpic, chari-
table and educational institutions, In
the constant development of which our
beloved commonwealth has been ever
foremost All these things we have many
times asserted, and we appeal to the grad
ual and steady progress Enthusiastically ap-
parent through the records of the last
quarter of century, both in the State and
nation, as proof that we have not as
serted in vain. We stand ready TO assert
them now and maintain them also. Mean
while we do not believe in that political
charlatanry which makes a business of
sham reform, indiscrimnately treating
the great moral and humanitarian dues-
tiOns with the public offices and public
issues as counters in the game. the sole
end of which is one mans political pre-
ferment. Neither can we patiently see
methods of political corruption. un-
known here before, introduced into our
State and municipal governments. Un-
less checked here and now, these methods
will surely bring the politics of Massa-
chusetts to the level whichwe have seen
elsewhere, and have not been
slow to vigorously denounce.
This year, therefore, the work of
reform begins at home. The issue is
sWell uHUeTSJOOu. w propose to blot out
in so far as we may the record of the
most discreditable year in the history of
the State. 1t is a time not for many
words, but for decisive action. We pre-
sent, therefore, our candidates as men
simply pledged, if elected, to carry the adj
ministratiOn of affairs back to those better
days when our public men were not first
to traduce the State, but if the State were
traduced by others were ready to stand
up as did Webster once, saying
with honest pride: Massachusetts, there
she is-behold her, and judge for your
selves"
The platform was unanimously adopted.
After the nomination of candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the
balance of the ticket was renOminated by
acclamation, as follows:
For Secretary of State Henry B. Pierce,
of Arlington.
For Treasurer-Daniel A. Gleason, of
MedfOrd.
For Attorney General Edgar j. Sher-
man, of Lawrence.
For AuditOr-Charles r. Ladd, of
Springfield.