Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-25
THE CAMPAIGN.

l kill and Chairman Draper of Albany spoke. After the speaking a reception was held at | the house of Senator Mccarthy.
 THE CAMPAIGN.
 Buffers Massachusetts State COnven- tfOn.
 WORCESTER, Mass, September 24.-The State convention of the Peoples party was called to order at 12 o'clock this morning by Colonel A. c. Drinkwater, who welcomed the delegates to 'fthe first convention of the Peoples party, and the true Democratic party of the country" Joseph O'Neil, of Boston, I was chosen temporary chairman. It having been announced that General Butler would ] reach Worcester at noon, it was voted that the convention adjonrn in time to proceed to the depot in body to escort their candidate to the hall. The committees were then announced and a recess taken. On reassembling at 2 o'clock the conven- tion was addressed by it's permanent chair man, Colonel N. A. Plympton, who said that the fundamental principle on which the Peoples party built was "equal rights, equal burdens, equal powers and equal privileges" The Republican party, he said, had accom- plished the purpose for which it was ganized, and the Democratic party in nom mating it's worst possible candidate had missed its opportunity. From every section of the country comes the demand for new departure. The Republican party at each successive election comes forward with fresh promise of better things to come. When the election is over that promise is forgotten The Democratic party promises, if we give them power, to reduce the total of taxation to sum necessary to de- fray the expenses of the government; but they refuse absolutely, in leyying the taxation, to so levy it as to promote and elevate American labor and foster and cher ish American industry. Colonel Plympton in conclusion referred to Butler as man whose public record is stainless and the puri- ty and integrity of whose private life para lyzes the tongue of political slander-jurist, soldier and statesman-the peer of any living man and the inferior of none.
 The following is the complete State ticket nominated: For governor, Judge J. J. Me Caffery, Worcester; lieutenant governor, Colonel John F. Marsh, Springfield; secre- sary of state, John P. Sweeny, Lawrence; treasurer, Nathaniel S. Cushing, Middleboro; auditor, Israel w. Andrews, Davners; at torney general, T. W. Clark, Boston. Af- ter very long and heated session the plat form prepared last night was torn all to pieces. As finally adopted the platform is in substance this:
 
 candidate for the presidency presented at Chicago To General Buffers labor plank added the words Contracts for convict labor should longer be made and the convicts should be taught by State instructors the use of hand tools and employed in
 Resolved In addition to General Buffers platform that as human life is of more value than money for accidents caused to employees through neglect
 The national eight hour law and the State ten hour law should be rigidly enforced We also de- A Legislation manded to make more efectual the provision of the not be hindered in holding gatherings to advise their representatives. Biennial elections are op- posed and indiscriminate pensions are not looked upon with favor. Butler and West are heartily en- dorsed.
 Designations From The Young Re.
 publican Club OfBrookIyn.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Mr w. H. Nich- ols of the Brooklyn Young Republican club today formally rendered his resignation of that office and urged an early acceptance of the same He gives as his reason for this step that he cannot indorse the action taken by the club last night in declaring for Blaine and Logan and feels that the club has made a fatal mistake Mr. Nichols also gives the names of several members of the club who will resign forthwith, among them three of fcers and member of the executive commit tee.
 ROsecrans Writes to a Catholic Priest.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-The following letter from General W. S. Rosecrans to Rev. J. 5. Barley, based upon an edititorial para graph in morning paper, explains itself:
 WASHINGTON, Sept 4, 1884.
 Rev. Dear Father-I never have found much reason to trust man who openly de nies the religion in which he was educated. Amongst the actions upon which our religion lays maledictions are the denial of our Lord and "making and loving ies." That MT. Blaine was brought up by a Catholic mother is well known, and equally well known is it that he has formally denied the Catholic faith and gotten certificate of his membership of a Congregational church from it's pastor. Whilst at Augusta, Me-, during the latter part of last month a weekly newspaper of that city-Plaisted ex-governor, and Morton proprietors-in then current number pub lished evidence under oath by witnesses highly considered for intelligence. conscien- tiousness and integrity, proving beyond req sonable question that in 1875 while chairman of the Maine Republican State central com mlttee James G. Blaine, now the Republican nominee for the presidency, caused to be printed and secretly circulated, where it was expected to do the most good to that party, circular addressed: 'tTo the Demo crats of Maine" and signed Protestant Dem ocrat" and known as 'EtheMadioan circular'' in
 
 Maine generally against "the machinationss of theCatholic hierarchy and Esthe secret soci- ety of Jesuits as planning to secure political power through Congress for the destruction of our system of common schools and thus depriving the poor of their only means of education" The circular states that "aIready they have four United States senators x x one of whom was elected by the use of S1OO,- GOO of Jesuit money" and that when there was a threat of investigation, 'the resigned rather than risk an exposure of the secrets of his order" (Ihe circular said he was lay member of the secret society of Jesuits.'0 Whether he far over estimated the dense ignorance and credulity of those whom the gigantic falsehoods of the circular were designed to dupe is uncertain. but there can be no doubt of the deviIish- ness of its appeal to religious bigotry and fa- naticism to secure miserable party advan- tage for those who twenty years before had made vile investment in Know nothlnglsm for similar purpose. Every statement in that circulation is a falsehood directly or by implication. These facts ought to be known to every cit izen whose duty requires him to voie for President of the United States at the ap- preaching election. They are bound to vote according to the law and the best of their Judgment and conscience for the common good of the whole country. It is matter of conscience above all things to choose an honest executive. Does any one doubt what the stockholders of any corpora tion would think of any director who voted to elect as president of the company a man proved to have been engaged in the circula- tion of mean and dastardly calumnies to inn pose upon the ignorant, the credulous and the unwary for his own credit or advantage, but the voter is one of the trustees of the great corporation known es the United States of America and votes as such when voting for president of this great corporation. By the greatness of the interests involved he is proportionately bound to take care that he chooses for President man whose anteced- ents assure everyone that he is trustworthy ] Can anyone not given over to believe a lie