St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-04
MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS.
They Meet at Worcester and NOmi-
nate State Ticket.
And Call for Reform in the National
Administration.

WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. 3.-The Demo-
cratic State convention was called to order
by Gen. Collins, who congratulated the
Democratic party upon the certainty of sue
cess in November. The officers of the state
committee were made temporary officers of
the convention and committees were ap-
pointed. Twenty-Five cities and 325 towns
were represented by 1850 delegates. Jonas
H. French was made permanent chairman.
An informal vote which was taken
for candidate for governor was
that as a package of votes
had been found so closely put together they
must have been cast by mistake. Colonel
Haggett said what the chair had very mildly
designated as mistake was bunch Of ballots
found by the committee, but every one knew
what such mistakes meant in political con-
vention. He therefore moved the commit
tee be instructed to throw out the bunch OF
ballots in question, and then report the state
of the vote. The motion was carried by a
large majority. 1t was soon announced by
the committee counting the vote that il
would be impossible to comply with the vote
OF the convention. A formal ballot was then
ordered, and the delegates to pass over the
stage and deposit their votes with
the chairman and secretary. On
the first formal ballot William c.
ceiving 3S5 votes of the ri cast, or forty
four votes more than was necessary to q
choice. The nomination was made unani-
nous and the ticket completed as follows
Lieutenant governor, James S. Grinuell;
secretary of state, jeremiah Crowley; treas
urer and receiver, Gen. Charles Marsh; audi
tor, John Hopkins; attorney general, John
| w. Cummings. The convention then ad-
journed.
The platform adopted eongratulates the
! party on the brilliant prospect Of the resto
ration of an honest national government
through the election OF Cleveland and Hen
bricks. 1t declares its assent and unquali-
fed approval of the platform adopted by the
| National Democratic convention. 1t believes
that an administration conducted on those
| principles would secure the people the greatest
blessings of the country, the exact equality
of every citizen under law; justice unbiased
by race, color or creed; laws enacted in the
interest of many, and not of the few; not al
|
ton of capital, butte secure that harmony
between capital and labor, by arbitration OF
otherwise, by which each shall receive its
just proportion. joint production affordins
the fullest protection to labor without dis
turbing tie rights of property; the careful
Outstanding of the public domain for the use
of the geople, and not to be squandered a:
bribes or subsidies to corporations that be-
come vast landed monopoies. The plat
form also calls for war taxes in time OF war
peace taxes in time of peace, with nC
vast surplus in the treasury to excite the Gu
| pidity or encourage extras agance; an Amer
lean navy that shall not be disgrace to the
country, and q jeer and by word amongs
the nations of the earth; the restoration o
our shipping, so that the products of our in
dustries may be borne in American bottoms
under the stars and stripes. The nomina
ton of Blaine, according to the platform, i!
a cause of humiliation; the nomination o
Cleveland is cause of satisfaction, and the
nomination of Hendricks for vice presiden
is a cause for congratulation. The rights o
labor and of extended suffrage are also ad
! yocated.