Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-08
BAY STATE DEMOCRATS.
Frank o. Prince Nominated for GOV.
ernor on the Second Ballot
The Rest of the Ticket.
The Convention Does it's work Briefly
and ACKNOWLEDGMENT Platform
of Principles.

order at / 80 this morning by III &. 4
a. Collins. The usual committees I
were appointed The committee on per- |
organization reported j. Il. Fitz- /
gerald for president. Mr.. Fitzgerald !
upon taking the chair addressed the con-
yention at some length He con-
graduated the convention on the election
of a Democratic p esident and said,
whether our lease OF power shall continue
longer than four years depends upon how
well we have pronted by the lessons of
the past, and how seriously and honestly
we strive to carry out the promises made
the people in our state and national plat
forms. He strongly Endorsed the admin
istratlon of President Cleveland,
and commended him for his APP
parent determination to carry out reforms
presented in the Chicago platform. The
speaker extended congratulations upon
the unmistakable signs of the death of
sectionalism, and said that fossilism
ceases to interest, and masquerading be-
fore the people in the ensanguined cloth
ing of dead and buried issues, as Sena-
tors Hoar and Sherman are doing, is u
ridiculous sight, were 1t not absurd and
wicked.
Mr.. Avery, chairman of the committee
on resolutions, presented the following
platform;
We. the Democrats of Massachusetts,,
in convention assembled, renew our adj
hcrence to the principles of Democracy
declared by the national convention at
Chicago. We congratulate the people of
the whole country ON the election and in
auguration of Il Democratic presidentand
vice-presidcnt We have full faith and
confidence In the president in his
wise caution, his sagacity, courage
and firmness; his determination to adj
minister the government in the interest
of the whole people, and his devotion to
the fundamental principles OF national
Democracy. We expect that under
his administration every reform re-
CURED to make the government
pure and honest will be made; that the
liberty and rights of every citizen in
every section of the country and in every
foreign country, will be zealously guarded
and carefully preserved; that sectional
prcjudices and jealousy will disappear
and that the prevailing spirit OF
nationality viii be renewed, which makes
citizens glory in the prosperity and honor
of our common country.
That the ciyil-seryIce will be estab-
lished on Il broad basis of justice and
equality, securing ~ the administration
official sympathy with its policy, not
creating an official class which shall be
above and beyond the people, but
giving to each and every citizen who il
capable and honest the right tC
be selected for public employment; thai
it will recognize the principle that ever!
officer of the republic is Il public servant
strictly responsible to the people, nnC
holding his office subject to the will 0
the people.
That the public lands will be rescuet
from the hands of squatters, spectators
and preserved for the use of the people t.
whom they justly belong.
That administration of the government
, will be as economically and honestly nd
ministeredt to the least possible burden o
taxation on the people, and that conf
dence in the people, in their love of lib
erty, their fidelity to the constitution ant
their devotion to the Union, will be re
stored.
We therefore pledge to Grover Clcve
land, president of the United States, GU
: unfaltering support; we earnestly reques
= that no candidate be nominated for eithc
:, branch of the legislature who is no
pledged to the support OF the following
measures; We are opposed to the pay
, ment of a poll tax as n condition o.
: which the right to vote must rest. w
- believe in free, honest and unobstructe
: ballot, that the right TO vote should AT
y. tach to citizens, and not the dollar. w
y, are opposed to competition of convict
y with labor of honest people, and deman
- such legislation as will prevent it.
= We are in favor of the passage of La
~ requiring corporations to make week.
" payments to their employees. We are
g favor of the immediate enactment of sue
laws as provide for a settlement of Il
differences between the employers and Ell
ployes by arbitration. We believe thu
the commercial intercourse between til
D. several states is materially impeded, an
circumscribed byeXisting laws, relating I
No debtor and creditor, which are detrimcnti
Is to the prosperity of the entire countl.
~ and therefore demand the immediate el
~ actment of Il bankrupt law. That in
ia portance of American fisheries ANA Il
n protection of our coast and seaports
II. time of war ought to secure the seriol
~ consideration of the administration
VI Washington. The Democrats of Mass
chusctts, with profound regret, lamel
" the death OF the great soldier of IL
n Union, L. S. Grant, whose dying messas
~ Va l'NhNN hhh SbpN VIII W lllN poop
40 should be cause for his name to |
nj reyercd through the coming ages
a The resolutions were adopted by
.. unanimous vote, after which recess W,
an taken till O'Clock
,c AFTERNOON SESSION.
No The committee rtassembled at 2;l5
n m. The names of james S. Grinnell
y Plaintleld, Frank @. Prince of Boston
n. and Edward Avery of Braintree we
ic presented to the convention rs suitab
IL persons to be chosen candidate for Il
goycrnorship. On behalf of MIR. Girl
nell, it was claimed he would poll tn
fun Democratic and Mugwump vote, al
$50 the "llayseedn vote besides. ON beha
lc of Mr. Prince it was denied he would
ln opposed by the Butler men, 1t W;
- decided TO proceed to vote, the balo
~ to be taken aS they filed oy
az a, the platform, and committee
In one from each senatorial distri