, 1885-10-08
DEMOCRATS
Of the Old Bay State in Con-
vention.
They Pledge Unfaltering Sup
port to the President,
And Make a Platform Good,
Strong and True.
Massachusetts Democratic Conven-

usual committees were appointed 1h
committee on permanent organization re
ported John Il. Fitzgerald for president
He addressed the convention at som
length, congratulated the convention upoI
the election of a Democratic president an,
said: Whether our lease of power shal
continue longer than four years. depend
upon how well we hate profitted by tn
lessons of the past, and how zcalously an,
honestly we strive to carry out the pro
misses made the people in our state an,
national platforms" He strongly en-
J dorsed the administration of the presiden
and commended him for his determinn
ton to carry out the reforms promised il
the Chicago platform. The speaker con
~gratulated the country upon the unmis
taxable signs of the death of ~sectionalisn
and said: "FossIlism ceases to interest, be
it Democratic or Republican, and masque
rading before the people in %ensanguined
clothing of the dead and buried issues, a,
Senators Hoar and Sherman are doing, i,
a ridiculous sight.
Mr.. Avery, from the committee on
resolutions, presented the following plat
form: We, the Democrats Of Massachu.
sets, in convention assembled, renew ouI
adherence to the principles of Democracy,
declared by the last national convention at
Chicago. W. congratulate the people Of
the whole country on the election and in
auguration of a Democratic president and
vice president. We have full faith in the
president, in his wise caution, his far
seeing sagacity, his courage and firmDess,
his determination to administer the gov
ernment in the interest of the whole
people, and his devotion to the funda-
mental principles of national Democracy.
We expect that under his administration
every reform required to make the gov
ernment pure and honest will be made;
that the liberty and rights of every citizen
in every section of our own country and
on the soil Of every foreign country, will
be zealously guarded and carefully pre-
served; that sectional prejudice and jeal-
ousy will disappear and that that pervad.
ing spirit of nationality will be revived
which makes every citizen glory in the
prosperity and honor of a common coun-
try; that the civil service viii
be established on a broad basis
of justice and equality, securing to
the administration official sympathy
with its policy, not creating an
an official class, which shall be above and
beyond the people, but giving to each and
every citizen who is capable and honest,
the right to selection for public employ
menti that it well recognizes the principle
that every officer of the republic is a pub
lie servant, strictly responsible to the
people and holding his Office subject to the
will of the people; that the public land be
rescued from the hand Of speculators and
land monopolies, and preserved for the
use Of the people to whom it justly be.
longs; that the principal departments Of
the government will be economically and
honestly administered so as to impose tn,
least possible burden of taxation on tn,
people, and hat the confidence of the
people in their love of liberty, their fidelity
to the constitution and their devotion t(
the union will be restored.
We therefore pledge to Grover Cleye