Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-01
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
BAY STATE DEMOCRATS
Throwing StraWs To The
Labor Vote.
NO YACHT RACE THIS SEASON.
The MayfIower Goes Into
Winter Quarters.
NO YACHT RACE THIS SEASON.
GEORGE ASKED TO WITHDRAW.
The Scare About Over At
Charleston.
MASSACHUSETTS, DEMOCRATS.

Charleston.
| MAsSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS.
| John r. Andrew Nominated for Gov
ernor ON a Platform Designed to
| Catch the Workingmen.
| BOSTON, Sept. 30.-Congressman Collins
called the Democratic State convention to
order in Mechanics Hall at 11:30 this morn
ing. Hon. Henry P Lowering, of lynn, was
made chairman and delivered speech which
| aroused considerable enthusiasm. The Hon.
James S. Grinnell, of Greenfield, then nomi-
mated as candidate for governor Hon. John
F. Andrew, whose name was received with
great enthusiasm. The nomination was SEC
onded by Hon. William E. Russell, of Cam
| bridge, who was received with cheers and
| music by the band. William E. Plummer,
| of Newton, moved as a substitute to the
pending motion that an informal ballot be
taken. Charles E. Endicott read an essay on
labor and then nominated Hon. William E,
Russell as candidate for governor. Mr.. Rus
sell said he came to the convention for a
different purpose and he could not in honor
or decency allow his name to be used. The
motion to proceed to an informal ballot was
lost and Mr.. Andrew was nominated by
nearly unanimous vote. Committees were
then named to nominate the balance of the
State ticket. A recess was then taken until
$50 o'clock.
The convention was called to order at 245
and the committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported list of forty two vice presi-
dents and nineteen secretaries, which was
read. The report was accepted. The COM
mittee on resolutions reported through its
chairman, Colonel Charles II. Taylor. The
report was accepted and the resolutions were
adopted. The committee appointed to select
fifteen candidates for the central committee
reported through its chairman, Mr. Morrison
of Clinton. Hon. P. A. Collins stated to the
convention his desire to withdraw from the
State central committee. He moved to
amend the report by striking out his name.
The motion was voted down almost unani-
mously. Mr.. Collins reiterated his inten-
ton, substituting the name of James E. Nc
Geoch, of Boston. The committee to nomi-
nate the balance of the State ticket reported
and it was accepted with the exception of
William Aspinwall, of Brookline, who de-
clined to serve as candidate for State treas
urer and receiver general. The full State
ticket as adopted by the convention is as fol-
lows:
Governor-John F. Andrew, of Boston.
Lieutenant goyernor-Frank K. Foster, of
Haverhill.
Secretary of State-John R. Thayer, of
Worcester.
Treasurer and receiver general-Lewis
Warner, of Northampton.
Auditor-W. F. Cook, of Springfield.
Attorney general-John w. Corco1an, of
Clinton.
The committee on credentials reported that
A., oil 1aI l,xy
Walter Savage was entitled to a seat in the
convention and that the petitioners of the
Suffolk county Democracy be given leave to
withdraw. Mr.. George Brine, heading the
contesting delegation from Winchester, was
granted a hearing and presented his claims
to the convention from the platform. Mr..
Brine moved the committees report be ia
bled 1t was moved to amend by admitting
both delegations. One of the admitted dele
cations said they would not submit to that
amendment This was received with laugh
ter, applause and jeers. A scene of great
form doing his best to be heard. He said
the fight was in the town between the friends
of General Corse, represented by the speaker,
and the Butler faction, represented by Brine.
The amendment to admit both delegations
was carried and they were admitted with
half votes Three cheers were given for the
candidates and at $40 the convention adj
iourned sine die.
The platform begins by commencing the
administration of President Cleveland and his
adherence to his ante-election pledges in re-
gard to the civil service, demands iudicious
reform of the tariff, claiming that all needed
protection to capital and labor can be as
sured under revised Gale of duties which
will afford all the revenues required and con-
tinues:
The citizens of Massachusetts have an
abiding interest in the ocean fisheries which
how hoo, 1al 1xrho
vessels and fishermen. While taxation direct
and indirect is imposed and revenue drawn
by town, State and federal government from
the hardy fishermen who fish under her
flag, we shall oppose all efforts to admit
rivals under foreign flag to sell their fish
free of duty and taxes in the markets of the
United States.
We welcome the of organized
labor. Remembering the long and earnest
struggle made by the Democrats of Massachu-
sets for the rep al of the tax on the poor
mans ballot, we have the right to congratu-
late the workingmen that at last the Repub
lican party has surrendered on this issue and
that an amendment abolishing the poll-tax
qualification is on its way to the people. We
recur with satisfaction to the efforts of Dem
ocrats in the legislature to secure the passage
of measures in the interests of labor and can
fairly appeal to the working people of the
State to sustain the party which has fought
its battles and to whose sturdy stand in their
behalf they owe not only the promised re-
peal of the tax on their ballots, but the enact
ment of the labor arbitration bill and
other measures favorable to the cause.
Our State representatives favored an en-
ployers' liability bill, but it was emasculated
by the Republican senators and finally de-
feated because it was unfair and just and
was opposed by all the Representatives of or
ganized labor. We pledge ourselves again
to the task of abolishing contract labor in
hna vfa nain of tan hnI1
law to exclude women and children employ
ed in mercantile establishments. We again
protest against the importation under con-
tract of alien and servile labor to compete
with the honest free labor of the land We
pledge our support to every well considered
measure by which labor seeks to improve its
condition and secure its fair share in the
product of its cooperation with capital.
The self governing principle is fundamen-
tai in the Democratic faith, which holds that
all just government must rest on the consent
of the governed. We denounce the denial
of this cardinal maxim of the free
government to the people OF
the city of Boston and demand the restora-
ton to them of their rights to control their
| own affairs, appoint their own police, main
| tain order by officials of their own choice
| and have absolute authority over their own
expenditures. We denounce the unfair add
| interruptions and partisan division of the
senatorial and other districts recently made
by the Republican party in this State as IN
worthy Of and disgrace to any political or
ganization which pretends to be governed by
| any sentiment of justice and equity.
| The platform closes by deploring the death
of the eminent Democrats George B. McClel-
| Ian, Winfield Scott Hancock, Thomas A.
Hendricks and Samuel J. Tilden, and notes
with sorrow the recent death of Colonel
| Charles G. Green.
| Students Bound over as lncendiaries.
| PALMER, Mass, Sept. 30.-George D. Bar
dell, an Amherst college freshman, formerly
student of Monson academy, and James U.
Plat, also student at Monson, were before
the District court this morning charged with