Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-27
MASSACHUSETTS, R.publicans,

BOSTON, MASS April Z5.-Ine con
vention WAS called to order by Chairman
Cooper of the state committee. Samuel
V. Miller OF Mercer county was elected
temporary chairman. The mention of the
name of James G. Blaine elected wild en-.
thuEiasms, and q call by q delegate fol-
three cheers for Blaine was heartily re.
sponded to with enthusiastic "tigers."
The protective sentiments in DR.. Bur.
denis address also received hearty ap.
plause. When DR.. Burden had con-
cluded the usual committees were ap-
pointed. A motion that all resolutions
presented to the convention be submitted
to the committee on resolutions without
debate WAS adopted. The committee on
credentials reported 1927 towns and
twenty-five cities represented by 1893 del
egates. The committee on permanent or
ganjzstion reported for president of the
convention General William Coggswen of
Salem.
The platform adopted denounces the
Democratic party as the foe Of honest
elections in the north as well as in the
south, and notices that the same tactics
which made the south solid for Cleveland
in 1884 are already renewed for his re-
election in 1888, that the same strategy
which has put upon the country the
trary to the will Ct the people is again in
operation for stealing seats in the Senate
and House Of representatives..
The tariff plank is as follows: The Re-
publicans of Massachusetts now, as
always, demand that the revenue of the
government shall be collected 80 as to
afford protection to United States in
dustries and labor, and to preserve the
home market and home producer. While
they favor proper revision of the
tariff, they oppose such re-
vision as has for its primary
object the amendment of the protective
principle, and they claim that PROPOSE
tions made by the Democratic party
through the message of the President and
the Mills bill warrant the opposition OF
every citizen who prefers the welfare of
his country to that OF another. The Re-
publican party had devised method. of
securing revenue to carry out the war,
and when the necessity was ended 1t st
once began to reduce that revenue, both
by tariff revision and by cutting OF need
less internal tax. This reduction OF rev.
enue to the current needs Of the govern.
ment the Republican party will continue
when in power.
The next plank declares in favor Of lib.
ersl pension laws and denouuces the
"fippsnt add ungenerous treatment by
the President Of the subject Of pensions"
1t favors reform Of the civil service
which was inaugurated under laws passed
by Republican Congress and approved
bY q Republican administration. The
Democratic president, by a,confessicn Of
his. strongest partisan lis guilty Of "seli
qualification" and "surrender" in regard
to this principle. He has made great
promises and has broken them. We call
upon the people to restore the work of
perfecting such q system to the only
organization which has shown desire to
accomplish 1t.
The platform then declares in favor Of
high license and local option on the
liquor question, denounces the Demo-
cratic party tor its opposition to the ed-
mission Of Dakota into the Unior, and
finally declares in favor of reciprocity in
our trade relations with other countries
upon this continent.
Following was the result Of the ballot
for four delegates at large to the Chicago
convention; whole number of votes, 924 /:
Geo. r. Hoar, 909; r. L. Burden, sos;
Henry S. Hyde, 909; Alanson w. HQfd,
743; George r. Loring, 224; scatt( B,
SO.
The first four were declared elects saAd
the convention adjourned. g
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