The Portland daily press., 1888-09-13
ANOTHER TERM FOR GOVERNOR AMES.
Republicans of Massachusetts In
Convention at Boston.
The Speech Which They Heard and
the Resolutions They Adopted.
Last Years Position RESPECTING the
Liquor Traffic ReaffIrmed.

Trains 10 Boston DrouSnt large numbers OF
delegates to the Republican convention. and
by 10 o'clock the corridors and parlors of the
| fremont were filed. There was some ac
tive work done on behalf Of the several can
didates for State Treasurer, and Hon. Geo.
A. Marden appeared to have the largest fol-
lowing. At half past ten O'Clock the dele
gates began to assemble at fremont Temple,
and at IL o'clock. the hour named in the
call, the body of the hall and the first bal
cony were filed with delegates. There were
many prominent men among the delegates,
and better looking body of men could not
be found.
Dr. Burden, chairman Of the State COM
mittee. formally opened the convention, and
the call was read by the secretary, Hon.
Robert A. Southworth.
On motion of w. S. Slocum, Of Newton, a
temporary organization was effected by the
choice Of DR.. f. l.. Burden as chairman, and
Hon. Robt A. Southworth and j. Otis
Wardwell as secretaries.
Rev. Nehemiah Boynton then offered pray
er.
A permanent organization was effected
with Hon. John d. Long as chairman, and a
long list of vice presidents. headed by Gen.
N. p. Banks.
As Mr.. Long appeared upon the platform
he was accorded tremendous reception, and
then spoke as follows:
Hon. John D. Longs Address.
Four years ago the country tried an ex-
pertinent. That experiment has failed, and
the country is about to abandon it. We said
it would fail. We said the Republican party,
which had preserved the Union and made its
people prosperous and happy, was the party
to administer its government. We said that
the Democratic party, under the leadership
of the men who had endeayored to destroy
the Union and set up a nation on different
constitution and principles, and who had
stood in the way of the progress of the
country, was not the party TO control its des-
TIMES. We said this, not because we were
not above the meanness of raking open the
embers Of past civil strife, but because the
fundamental difference in political principle
and policy, which in those men led to that
strife. now in the same men leads to legisla-
tion and an administration of the govern
ment not in harmony with the interests and
demands of the great body of the people. We
said that the change would work three
grievous things. First, that it would con-
firm the brutal, violent and subversive Dem
ocratic suppression of free ballot and fair
count % IL In ,dI1 the South. That prediction has
bama, Louisiana, and other Southern States,
the right of suffrage is as remorselessly trod-
den under foot as the fallen leaves of forest
IN autumn, so absolutely crushed out that
despair has actually silenced even complaint;
and two Republicans, palpably, plainly, and
beyond all question elected to the present
Congress from districts in which the Repub-
llcan majority is notoriously from 10000 to
10000, have been refused their seats in the
House of Representatives with a superb
contempt, of which the election of Grover
Cleveland four years ago has made the as
sumption as easy as that of a stakeholder of
1850 for Northern doughface.
Second, we said that the reform of the
civil service had become s0llittle crystallized
in our politics that a change Of parties would
result in losing the steps that had been
gained in its behalf. That prediction has
been fulfilled. Every pledge has been brok-
deliberately violated. Every loud profession
in itsifavor has been but the humbugging pre-
tence that concealed a blow at its life. We
talk OF the spoils system of Andrew Jackson.
History records that its excesses were less,
even proportionately, than those of Grover
Cleveland. In Indiana and Maryland the
friends of civil service reform turn in dis
gust from the spectacle of civil service
olduBubCls AltCi ulo 1OuI year QTcdm tine
Mugwump is rudely walked to find that his
pulled idol of reform is awarded on all hands
the fame not of ref0rmer at all, but of the
biggest and most skillful boss in his party, or
that eyer sat in the White House. Faithful
officials are removed and party bummers,
murderers, thieves and jailbirds knowingly
put in their places for purely partisan rea-
sons and use. If the Republican civil SER
vice law has saved a few clerks-here and
there head-it is to point moral and adorn
10 Eodo off hnlA ko,r h.ox.
egged on to manipulate party nominations.
Mrs. Maguiness's pig is the latest reform
phase OF political assessment. The party
lash, directed from the White House. has
whipped each sheering or shying leader into
line. The Treasury. Department refuses to
ask for the usual additional appropriations
to maintain the customs service, and thus
finds, on the eve of a Presidential election,
an excuse for dismissing Republicans from
ONCE but when they are out then i secures
the lacking appropriation and fills their
places with the faithful. 1t Is throughout
one shameful and complete system of the use
OF government patronage for the promotion
Oh partisan Sa success. :. Even this were
the the y pretence aS and hu%bSg Mebs nOS which bSf
60 with it; which the round-eyed
Mugwump swallows with open mouth, not
quite cetrain that he likes the taste and ner-
yously fumbles his eyeglass; which have
done the cause of civil service reform an in
calculable public harm by making 1t public
laughinglstock; and which, with the honora-
pie exception OF the Secretary of War, who
has kept his department from the spokesman,
have earned for this administration. as its
representatives in public letters and on col
lege platforms pose for reform, the finest
reputation Tor hypocrisy that has been en-
Joyed since the days of the oleaginous Peck
snift. And now, to cap this unctgeus climax,
we nave the spectacle of the Chief Magistrate
OF the republic, the spring and fountain head
OF tne public service, renewing the system of
piitlcal assessments, ostentatiously contrib
utlng to the political slush fund the sum of
PLY Slo,Uoo from the salary paid him for non-par-
tisan services out Of the peoples money, and
thus gently but Enthusiastically intimating to
the whole hundred thousand or more Federal
ofheholders, at whose head he stands master,
the propriety OF their.following his exsmplel
Strange irony OF circumstance: the inde-
pendent will hardly relish the caustic and
righteous criticism made yesterday on this
act OF Grover Cleveland by James G.. Blaine
Ihlrd, we said that the election of Demo-
cratic administration meant an assault on
the American system of protection to Ameri-
can industries and labor. That prediction
also has been verified. In the most direct
terms the President has declared that sys-
tenn to be vicious, inequitable:and illogical"
expressly against the removal Of in.
ternal taxation, and impliedly against
that Of the tariff on sugar, he has declared
that the reduction of the surplus must be
AOl NJ UbucI IcoOuICC ID ltlb-DY Lle re-
moval of the tariff on those manufacturing
industries in respect to which we compete
with foreign labor. in other words, he has
declared for free trade in all foreign com
peting Industrial products, which is what we
mean by free trade in these discussions.
Democratic administration spokesmen In
Congress and everywhere else have de-
nounced the system of protection as robbery
and plunder The Mills bill is avowedly 4
tentative measure taken as step toward
the ultimate entire prostration of that sys-
TEN. 1t is childish and evasive to claim for
a moment that there is no vitality important
issue between the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, or to claim, and men of the
honesty of Mr.. Garrison do not claim that
the issue between them is not the clear, we'll
defined and positive issue between free trade
and protection. There is no issue as to the
reduction Of the surplus revenue. The
President, in his message and letter of ac
ceptance, harps on this point as If anybody
differed from him on it, the divergence being
as to method only. One reading him would
think the Republican party resisted reduc-
tion and had done nothing toward it. In
fact, during the % years since the war each
party has controlled the. House of Repre-
sentatiyes (which can alone originate re-
venue bills) IL wears. In that time the Re-