Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-30

WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. %. - The
Democratic state convention was called
to order this morning by Chairman
Cochran, of the state central committee.
He made short address. Committees
were appointed and the convention
permanently organized by the choice OF
Hon. P. A. Collins, of Boston, as chair
man. The chairman in his speech while
speaking of the Republican party, said;
''The present complaint is that there
has been too large a coinage OF silver
dollars, worth as bullion or merchan-
die only so cents piece, and there
is fear that continued coinage, or
worse, larger coinage, will dangerously
initiate the currency and ultimately
drive gold out of circulation. A year
ago the treasury was coming at the rate
of 50, ,O0O,0 900 month of these S0-cent
dollars, and the demand on the part OF
sound financiers was that this coinage
should cease, or that something should
be done to insure the parity of the silver
dollar with the gold one; but the adj
ministration had a debt due the
silver men of the far west as well as
to the iron and wool men and to
other monopolists. So the silver men
demanded payment. The result was
the Sherman act. The Republican res
olution adopted recently here at the
state convention, coupled with the vote
of their representatives IN the last con-
gress, means that the Republican posi-
ton here is not hostile to any silver bill
short of free coinage. This position is
as dangerous in the view OF conserva-
tive men here as the more frank and
consistent declaration OF the Republi-
cans of the west"
In closing the speaker said: "We oc-
cupy a sound, safe and consistent posi-
ton, and the vote of the people this fall,
if cast for our candidates, will strengthen
their hands and enlarge the influence of
the Democrats who take their seats in
the house next December"
William Eustis Russell, of Cambridge,
was re-nominated for governor.
The committee on resolutions then re-
ported the platform which was adopted
unanimously. 1t endorses the princi-
pies of the national Democratic party
and commends the state administration;
renews the party's declaration on the
subject of labor; affirms sympathy with
all wise and constitutional measures in
its interests; renews the demand for
the repeal of the Mckinley tariff law;
declares in favor of the enact
ment of genuine measures of re-
form. The Republican admin
istration is arraigned for destroying the
efficiency of the census bureau for the
sake of furnishing political spoils for
neglecting to bring prosecutions for pun
ishment of violations of the civil law;
for ignoring the recommendations OF the
civil service commission; for non-dis-
missal of officials who openly defied the
law; for reviving the active participa-
ton of office holders in partizan politics
and the assessment of government en-
ployes for partizan purposes.
The platform declares in favor of hon
est money and reaffirms the declaration
in the national Democratic platforms OF
1884 and 1888, expressing uniform pol
icy. 1t declares that all dollars coined
by the United states should be of equal
intrinsic value and that all paper
currency issued by the government
should be redeemable in either
gold or silver at the option of
the holder and not at the discretion of
the secretary OF tne treasury; DeHeVeS
in the use of both gold and silver as
money; in the full remonetizing of the
latter metal by international agree
ment, and opposes free and unlimited
coinage of silver and the dangerous"
silver legislation enacted by the last
congress.
Governor Russell entered the hall
about O'Clock and addressed the con-
ell 20 tfollx fhea
same line of argument used by the
previous speaker, and reiterated the
principles and denunciations of the
platform.
The ticket was completed as follows:
Lieutenant-governor, John W. Cono7an; !;
secretary of state, Elbridge Cushman /;
treasurer and receiver, General James
Grinnell; auditor, w. d. Trefry; attor-
nev-peneral. George M, Stearne.