The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-09-24
MASSACHUSETTS, REPUBLICANS
Nominations for til. Coming Campaign
The Platform.

Nominations for til. Coming Campaign
THE Platform.
The republicans of Massachusetts
met in state convention at Boston,
September is, and nominated the fol.
lowing officers for the ensuing term:
Governor. Charles II. Allen
William II: Hale
Secretary OF State........ ".... William w. DIN
treasurer :. . .:.'''.' -: George a. Marden
Attorncy-Gencra ..........A Albert T.. Plllsbury
Auditor. .....". go. ........ ,...J John w. kimball
Henry Cabot Lodge was chosen per-
manent chairman and in taking his
seat made an eloquent address of which
the following is a part:
THE republican party stands a. a bulwark
against the movement for the free coinage OF
silver without previous international agree
ment. Free coinage is to-day q principle OF
the democratic party. You find 1t set forth In
their Ohio platform and they believe that on
that issue they can win. II Is useless to say
that the democrats OF New England are as
sound on the money question Us the republic.
ms. The democrats OF New England will be
C 'yerncd by their party while they stay In 1t.
The amiab!e young men whom they elected to
congress last fall talk Us IL they could control
their party on this matter. They make the
same mistake as the fly on the wheel. They do
not make the wheel go round. The wheel goes
round and carries them with IL through dust
uuu huu ullht lHtN Will all VOtc sooner or
later for a free'sllver speaker, and they can
give no more powerful aid to the free.silver
cause than by so doing, for II is the speaker
who makes committees, who leads the party
and who shapes legislation. They will do well
II they can keep their immediate following
straight on this question. 1t is not easy to
prove that eighty cents do not make a dollar to
n party whose members In Boston at least be.
lieve that nine months make q year.
Every man who believes In honest money
and who is opposed to an inflated currency
must vote with the republican party. II he
does not he Is giving a direct support, whether
he casts his vote in Massachusetts or In Kan.
sas, for the principles which he abhors and for
the business perils which he breads. The re.
publican party has kept its pledges about the
tariff. 1t was promised to revise, readjust and
cqualize duties and stop the frauds upon the
revenue, and these things have been done.
I'VE welcome honest immigrants, but the
time has come TO exclude the vicious and the
ignorant. To that work, now rising to n frs,
place among public questions, the republican
party is ready to address itself. We stand on
the great issues with which we are now deal.
ing ms VIC have always stood. We will meet
thos, OF the future in the same spirit. As a
national party we present to the voters our
works OF the last two years as q pledge for the
work we will do in the coming time, and on
this ground we ask support"
The committee on resolutions then
reported the platform, and it was unan-
imously adopted 1t eulogizes Presi-
dent Harrison's administration; con-
graduates the party On its mainten-
nnce of civil ~cervice reform; calls for
the enforcement Of civil and political
rights in every quarter and purity os
elections; demands that the dollar
issued by the government shall be as
good as every other dollar; opposes un-
limited coinag, of silver except on a
uniform international ratio to gold;
condemns the democratic party for in
d~orsing free silver in its platforms in
eighteen states; declares that this doe
trine is dangerous to the country; de-
clares that the Mckinley bill and rec
iprocity have done enormous good to
the country; rcaffirms fidelity to the
pension system; declares that immigra-
ton should not be extended to those
who are dangerous to the institutions
whose protection they seek; favors
legislation restricting the evils of the
liquor traffic; also all proper legislation
in the interests of the laboring classes.