The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-12
A REPUBLICAN ANDA DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM

At the Republican State Convention Of
Massachusetts a day or so back, Senator
Hoar read the following declaration Of
the principles of the Massachusetts Re
publicans, which were cheered to the echo
and tacity accepted as the platform of
the party for the State:
IAN equal share in Government for
every citizen: best possible wages for
every workingman: the American market
for American labor; every dollar paid by
the Government both the gold and the
silver dollars of the Constitution and
their paper representatives, honest and
unChanging in value and equal to every
other; better immigration laws; better
naturalization laws; no tramp, Anarchist,
criminal, or pauper to be let in so that
citizenship shall not be stained or pol
luted; sympathy with liberty and Repub-
lican Government AT home and abroad
AmeriCansm everywhere; the flag never
lowered or dishonored; no surrender in
Samoa; no barbaFouS queen beheading
men in Hawaii. no lynching; no punish
ment without trial: faith kept with the
pensioners: no deserving old soldier in
the poorhouse: the suspension Of dram
drinking and dram selling; a school at the
public charge open 10 all the children
and free from partisan or sectarian con-
troll; clean politics; pure administration;
reform of ola abuses: leadership along
loftier paths: minds ever open to the sun
light and the mornng-ever open TO new
truth and new duty as the new years
bring their lessons
This contains great deal OF very fine
sentiment that is just the thing for
model schoolboy's copybook.
1t is, OF course, going 10 cause power
full advances in political science for the
Massachusetts, Republicans to recommend
leadership along loftier paths; suspen-
sion Of dram-drinking and dram selling;
minds ever open to the sunlight and the
morning-ever open to new truth and
new duty as the new years bring their
lessons" We don't see how the Massa-
chusetts Republicans could find it in
their hearts to fail to wind up anything
as fine as that without 'Old Hundred"
at least
What a difference there is between
this farago of slush and the strong,
healthy utterances made by the Massa-
chusetts Democratic Convention at the
same time Hear them:
I'VE reafIlrm our allegiance to the great
financial principles which guided JeiIer-
son jackson and Secretary walker; that
it is the sole function OF the Federal
Government in monetary matters 10 pro-
vide a standard of value, and 10 com
metallic money, every dollar of which
shall be of equal intrinsic value; that
nothing but this coined money shall be a
legal tender, and that the Government
shall not carry on a banking business.
I'VE demand that the untaNed notes
OF the State or National Banks shall be
the only paper money. ana that the noN-
eminent shall with the development or
a banking system adequate 10 the de-
mands OF trade. retire. as rapidly as pos
sible all It's legal tender money"
These are sound governmental and
Democratic principles also. When our
Government returns to this, its true
theory, we shall have a real Constitu-
tional Republic. All honor to the Massa-
chusetts Democrats for their courageous.
defiant assertion OF true Democratic doc
trine OF finance.