The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-08
WILL NOMINATE RUSSELL
M.issdCHUsETTS DEMOCRATS HAVE
 THE SLATE ALL FIXED.

Tn Ace 'ptance the N minee for Governor
 VIII Declare Free Wool, Free Salt a' d
 Free Lumber ihe Great Re:o m,-Expects
 [, br Defeated.
 convention will meet In Music hall promptly at II a. m. t6-morrow. The party leaders were in session in the Fremont house tonight arranging the details of the convention. There Is no excitement about the corridors of the hotel, and very few delegates are present. There Is an entire absence of those stirring scenes which have marked the night before convention in years when the republicans were in disfavor in Massachusetts and the democrats had chance of electing one or two of their candidates.
 Ex-Judge John w. Corcoran, chair man of the state committee, will call the delegates to order and will intro duce ex-Governor William E. Russell as permanent chairman. MT. Russell will | deliver one of his most able addresses In defense of the democratic adminis- tration and democratic policy. Ex-Con- gressman George Frederick Williams Will nominate Hon. John E. Russell as | candidate for governor, and the rlomira. ton will be indorsed by the convention | by exclamation.
 MT. Russell will address the conyen- ton in acceptance and while admitting the expected defeat at the polls because or the peculiar conditions prevailing | Will declare no such defeat possible for the democrats in the period of business diversity as the republicans met in 1890 In the hush of prosperity, and will as- sure the delegates that not even a re- publican congress will dare to attempt to undo the work of the democracy in reduc1ng the peoples taxes any more than the whigs dared when borne into office by the hero of the Mexican war.
 He will declare free wool, free salt and free lumber to be great reforms and the attempt through the income tax to transfer some of the burdens of taxa tion from agriculture to the shoulders of the rich man measure which even republicans dare not oppose.
 | Charles B. Stratton of Boston, presi- dent Of the Young Mems Democratic club, will be nominated for lieutenant governor, and Henry F. Hurlburt of Lynn will be selected for attorney gen. eral. The other places of the state ticket are in some doubt, but Charles A.
 DeCourcey of Lawrence is likely to be named for secretary of state and Alfred B. Whitney of Boston. prominent in the G. A. R., for auditor. r5' .-
 The resolutions as prepared by the committee reiterate the loyalty of Mas sachusetts' democracy to President Cleveland, congratulate the country on the repeal of the federal election laws, the sherman silver law, the Mckinley tariff law, the abolition of bounties, on the conduct of foreign affairs, the re- form of abuses in the pension system and the reduction in the appropria- tions of congress. They endorse the | Wilson tariff bill as an honest effort to carry out the democratic policy and de- nounce the democratic senators who prevented its passage.
 The new tariff bill is recognized as a great improvement over the Mckinley tariff and as the beginning of the end of the system of duties for protection only. They favor placing all raw ma terial on the free list and the abolish ! ing of duties which tend to create mo- | nopolies. They trace back the currency evils from which the country has suffer 1 ed to the legal tender decision of the United States supreme court and point out the republican responsibility for | that decision. , s.--- They point out that the only t..dnclal l measure for which the democratic party has been responsible as the party in power during this generation, has been | the repeal of the Sherman law it is also pointed out that, ac ,cding to strict democratic principles, the sole function of the federal government in monetary matters ;s to provide slan- dard of value and coin metallic money: The removal of the tax from bank notes, whether state or national is fa- vored The principal of the income tax is approved. The extension of the civil service sys- tenn is favored and the adminis- ration is asked to formulate plan by which the postofflce may be brought within its scope Any organizations which instilIs dis tinction of birth or religious creed in politics is opposed and any party which tacitly accepts an alliance wltli such an organization, is condemned. Proportional representation and the adoption of voting machines are fa-