Birmingham age-herald., 1895-10-03
CUT AND DRIED.
MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS CONVENE
They Nominate an Entire Ticket, Adopt a Platform and Adjourn in Two and
 Half Hours

Worcester, Mass, Oct. 1.-The Mas sachusetts democratic state convention was held in Mechanics hall today.
 The convention was called to order at Il 80 a. Tn. by hon. J. w. Corcoran, chair man of the state committee, and the call was read by Henry V. Cunningham sec retary. On motion of MT. kennedy of Fall River the above named gentlemen were named as temporary officers of the convention. The usual nomina tionS for facilitating the work of the convention were then made.
 The committee on credentials reported that there were 1859 delegates present out of a possible 2321.
 The committee on permanent organiZa- ton named Hon. Josiah Quincy of Ros- ton for permanent chairman and Henry V. Cunningham of Boston for permanent secretary. Chester A. Reed of Delham and Hon. James Donovan of Boston were appointed committee to escort MT. Quincy to the platform, where his ap- pearance evoked loud applause.
 After brief introduction by General Corcoran MT. Quincy proceeded to the de- livery of his address.
 At 12:45 Hon. John Coughlin of Fall River chairman of the committee on platforms, read the platform, which was adopted
 fOll0WlnS IS that part OI IL upon national politics:
 The democrats of Massachusetts in convention assembled again declare their allegiance to the principles of govern ment formulated by Thomas Jefferson and illustrated by long line of distin- guished successors, from Madison to Cleveland. We commend the present administration for it's dignified, ener- getic and patriotic management of our foreign affairs; for the economies and re- forms affected in all branches of the fed eral service and many appointments in civil service, particularly the recent or der affecting the consular service.
 We congratulate the manufacturing in- terests of Massachusetts on the success ful operation of the present tariff. While we renew our regret that the full advan- tages of the bill as it came from the house were not realized, the placing of manu- fracture on the free list is already pro- ducing beneficial results.
 We call attention to the marked in crease in the exports of our manufactur- ed goods as an index of the enlargement of our foreign commerce which, under the reduced duties, will furnish a suffi- cient revenue for the legitimate needs of the government. Under the operation of the present tariff law this country will take that place among the greatest manufacturing nations of the world to which 1t is entitled by reason of it's va ried resources, its abundant capital its inventive genius and it's skilled labor We therefore denounce the efforts of the republican party to reopen the tariff question for the purpose of restoring the abominations of the Mckinley act
 We demand the maintenance of the existing gold standard of value and that the government shall keep all its obliga- tions at all times redeemable in gold
 We oppose the free coinage of silver and any further purchase of silver bullion on government account We reaffirm the demands of our platform of last year, that the government shall not carry on a banking business; that the un- taxed notes of state or national banks shall be the only credit currency and that the government shall, with the de- velopment of banking system adeuuate to the demands of trade, retire as rap idly as possible all United States paper money.
 We recommend that the administration formulate and present to the next con gress a measure calculated to secure these results. Pending return to these sound principles of finance from which the country has departed under repub- lican rule we favor the grant to the secretary of the treasury power to ne- gotiate short term loans for the purpose of maintaining a sufficient gold reserve and insuring the parity of all our diff ferent forms of currency and an increase in the gold reserve.
 We tender to President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle the thanks of the dem ocratic party of Massachusetts for their patriotic efforts to protect the public credit under the adverse conditions brought about by republican misrule, and we congratulate the country on the remarkable revival of business conf dence and prosperity which has followed their action.
 Hon. John E. Russell of Leicester arose amidst applause.
 He was forced to the platform, where he moved that the convention proceed to nominate candidates for governor and lieutenant-governor. The motion pre- vailed and MT. Russell placed in nom- nation the name of George r. Williams. Congressman John F. Fitzgerald see- onded the nomination and the conven- ton ratified it by exclamation.
 The committee on the balance of the ticket made the following report, which was unanimously adopted:
 For iieutenant-governor, James S. Grinnell of Greenfield; for secretary of state. Edwin J. Flynn of Boston, for treasurer, Eben s. Stevens of Sudbury; for auditor, Alfred c. Whitney of Bos- ton; for attorney-general, Henry F. Hurl- but of Lynn.
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