The Portland daily press., 1895-10-07
AGAIN TITS GREEAHALGE
Who Will Lead Massachusetts Repub-
licans to Victory.
THE HON. ELIJAH MORSE CUTS A
SMALL FIGURE.

Intense Enthusiasm and Ringing Speeches
Balance of Ticket Renominated-
The Platform Speaks for Itself.
Boston, October 5.-The Massachusetts
Republican State Convention was held
here today and was conspicuous for the
arge attendance and tremendous en-
| thusiasm. Colonel E. G. Benton called
the convention to order, and Hon. Curtis
Guild was made permanent chairman.
Mr.. Guild delivered strong address,
which was enthusiastically received. The
credentials committee reported 1899 dele
gates present.
Congressman Gillett presented the
resolutions, which were adopted and were
as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
having witnessed for two years the
endeayors, the achievements and the
recommendations of Democratic presi-
dent and Democratic Congress; having
observed the variance between Democratic
promises and performance, and having
endured the business disasters which
accompanied Democratic victory, now as
we are apparently entering into
prosperous era of Republican ascendancy,
pledge ourselves with augmented loyalty
to the tried and established principles OF
our party.
First and foremost stands protection.
Our opponents when seeking votes
denounced it as injurious, immoral and
unconstitutional when clothed with the
responsibility of power, they enacted a
tariff which was avowedly and Intention
ally protective. But while it recognizes
the principle of protection as wise and
necessary. their bill Is so unequal and
unfair as to deserve all the scathing
denunciations with which they them
selves bapuized it. 1t does not give pro-
lection as right to all, but sells it as a
favor to some. 1t is partial, sectional
and hypocritical. The protection we up
hold is equal and universal. We are not
pledged to any schedules We only
pledge to each American industry such
protection as shall equalize differences in
the price of labor, and to that the farmer
and the miner is as much entitled as the
manufacturer and the partisan. In
precedents or by theories; we are
governed by the teachings of experience,
and are as ready to learn from the expert
ments of our adversarties as our selves.
from failure as we'll as from success.
Republican extravaganza has been a
fayorite theme Democratic censure
and yet, the lass Congress, in a time Of
private and national inpoverishInent,
maintained the same standard of e2-
penditure. But If Republicans were
liberal in appropriations they furnished
revenue to meet them, and steadily re-
duced the public debt. The last Congress
provided a revenue shamefully made
quate, and by the issue OF bonds, shifted
on to succeeding administrations the
burden of their outlay. Whether this was
the result of policy or recklessness, an
evidence of wilfulness or incompetence,
we will not assert, but it illustrates anew
that the province Of the Democracy is
criticism and not action, that its true
and permanent place is in the minority,
and not in power and that 1t is incapable
of managing the nations business. We
believe that to keep outgo less than in
come is an axiom OF public, as well as
private economy, that large surplus is
less menacing than a large deficit, and
that redeeming government bonds, even
at a high price, is more creditable than
issuing new ones.
We believe in
SOUND AND HONEST MONEY;
that deprecated currency unsettles
legitimate business and turns it into
speculation; that the government should
maintain each dollar which it issues on a
par with the standard gold dollar, and
should not permit the free coinage OF
silver at any ratio not established by in
ternational agreement. No other policy
could expect to find friends In Massachu-
setts, which, under sorest temptation,
held the spirit of it's obligations sacred,
refused to avail itself of legal tender
laws, paid it's creditors with the best ana
most expensive dollars, and thus main
tanied it's credit and its honor unfair
nished and supreme
We regret that the action and inaction
of the Democratic majority in congress
has forced the national treasury to a
humiliating depedency upon private
bankers, and believe that there should
be legislation to protect the metallic re-
serve from concerted attacks OF specula-
tors.
We believe that this hemisphere Is no
longer subject for European colonlza-
ion or aggressive and oppressive oocupa-
tion that..the Monroe doctrine is a true
guide for American statesmanshIp, and
should be maintained toward small
! nations without clustering, toward great
nations without cringing, but always
deliberately, temporarily, resolutely.
We believe in civil service reform not
| only as promoter of efficient service,
but also as an antidote to that demorallz-
| ing spirit which considers public office
| only bribe or reward.
The tide of immigration which mas
done SO much to quicken our natlonai
growth, has in recent years changed ana
deteriorated in it's character. We belleve
that our country has reached that stage
of development when it needs not SO
much more men as better men, that the
reputation is already so Heterogeneous
that our most urgent task is to elevate
and assimilate it rather than increase IT
by foreign importation, that our sell,
respecting labor should be protected and
we desire no farther immigrants VINO are
not intelligent, self-supporting, ready tc
cast off all foreign allegiance, anu &c
enter into full and permanent sympathy
with our free institutions. In this task
of elevating and Americanizlng oul
popu alton were recognize as bhe hos'
potent agent
THE FREE PUBLIC SCHOOL,