The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-26
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MASSACHUSETTS, DEMOCRATS
In Convention They Repudiate the Chi
 cago Platform and Ticket.

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 cago Platform and Ticket.
 Boston, Aug. 25,-At the Gold Demo- cratic convention held here to-day. and attended by many influential members of the party, the following platform was unanimously adopted;
 The following platform was adopted:
 The democratic party during it's whole history has been pledged to promote the security of personal liberty and private contract, the rights of the individual against favored classes, the supremacy of the law and economy of administra- tion of government in the peoples in- | terests. The democratic party has al- ways stood for sound and stable cur rency for the use and benefit of the people, and not of a section or a class. It has ever insisted that the financial honor of the nation, as well as the in- tegrity of the institutions established by the constitution, should be preserv- ed inviolate. The delegates to the con- vention at Chicago were elected to pro- claim a platform and to nominate can- didates representing these cardinal principles of the democratic party. In violation of the trust committed to them a majority of the delegates there assembled, against the protest of one third of the convention, repudiated the democratic administration of our dem ocratic president, Grover Cleveland, abandoned the long, tried and essential principles of our old democracy, and | formulated a platform embodying views new and strange to the demo- cratic party, destructive to the welfare l lnfn niA hs,a,,, nr.fJ of our constitutional government and im- peaching the honesty of the United 1 States among the nations of the world. 1 The Chicago convention, having fail ed in it's duty, and having adopted platform absolutely at variance with | the past platforms of the democratic l party in the nation and in Massachu- l sets, it becomes the necessary duty of | the democrats of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to assemble again in convention to reaffirm the ancient | principles of the democratic party and | to choose delegates to a new conven- l tion of the democrats of the United | States and
 | Therefore, we democrats of Massa- chusetts, who are loyal to the old de- mocracy, in convention assembled, hereby reaffirm and redeclare our be- lief in such and every principle laid | down in the platform of the democratic | party of this state, adopted by its del egates in convention assembled on April 21, 1896.
 | And. further, we oppose the free un- limited and independent coinage of sill yer at the ratio of 16 to l, as a principle l dishonest and unjust 10 the creditor, | defrauding the savings bank depositor of a large part of his savings. reducing the wages of the workingman, while in- creasing the cost of all he consumes, robbing the veteran of part of his pension, lowering the value of his pol | icy to each policy-holder in life in- surance company, fraternal or benefit order, and debasing our standard of value to the of the poorer and less civ | ilized nations of the world
 We oppose the assault upon the in | tegrity of one of the great branches of our government implied in the doctrine l that the supreme court of the United States shall be reorganized whenever | it's decision shall have contravened the decrees of a party convention.
 We oppose the attack upon the prin- Clple or CIVIL SeFVlCG IeIuIlH dS tu dt- tempt to degrade the efficiency, hones- ty and economy of every department of the public service.
 We oppose the attack upon the action of the national administration at the time of the Chicago riots.
 We oppose the attempt to restrict the rights of individual contract.
 We reaffirm our confidence and pride in the firmness, courage and patriotism
 of the administration of Grover Cleve-
 land, who under exceptional difficult
 ties, brought about by past errors of
 republican legislation, has heroically
 maintained the honor and integrity of
 the nation.
 We repudiate the actions of the Chi
 cago convention as revolutionary.
 We repudiate the Chicago platform as undemocratic. We deny the right of
 the populist nominated by that conven-
 tion for the presidency to represent the
 real democracy of the United States,
 and we call on all democrats who still
 believe in the principles laid down in
 the present and all past platforms of
 the democratic party of Massachusetts
 to support the action of the approach
 ing national democratic convention at
 Indianapolis.