The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-04-22
ENDORSE RUSSELL
Massachusetts Democrats Have
a FavGrite Son in the
Ex-Governor.
Platform Scores the Republican
Financial Policy and En-.
dOrseS Cleveland.
Rhode Island Democrats Also
Endorse Governor RusSeli's
Candidacy.

BOSTON, April 22.-Wlth enthusiasm
almost surprising that noted at the
recent state convention of the Republic
cans of Massachusetts, when Hon.
Thomas B. Reed was endorsed as pres
idential candidate, the Democrats of
this state set their approval upon Grover
Cleveland as president, and named ex-
Governor w. f. Russell as their choice
for the nomination to be Clevelands s
successor.
Judge John w. Corcoran called the
convention to order. The usual honor
airy officers were chosen. Hon. Thomas
j. Gargan of Boston was named rs
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions, and Hon. John f. Thayer Of
Worcester, was chosen permanent
chairman.
In opening, the platform declares
shat "never in any epoch in our coun-
try's history has the executive chair
been filed by broader minded states
man than the president chosen by our
party, Grover Cleveland, and he is
congratulated upon the firmness, abil-
ity and wisdom with which he has
conducted his office.
Upon the subject of national finance,
the platform dwells at length. After
arraigning the Republican party for its
policy, it says:
Believing that the true interests of
the people require that the earnings of
trade and the wages of labor be paid in
money that is intrinsically worth in all
the markets of the world, what it pur-
ports to be worth, we demand the main
tenance of the existing gold standard
of value, and that the government
shall keep all its obligations at all times
redeemable and payable i'll gold, and
we oppose the free coinage of silver
and any further purchases Of silver
bullion or the coinage thereof on gov
ernment account.
1--WE affirm the demands of our re-
cent state platform that the govern.
ment shall take the initial steps for the
withdrawal from circulation of the
legal tender notes issued in time of
war under the pledge of prompt re.
tirement.
Thanks to Carlisle.
Thanks are rendered Secretary Car
Isle for his course as secretary of the
treasury and for his presentation Of the
money question in addresses and papers.
The admission of raw material free of
duty is recommended. The suppress
sion of trusts and the regulation of
monopolies is demanded. 1t is de.
manded that the legislative cooperate
with the executive department in eff.
forts for the further reforms for the
civil service.
sympathy with the Cuban insurrec-
tionists is expressed. The Republican
party is accused with "coquettlng with
a secret political organization and by
platitudes in its platforms, endeavor-
ing to conciliate men whose avowed
object is to prevent u large number OF
the citizens of this republic from exer.
cising their constitutional rights
On the other hand 1t is declared to be
principle of the Democratic party that
''no subordlnation of any one sect or
denomination to another shall ever be
established by law, and that it is the
absolute right of every citizen to wor
ship God as his conscience dictates"
Monroe Doctrine and Oiney.
The Monroe doctrine is endorsed and
President Cleveland's attitude on the
Venezuelan boundary dispute is praised
as being firm and dignified, and it is
said to be subject for congratulation
THAT in this crisis the Office Of secre-
tary of state was filed by man whose
state papers reflected new lustre on
American diplomacy and epoch max
ing statesman-a DISTINGUISHED son Of