New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-28
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MASSACHUSETTS FOR REED.
HE WAS 1NDoRsED BY THE REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION.

DELEGATES URGED TO VOTE FOR HIM AT st.
LoUIs-rHE PLATFORM SPEAKS FOR PRO-
lection AND SOUND MoNEY-sENA-
TOR LODGE THE CENTRAL FIG
URE OF THE CONVENTION.
Boston, March 27-The State Republican Con-
vention to elect delegates to the NationaI He'
publican Convention In st. Louis net IN MUSIC
Hall this morning. The delegates began to ar
rive at an early hour from all parts OF the STATE
and before the hour for calling the convention 70
order the hall was we'll filled. The hall was
finely decorated with the National colors. Inc
upper balcony was devoted to the use OF specta-
tors, and these included a large number OF
women A man stood at the coor with a supply
OF Reed badges with which the delegates were
furnished they entered.
At 1O:15 o'clock George II. Lyman. chairman OK
the Republican State Committee. entered ao'
ccmpanied by Bishop Lawrence, and the assem-
blage was called 20 order. On motion OK r. u
Allen, Of Lynn, the chairman and secretary OF
tho State Committee were made temporary
chairman and secretary Of the convention.
Bishop Lawrence offered prayer and Mr.. Lyman
made a short address. The name OF Thomas
Brackett Reed. mentioned at the close OF Mr..
Lyman's speech was received with warm ap-
plause.
Committees on Credentials, Permanent Organi-
cation. Resolutions and Ballots were appointed.
When Senator Lodge advanced to the front OF
the platform to move the appointment OF the
Committee on Resolutions. ne was received with
a burst Of applause, general and long continued.
while the band In the gallery played HAL
Columbia"
THE PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
NJ. r,or,,,,,,oo.or permanent ORGANIZATION re-
ported as their choice for chairman Samuel W.
Mccall os Winchester. with long list Of vice.
presidents. Chairman Ray reported for the Conn
mittee on Credentials that 2,002 delegates were
entitled to sit In the convention and that 1851
were present. Chairman Mccall then delivered
lis address He spoke for protection. sound
money and Thomas B. Reed
The speech OF Mr.. Mccall was listened to with
close attention and frequently interrupted with
applause. Especially we'll received were his In
eistence upon the policy Of Protection and ad-
heson to the financial standard OF the COM
mercial nations OF the world, his showing Of tho
prosperity OF the country under Republican rule
and his plea for the maintenance Of gold
standard OF currency except by international
agreement. His allusion to the Bayard episode
was received with especial enthusiasm, equaled
only by the applause which met his words on
the immigration question. TREMENDOUS applause
greeted his final words, betraying beyond doubt
the sentiment Of the COZ vention regarding their
Presidential candidate.
PRESENTATION OF THE PLATFORM
Senator Lodge, in rising to present the report
Of the Committee on Resolutions was again
warmly received. The platform was as follows:
Massachusetts has always gwen an unwaverine
support to the National candidates OF the Repuo. o,
the candidates to be chosen Dy the convenuon -
st pie. snd policies upon Which the Republican
WIN 20 to the AS the as.rc not OF
only to promise the National Convention our faith.
ful support for the candidates they shall nominate
eadfast Republican State to the questions OF
the day and the policies to be pursued ,, .nr.m.
party unable conduct the t, with
have shown that the Republican party. both In war
and in is aons aSs the to ana
should be taken away from those who nave Iaiieu
and returned to those who have been successiu ana
We believe that the Government should have an
ample revenue with a sufficient surplus over
ordinary expenditures to provide for coast defences.
for the steady building up OF the Navy ana tor the
We believe that the present tariff. with Its low
cred and Its destructive and dishonest system
framed on protective principles and arranged to
give an ample protection TO american WAGES oi, an1
American industry and TO restore the RECIPROCITY
policy OF James G. Blaine.
PROTECTION TO SHIPBUILDERS.
We have always given protection to our ship
builders. In late years We have neglected 10 pro-
tect our ship-owners We believe the time has come
to return to the policy Of Washington and Ham-
ton which, by discriminating duties In favor OK
American bottoms. secured 90 per cent OF our car
rying trade to American ships, and which. II now
restored would again revive our shipping and
cause American freights to be paid to Americans.
We regard the silver agitation hurtful to bust
ness and destructive Of confidence. and. as has
recently been shown hostile to all tariff legislation
designed TO give protection TO our industries ana
revenue to Treasury.
We are entirely opposed to the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver and to any change in the existing
gold standard. except by international agreement
dollar. The credit OF the United States must be
maintained at the highest point so that cannot be
tion redeemable in coin must be paid in gold.
system a'O Of State banks We support the National
banking, system and believe that 1t should be 50
portunity to meet the demands Of the growing bust
ness and population Of the country. ,v
service from the control OF favoritism. patronage
and politics, should be honestly and thoroushly en-
Immigration should be restricted. and the Repub-
can party should pledge itself to pass at once law
to exclude at least the totally Ignorant and iterate
American % prncipie Of the entire separation Of no
Church and State and appropriation OF public money
for sectaan schools whether for the Indians or for
others should be permitted
We believe In a foreign policy. which shall be at
all times and with all nations hrm vigorous and
dignined
carefully guarded and for the protection OF those In.
terests we should maintain our influence In the
Hawaiian Islands and build and control the lsthmian
Canal
We have never nterfered and shall not now inter
European Power in the America But their posses
o declared in 1928 and enforced in 1865 and In 1895
must always be upheld.
SYMPATHY WITH CUBA
We sympathize with the Cubans in their struggle
,,r independence AS friends OF freedom every
.,..-s ua wish them success. and believe that thA