The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-04-22

" NHAAbIpi' we plIltSl eStiluSL SuCn d party being again entrusted with the administration of the government, and declare that their return to power would be traught with danger to the business Interests and to the people of the coun- try. 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 purports to be worth we demand the maintenance of the gold standard of value and that the government shall keep all its obligations at all times, re- deemable and payable in gold; and we oppose the free coinage of silver and any further purchase of silver bullion or the coinage thereof, on government account
 We affirm the demands of our recent state platform that our government shall take the initial steps to retire from circulation of the legal tender notes issued in time of war under the pledge of prompt retirement. We denounce the action of the republican majority in the present house of representatives in attempting to reaffirm the law of 1878, requiring the perpetual reissue of these notes, and their failure to deal properly and honestly with this prob lem; we declare our belief that this in- action has added to the impairment of our credit caused by the silver legisla- tion enacted during two republican ad- ministrations. "--S - .
 We demand that the necessity for an adequate medium of exchange in all sections of the country shall be met by provision for an elastic banking cur rency, subject to such government con- trol as shall insure uniformity and re- demption in standard coin on demand.
 We tender our earnest thanks to the secretary of the treasury, Hon. John G. Carlisle, for his able efforts in behalf Of sound money, not only in his conduct of the treasury department, but also in his lucid and convincing presentation of this cause to the people of this coun- try.
 We recognize the benefit that has re- suited to our manufacturers and to the people of the country by the admission of wool, and certain other raw mate rials, free of duty. We believe the country would enjoy a much larger measure of prosperity if all raw ma terials used in our manufactures were admitted free. The return of the re- publican party to power means the en- actment of a high protective tariff and the return to silver legislation, which will unsettle all values and seriously disturb the finances and business of the country.
 The democratic party in sustaining through all it's history the great princi- pie of equal and exact justice to all men, has ever been the truest friend of the labor!ng classes; and we de- mand the suppression of all trusts, the strlctest relation of all monopolies, and the enactment and execution of such laws as shall protect the rights of labor as we'll as those of capital, with justice to all
 The democratic party adheriiig to it's principles affirmed by it's several con- Ventions respecting the rules governing appointments to office, demand that the legislative department of the govern ment shall cooperate with the execul tives in it's efforts for the further re- form oe the civil service, to the end that merit, fitness and fidelity may be the only qualifications for public office.
 As party that has sympathized with every people struggling for larger liberty, we send to the brave Cubans words of encouragement, and hope for their success in the contest they are now waging for independence.
 We denounce the cowardly policy of hn t,J rtr a secret political organization and by inuendoes and platitudes in it's plat forms endeavoring to conciliate men whose avowed object is to prevent a large number of the citizens of this re- public from exercising their constitu- tional rights.
 The democratic party of Massachu- setts adheres to the principles of our constitution and the Massachusetts bill of rights, equal privileges and equal burdens, and declares: That every de- nomination whose members demean themselves peaceably and are good citi- zens shall be equally under the protec- tion of the law, that no subordination of any sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. and that 1t is the absolute right of every citizen to worship God as his conscience dictates
 We believe the preservation of our national life the highest of all laws. or international To threaten the life of the nation it is not necessary that a direct attack should be made upon us. It is the policy of this repub- lie, in the words of President Monroe. That the attempt of an European na- tion to extend it's system to any portion of this hemisphere we consider as dan gerous to our peace and safety; with the existing colonies or dependents we have not interfered. but with the gov ernments that have declared their in- and maintained it, and whose independence we have acknowl- edged, we cannot view with indifference any interpretation for the purpose of expressing them or in any manner con- trolling their destiny by any European nation'
 The democracy of Massachusetts be- lieve such attempts to acquire territory would, if permitted, result in increased aggression, so strengthening such na- tions as to make them in the near fu- ture too powerful for our continued peace. "We have a duty resting on us which we cannot shirk, without aban- doning the traditional and established policy of the American people,
 This duty is to resist with o,1r yyhoJe