The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-02
WOLCOTT IS NAMED
NOT W0LO0TT OF COLORADO, BUT
CINE OF HIS KIND.

Massachusetts, Republicans are United and
SO Get Through with Platform and
Ticket in Very Short Order = Strong
Planks for Stable Financial System
and fer Protection-Merit System in ths
Civil Service, Old Veterans Preferred
Utterance as to Corporation Chica &C
Platform Receives Due Notice.
Boston. Oct. 1.-The Massachusetts
Republican state convention met here
today for the nomination of presiden-
dial electors and state officers The
proceedings We're harmonious and the
work of the convention was accom-
pIished with celebrity. Ex-Governor j.
.. A. Bra ckett and W. H. Halle of
Springfield were designated as electors
at large. Roger Woicott. who has fiji
I'd the xecutive office since the death of
Governor Greenhagle, was unanimously
dominated for governor. The rest Of
bne ticket is as follows: Lieutenant gov
ernor, W. Murray Crane; secretary Of
Ftate, William NJ. DIN; treasurer and
receiver general, E. P. Shaw; auditor,
Tonn W. Kimball; attorney general
Hosea M. Knowlton.
MONEY AND TARIFF.
At the beginning the platform says
That the Republican party of Massach-
hsetts has neither past professions to
sibjure nor new principles 10 announce. :"
The declarations on the currency and
tariff questions are as follows:
"A sound monetary system, a stable
monetary unit and the scruplISous OBJ
servence. in fetter and spirit, of every
public obliga ton.
The enactment Of tariff laws which
Viii provide revenue adequate for the
payment Of the national expenditures
and the gradual reduction of the nation
al debt, promote the policy of rec!proci-
~, protect American industries and
American workmen and preserve our
OWN markets to our own people"
THE PLATFORM IN BRIEF.
In subsequent pGanks the pfa torn ad-
vocates in the state and national SER
vice. the mirt system, with preference TO
veterans of the civil war; protection of
voters from coercior by violence or vex-
alton in the exercise o. the elective
franchise; extension of the provisions
OF the inlani grafton law so as to exclude
such as are unable TO read and write
their own or the English language; ex-
presses disapprovai of an appropriation
from the public money fer sectaTian
purposes or sectar1an Institutions; ex-
presses the belief that all corporations
enjoying public franchises and eXercis-
Ing public employments under cendi-
tons (which necessarily confer upon
them a virtual monopoly, should be
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the public for a, reasonable return upon
T. = actual investment and not upon a
f itious capitalization.
After endorsing the platform Of the
national convention at St. Louis. the
Massachusetts platform continues:
But the duty of this hour demands
something more than the statement of
articles of our party creed. Mindful of
the utterances Of those who gathered at
Chicago under the name of Democracy
we are conscious that the success of our
cause means more than the determine
lion Of party asoendancy and that we
have the right to appeal to a broader
constituency than the membership of
the Republican party
THE CHICAG oPLATFORM.
The financial plank Of the Chicago
platform is condemned as sectionalistio
and the question ef the currency is fur |
ther discussed at some length. under |
which the attitude OF the Democracy |
toward the supreme court, as set forth |
In the income tax plank, is denounced |
hs "a threat to degrade to an fnstr,l- |
nnent for the registration of party |
r3icts, the independent tribunal estab- |
liShed by the fathers"
Issue is also taken with the Chicago !
platform on the subject of the right Of |
the national government to interfere In |
Fsanes in the case Of riot. The plat |
Term Includes:
TO the defense OF these principles, |
ne summon all Republicans and invite '
hi Others who believe them to be es- |
genital TO the preservation Of the ma
hons honor the continuance Of the gem |
er1au welfare. the Integrity of our con- /
gtltutson and the supremacy of the ma
hon. whereby right is supreme"