The sun., 1897-09-13
Great New Party in Massachusetts.

The friends of good government have to be
on the jump, so to speak, at present. One
moment trumpet sounds to them from the
battlements of the Citizens Union. The
next moment Il tucket is heard, faint but
clear, from Boston. the capital of all sweet
sounds and harmonious moral movements.
To this tucket, be it of gold or brass, the
friends Of good government in these parts
are invited to lend such ear-space as they
can spare from the Low fanfaronade. BY
the hands of the Hon. NATHAN MATTHEWS,
Jr.. Chairman. and the Hon. JOHN CHAPLIN
LANE, Secretary, the Gold Democratic Ma
tional Committee of Massachusetts has ut
tered an affecting address to the people.
Although it appeared on one of the hot.
test days Of the year, this address is one of
the coolest things that ever blew. 1t re-
cites the stupendous fact that the so.called
Gold or National Democrats of Massachu-
setts will nominate candidates "to be
voted for at the approaching election and
will urge the voters to support them, be-
cause there is no other party which pro-
poses to conduct the Government of the
country in the interests of the people; no
other party which has not forfeited its
right to public confidence" The ark of
good government Is In the hands OF the
Hon. NATHAN MATTHEWS, Jr, the Hon.
JOHN CHAPLIN LANE. and the l1,747 other
preservers who voted for Palmer and Buck.
ner electors in Massachusetts, last fall.
They seem regrettably few, but Of their at.
ness they have no doubt, as their admoni.
tion to the people shows.
First the address eliminates the Repub-
licans. "The Republican party has re.
peatedly shown that there Ia only one def
mite purpose upon which it Is united: to
tax all the people for the benefit Of q few.
To accomplish this it does not scruple to
sacrifice the soundness of our currency and
the peaceful and dignitied conduct Of our
foreign relations. 1t is important that the
opportunity should not be lost of rebuking
by popular vote this continued record of
broken trust" So disappears the Republi-
can party, and the Democratic party Is put
out Of the way even more easily. The vii.
lains having thus been throttled, Virtue
takes the centre of the stage and speaks
the resounding cpilogue:
"The time has come, therefore, when the aafety
and welfare OF our country imperatively demand
that the patriotic friends OF good government should
renounce their allegiance to mere party name and
unite with those who have earned q right to their
| confidence. our party Is organized by those who
believe that there ought TO be trustworthy political
party pledged to establish sounder and better sys
TEN OF banking and currency to practice honesty and
economy In expenditures. 10 public once as a
public trust and TO eradicate the spois system In
both appointments and leglsatoni a party opposed
therefore, TO protection. patcrnaiis to at money
and to class legislation.
"It Is old party in its Aeadfast maintenance OF
the unchangins principles OF Justice and equal rights
and In Its dsinterested already fully pro
party in Its clear and resoute aim TO restore
popular government in the United States to the pur.
pose from which II Is diverted the service OF the
! American people"
Here then is the sole chance of good gov
ernment, and here, ready to maintain it,
is party at once old and new full Of the
dignity of age and of the engaging fresh
ness of youth, small, select. and resolute.
Can there be doubt that the patriotic
friends OF good government will renounce
their allegiance to mere party name and
hasten to the support of the Hon. NATHAN
MATTHEWS, Jr., the Hon. JOHN CHAPIN
LANE, and the l1,747 other preservers and
restorers of popular government
! In 1896 the vote for the Mckinley and