The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-13
WILL STAND BY BRYAN
THE MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS
COME OUT FLATFOOTED
They Indorse the Chicago Platform
and Add Few Frills Of Their

WORCESTER, Mass. Sept 2S-The
Massachusetts Democratic state convention
assembled in this city today to nominate
candidates for the various state offices,
from the governOrship down.
motion that the Democratic party Of
Massachusetts indorSe the platform adopted
at the last national convention of the party,
held in Chicago, and will welcome to it's
ranks all supporters of that platform ard
will have no political fellowship with those
who do not support it,, was passed unani-
mousy.
Candidates for governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, secretary of state auditor, treasurer.
receiver general and attorney general will
be named
A delegation from the state convention
of POpuists is here and is willing to fuse
with the Democrats if the latter will adopt
a platform substantially -he same as that
of the Populists and allow a far repre-.
sentation on the ticket Otherwise they
will put full ticket Of their own in the
field. The Populists will support George
Fred Williams for governor only with the
provisO that he runs on their platform.
The platform. which is Il lengthy docu-
ment, opens with reaffirmdtion Of allie
glance to the principles enunciated by the
l. mocratic national convention at Chi
cago in 1896, and expresses appreciation OF
the campaign waged by Mr. Bryan. 1t says.
Whether 1t Is judcious to abandon half
or the money in the world is the supreme
question The decentralization Of silver
begun in 1873 with little or no thought in
Europe and America, has been a potent
factor in this disastrous depression OF the
last 70 years, not Uniform, but with ups and
downs, each level being lower than the
last. Gold has appreciated In purchasing
power more than per cent year demor-
alizing the producing classes with paralysis
OF trade through the falling prices and
causing cruel unemployment of labor and
reduction of the wage fund.
The Democratic party opposes the at
tempt to fasten on the country gold memo
metallsm and demands the remonetization
of silver at the ratio to gold Of Ii to /. The
demand for silver would be enormous
and the demand for gold so reduced tat
the two would meet and remain at parity
and the paralyzing battle Of the standards
cease. and the world enter upon period
of assured prosperity.
A subsequent plank In the platform con-
demnation is passed upon government ty
Injunction This PLANK says:
The country has seen with Indignation
the lCkICai results Of tE.s su,icILl tyrIEny
which. after an une tual struggle, lastirg
niue weeks. conduct ID With remark bl.
self control and long suffering by thou
san IL of starving mIners appealing in
free land for living wage. men unlrnitl
and in peaceable procession are shot down
the public highway. Let the people
remember this massacre at Lattimer and
resolve that government by injunction
shall not be tolerated., ana tndt American
liberty shall not perish.
The platform also characterZes the
Dingiey tariff as "a measure enacted on
the imperious demands of the corporations
which contributed to the scandalous cam
paign fund"
George Fred Williams, Of Dedham. was
then nominated for governor. The other
nominees
Lieutenant governor, Christopher T. Cal
lahan. of Holyoke.
Secretary G. ID. Nash, of Whitman.
Attorney general, John A. O'keefe, of
Lynn.
Treasurer and receiver general T. A.
Watson, Of Boston.
Auditor, j. l.. Chalfoux, of Lowell.
The convention was disorderly at
times almost to require the Intervention
of the police. George Fred Williams was
the principal figure in the convention.
There was no opposition to his nomination
for governor but his insistence on the
turning down of old party leaders who
were lukewarm in support of himself and
Bryan last fall created tumult al the out
set before permanent organization had
been effected.