The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-05
Straight Declaration Made By the
4 Massachusetts, Democrats.
PEACEFUL CONVENTION
BRYAN AND GEORGE FRED WILL
LIAMS ENDORSED.
Platform Contains an Emphatic Dec
laration For Free Coinage and De-
nounces the Administration War
Record-Gold Democrats of Ken
lucky Have Gone Out of Business.

Worcester, Mass. Oct. 4.-The ticket
nominated by the Democratic state
convention here today is as follows:
Governor, Alexander B. Bruce of
Worcester; lieutenant governor, Ed
ward j. Slattery of birmingham; sec
rotary of commonwealth, Henry Lloyd
of Boston; treasurer and receiver, Gen
eral Pierre Bonvoulier of Holyoke;
auditor, Charles F. Parker ot Boston,;
attorney, Patrick f. Kilroy of Spring
field.
The convention opened with little of
that excitement attending it which, for
the past two or three years, has been
the feature of the meetings of the
leaders of the party in this state.
Warning elements We're entirely lack
ing today, and the proceedings were,
as a rule, Of the most harmonious ma
ture. This was principally due to the
fact that those who still oppose the
leaders now in authority had decided
to wait another year before again at
tempting to obtain control of the party
machinery.
C. G. Callahan, chairman of the state
committee. called the convention to
order.
The chairman and secretary of the
state committee were made temporary
officers of the convention. and the reg
ular committees were appointed, after
which Chairman Callahan addressed
the convention. Mr.. Callahan put sill
yer strongly to the fore, and denied
Republican assertions of prosperity I'M
der the present standard. He denounced
the administration for plotting to steal
from the Cuban people their independ-
ence, and opposed retention of the
Philippines.
Philip j. Doherty was made perma-
nent chairman, and escorted to the
stage, where he was received with an
plause.
FREE COINAGE PLATFORM.
The platform, in part, is as follows:
The Democracy of Massachusetts en-
dorses and reaffirmS with emphasis and
profound conviction the great and pa
tr;otic platform of principles adopted
by the party in national convention at
Chicago in 1885, In that year both the
political partieS-confronted by dis
astrouS depression in production and
general business by the distress of Ia
Dor, by the condition of financial af-
fairs and The monetary system in par
ticular, declared return to 'bimeta1-
liSm to be measure calculated to REM
edy the existing evils.
Then comes a denunciation of each
party's record on bimetallism, and the
statement that the business OF the
country is in a more deDlorable state
than in 1896.
This is followed by a demand for
silver coinage in these words:
''The Democratic party, with a con-
viction and persistency which has now
been confirmed by the experience of
two years of disaster, again demands
the return to bimetallism, by restoring
silver and gold to coinage at the ratio
which was maintained during so many
prosperous years in the history of our
country. the ratio of Is to l.
The platform had this to say of the
conduct of the war: THE military ad-
ministration during the recent war has
been a stigma on the history of the
republic and disgrace to civilization.
The army which Sprang into existence
has been made the prey of incomDe-
tents and favorites, who have fattened
on the sorrows of American soldiers.
The brave men who fought our battles
in the West Indies were left without
adequate food, medicines or surgical
assistance. They were put under in
competent commanders. and were left
to suffer and die with undressed
wounds and burning fevers. And nun
dreds of their comrades who have re-
turned alive have come back emaciated
and CHASTITY, to stagger through the
streets as living witnesses against
those who were responsible for their
sufferings. We demand that a thor
ough investigation by congress, not by
an administrative commission organ
lied to acquit, shall expose the guilty
and drive them mercilessly from the
office which they have diSgraced."
The platform concludes by strongly
endorsing Bryan and George Fred Will
liamS