The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-22
TRUE TO BRYAN AND SILVER
PLATFORM OF THE DEMOCRATS OF -~ MASSACHUSETTS,.

George Fred Williams and His Silver
 Allies Control the Convention and
 Pass All Their Measures-Platform
 Demands Purchase of Boston and AL
 bany by the State-Intense Exoite-
 ment.
 Boston, Sept. 21.-The riotous scenes
 and the bitter fights between the two
 factions of the democratic party in
 this state, which characterized and
 made famous the all-night session in
 Music hall here in 1896, and that at
 Worcester the following year, were re-
 newed with even greater bitterness at
 the annual convention of the state
 democracy in Mechanics hall to-day.
 At times it seemed as though the force
 of one hundred policemen ill the hall
 would be of no avail, so impassioned
 were those upon the floor, and the eli
 max came when at the request of the
 chairman, Hon. w. s. McNary, the cap
 tain of the police appeared upon the
 pldllOIHl anu pldC6u lllS upOll
 Congressman John F. Fitzgerald, in readiness to forcibly remove him from the platform had he not subsided and allowed the chairman to address and calm the excited assemblage
 The cause of the tumult which ragged for nearly three hours was the question before the body accepting the action of the state committee in presenting list of delegates to the national convention of democrats next June. It was claimed by those who opposed the idea that it was against all precedent and robbed the various districts of their constitu- tional rights. The final result of all the confusion and discord was the over- whelming passage of every motion and report that was made by the state com mttee, or that portion of the party or ganization which Is guided by George Fred Williams, namely, the adoption of the platform as presented. the nomina- tion of a state ticket, and the election of national convention delegates, headed by Robert Treat Paine, Jr, candidate for governor, and John H. Mack for lieutenant governor. The state ticket follows:
 For governor-Robert Treat Paine, IT,, Boston
 Lieutenant governor-John H. Mack, North Adams
 Secretary of state-Harry Lloyd, Boston
 Attorney general-John II. Morrison, Low ell.
 Auditor-W L. Ramsdell, Lynn.
 Treasurer-Joseph F. Flynn. Lawrene.
 The delegates-at-l t-large to the national convention are Hon. George Fred Will Hams. Colonel A c. Drinkwater, Will liam s. McNary and Christopher T. Callahan.
 To-day as on every proper occasion, since the democratic national conven- ton of 1896, the democrats of Massa chusetts re-affirm and endorse in gen. eral and in particular the principles of the platform adopted by that conven tion. We pronounce that political code one written not for a year or for a single campaign, but for all time, be- ing made up as it is of the fundamen- tai principles of democracy upon the acceptance and enforcement of which alone a free government of, by and for the people can be maintained. New conditions may and do compel additions to that platform, for conditions change, and the Chicago platform, like the dec- of independence, stands as a mart of the fundamental code Of demo- cratic government. Favors Financial Plank.
 Particularly do we reiterate our be- lief in the financial plank of the Chica- go platform, and renew our demand for the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Heavy and unexpected discover ies of gold, and of new processes for that metal, together with l the other supplies, have resulted, since 1896, in an increase in the volume of | money estimated at $441 ,000,0 ,000 for the l limited States alone. The immediate re- vival of prices and trade accompanying | this increase, demonstrated the demo- | cratic contention that the evils from l which the nation suffered so gravely ! in the five years prior to 1897, preceed- | ed from a contracted currency for | which republican financial legislation | had provided no form of relief.
 But the benefits of a rise in the ] nrice level under the gold standard are of necessity unequally and unjustly distributed. The farmers of the west and south being compelled to sell their products in the worlds markets in com petition with silver using countries, are to low prices for what they sell while the rising scale of prices at home, due partly to the increased vol ume of money, and more to the inter- yention of trusts, results in the eXac- ion from them of higher prices for all .hey have to buy. The prosperity of | New England rests upon the prosperity 1f her customers, and Massachusetts n pleading the cause of the farmers of he west and south, advances her own interests, and no system which decreases the income and in- ,reases the outgo of the farming com can afford safe foundation 'or a sound commercial fabric.
 Proposed Surrender to Banks.
 We denounce unqualifiedly the pur- pose of the republican party to sur ,ender to the banks the governmental junction of issuing paper money and controlling it's value. Such action would create a trust in comparison with which all other monopolies would ,e trivial. To-day our trust magnates ire our bankers, They hold the bank tock, they sit on the boards of direc- DTS. they select the officials, and they will apply to their command over the upplv of the nations money the same