The age-herald., 1900-10-03
DEMOCRATS PUT
 OUT STATE TICKET R. I. Payne, Jr" Nominated for Governor of Massachusetts. THE CONVENTION IN BOSTON Kansas City Platform Endorsed and Ma tional Issues Adopted-Resolutions
 Roast the Republicans-An
 Appeal to Voters
THE CONVENTION IN BOSTON

Boston, Mass, October 2.-Robert Treat Paine, Jr., will again head the ticket which the Democrats of this State will be asked to support at the coming election. having received the nomination for Governor at the State Convention held at Faneuill Hall. A full State ticket was nominated An innovation was the reading of the Declara- tion of Independence previous to the be- ginning of the work of the convention, be- ing deemed fitting in view of the fact that this convention was held on the anniver- sary of the first election of Jefferson.
 George Fred Williams presented the re- port of the committee on resolutions, and the report was adopted by exclamation.
 The resolutions endorsed the Kansas City platform as the expression of the ancient doctrines of Democracy, recurrence to the freedom and principles proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and em- bodied in the Constitution, and said, in part:
 We insist that the ideals of century sha.l not be sacrificed to sordid commercil- ism; that the lofty purpose for which the American people made war upon Spain shall not be disregarded, and that our flag SiidAl uOb DSCOtuS q tOuiiilSdSidl aosSt'
 Neither conquest, colonization nor forci- ble government are Democratic or Ameri- can. They have been forced upon the United States by Republican administra ton, but the Democracy protests against their adoption by the people. The offenses of Republican leaders against liberty be- come guilt of the nation If endorsed at the polls.
 yUa o1a thn lox fal 1,xrf fIa publican Congress for the government of Porto Rico to be gross outrage upon the liberties of the people of that island, scheme of despotic rule, devised for the plumber and oppression of the people, rather than for Its just government. We maintain that the people of Porto Rico are entitled to all the rights of American citizenship guaranteed by the constitution to aN oth- CT sections of our common country, and should not be subjected to the wrong of taxation without representation, against which our fathers revolted.
 'To Cuba we owe free constitution, framed by free men and submitted to the people of Cuba for their approval, free from interference or influence by the United States.
 '"ro the Philippines we owe speedy res- toratio of their independence, our asss- tance in establishing stable government and our protection of the new nation against the invasion of foreign powers.
 We protest against the slaughter of those who dare to appear in arms for the defense of their freedom and against the policy which makes servile submission the price of peace"
 The platform further expressed admira- ton for 'the sublime patriotism of the Boers in their contest with Great Blitain," objected to any alliance, open or secret, with any foreign nation, urged the Senate to refuse to ratify the Hayes-Pauncefote isthman treaty, condemned the company Store system, claimed for the Democratic party the credit for practically all the legislation in the interest of labor in Mas sachusetts in the last twenty years, and invites support of the people to our tried, devoted and unrivaled candidates, Bryan and Stevenson.