The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-04
QUINCY HEADS TICKET
NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR OF
 MASSACHUSETTS.
Democrats in Convention Adopt a Platform Lamenting Presidents Assassination and Extending
 Good Wishes to Mr. Roosevelt.

Boston, Oct 2.-The Democratic State Convention, held here today, placed the follc wing ticket in nomination: Governor. Josiah Quincy, Boston; Aeutenant-Gov- error, John W. Coughlin, Fall River; Sec retary of State. Wellmore B. Stone, Springfield; Treasurer, Joseph l. Chila- foux, Lowell; Auditor. Jams F. Dean Cxbridge.
 For the first time in six years the De- mocracy of the State was united. and with one exception. nominated the entire ticket by exclamation. The exception was for the head of the ticket. the contest. ants being Hon. Josiah Quincy. former Mayor of Boston, and Gamaliel Bradford of Wellesley. The contest was one-sided however, and while it provoked consider able warmth of temper from the Brad ford adherents, the vast majority of the delegates did not treat the matter seri- ously, and when the ballots were counted, ex-Mayor Quincy received 1,256 and MT. Bradford 174.
 The platform in the outset laments the assassination of President Mckinley. whose OlStinBuIsnto puphC UT p N deS SoA = vices and eminent place which he had won among American statesmen are rec ognized.
 ''Under our democratic institutions,' the platforms adds, the hands raised against the President are in reality d. rected against popular sovereignty itself. Freedom of speech does not include the right to advocate assassination"
 The platform extends good wishes to tfvrytfh nFatfYAinn to the right to criticise his acts or op- pose his policies as future occasion may require"
 It declares: Great preponderance of the Republican party in the State and In the nation are inconsistent with the public interest" and calls upon 'all be- lievers in Democratic principles and on all who desire to resist present Republi- can tendencies to join in making the Democratic party a strong and harmon ious party, ready to perform its part In public affairs"
 In declaring that "in the present cam paign attention should be concentrated chiefly upon our State Government and State Legislation" the convention asserts that fin place of colonial imperialism abroad we offer to the people progressive democracy at home"
 The platform further declares that i'm
  control; every branch of State Govern ment should be a department; the head of each department should represent 1t upon the floor of the legislature; that all dis trict candidates should be nominated by direct vote; that the United States Sena- tor should be nominated and elected by direct vote of the people. On federal af- fairs the platform says:
 We are not only absolutely opposed to colonial iunDerialism abroad and to the commercialism tendencies. but to it's own profit which support 1t, but to every man Hesitation of the same reactionary and anti-Democratic spirit at home.
 We demand that the efforts of our government shall be directed toward pre- pairing the people of the Philippine Is- lands for the speedy granting of self gov- ernment and for ultimate independence under the protection of this country.
 We favor freer trade by means of genuine reciprocity or otherwise. We heartily endorse the broad statesmanship of President McKinley's speech at Buff faIo.
 The people of Cuba, for whose welfare we have made ourselves trustees are plainly entitled to the most liberal com mercial relations with the country
 All tariff duties on articles produced by trusts which stitie competition, or which favors the foreigner at the expense of the American consumer should be abolished"
 The shipping subsidy bill is denounced as a raid on the public treasury in the interest of few ship building and ship owners. As a means of rehabilitating American shipping the admission of this country free of duty of all articles for the construction and repairs of ships is urged.