Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-07
DOUGLAS NOMINATED
Will Stand for the Massachu-
setts Governorship.
BAY STATE DEMOCRATS
IN CONVENTION AT BOSTON To-
DAY TO NAME A TICKET.
No Controversy Expected Over Plat
form-Remarkable Unanimity Over
Choice of Candidates.

NSaoSidtiC Sidte COUvent1On, TO be held IN
the Boston Theater today. was that of
placing In nomination a complete state
ticket and presidential electors, adopting
platform OF principles and eIecttng the
members at large of the democratic state
committee.
The committee on resolutions was sched-
uled to hold another meeting to consider
the platform just before the convention
met. 1t was not expected, however, that
anything In the way of a controversy would
develop over the platform, which had been
drawn by Charles s. Hamlin of Boston
The unanimity Of the leaders with re-
spect to the ticket to be nominated was
one of the remarkable pre-eonvention situa-
uons. The names agreed upon were: Will
liam l.. Douglas of Brockton, for governor;
John G. Crosby of Pittsfeld, for lieutenant
governor: Henry T. Schaeffer of Winches-
ter, for secretary of state; Edmund D. Cod
man Of Boston, for treasurer; John P:
Leahy Of Boston, for attorney general, and
Francois Tetrault of Southbridge, fot state
auditor. Nathan Matthews jr.. former
mayor of Boston, was chosen permanent
chairman of the convention.
The convention was called to order at
noon. Nathan Matthews Of Boston was
chosen permanent chairman.
Chairman Matthews Address.
Mr.. Matthews declared that the prosper
ity with which certain industries and Sec
tions of this country have for some years
been blessed is already on the wane. and
there is general and growing dissatisfac-
ton with the commercial policies which.
with other causes, are responsible for these
conditions. At the present moment the
commercial outlook for New England is
darker than at any time since the of
1872 These facts. he said. are doubtless
due in part to natural causes which no gov
ernment can control and no political party
hD,, o-trx To N<,rr SCOT hut fhox
are also in great part due to artificial
trade conditions brought about by the re-
publican commercial policies
The speaker adverted to the controversy
ers and some 60,000 republican business
men, representing every section OF the
commonwealth" over the question of reel
procity with Canada declaring that the
petition of these men stood no chance of
adoption by the republican leaders. He
maintained that Senator Lodge also disre-
sarded entirely the interesis Of the con,
surner, and will cours no treaty which will
injure, or which any manufacturer may
claim will injure any of the protected In
dustries. The speaker demanded that the
ment that was accorded Cuba. and de-
nounced the republican party for Its pol
icy of reckless expenditures.
The most marked cheering OF the hour
was given at mention OF the name OF Judge
Parker
Charles s. Hariilin followed Mr.. Matthews
with the report of the committee on resolu-
tons.
The Platform.
The platform indorsed the partys ma
tional candidates and congratulated the
country upon the removal of the so-called
money question from. the sphere OF poiiu-
cal controversy through the acceptance by
both parties of the present standard of
value as the law of the land" 1t demand
ed tariff reform. reciprocity with Canada,
the enforcement of the law against monop-
olies and the separation of the three
branches of the government In tms con-
nection the platform read:
THE democratic party beneVes IN the
separation of the executive, the leg1s ative
and the judiciary. as ordained by the red
eral constitution. The republican party,
through its chief executive, not content
by the constitution and laws, has usurped
powers designated to Congress and the
Judiciary.
"He has arbitrarily, even if with benev-
olent intent taken from the judiciary, con-
trary to the law Of the land, the power to
remove a judicial ruling OF an administra-
tive officer.
..IIe has, by executive decree, in defiance
of law. converted a disability law into a
service pension law, calmly claiming as a.
ratification of the illegality an approprla-
ton by Congress, limited expressly to dis
ability and by necessary implication ex-
cludlnS service peHSlo1i laws.
He has declared war against sister
republic without an act of Congress, in de-
fiance of the well-known usages of interna-
tional flaw, and in the face of an adverse
opinion from his chief law adviser 1t is
commonly believed"
The rest of the document was devoted to
the grave scandals and frauds In impor-
tant branches of the public service
The platform was unanimously adopted.
VIM. L. Douglas of Brockton for govern
or and John c. Crosby of Pfttsfeld for
lieutenant governor, were nominated by ac-
clamation by the democratic state conven-
finn