Year: 1873

Of the Republicans of Massachusetts in the
management of their local concerns, whenev-
| er the fact is proved to his satisfaction
| Resolved, That the adoption of policy
| which shall so reduce the frieghts of railroads
that the raw material, food and coal of the
West and South shall be exchanged at the
least possible cost for the manufactures of New
England, is interesting TO the whole country,
and vital to the industries of Massachusetts
that the power vested by the Constitution in
Congress to regulate commerce between the
States, includes jurisdiction over this grea,
subject, and that we call upon Congress and
our State Legislature so to exercise all their
powers over the railroads Of the country, as,
without injustice to them, may reduce freights
and fares TO proper rates, and secure the ad-
vantages OF these great highways to the whole
people. free from all preference or monopo-
iy.


Resolved, That every great achievement
for personal liberty, for the preservation OF
the Union, for education tor the elevation of
labor, for the elevation of women, for the ex-
tension of the suffrage which has been accom-
piIshed in this country for a generation, has
been due to the Republican party; that while
none OF these great causes have anything to
hope in the future from any other source,
while every new truth, every claim founded
onGustice, in the future, as in the past, finds
its earliest converts, its most generous recog-
nition its steongest advocates and its fl rst vic
tories among the Republicans of Massachu-
sets; that tie pressing duty of the day is
to secure honesty and purity, the right of the
people peaceably to assemble and take coun-
sci on public matters and select their agents,
free from violence, intimidation and fraud
the right to hold caucuses and conventions
without being cheated or bullied, and we
therefore call upon all honest Republicans,
however they may differ on other questions,
or howsoeyer they may have advanced in their
reception of new ideas, to unite in purging
the Commonwealth and the Nation of vio-
lence, treachery and corruption.


RESOLVED, That we demand such legisla-
ton on the hours of labor as will secure the
ten hour system for women and minors en-
ployed in the factories of Massachusetts.


RESOLVED, That the republican party is a
party of temperance, order, and law; that it
favors the honest and impartial execution in
good faith of all laws, especially those for the
suppression of crime and intemperance and
disorder; that the character and details of such
laws must be such as the people shall decide
through their representatives,, chosen to the
two branches Of the legislature, and when so
determined, should be obeyed cheerfuliy by
all law abiding citizens until repealed BY the
same authority.





chusetts look with pride upon the republican
administration Of the Commonwealth, and
recognize in their candidate for Governor,
VIM. b. Washburn, the same qualities OF
good sense, fidelity and uprightness, the same
watchfulness for the public interest, and care
for the public welfare which he has so con-
spicuously exhibited as one of the Represen.
tatives in Congress, and we commend him
and his associates upon the ticket this day
nominated, to the hearty support of the peo-
pie of the Commonwealth.


a supplementary resolution was adopted,
providing that hereafter all meeting in cities
for the election of delegates to the State Con-
vention shall by held by wards, that no
delegates shall be admitted to the conven-
ton without credentials from the proper
ward Off GERS that no one but republican
voters are entitled to vote for delegates to the
State Convention; that any ten republican
voters may demand the use Of the check list;
and if after such demand the list is not used,
delegates so chosen shall be refused seats in
the hall of the Convention by the committee.