Show THEY ALL WORE REEl BUTTON Large and Enthusiastic Convention Con-vention in Boston Bos-ton PROCEEDINGS HARMONIOUS The ran From flaine Cheered by Thousands Programme Mapped Out by the State Committee Followed With 1 Single Exception and That Was the Election of I Colored Man as an Alternate is I Crusher Though to Those Who Believed the Republicans Were Friendly to Silver BOSTON March 27A larger or more enthusiastic body of prominent Republicans has seldom met at a state convention than was gathered at Music Hair loday to elect four delegates dele-gates at large and their alternates to attend the national convention at St Louis Of 2002 delegates entitled to a seat in the convention 1551 were present pres-ent full of enthusiasm for Hon Thomas Thom-as B Reed as candidate for president Every delegate had in his buttonhole a Reed button bearing a picture of the man with a background of the national na-tional colors and every time the name I of the Maine statesman was uttered cheers burst from the throats of the hall vast crowd that filled the convention hallNor Nor were the delegates much more enthusiastic than the scores of ladies who occupied seats in the first gallery While the men applauded and cheered the women waved their scarfs and wave handkerchiefs The hal was almost completely lined with bunting punctured punc-tured by groups of flags Baldwins full band bore its part keeping up the enthusiasm by playing national I and patriotic melodies The proceedings proceed-ings of the convention were harmonious har-monious in a marked degree and the iprogramme mapped out by the state committee was adopted with a single exception that of the election of Dr E S Courtney of Boston a colored man to be an alternate He was nominated frpm the floor by Morris CAller C-Aller a colored Delegate from Boston The speeches vue listened to with marked attention and every pont seemed to receive its merited amount of applause or laughter This was particularly the case when Congressman Congress-man McCall and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge were delivering their addresses THE PROCEEDINGS < The Republican state convention was called to order at 1015 Long before I that the delegates assembled in the hal and killed time by cheering for the prominent members as they entered en-tered The first grand volley came when Chairman George H Lyman followed by tne state committee i I mounted the platform Mr Lyman called the convention to order and the I call was read Bishop Lawrence offered prayer and i eloquently referred to the justice and purify of life of the late Governor Greenhalge Mr Lyman then addressed Greenpage a I dressed the delegates LYMANS SPEECH t Mr Lyman said We are assembled in convention empowered by the suffrages of the Republican Re-publican voters of Massachusetts to outline and determine the policy of this commonwealth when she shall meet the representatives from her sister sis-ter states at perhaps the most important im-portant national convention in the history his-tory of the great American party We meet after a lapse of four years to select good men and true who are to I speak for the commonwealth at the convention and also to agree upon and formulate such rules of government as shal best tend to represent and interpret in-terpret the principles of the party we honorthe foundation of our best citizenship Let the national convention conven-tion stand true to the best interests of the Republican party an honest dollar and the institutions of our country and that partys defeat is an impossibility Gentlemen our position is a Gentemen posion very responsible one In thought and name and being we are one with that New England sisterhood of states whose proudest record has ever been for loyal support of those institutions Why has no New England state yet met in convention Is it not because they demand first to hear the voice of I Massachusetts Towards the decline I of the eighteenth century with sword and pen in council and on the field New England with united purpose was the most foremost in establishing this great government under which we live and foremost of them all in freedoms free-doms cause with brain and arm fought Massachusetts Then was given gven birth to that great bulwark of the American peoplethe New England manToday though blessed with peace we have issues no Jess vital that must be distinctly met They involve the very foundation of our civil structure of those institutions of our credit of our national honor Massachusetts owes to herself she owes It to those who fashioned her in earlier and darker days to take her place and maintain her birthright in the councils of the states Of all the states within this wide territory Gods gift to an infant republic in religion in enterprise enter-prise in culture in refinement in its schools in the fervid and intense I I spirit of patriotic Americanism by tradition andbv example stands first and foremost the old Bay state I Then let your vote send such men I to St Louis as shall best represent Massachusetts that at this last convention con-vention of the ninteenth century she and all New England may stand no cipher but a mighty unit and with such resolutions as shall receive he I I endorsement of all Americans who own a country and demanding such ale a-le der as truly Aiverican as the principles prin-ciples he is called upon to defend New England cannot be said to b less worthy of leadership today than in the old days ofthe thirteen united colonies when she presents as her chosen chieftain Reed the name of Thomas S Bracke THE PELEGATES The following delegates were chosen I e ut I by acclamation Henry Cabot Lodge W T Murray Crane Eben S Draper Charles Gould jr t The following were elected alternates alter-nates Louis C Southard of Easton Roland H Boutwell of Belmont R F Hawkins of Springfield Dr E S Courtney of Boston THE PLATFORM Massachusetts has always given an unwavering support to the national candidates of the Republican party We now pledge her electoral vote to the candidates to be chosen by he convention at St Louis That convention conven-tion will declare the principles and polIces pol-Ices upon which the Republican party will go to the country As the representatives repre-sentatives of the Republicans of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts we desire to not only promise the national convention our faithful support for the candidates they shall nominate but also set forth the opinions of this great and steadfast Republican state as to the questions of the day and the policies to be pursued pur-sued Two years of uncontrolled Democratic Democrat-ic supremacy were enough to prove that the Democratic party was unable to conduct the government without disaster dis-aster to the country Thirty years of rule have shown that the Republican party both in war and in peace is able to govern and legislate For this reason rea-son alone the national administration should be taken away from those who have failed and returned to those who have been successful and efficient We believe that the government should have AN AMPLE REVENUE with a sufficient surplus over ordinary expenditures to provide for coast defenses de-fenses for the steady building up of the navy and for the constant reduction reduc-tion of the public debt We believe that the present tariff with its lowered rates and its destructive destruc-tive and dishonest system of under valuations should be replaced by one framed on protection principles and arranged to give ample protection to American wages and American industry indus-try and to restore the reciprocity policy of James G Blaine We have always given protection to our shipbuilders In late years we have neglected to protect our ship owners We b lee the time has come to return to the policy of Washington and Hamilton which by discriminating duties in favor of American bottoms secured 90 per cent of our carrying trade to American ships and which if now restored would again revive our shipping and cause American eights t be pa ti to Americans We regard the SILVER AGITATION AS HURTFUL to business and destructive of confidence dance and as has receritly been shown hostile to all tariff legislation designed to give protection 10 cur industries and revenue to our treasury We are entirely opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and to any change in the existing gold standard except by international agreement agree-ment Each dollar must be kept as good as every other dollar The credit of the United States must be maintained at the highest point so that it cannot can-not be questioned anywhere either at home or abroad Every promisemust be rigidly kept and every obligation redeemable in coin must be paid in gold We are opposed to the unsound and dangerous system of state banks We support the national banking system and believe that it should be so I amended as to give it room for expansion ex-pansion and opportunity to meet the demands of I THE GROWING BUSINESS and population of the country I The civil service laws which remove the public service from the control of favoritism patronage and politics should be honestly andthoroughly enforced en-forced and the classified service classifed extended ex-tended wherever it is possible Immigration should be restricted and the Republican party should pledge itself to pass at once a law to exclude at ate least the totally ignorant and illiter ateThe United States should adhere I rigidly to the American principle of the entire separation of cuhrch and state and no appropriation of public money for sectarian schools whether for the Indians or others should be permitted We believe in a foreign policy which shall be at all times and with all nations na-tions firm vigorous and tons fr1 dignified Our interests in the American Amerian continents con-tinents must be carefully guarded and for the protection of those interests we should maintain our influence in the Hawaiian islands and build and control the isthmian canal WE HAVE NEVER INTERFERED I and shall not now interfere with the long established possessions of any European power in the Americas But their possessions must not be extended extend-ed The Monroe doctrine as declared in 1S23 and enforced in 1865 and 1895 must always be upheld We sympathize with the Cubans in their struggle for Independence As friends of freedom everywhere we I wish them success and believe that the United States should use its influence and good offices in the interests of humanity to bring to an end the useless use-less and bloody war now desolating Cuba and to give to the people of that island peace and selfgovernment Massachusetts Republicans have never undertaken to pledge or bind their delegates to a national convention conven-tion We do not intend to do so now But we think it fitting to declare our decided preference among the candidates candi-dates for the Republican nomination to the presidency We present to the national convention for nomination a I president and we urge all our delegates dele-gates to give their earnest united and active support to a fearless leader tried in many hard conflicts a man of I national reputation of unblemished character unswerving Republicanism and great abilities the Hon Thomas B5 Reed of Maine J Maryland Sentiment BALTIMORE March 27The Balti I more American of which General Fe lix Angus is editor will tomorrow announce an-nounce its advccacy of the nomination I of Speaker Reed for the presidency In its leading editorial the American parts pa-rts to the Republican Republcn convention ins in-s and adds Yesterdays convention was the formal beginning of the Reed campaign The sentiment in I Maryland is for him I |