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Show TlY STATE1DRB0NS. They Come Out Flat-Footed in Their Opposition Op-position to Silver and ths Demand of the Great West. GOLD ALONE IS GOOD ENOUGH To Satisfy the Democrats of MassachusettsThe Massachu-settsThe State Convention in Eession. WonoF.sTEit, Mass., Sept. 2f).The Massachusetts democrats in convention today nominated the following ticket: For OnrtrnorWllllim Kustes Russell of Cambridgif. Uriiitm a ftotfrnor John W. Conovan. t or .v iTfiuii) of AYov- F.Mrldi-'e Cushrnau. hof I'reaenrift' and Jit rordsr o.n. Jauius 8. Ci'rlnneSl. or .nfit ir W. T). T. Trefrey. . A loiH'y litnerai Oeorgn M. St.arns, The democratic state convention wns called to order this morning by Chairman Corcoran of the state central committee, lie made a short address. Committees were appointed and the convention con-vention permanently organized by the choice of Hon. P. A. Collins of Boston as chairman. The chairman in the course of his remarks, while speaking on the republican party, said: "The present complaint is that there has been too large a coinage of silver dollars worth as bullion or as merchandise merchan-dise only eighty cents a piece and the fenr is that the continued coinage or worse, a larger coinage of them will dangerously inflate the currency and ultimately drive gold out of circulation. circula-tion. "A year ago the treasury was coining at the rate of two million dollars a month these eighty cent dollars dol-lars and the demand on the part of sound financiers was that the coinage should ceaso or ihat something some-thing should be done to insure the parity par-ity of the silver dollar with the gold one, but the administration had a dobt due the silver men of the far west as well as to the iron and and wool men and to other monopolists and the silver men demanded payment. The result was the Sherman act. ' The republican resolution adopted recently here at their convention coupled with the vote of their representatives repre-sentatives in We last congress means that the republican position here is not hostile to any silver bill short of free coinage. This position is dangerous as the view of the conservative men here as is the more frank and consistent declaration of the republicans of the west." In closing, the speaker said: "We occupy oc-cupy a sound, safe and consistent position posi-tion and the vote of the people this fall, if cast for our candidates, will strengthen strength-en our hands and enlarge the influence of the democrats w ho take their seats in the house next December." William Kustis Russell, of Cambridge, Cam-bridge, was renominated for governor. The committee on resolutions then reported the platform which was adopted unanimously. It endorses the principles of the national democratic dem-ocratic party and commends the state administration; renews the party's declaration on the subject of labor, affirming sympathy with all wise and constitution measures in its interests. Renews the .mands for the repeal of the McKinley tariff law, and declares in favor of the enactment of a genuine measure of reform. "The republican administration is arraigned ar-raigned for destroying the efficiency of the census bureau for the sake of furnishing furn-ishing political spoils, for neglecting to brine prosecutions for the punishment of violations of the civil service law, for ignoring the recommendations of the civil service commission, for the dismissal of officials w ho openly defied the law, for reviving the active participation partici-pation of office-holders in partisan politics, poli-tics, and the assessment of government employes for partisan purposes." The" platform declares in favor of honest money and reaffirms the declaration decla-ration in the national democratic platforms plat-forms of 1S81 and 1888, expressing a uniform policy. It declares that all dollars coined by the United States should be of equal intrinsic value and that all paper currency issued by tho government should be redeemable in either gold or silver at the option of the holder and not at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, it believes in the use of both gold and silver as money and in the full remonetization of the latter metal by international agreement aud opposes the free and unlimited coinage of silver and the "dangerous" silver legislation enacted by the last congress. Governor Russell entered the hall about 1 o'clock and addressed the convention. con-vention. , |