represent the principles and purposes of their respective parties. Between them there is a difference as great as between courage and timidity, patriotism and policy, progress and stagnation, the living principles of a living party, and the lifeless faith of a party that dwells only in the past; between a people's President who fights for the people's cause, who serves them and them only, and a party President who hears the voice only of the politicians.

We charge the Republican party in State and Nation with repeated, constant, and deliberate violation of these principles, that are cardinal to our faith, and at the very foundation of Republican institutions.

It has debauched the public service in violation of its pledges and the plighted word of its President for partisan purposes, regardless of the capacity, fidelity, and honesty of the public servants it has brutally dismissed. To it reform of the civil service has become a byword and a jest.

It has surrendered its power in imperial States to irresponsible and discredited party bosses, to be used for politics only, and has tainted the administration. of public affairs with the scandal of nepotism and jobbery.

It has repeatedly disregarded the right of local selfgovernment in order to foist Republican rule upon Democratic communities, and now it demands national control of elections, coupled with the assuring declaration of one of its leaders that he has no objection to the presence of United States troops at the polls of a free and self-governing people! Faneuil Hall but a few years ago uttered its indignant and non-partisan protest against that principle applied to Louisiana. Faneuil Hall will be heard also against its application to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

It has maintained unjust and unnecessary burdens of taxation upon the people to enrich the few and to pay its political debts. It has substituted treasury made law for the will of the people by Congress declared.

It has left unheeded the demand to lift taxation, to cheapen a little the food, clothing, and shelter of the whole people, and to give our industries a chance to live; but has declared its purpose of increasing and extending this burden. No wonder that its own Governor in this Commonwealth breaks through all party allegiance and places himself with us on the side of the people and reform; or that languishing industries of Massachusetts cry out in distress that they be no longer throttled to satisfy the demand of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Our suffering woollen industry, our foreign commerce swept from the seas, and the unlighted fires of our glass and iron furnaces utter their emphatic and indignant protest against the Republican abuse of the power of taxation.

It has administered with reckless partiality a great department of government for the purpose of getting votes, rather than fairly, justly to all the veterans, and to uphold the pension list as "a roll of honor," and has made its scapegoat the man who did its will.

In State affairs we charge the Republican party with a thorough mistrust of the people, and with maintaining itself in power by taxing the right to vote.

It has violated the fundamental right of homerule, and established State-House control of municipal government.

It has steadily increased the expenditures, taxes, commissions, burdens, and restrictions of the State, and been more anxious to raise salaries than to lower taxes, to increase the offices than to lessen the burdens on the people.

It has shown timidity, irresolution, and hypoc.isy in dealing with the leading questions of the Stat It has resolved to repeal the poll-tax one year, and de eated its own resolution the next. It has passed a prohibitory law, and repealed it; voted for and against constitutional prohibition; turned the question out of the Legislature to the people, and then back from the people to the Legislature. It has made a foot-ball of important matters, kicking them from year to year, or between the two branches of the Legislature it overwhelmingly controls.

It has not listened to the demands of labor for just and beneficent legislation, or only listened when compelled to by Democratic importunity.

It has used its power for partisan purposes in redistricting the State, so as to make its popular majority overwhelming in the legislative and congressional districts.

It has allowed an irresponsible third body to exist, that stands between the people and their Legislature, controlling legislation against the people's interests. It has defeated a law to limit the power of this body and give publicity to its acts.

It has not heeded the demand for purer, freer elections, uncontrolled by the corrupt use of money, but has defeated a law that would stop this vital evil by compelling the publication of campaign expenses.

Gentlemen, the issue this year is not between candidates, but between the principles and purposes of the two great parties in this State. The standard you have placed in my hands bears upon it, I believe, the principles I have stated. I know that you will declare those principles clearly, honestly, bravely. The people are in no mood to be satisfied with a platform built to mean anything or nothing, to hide rather than to

declare a party's policy. "Party honesty is party expediency."

Grateful to you for the confidence you have placed in me, I accept the nomination you have tendered me.

I do not know whether I shall carry your standard to victory or defeat. The decision of that question rests with the people of this Commonwealth. But this much I can promise: it shall never be lowered, and shall be returned to you without a stain upon its folds. In such a cause "not failure, but low aim is crime."

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AT THE BAY STATE CLUB DINNER, BOSTON, OCT. 12, 1889, UPON A COMPARISON OF THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PLATFORMS.

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OR a second time it affords me great pleasure to acknowledge the generous hospitality of the Bay State Club, and through it to express my thanks to the Democratic party of this State for its confidence in me and in my Democracy in choosing me again to lead its campaign.

I recognize the fact that here at this board I sit in the presence of tried and trusted leaders of the party, who have led it gallantly in sunshine and darkness, who have unflinchingly kept the faith, and at whose feet we younger Democrats have gladly learned those principles for which now we are ready to make an earnest and an aggressive fight. The campaign this year is a fight between the principles and the purposes of the two great parties of this State. It is not, and cannot be made, a fight between candidates except as they represent those principles. As far as lies in my power, the fight shall be kept up to that standard, and shall not degenerate into personal criticism or personal abuse.

The questions for the people of this State to determine upon their conscience are: Has the administration of National affairs been so honest, faithful, patriotic, and unselfish, with a single eye to the people's interest and