Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Democrats of Massachusetts met in convention at Worcester and placed in nomination the following candidates: Governor, Henry B. Lovering; Lieutenant Governor, Walter E. Cutting; Secretary of State, John F. Murphy; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher; Attorney General, John W. Corcoran; Auditor, William F. Cook. The platform discusses the national administration; advocates the filling of all important offices by persons in political sympathy with the administration; denounces the retention in public office of anyone who has shown himself an offensive partisan; expresses the belief that the power of Congress to tax people is limited to the requirements of the Government; denounces the system that produces revenue beyond that extent as unwise; favors the release of the increasing and unnecessary surplus in the treasury; freer entrance to imported materials; the application of the income derived by the Government from the internal-revenue tax to the discharge of the burdens imposed on the people; approves the acts of Congress forbidding the importation of contract labor; and extends the deepest sympathy to the advocates of Home Rule in. Ireland-