Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

M ASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS.

The Massachusetts Republicans met in State convention at Boston, Wednesday. Oliver Ames was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. The platform endorse es the Republican National platform and candidates. “The protective policy which shall keep the American m’arket for Americans, and prevent the wages of her workmen from being degraded by the competition of the pauper or the slave, below the standard which shall enable them to enjoy the comfort and leisure which are becoming and essential to American Citizenship” is insisted upon; condemns the system of undervaluation and false invoicing as demoralizing and ruinous to our foreign business, favors submission to the people of a prohibitory amendment, condemns the foreign policy of the present administration and condemns trusts. A full State ticket was nominated.