MASSACHUSETTS. 



519 



any measure of practice, is becoming more generally 

 recognized as of paramount importance and essential 

 to the security and permanence of our institutions. 

 While indiscriminate censure of our civil servants is 

 flagrantly unjust, the evils inseparable from the pres- 

 ent system are confessedly grave. Merit, not patron- 

 age, must be the basis of official tenure. As initia- 

 tory to a complete remedy, we earnestly demand such 

 legislation concerning the subordinate offices as shall 

 embrace the following provisions : 



1. Appointments shall be made only upon open, im- 

 partial, practical tests of the fitness of applicants, giv- 

 ing due preference to persons disabled in the military 



^nuwte without cause, or for 

 partisan reasons, or for failure to perform partisan ser- 

 vice. 

 3. Superior qualifications and real merit demon- 



AUDITOR. 



Charles E. Ladd, of Springfield 



John P. Sweeney, of Lawrence 111,244 



David N. Skillings, of Winchester 4,295 



Augustus L. Merchant, of Leverett 4,103 



Jonathan Buck, of Harwich 2,129 



Allothers 82 



ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



Edgar J. Sherman, of Lawrence 137,008 



George F. Verry, of Worcester 114,453 



Elmer A . Snow, of Athol 4,265 



Samuel M. Fairfield, of Maiden 2,098 



All others 48 



Of the eight members of the Executive Coun- 

 cil, seven are Republicans and one (from Bos- 

 ton) a Democrat. Democrats were elected to 

 Congress in the fourth, fifth, and sixth districts, 

 an independent Republican in the ninth, and 

 Republicans in the other eight. The vote was 

 as follows: 



FIRST DISTRICT. 



office. 



^ We unhesitatingly disapprove of any system of po- 

 litical assessments or demands for contributions under 

 an express or implied threat of removal from office as 

 a penalty for noicompliance or under any other pre- 



text whatever. The salary ot the officeholder is his George F. Babbitt, of Provincetown ................. 229 



compensation for services, not a fund subject to draft Prelate D. Conant' of Fall Kiver ..................... 62 



for party uses. And we go further. Free govern- Francis D. Cobb, of Barn stable ...................... 42 



ment can be maintained only when the convictions All others .......................................... 3 



and choice of the voter find expression in his ballot, owrnun msTRTPT 



T, i i /> T * -r TT . f .' SECOND DISTRICT. 



uncontrolled by tear or purchase. We view with sen- 



ous apprehension the growing tendency of the times JJ n ?V5; of f^f^T ' ........................ ? J'??S 



toward corrupting expenditures of money to control ^^^^[^^:-:::- -::::- 10 'S8 



nominations and elections to the public offices. The George E. Donham, of Eockland ................... 333 



peril to our institutions is extreme. Open bribery in All others .................................... ..... 3 



legislative halls is not more dangerous or culpable. 



Eeform, prompt and thorough, is demanded by every :STRICT. 



consideration of safety. Ambrose A. Eanney, of Boston ...................... 11,968 



Eecalling with satisfaction the salutary enactments Horatio E. Swasey, of Boston ....................... 8,550 



of the State Legislature for the reformation of the elec- I 8 ? 6 ' f. Oapen, of Boston ........................ 91 



tion laws for tne security of the rights of every legal K l 8 A Fu ^ g 



voter, for humane assistance to the needy poor, for a A y others ...... . . .................................. 20 



more equitable adjustment of the burdens of taxation, 



for protection to the interests of the laborer, and for FOURTH DISTRICT. 



the advancement of the material, moral, social, and Patrick A. Collins, of Boston ........................ 12,884 



educational interests of the Commonwealth, we invite Charles T. Gallagher, of Boston ..................... 4,546 



intelligent and candid consideration of all propositions Wendell Phillips, of Boston ......................... 123 



in aid of temperance and good order, for equal rights "J. C. B rop hy, of Boston ........................... 70 



of suffrage irrespective of sex, and for the encourage- 



ment of industry, frugality, contentment, and pros- FIFTH DISTRICT. 



perity among all the people of our honored State. Leopold Morse of Boston .... .................. 11,301 



ELECTION BBTUHOT.-^ election in No- i^^SS^'w^T!"*::: ill: *' 



vember resulted in the choice of General Butler All others .......................................... 48 



for Governor, and of the remainder of the Ke- SIXTH DISTRICT. 



publican State ticket. The VOte was as follows : Henry B. Lovering, of Lynn ........................ 12,840 



rnvFRvnR Elisha 8 " Converse, of Maiden .................... ... 11,961 



GOVERNOR. Allothers .......................................... 9 



Benjamin F. Butler, of Lowell ...................... 133,946 a WF vrw ms-rpr 



Eobert K. Bishop, of Newton ...................... 119,997 SEVENTH DISTRICT. 



Charles Almy, ofNew Bedford ..................... 2,137 Eben F. Stone, of Newburyport ..................... 10,056 



Allothers ......................................... 198 Charles P. Thomson, of Gloucester .................. 8,764 



Kben Moody Boynton, of Newburyport .............. 8,825 



LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. j Newtou ^^ of Beverly ...... ................. 50 



Oliver Ames, of Easton ............................ 134,353 All others .......................................... 26 



Samuel W. Bowerman, of Pittsfleld. ................ 116,078 TT^WTW msTRTfT 



George Button, of Springfield ...................... 4,033 EIGHTH D1STEICT - 



John Blackmer, of fepringfield ...................... 2,141 William A. Eussell. of Lawrence .................... 11,269 



All others ......................................... 56 Charles S. Lilley, of Lowell .......................... 10,743 



SECRETARY OF STATE. Kg. ^ .^^ V. '. ! " ! ! ! ! ii " ! ! " ! ! ! i 1 



Henry B. Peirce, of Abington ...................... 136,813 KTMTH DISTRICT 



David N. Skillings, of Winchester .................. 110,941 NINTH DISTRICT - 



John P. Sweeney, of Lawrence ..................... 4,203 Theodore Lyman, of Brookline ...................... 12,076 



John Howes, of Worcester .... 4,147 John W. Candler, of Brookline ...................... 9,703 



Solomon F. Eoot, of Douglas ....................... 2,135 George W. Stacy, of Milford ........................ 206 



All others ........................................ 19 Prescott West, of Marlboro ......................... 186 



TREASURER. A " ther8 .......................................... 10 



Daniel A. Gleason, of Medford ..................... 136,386 



William A.Hodges, of Quincy..., .. 115,437 William W. Eice, of Worcester ...................... 11,846 



George Foster, of Lynn ............................ 4,157 John Hopkins, of Millbury .......................... 9,404 



Thomas J. Lothrop. of Taunton 2,158 Jason Waters, of Sutton ............................ 95 



Allothers. .............. 88 Allothers .......................................... 2 



