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MASSACHUSETTS. 



i.uvv ollicers and in defiance of tlie laws of Con- 



The Demoeratie State Convention, in Boston, 

 S-nt -M nominated the following ticket: For Gov- 

 ernor Robert Treat Paine. Jr.: Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor -John H. Mack: Attorney-General, John 

 H MorriHon: Auditor. \V. L. Ramsdell: Secretary 

 of State. Harry Lloyd: Treasurer. Joseph J. 

 Klvnn. Later K. (Jerry Hrown. a Populist, was 

 nominated for Auditor, Mr. Ramsdell having de- 



D The platform declares that the Chicago plat- 

 form of ls.Mi. "like the Declaration of Independ- 

 ence, ftamls as a part of the fundamental code 

 of the Democratic Lrovernment." 



The financial plank of that instrument is par- 

 ticularly reiterated, and the financial ills of the 

 five vears prior to 1SH7 are ascribed to "a con- 

 tract'^! eurrencv. for which Republican financial 

 legislation had provided no form of relief." 



The Hepublican party is accused of planning 

 to surrender to the banks the governmental func- 

 tions of issuing paper money and controlling its 

 volume. 



-To-day our trust magnates are our bankers. 

 They hold the bank stock, they sit on the boards 

 of directors: they select the officials, and they 

 will apply to their command over the supply of 

 the nation's money the same merciless and ex- 

 tortionate methods which they use in turning 

 to their own profit their present monopolies." 



The war in the Philippines is characterized as 

 criminal aggression, wanton, needless, and waste- 

 ful, and incompetently and corruptly prosecuted. 

 It is demanded that to " the Filipinos as to the 

 Cubans shall be said to-day that they are of 

 right and ought to be free and independent." 



The platform favors direct legislation, the initi- 

 ative and referendum, the election of United 

 States Senators by direct vote of the people, and 

 the enforcement of an eight-hour work day, the 

 abolition of the law granting a life tenure to 

 members of the judiciary, the public ownership 

 and operation of street railways, water works, 

 and other municipal enterprises. 



Delegates were chosen to the National Demo- 

 cratic Convention of 1900. 



The People's party made no nominations, but 

 in October the Executive Committee approved 

 the Democratic platform. The position of the 

 party in the State was defined as follows: "Hav- 

 ing for three years indorsed the Democratic State 

 Convention candidates for State offices, and hav- 

 ing voted for them, it is well to continue doing so 

 until the next national convention shall decide 

 whether the national alliance of 1890 is to be 

 continued or a new and independent departure 

 inaugurated." 



The Republican convention was held in Boston, 

 Ot. 0. Following is the ticket: For Governor, 

 W. Murray Crane; Lieutenant Governor, John 

 Bates; Secretary of State, William M. Olin; 

 Attorney-General, H. M. Knowlton; Auditor, 

 John W. Kimball: Treasurer and Receiver Gen- 

 eral. Fxlward S. Bradford. 



The platform opens with felicitation upon "the 



esults which have followed the restoration of 



the Republican party to power in all the branches 



Federal Government." On the subject of 



tional finances and the currency it says: 



' Bonds and notes payable in coin must be estab- 



ihed by law to be payable in gold and pro- 



i made for supply of gold when required. 



The Republican party stands unreservedly pledged 



maintain the existing gold standard, and we 



ith confidence to the Fifty-sixth Congress 



ie enactment of measures to so perfect? our 



METALLURGY. 



monetary system that there shall be ample money 

 for the expanding business of the country, and 

 so arm and guard the Treasury that it can at 

 all times protect the national credit." 



The platform further urges the opening up of 

 new markets for the manufactured products of 

 the United States, the development of the mer- 

 chant marine of this country, and such improve- 

 ment of the principal harbors of the United States 

 as shall make them accessible to the largest ves- 

 sels afloat. On the subject of trusts the platform 

 says: 



" The Republican party of Massachusetts is un- 

 qualifiedly opposed to trusts and monopoly and 

 the capitalization of fictitious and speculative 

 valuations." 



Confidence is expressed in the national Admin- 

 istration, and belief that the war in the Philip- 

 pines can be brought to an early termination. 

 Civil service reform laws are commended, and 

 strict naturalization laws and further restriction 

 of immigration are urged. Lynching is con- 

 demned. The resolutions close with commenda- 

 tion of Gov. Wolcott's administration. 



The result of the election in November was the 

 success of the Republican ticket. The vote for 

 Governor stood: Crane, Republican, 168,902; 

 Paine, Democrat, 100,802; Porter, Socialist-Labor, 

 10,778; Baer, Prohibitionist, 7,402. 



In the cities, especially Haverhill, Brockton, 

 Quincy, and Newburyport, the Socialist-Demo- 

 crats made large gains on the vote of the pre- 

 vious State election. In the municipal elections 

 in December also they showed strength, electing 

 the mayor in Brockton. As a rule, the Repub- 

 licans were successful in the city elections. 



The Legislature of 1900 stands: Senate, 31 Re- 

 publicans, 9 Democrats; House, 166 Republicans, 

 68 Democrats, 4 Independents, 2 Socialist-Demo- 

 crats. 



Following is the Executive Council: David F. 

 Slade, William W. Davis, Oliver H. Durrell, 

 Charles I. Quirk, George F. Harwood, S. Herbert 

 Howe, Martin V. B. Jefferson, Parley A. Russell. 

 Mr. Quirk is a Democrat; all the others are Re- 

 publicans. 



METALLURGY. At the thirtieth annual 

 meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute Sir W. 

 C. Roberts-Austen, referring to the present con- 

 dition of practical metallurgy as compared with 

 that at the beginning of the century, said that 

 there were now blast furnaces which would pro- 

 duce 700 tons of iron daily, with a consumption 

 of 15 hundredweight of coal per ton. The gases 

 from blast furnaces are used as sources of heat 

 and directly in gas engines. There are Bessemer 

 furnaces that hold 50 tons of metal and open- 

 hearth furnaces that also take 50 tons, while 100- 

 ton furnaces are projected. The open-hearth fur- 

 naces are fed with one ton of material in a min- 

 ute by the aid of a large spoon worked by an 

 electro-motor. There are gigantic mixers, capable 

 of holding 200 tons of pig iron, in which, more- 

 over, a certain amount of preliminary purifica- 

 tion is effected. Steel plates are rolled of more 

 than 300 feet in area and 2 inches thick.* Girders 

 are made which justify the belief of. Sir Benjamin 

 Baker that a bridge connecting England and 

 France might be built over the Channel in half- 

 mile spans. We have ship plates that buckle 

 up during a collision, but remain water tight; 

 steel armor-piercing shot which will penetrate a 

 thickness of steel equivalent to more than 37 

 inches of wrought iron, the points of the shot 

 remaining intact, although the striking velocities 

 are nearly 2,800 feet a second; wires that will 

 sustain a load of 170 tons per square inch with- 







