The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-18
BOGUS BUILDING.
A Self Styled Committee Erect
a Platform. q
WHICH DEMOCRATS MUST SIGN.
Or be Ruled Ont OF the Party-What
They Accept, Their Ideas
and Notions

The following was handed in on Mon
day for publication. 1t is in measure
self-explanatory, but not entirely so:
Democratic Platform. adopted by the
Democratic Territorial Committee
November 18th, 1884:
First-A cordial acceptance Of the
Constitution of the United States, arc
of the duty to obey all the laws passed
in pursuance thereof, as expounded by
the Court of last resort, is essential to
loyalty and good citizenship, and no
one can be true Democrat who is not
in bis political faith and practice good
citizen.
.Second-All just powers of government
are derived from the people in whom Is
the National and State sovereignty. By
| the organization of our constitutional
government only legislative, judicial
and executive power is granted to the
! body polite; the grant is TO be limited
| to the object OF securing general ana
equal protection of lie, liberty and
property to citizens, and that no one
shall be deprived Of either without due
process of law.
Third-As Democrats we hold to a
strict construction of all grants Of
power by the people.
Fourth-We hold that life is the gift
of our Creator; and the right to preserve
| it is the most sacred of the rights of
man. Liberty is freedom from all
restraint, but such as are justly inn
posed by law, that beyond mat line lies
the domain OF usurpation ana tyranny.
Fifth-It is one OF the claims OF our
republican institutions to increase the
intelligence of the people; to foster,
establish and maintain their individual
| independence of choice and action in
the exercise of all their personal and
political rights, franchises and privi-
! leges; TO this end the union OF church
and State has been forever abolished,
and we pledge ourselves TO assert and
maintain the individual independence
of the citizen and his exemption from
any authority to direct his civil conduct
except by the law of the land.
Sixth-We hold that all public bOun-
ties should be shared equally by the
people; that all the burdens OF the gov
eminent should be borne by them
equally, according 10 their faculties and
means, and made as light az possible by
economical administration that it is
the duty of government, in its legisla-
| ton, TO equally protect labor and cap
ital, and equally encourage a remunera-
| tive and diversified employment of each.
Seventh--An monopolies are inimical
to the liberties of the people and to re-
publican institutions; legislative grants
of vast areas of the public domain to
corpora lions, of late years, under Re
| publican administrations have vastly
increased the public danger, by aggran-
dising the few and depressing the many.
| Eighth-We accept the last Demo
cratic national platform as cor
rectly ennuciating the doctrines
of the Democratic party on the
we acknowledge the jurisdiction of flu
| ture Democratic national conventions
to re-state our political faith.
! Ninth-We are IN favor Of 4 vigorous
enforcement of the laws heretofore
passed for the Suppression OF polygamy
| in the Territories, and such amend
ments and additions to such laws as
may be found necessary for an attain
ment of that end.
Tenth-We pledge our hearty support
! of the incoming Democratic admins
| tration, and we also solemnly promise
TO support all nominations that shall
hereafter be made by the party organ
| lied on this platform.
| FIeventh-All Democrats are re-
quested to sign this platform, and no
person will be recognized hereafter as
such. who does not sign the same or in
some equivalent way signify his adop-
ton thereof.
J. B. ROsBoRoUGH,
Chairman.
J. G. SUTHERLAND,