Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-01
VOTE THE TICKET.

Such is the request that we make to
every citizen in regard to the Democratic
ticket. 1t is eminently a representative
ticket, and the gentlemen whose names
grace it are too well known to the COM
munity to need any commendation. In
dividually they are worthy Of the sup
port of every citizen who has the welfare
of his country and the Territory at heart.
As representatives of great party whose
underlying principles rest upon the
the broad foundation that political power
zones only from the people, and that
vrhnS the people through lethargy or
throrOS "a SEa erroneous idea as to their
rinbts ond The 7T;s6Sit 6itt I9aethod of maintain
ing them, have allowed a cc.'.l'~ c.'ui'ion VI
things to grow up, which not only eTi
dangers their rights as individuals but
their political existence as a State, an ap-
peal to them is the best and surest way
of correcting the evils complained of,
they should receive the hearty and en-
thusiastic support of all lovers of truth
and liberty. 1t is for the candidates who
represent these principles that we
ask votes They are the opponents of
doctrines which, put in practice, will
guarantee to all the preservation of their
dearest and most sacred rights. The
Democratic party has seen the birth and
death of many parties, and to-day there
courses through its veins the life blood of
youth and strength, and never was it
stronger and more full of vigor than now.
The people of the Union have again rallied
around the party's standard, and have
sought their safety in a return to those
principles of right and freedom which will
live for all time, and be found triumphant
wherever liberty and prosperity reign.
Such being the principles in the past
of the Democratic party, it is but
natural that Democrats should
prefer them to all others and
decline TO accept others upon which to
base their campaign. They preferred
their own principles to those of any other
party, but as citizens who only wish for
the welfare of all, they ask the support
and suffrage of every voter, without refer
ence to what the voters former political
alliances may have been, believing that
if voters will but investigate their prin-
ciples they will accept them, for their
logic, in free country, is irresistible.
There have been those who have said
that the Democratic party wished no sup
port from those who did not belong to
that party. Such has not been nor is
the case. How foolish and how unpatri-
otic it would be for party not to
wish the support of every voter, no
matter whether the voter belonged to |
the party or not, when the party believes
that its principles are true and beyond all |
others calculated to protect and perpetu-
ate our Government as founded. For the |
party not to wish the support OF its can
didates and principles by ali citizens,
no matter what name they may give TO
their political preferences, would be for |
the Democratic party to that extent to
wish harm to the Government. Not
wish for the vote of the citizens of all |
classes in a country whose whole form
and theories of government rest upon the
will of the people as expressed
by the ballot? What nonsense and
how absurd! The DEMOCRAT earnestly
asks all citizens TO vote the Democratic
ticket on Monday next; and further, to
study the principles upon which that
party is founded. There is much that
needs doing in regard to our local laws,
and the names on the Democratic ticket
are a guaranty that that which needs
being done will be done so far as in their
power shall lie if they are elected. Those
candidates represent the right of local
self-government, and the theory that
when an appeal is made to the people
that a dangerous condition of affairs ex-
lists, the people, if the facts are presented
plainly and as they are, have both the