Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-25
TERRITORIAL PLATFORM.
Platform of the Democratic Party
of Idaho Territory.

! pleuBe Ile DeInOCTdIlC party Ol ludilO
and its candidates to their faithful and
earnest support and endorsement:
ReSolUed, That we with becoming pride
| endorse the Administration of President
| Grover Cleveland for the honesty, frugality
and success with which it is conducting the
| affairs of government, carrying out the
principles of Democracy in administering
public trusts and keeping faith with the
people, respect for constitutional law, the
protection of the rights of our fellow citi-
Zens at home and abroad, desire to reform
the unjust inequalities of customs, to reduce
| taxation, to limit the expenditures to actual
necessities, the revival of trade, the increase
of commerce, the restoration of the un-
earned public lands to the peoples heritage,
the peace that happily extends throughout
our whole land, and the extinction of sec
| tional animosities are the salient marks
which signalize the restoration of the DEM
ocratic party to power, and the response it
| has gived to the trust reposed in it.
We commend the discrimination which
the President has made In favor of the
honest soldier, and callattention to the fact
that, while he has vetoed spurious and un-
worthy claims, he has signed more pension
bills than any of his predecessors.
Resolved, That the record of Hon. John
HALEY, our able representative at Washing
ton, is one of which we, as citizens of Idaho,
| are justly proud that Mr.. Hailey's con-
sistent course and energetic and successful
efforts in behalf of our Territory and inter-
ests of her citizens meet with our earnest
| and enthusiastic appreciation and that the
| thanks of our people are due him for his un-
| firing labors for his constituents.
| Resolved, That in Edward A. Stevenson,
our citizen Governor, Idaho has an honest,
| able and fearless Executive, who knows the
| wishes and wants of the people of this Ter
| ritory and who will faithfully enforce the
laws without fear or favor.
Resolved, That this convention proudly
invites attention to the fact that the last
Democratic House of Representatives passed
bills forfeiting and restoring to the public
| domain railway land grants amounting to
| over 70, 100000 of acres, and also the further
| fact that in the Forty. eighth Congress the
| Democratic lower House passed the Reagan
| Interstate Commerce bill, which failed Of
passage in the Republican Senate; also,
that in the last session of Congress the
Reagan bill was again passed in the Demo-
cratic lower House.
| = Resolved, That we denounce the infamous
practice of bigamy, polygamy and unlawful
cohabitation, and that we pledge our party
| to strict and rigid enforcement of the laws
| against such crimes, and as proof of our
sincerity we point with pride to the record
| of convictions had by Democratic United
States Attorney before Democratic judge
during the past year of Democratic ma
tlonal administration which, speaks louder
| than the windy professions unaccompanied
| by any performances of any past Republi-
| can officers in Idaho.
Resotued, That we are unalterably opposed
| to any dictation in State or political affairs
by church domination as heretofore exer-
| cised by the Mormon Church.
Resolved, That we are unalterably opposed
to Chinese immigration, and demand the
abrogation of the Burlingame-Swift treaty
"a legacy from the Republican party
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upon our shores. We pledge the best efforts
of the Democratic party of this Territory in
favor of measures which shall permanently
prohibit and prevent such immigration. We
regard Chinese labor as an unmixed evil;
therefore, we favor legislation providing for
the deportation of the Chinese from this
country, and their exclusion forever. In
the meantime, pending proper legislation
upon this subject, the Democratic party of
Idaho, as a friend of free labor and in the
interest of the people, recognize the legal
right of any citizen to employ whom he
pleases, yet we hold it in the right and duty
of the people of Idaho Territory, to with
hold their patronage from the Chinese, and
that such labor should not be resorted to
when other character of labor is available.
ReSolred That this convention is in favor
of an act of Congress providing for the free
coinage of both gold and silver, by the terms
which act both gold and silver bullion offered
at the several mints and assay offices of the
United States shall be received in exchange
for gold or silver coin or certificates at the
rate now fixed by law for standard dollars
of gold and silver, which certificates shall
be receivable for all public purposes, and
interchangeable for gold or silver, as the
case may be, and that there be no discrim
ination by United States Treasury officials
in the use of gold and silver for any purpose
whatever consistent with existing laws, in
cluding the payment of the interest bearing
debt
Resolved, That we are in favor of liberal
wages and free labor.
All associations formed for the purpose of
developing intelligence, promoting the vel
fare and protecting the interests of the
laborers and mechanics and to enable them
successfully to contend for and maintain
their rights by peaceful and efficient means |
against powerful and oppressive combina-
tions, should be encouraged and expressly |
sanctioned by law.
ReSOLUed That we are opposed to the op- |
pressive monopolies built up, fostered and |
protected by Republican Administrations, |
that we recognize labor as the producer of |
capital, that we recommend the passage of |
such laws as will make the wage laborers
preferred creditors and to secure to them
the full fruits of their labor.
ResOLUed, That the rapid increase of the |
white population of the United States de-
mands that Congress take speedy and |
select lands in severalty in quantities not to |
exceed eighty acres per capita within the |
limits of their respective Indian reservations |
and that the remainder of the lands on such |
Indian reservations should be restored to |
the public domain, subject to homestead |
entry by actual settlers.
ReSolued, That it is the duty of the Con.
gress of the United States to pass such leg |
islation as will guarantee the speedy adjust
ment and payment of all claims for depre- |
dations committed by Indians upon the |
persons and property of citizens of the |
Western States and Territories.
Resolved, That we extend our sympathy
to all people struggling to engraft upon |
their political system the principles of in
dividual liberty and self-government, and |
with special emphasis do we extend that |
to the present heroic efforts of the |
Irish people.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with |
the loyal people of Utah in their struggle to |
the supremacy of the laws of the |
United States, and the purity of American |
homes, and we hereby pledge the best eff |
forts of the Democracy of Idaho in aid of |
such legislation by the national Congress as |
will most speedily and forever paralyze the |
priestly hand that would seek to bind the |
souls of men by usurping their political lib |
critics.
ResOtred, That in addition to the forego- |
ing we re-afiirm the principles and policy as |
in the platform of the Democrat |
lc National Convention of 1884,
q. L.. WATERS, Chairman.
CHAs. @. STEVENSON, Secretary.
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