The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-23
EVENING SESSION.
After Prayer the Resolutions Committee
Reported.
tlll5p.m.

noon that before the session was over the
battle would be on.
The atmosphere was charged heavily
with moisture, men in the galleries took
off their coats. How the women main
tanned life none but themselves know.
The New York delegation came first into
the hall and genuine Tammany yell came
from the braves Immediately behind the
alternates.
A cry of Hill went up but the sound was
like escaping steam shot from the floor and
growing TO q whistling, Kissing storm. The
great throng, however, subsidized when
Chairman Wilson thumped the desk and
the session began.
Rev. Thomas Green offered prayer. At
the conclusion of the prayer the band rem
dered America
w. w. Vandiver, of Georgia, moved that
the convention adjourn until II tomorrow.
The motion was lost and the announce
ment was received with cheers.
DuriEg the time which elapsed after the
calling of the convention to order and be-
fore the committee on resolutions was
ready to report, caucusing among the diff
ferent delegations progressed with great
activity. Then the chairman announced
that the committee on resolutions was
ready to report. Howls of applause rose
from all quarters.
Colonel Jones, chairman of the commit
tee, mounted the platform amid great
cheers and said
II am instructed by the committee on
resolutions to present, as the report of the
committee, the following resolutions and
move their adoption
Patterson, of Colorado, interrupted with
the announcement that he represented the
minority and wished TO state that the
minority expected TO be heard before the
previous question was put.
Villas, OF Wisconsin, then read as follows:
The representatives Of the Democratic party
of the United States in national convention as
sembi ed 90 reaffiim heir allegiance to the
principles CT the party as formulated by Jeffer-
son an esemplined by a long and illustiious
line of successors in the Democratic leadership
from Madison TO Cleveland.
We believe the public welfare demands that
these principles be applied to conduct Tho fed
eral government through accession to power of
the party that advocates them, and we sol
emily declare that the need OF
RETURN no THESE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
of a free popular government, based on home
rule and individual liberty, was never mere
urgent than now, when a tendency o ceHtralize
all the power at the federal capital has become
q menace to the reserved rights OF states that
strikes at the roots Of our government under
the constitution as framed by the fathers OF The
republic.
we warn Tue people OF the common. country
jealous for the preservation Of their free inst
tutions, that the policy Of federal control of
elections, 10 which the Republican party has
committed itself, IS
FRAUGHT WITH THE GRAvEsr DANGERS,
scarcely less momentous than would result
from a revolution practically establishing mon
archy on the ruins OF the republic. 1t strikes
at the north as well as the south and Injuries the
colored citizen more than whites. Ii means
hordes Of deputy marshais at every polling
place armed with federal power returning
boards appointed ana controlled by federal au-
thority the outage of the electoral rights of
the people IN states; the subjugation of the
colored people 10 the control of the purity in
power ana reyiging race Antagonism now hap
PLY abated, Of the utmost peril to the safety
and happiness of all measures deliberately and
justly described by leading Republican sena.
tor as the most infamous bill thai ever crossed
the threshold of thu Senate such policy if
sanctioned by law would mean the domination
of Self-perpetuaung oligarchy of oficehoders
and the pariy first entrusted with the machin-
cry could be dlslodged from power only
by appeal to the reserved right of the
people TO resist the oppression which is
inherent In all self governing communities
TWO years ago this Revolutionary pol CIV was
condemned by the people at the polls. but in
contempt of that verdict the Repu Die an party
has deflantly declared in its latest authorita-
tive utterances that It's success in the coming
elections viii mean the
ENACTMENT OF THE FORCE BULL
and the usurpation OF the despotic control over
the elections of all states
Belle ing that the preservation Of the r pub
lican goveri ment Is dependent upon the defeat
OF TIE policy OF legalized force and fraud we in
vite the support of all citizens who desire to
Sc e the constitution maintained in its integrity
with tie laws pursuant thereto, which have
given our country one hundred years of uneX-
ampled prosperity, and we pledge the Demo-
cratic party not only to defeat the force bill but
also to relentless opposition of the Repub-
lican policy Of profiigate expenditure which in
the short space or two years has sqUandered
the enormous surplus and empted the over
flowing treasury. after piling new burdens of
taxation upon the already overtaxed labor Ct
the country.
We reiterate the oft repeated doctrines of the
Democratic party that the necessity of the gov
ernment is only justification for taxation and
whenever tax is unnee essary it is unjustitiable
or that when custom house taxation IS levied
upon articles OF another kind produced in this
country. The difference between the cost of
labor mere and labor abroad, when such differ
enee exists, fully measures any possible benz
fits TO labor and the enormous additional i'm
positions of the existing tariff fall with cru sh-
ing force upon our farmers and workingmen
and for the mere advantage of the few whom il
enriches, exact from labor a grossly unjust
share OF the expenses OF government, and we
demand such
REVISION OF THE TARIFF LAWS
as will remove their inequalities, tighten
the expressions, and put them on .
constitutional and equitable basis, but in max
ing the reduction in taxes II Is not proposed to
injure any domestic industries, but rather pro
mole healthy growth from the foundation
Government taxes collected at the custom
house have been the chief source of federal
revenue. Such they must continue 10 be.
Moreover, many industries have come to rely
upon legislation for successful continuance SC
any change in the law must be ct every steu
re ardful OF the labor and capital thus in.
volved. The process OF reform must be subject
in execution to this plain dictate of justice.
WE DENoUNCE THE N KINLEY TARIFF LAW
enacted as the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation We lndorse the efforts of the Dem.
most oppressive features1in the direction OF free
raw materials and cheaper manufactured goods
than enter into CONSUMPTION, and we promise
its repeal as one OF the benencent results thai
will follow the action Of the people in entrrst-
ing with power the Democratic party
since the Mckinley tariff went into operation
there have been ten reductions of the wages OF
laboring men 10 one increase. We point 10 the
failures in The country since the tariff went INTO
operation. and point to the dullneSs and dis
iress. wage reductions ard strikes IN the iron
trade as the best evidence that no such pros
perity resulted from the Mckinley act
" call the attention or thoughtfnl Ameri
cans to the fact that after thirty years OF re
strictive taxes against importation Of foreign
wealih in exchange for agricultural surplus the
homes and farms Of the country have become
ENCOUNTERED BY MORTGAGES
of over two Thousand five hundred million dol
lars. exclusive OF all ether forms OF Indebted
ness. and that in one OF the agricultural states
OF the west there appears real estate mortgages
averaging $3.50 per capita Of the population
and thai similar conditions are shown To ext
in otner agricultural exporting states we ue
nonnce a policy which fosters no industry sd
much as il does that OF The sheriff
TRADE INTERCHANGE
on basis OF reciprocal advantages to the