The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-22

10rcement whenever circumstances may
require and to the end for both defense
and commerce alike, we demand that the
Nicaragua canal be built with American
money and absolutely controlled by the
United States The completion of the work
Will be the greatest achievement OF the
age, SURPRISING in important the Suez
canal. We favor such governmental aid,
surrounded by every proper safeguard, as
will secure the above object and the speedy
completion of the work"
Judge Lawrence Arthur of California,
chairman of the legislative committee of
| the recent Nicaragua canal convention,
MADE an invincible argument before the
committee on resolutions:
I'VE appear before you gentlemen OF
! the committee in behalf the Nicaragua
canaln said he, 1--WE are the committee
appointed by the convention held in st.
! Louis. The convention had representa-
tives, from nearly all the states in the
Union. 1t was the deliberate opinion of
the convention that the project OF building
the Nicaragua canal was feasible at cost
of less than 500, 000, 900. The opinion was
based upon surveys and experiments made
by competent engineers of the United
States, and was regarded as meas
ure of uenfense in war, bringing
by the deep water of the Pacific coast
80 near to the gulf and the Atlantic coasts.
| Regarded equally as a matter of commerce,
| IL ID proper IudL Lu0 OHiISu OlAbcS SnOulu
/ give the project its aid and have govern
mental control of it. Other capital will be
used, and the control thereof may fall into
the hands of some other power, thing to
which the United States could not and
would not submit. a committee similar to
this was appointed to appear before the
national Republican convention at Mime.
apclis. That convention inserted q resc-
luton on the subject in the platform and
we want to ask for something more and
better than that and have, therefore, ven
tured to draw up and present to your con-
sideratlon the resolution which l have
l1st submitted
TEE PLATFORM.
Immediately after the hearing Chairman
Jones presented platform prepared in de-
tail for the consideration of the committee.
1t seems to meet the approval OF the COM
mittee.
The preamble arraigns the Republican
party for the Capitalization OF the govern
ing power in the hands of favorite few
and deuounces the force bill as means by
which it is sought to maintain the Republi-
can party in power by the suppression of
the free and honest will of the people, so
expressed at the ballot box.
"We favor reform of the tariff - says
the platform, land a reduction of import
duties to revenue basis with protection
protection of American workingmen."
ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION
tue platform says: 1--WE endorse the
Sherman law of 1890 and demand its un
conditional repeal. We favor the free
coinage, both of gold and silver on such
basis as will main tain the two metals on a
parity with each other.
We denounce all trusts and combinations
which have grown up and been fostered
under pernici0us and class legislation of
the Republican party, and demand its reg
ulation or suppression by legislation.
We congratulate the Democratic party
for the modern and more efficient
navy which had its birth under
the last Democratic administration
and we favor all appropriations necessary
for reasonable increase and proper main
tenance of the navy and for the protection
tof our seaboard; we denounce the policy of
the. Republican party, which by oppress-
i've legislation has resulted in the gradual
! impoverishment OF the farmer, and ar
raiRn the Republican party as an enemy to
/ the agricultural classes as we'll as organ
lied labor.
We reafirm the old-time Democratic
doctrine, reciprocal trade with foreign
powers. and dsnounce the reciprocity pre-
tensions of the Republican party as sub
| terfuge designed to mislead and deceive"
The platform declares The present sd
ministration in foreign relations to be
the oppressor of the weak and truckles to
! the powerful.
On the school questionable platform says:
"We commend the common school system,
which had its birth under Democratic
administration and stood the test of many
years of practical operation, and declare in
favor of freedom OF education and for the
right of the parent to educate the child,
which is necessary to the maintenance of
civil and religious liberty
There seems little doubt that the resolu-
lions will be incorporated in the platform
either literally or in substance. Its natural
Interpretation as quasi denunciation Of
past Republican legislation in the states OF
Illinois and Wisconsin is relied upon as an
| effective means of attracting Lutheran and
other sectarian votes in those states.
1t is quite probable that the financial
plank of Chairman Jones' platform will be
somewhat modified, and the committee re-
celved with favor the following resolution
today adopted by the conference of the
silver states delegations and introduced
in the committee by one of their repre-
| sentatives: I'VE denoLnce the demoneti-
cation of silver by the fraudulent legisla-
ton of the Republican Congress
Of 1878, as a crime against the people, and
one of long line OF acts by which that
! party has Systematically taken the money
and property OF the country from the pro-
ducers and toilers for the benefit of capital
! lists and creditor classes.
1--WE therefore demand the immediate
repeal of all laws legisating against the
coinage of silver; equality with gold, and
demand the restoration of silver to the
position of the full legal status occupied by
it from the foundation of the government
until its decentralization"
1t was near midnight before the platform
committee adjourned and then their labors
were far from complete. The draft sub
mitted by G. H. Jones of St. Louis has
twice been taken up and considered with
! amendments and substituted innumerable.
and finally the committee resigned the
matter to a sub committee of nine, con-
sisting of: Jones of Missouri, Villas of
| Wisconsin, Daniel of Virginia, Thompson
of California, Sewell of Maine Russell of
Massachusetts, Patterson of Colorado,
Bayard of Delaware, MCPHERSON of New
Jersey.
The subcommittee were instructed to
report the result TO the full committee at
10 o'clock tomorrow.
The protracted sitting began with a
bearing of the Worlds fair and Nicaragua
canal advocates, under the chairmanship of
Hon. G. II. Jones of st. Louis. He sue
ceeded ex Secretary of State Bayard as
presiding officer at the suggestion of Mr..
Bnyard himself. II was said Mr. Cleve-
lands ex postmaster, Dickinson, of Michi-
gan, had personally recommended that Mr.
Jones be thus honored, and this, with the
fact that the Missourian was known to
have given the subject of the platform
careful study. made the propriety of his
selection apparent. The interest conferred
chiefly in what he had done on silver
Don Dickinson entrusted to the Michigan
Representative plank which was under
stood to represent the most liberal ideas
that would be subscribed to by the sup
porters of Mr. Cleveland. 1t favored BIZ
metallic standard and