The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-23

Gratis and plutocrats, from a spendthrift
administration, excessive taxes and de-
based money. The delegates selected by
this convention are instructed to present to
the national Democratic convention the
name of
DAVID B. HILL,
Democrat who has led his party from
victory to victory for seven successive
years, and who has never known defeat, as
candidate for President of the United
States"
The delegates are further instructed to
vote as a unit. The people of the state are
congratulated upon the suspicious opening
of Flowers administration.
When the passage instructing for Hill
was read the sir was shaken be tremen-
dous outburst of applause, and after the
resolutions were unanimously adopted. a
committee was appointed to wait on Hill
and request him to address the convention.
He soon arrived, and General Sickles pre-
sented him to the audience in these words
VI present you, gentleman of the conven-
ton, the
YOUNG HICKORY OF Democracy;
our next presidential candidate, David L
HILL"
Then came more cheers, and when the
noise finally subsidized sufficiently, Senator
Hill spoke at considerable length. he
thanked the gentlemen of the convention
for their unanimous vote which made
known their approval to authorize the
! presentation of his name to the represen
tatives of the Democracy of the country
and which will be recorded in the annals o.
the national conven tion.
The reawakening of the Democracy al
over the land" he said, lis a most aus
! picious sign of the times that all oul
troubles, all our dangers at this very hour
after so many years Of Republican rule
! flow from the unconstitutional Legislation
of the very men who sit in shiverirg fit
over what the Democracy will do will
| their power. The Democratic party Is on
whose creed ever has been
STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE coNsTITU
TON
and confinement of the government to
few specific granted powers. He com
mends these contrasted facts to his feIloy
countrymen for meditation. The Repub
lican party neither trusts the people no
obeys them. 1t now requires another uI
heaval at the ballot box like that of 1890 I
be convinced that the wicked work c
the billion dollar Congress must o
repealed and the peoples will obeyed. w
are advancing" said he, ito the final RI
newal of the nations verdict on the il
sensate reign of autocrats and plutocrat
whereby their verdict is now Scoffed 6
shall have efficient execution in the cleo
ton of both branches of the federal Con
gress and federal executive obeiient I
sovereign peoples will. The Sherman 81
yer law" said he, transforms the feder,
coinage power of silver ana gold into a
b intrument for the gradual expulsion of GU
gold for the establishment of an exclusiv
basis and the permanent reduction
every American dollar by 30 per cent. {
more, below the level of its true value du
ing the whole period of our free bi-metall
1 coinage from 1892 to 1873"
; TURNING HIS ATTENTION TO THE TARIFF
the Senator said: 1.-THE cause of tariff r
! form has lately made a great practical at
I vance. Secretary Manning, in his repo
of 1856. advised Congress to begin a prat
\ tical tariff reform by single act for FIRE
4 wool. One year later the secretary's n
port was writ large in the message of Il
e President Now, five years LATER, one
: our most enlightened economists, David !
a Wells, writes the chairman of the wa,
!, and means committee that the path of pr
g gress which Secretary Manning blazsd
t first and alone is the true path. 1t is
T., maxim of sound policy better fitted TO W
: elections than lose them, better dividir
I, into chapters the lessons of a long cal
}. paign of education, abolish whenever "
n can one indefensable tax at time. This
!. true progress"
> The speech was loudly cheered and
r 5 80 p. N. the convention adjourned sine di
d The national delegates at-large chos
:. are: Roswell P. Flower, Edward Murph
!. jr., General Daniel E. Sickles and Hen
d W. Slocum. Alternates: Manton Marbl
John Bigelow, Sidney Webster and Afr
c. Chaplin.