The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-17
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS

Lake City on Saturday. June 4oLns pS
The Territorial De ocratic Convention.
ResoIUed, That as the convention was
not called to make nominations or
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention to be presented In
the form OF an address TO the people OF
Utah:
We. the democrats of Utah, in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare our
devotion to the time honOred principles
of the democratic party as Enumerated
in the national platforms and lmbed-
ded in the harris Of its members.
We are emphatically In favor OF
equal rights to all and special privil-
eyes to none; of the greatest possible
liberty to every individual compatible
with the pubic welfare; of the advance
ment and support of home industries;
of the maintenance of local seIf-govern-
ment to the fullest rlghtful extent;
and of "a strict construction OF the ma
ional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the In
terests of the consumer and the pro-.
Queer. and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the luxurles. SO far as possible. and not
upon the necessarles OF life. for the
purpose of providing revenue for tie
necessary expenses of government, and
not for the special benefit of any class
or private enterprise. We are opposed
to Che bounty system, by which the
MANY are taxed for the enrichment of
d few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trrltf reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their lust share of the bur-
den of taxation. And we denounce the
obstructive policy OF the republicans
in congress, by which needed meas
ure TO provide public revenue is de
layed, causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyzlng industry
ana arTesting trade. TO the fachOus
hindrances which are still thrown IN
the way of the Wilson bill by replbll-
can senators are due TO the slow pro-
gress it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration Of silver
to the CO.. stitutlOnal position 1t occus
pied as money previous to the act of
1873, by which the republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal. and caused the increas-
ing disasters which. beginning with
the panic of 1873 and bursting forth at
Intervals with terrible severity, de-
pressing the agricultural Interests OF
the country, creating unrest and dis
content among the oppressed laboring
classes and increasing the armies OF
tTamps which swaTmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1898 and
still spreads its blight upon trade and
Industry.
We call attention to the undeniable
fact that the republican party took the
government from the democratic ad.
ministration In 1889, with more than a
hundred million dollars in the national
treasury and turned it back to the
democratic party In 1898 with treasury
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy of tae
republican party as system of miser-
able makeshifts to palllate the repub-
lican financial crime of 1873, and de-
Glaze that only in and through the
democratic party can the people of the
United States expect the e-establlsh-
ment of true blmetallsm, which In
cIudes tie free coinage of silver at the |
ratio of 16 to with gold. We believe |
that this can be done with safety and
profit to this nation by American ac-
ton, independent of European agree
ment if international cooperation can
not be Immediately obtained.
We denOunce the republican policy |
of protection as embodied In the infa-
nous Mckinley law and reaffirmed by |
ances. We regard it as an assistant |
agency to the prostration of silver in
producing the poverty and distress and |
social calamities of various kinds which |
still affiict our country.
We deny that the high tariffs placed |
upon lead and wool and other commod-
tiles have raised their price or benefit
ed the producer of such materials,
while they have been oppressive and
detrimental to the consumer and the
country at large.
We cordially endorse the democratic
and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the
freedom of elections.
In formulating and endeavOring to
enact bill to reform the existing ex-
brilliant system OF tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, SO that
while all persons deserving the AID of
the country for services IN Its defense
shall be secured in their rights, lmpoSt-
ers and fraudulent pension agents
shall not be permitted to further bleed
the body polite.
In the exercise Of the federal forces
10 suppress laWlessness where power to
10 so is clearly vested in the federal au-
5hority, and declining to interfere when ,
{ would intrude on the rights of local {
government. |
In the restoration to the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop {
,rty eonfiscated under the provisions of I
law; and we favor the |
immediate restoration also of the real I
property So escheated in view of the I
low indlsputable fact that no pretexs '
emains for charging that the majority @
f the people of Utah are in opposition u
D national authority. C
In the passage through the house e
nd its report in the senate of a liberal Q
nd excellent bill for the admission of +
tab as a state on an equal footing {
1itn the existing states; and we urge d
Is speedy enactment as a measure of f
nipple justice to the oldest and most Y
prosperous of the existing territories. Il
In the appointment OF bona ide resi- s
ents of the territory to the various G
hices in the gift of the government In v
tead of men from other sections of the f
ountry unfamiliar with our people and C
be situation of our affairs as was g
be rule under republican administra- a
ions.
And we further endorse all efforts to
the dignity and authority of
be government and remove the effects
f over thirty wears of republican mis-
lle
We endorse the official acts of our
plepate in conpress Hon 7 T. Raw