The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-25
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People Of Utah, Delivered at Salt
Lake City On Saturday, June 10Th, by
the Territorial De nooratic Convent

ResolUed, That as the convention was
not called to make nominations OF
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 tie time honored principles
of the democI attic party as enunciated
in the national platforms and imbed-
ded in The harts 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 anG support Of home industries;
of the maintenance OF local seIf-govern-
ment to the fdllest rightful extent;
and of 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 luxuries. SO far as possible, and not
upon the necessarIes of life. for the
purpose of providing revenue for tie
necessary expenses OF government. ana
not for the special benefit of any class
or private enterprise. We are opposed
to the bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment of
q few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trritf 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 just share of the bur-
den of taxation. Aud we denounce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, by which needed meas
ura to provide public revenue is de
layed, causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyzlng industry
and arresting trade. To the fsc6ous |
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill by replbli- |
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. stitutional position it occua
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 ana dis
content am ing the oppTs sseG laOoring
classes and increasing the armies of
tramps which sWaTmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1923 and
still spreads its blight upon trade and
industry.
We call attention to the undeniable
fact thst the republican party took the
government from the democratic ad
ministTation in 1889, with more than
hundred million dollars in the national
treasury and turned it back to the
democratic party in 1898 with a treasury
practically bankrupt
We denounce the silver policy of the
republican party as a system of miser-
able make6hifts to palllate the repub-
Iican financial crime of 1878. and de-
clare that only in and through the
democratic party can the people of the
United States expect the re-estabiish-
ment of true blmetalism, which in
cludes tie free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 10 to with gold, We believe
that this can be done with safety and
profit to this nation by American ac-
lion, independent Of European agree
ment if international cooperation can
not be Immediately obtained.
We denOunce the republican policy
of protection as embodied IN the lnfa-
NOUS Mckinley law and reaffirmed by
that party in Its most recent utter
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 afflict 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 endeavOrlng to
enact bill to reform the existing ex-
Orbitant system of tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, SO that
,xhiIe all persons deserving the ala OF
the enuntry for services in Its defense
shall be secured in their rights, 1mpost-
ers and fraudulent pension agents
shall not be permitted to further bleed
the body polite.
In the exercise OF the federal forces
30 suppress lawlessness where power to
do so is clearly vested in the federal au-
thority, and declining TO interfere when
il would intrude on the rights OF local
government. Il
In the restoration to the church OF
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop
erty confiscated under the provisions Of
law; and we favor the
immediate restoration also Of the real
So escheated in view OF the
now indlsputable fact that no preteXs
remains for charging that the majority {
Of the people of Utah are in opposition
10 national authority.
In the passage through the house {
and its report in the senate of liberal :
and excellent bill for the admission of |
Utah as a state on an equal footing I
with the existing states; and we urge !
its speedV enactment as measure OF i
simple Justice to the oldest and mott '
prosperous of the existing territories
In the appointment of bona ide resi- S
dents of the territory to the various {
offices in the gift of the government in
stead of men from other sections of the
country unfamiliar with our people and {
5he situation of our affairs as was {
5he rule under republican administra-
lions.
And we further endorse all efforts to
maintain the dignity and authority of
The government and remove the effects
Of over thirty wears of republican mis-
rule
We endorse the official acts of our