The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-18
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

We, the democrats OF Utah, in con
ventIon assem- bled, hereby reaffirm ouI
adherence To the principles OF JusIic
and free government which the demo.
cratic party was organized to establish
and preserve, and which have been
embodied In the platform adopted by
the democracy In their national con-
tlons.
We believe in a strict constru 9tion of
the consUltuUion-the peoples grant of
power 10 the federal government-tO
The end that the rights OIL the respec-
tive sIaCes may be preserved, that local
self-goYeTnme mt may be secured, and
that personal liberty may be exercised
TO the fullest extent consistent with
the puOlIc safety.
We believe ia wise economy in pub
lie expenditures; that officials should
be held TO a strict accountability tor
their acts; that The employment Of the
taxing power IN any form by which the
few are entitled to the impOverlshment
OF the many, by which trade is de-
siroyed or obsttucted, by which trusts
are created and fostered and monop-
Olles sustained, is q wicked peTVerslon
OF the powers designed for the common
good.
We believe in commercial and indus
trial freedom and resent all attempts
TO prey ent It's exercise, in The pro 40
ton Of education by the state;
in the full development of our national
resources; IN the encouragement and
advancement OF home industries; in
the proJe ;tiOn of labor from the en-
croachmenLs of capital, and in equal
rights TO ell, special privileges to
none.
Wedemand the passage of law for
the free and unlimited coinage OF both
silver and gold alta ratio of l to Is,
without waiting TOR the consent of any
other nation; and that the govern
menJ shall pay out silver SO coined as
money Of ultimate redemption the
same as gold.
We commend the democratic con-
gress and administration of the meas
ures OF reform which they have sue
ceeded in effecting, by which hundreds
OF millions Oh dollars will be annually
saved by American consumers and all
classes OF people will be bene-
fled. In the arrangement of tariff
duties We favor such adjustment as
wIll operate equally throughout the
NOunlLt uuu HUI hE UC-
tween classes or sections. We contend
that such duties as are laid on foreign
imports should be levied for revenue
only, as contemplated In the national
constitution.
We emphatically disapproYe of the
course of those democrats who, by
Combining with the republicans, thWar- |
ted the expressed will OF the people in |
ar1E 1
ed the restoration of silver to Its right |
place as money.
We endorse the income tax provision |
OF the tariff law, by which q more
equitable distribution Is made of the |
burdens of taxation, and wealth as
We'll as want is required to contribute
Its share to the public expense.
We endorse the acts OF the demOcra- !
tic congress and administration: In |
abolishng the oppressive and anti
American federal election laws and |
thus securing freedom to citizens at |
the polls.
In SO evising the pension lists that |
the frauds which have robbed the |
treasury of vast sums of money will be |
prey ented in future, while no worthy |
pensIoner Will be deprived of the aid to
which his services are entitled.
In restoring to religious OrganIZa-
ton in Titan Its personal property,
which was cOnfscated under the pro-
visions of law, with the prospect of the
further restoration of the real estate
also eScheateG.
In the appointments which have
been made OF actual residents of the
teri. tory to public office, many of them
native to she soil OF Utah, policy ala
together different from that of republl-
can adm Illustrations.
La throwing open to settlement the
Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations,
by which a vast area OF tillable, graz
ing and mineral lands Will be utilized
by white labor and skill and be added
to the wealth Of Utah.
La passing an enabling act by which
Utah may enter the union as free
and sovereign state, on an equal footing
with the existing states, For this Utah
owes a debt of gratitude to the demo-
cratic congress and president, whose
kind treatment of this territory stands
out IN striking contrast to that harsh
ness and enmltv extended by republi-
Can congresses an administrations for
thirty years.
w Z are VI Jul OOlCSdlC w SOu'
gTess, Hon. j. II. Rawlins, to whose
fidelity, perseverance and splendid
political tact and energy the numerous
measures of legislation so beneficial to
UUah have been obtained. His unpar-
alleleo success has demonstrated to the
people of Titan that they made no mis-
take ia sending him to the national
legislature, where he was recognized as
the peer OF his associates and man of
marx and ability,
We denounce the republican party
for its obstruction to those reIht deal
measures demanded by the country to
rescue trade, industry and business
from the chaos into which they were
drifting through republican legislation
and misrule.
For attempting to foist the blame
upon the democratic party for the eff
iects of republican maladministra-
ton.
By the decentralization of silver and
The unconstitutional and partial sYs-
tenn OF class protection, the masses of
the people have been impoverished, the
agricultural and laboring classes op-
pressed, and the land disturbed by the
riots of dissatisfied workmen, and the
cries of the unemployed.
We point to the only republic an leg
islatuTe of Utah as sample of the In-
partisanship and folly
which that party would exhibit If
placed IN power in the new state.
In attempting to deprive the public
schools of one-sixth of the revenue es-
seDtlsl to their support; refused to
grant necessary funds for the uniyer-
siUy, the agricultural college and other
public institutions of an educational
and reformatory character; tried to APP
large sums of public money
as bountles for favored private indus
tries; did make expenditures for which
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