The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-18
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People Of Utah. Delivered at Salt
Lake City On Saturday, June 10th. by
the Territorial De- lOcratic Convent

the Territorial Ds 4ocratic Convent
RESOLVED, That as the convention was
not called to make nominations ol
formulate platform of principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention to be presented il
the form OF an address to the people ol
Utah
We. the democrats of Utah, in con-
vention assem- led, hereby declare our
devotion to tb.s time honOred principles
of the democratic party as enunciated
in the national platforms and imbed-
ded in tie harris of its members.
We ale emphatically in favor of
equal rights TO all and special priYil-
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 fdllest rightful 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 luxuries. SO far as possible, and not
upon the necessaTIeS 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 the bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment of
@ few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trritf reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income taxby which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their just share of the bur-
den of taxation. Aud we den0unce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, py which needed meas
ure 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 factious
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill by repIbli-
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 COZ stitutiOnal 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 laoorlng
classes and increasing the armies OF
tramps which swarmed 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 thst the republican party took the |
government from the democratic ad |
ministration in 1889. win 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 the |
republican party as a system OF miser-
able makeshifts to palliate the reDub- |
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 re-establiSh-
ment of true bimetalism, which in
cludes tue free coinage OF silver at the
ratio of Is to l with gold. We believe
that this can be done with safety and !
,profit to this nation by American &C.
,tlon, independent OF European agree
ment if international cooperation can
mot be Immediately obtained.
We denounce the republican policy
Of protection 8s embodied IN the infa-
nous Mckinley law and reafirmed 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 various kinds which
still aff1ict 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
cor al large.
Ne .ordIally endorse the democratic
and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
electicL law and thus promoting the
treedo of elections.
In rmulating and endeavoring to
enacf q tai to reform the existing ex-
1rbi ut system OF tariffs.
LIZ vav the pension lists, so that
whil,- al o. lns deserving the aid OF
The country .or services in It's defense
shall 5e secured in their rights, lmpost-
BITS and fraudulent pension agents
hall n1t ba permitted to further bleed
he boly UoE.lc.
In the exercise of the federal forces
% suppree lawlessness where power to
10 so Is clearly vested in the federal au-
,hOrity, and declining to Interfere when
t would intFude on the rights OF local
In the restoration to the church of
-esus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop
,rtv c1nfscated under the provisions OF
law; and we favor the |
immediate restoration also of the real
SO escheated in view of the l
low indIsputable fact that no preteXs '
emains for charging that the majority 9
II the people of Utah are in opposition I
o national authority. c
In the passage through the house G
nd its report in the senate of liberal 9
nd excellent bill for the admission of I
J tab as state on an equal footing
With the existing states; and we urge =
is speedy enactment as a measure OF |
nipple justice to the Oldest and mort '
prosperous of the existing territories U
In the appointment OF bona fide resi-. 5
ents of the territory to the various c
fices in the gift of the government in '
tead of men from other sections of the |
ountry unfamiliar with our people and c
be situation of our affairs as was e
be rule under republican sdministra- 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-
ale