The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-23
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ReSoIUed, That as the convention was
u OF called to make nominations OF
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention 10 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 enunciated
in the national platforms and imbed'
ded in the harris Of its members.
We are emphatically in favor of
equal rights to all and special pTivil-
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 eelf-gOvern-
ment TO the fullest rightful extent;
and of strict construction of the ma
tional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the IN
teTeets of the consumer and the pro-
Queer, aud declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the IuxurjeS, so far as possible, and not
upon the necessaries of life, for the
purpose of providing revenue for the
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 trrif 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. 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 paralyZIng industry
and arresting trade. To the factious
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill by repabli-
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 occls
pied as money previous to the act of
1878, 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
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 undeniaJle
fact tibet the republican party TOOK the |
government from the democratic ad |
ministratiOn 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 system OF mlser- |
able makeshifts to palliate the repub- |
lican financial crime of 1873. and de- |
clare 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 the Tree coinage of silver at the |
ratio of Is 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 denCunce the republican policy |
of protection as 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 prOstTatiOn of silver in |
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities ofvaTious kinds which |
still atflict 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 al large.
We cordially endorse the democratic
congress 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-
orbitant 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
to suppress lawlessness where power to
do so is clearly vested in the federal au-
thority, and declining to interfere when
it would intrude on the rights of local
government.
In the restoration to the church Of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop
erty confscated under the provisions of
congressional law; and we favor the
immediate restoration also of the real
property 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
to national authority.
In the passage through the house
and its report in the senate of a liberal
and excellent bill for the admission of
Utah as state ON an equal footing
with the existing states; and we urge
its speedy enactment as measure of
simple Justice to the oldest and mort
prosperous of the existing territories.
In the appointment of bona tide res
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 J
the situation of our affairs as was
the rule under republican administra-
tons.
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-
Ypla