The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-18
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS

not called to make nominations o
formulate platform OF principles, tn
following be adopted as the sentiment
of the convention to be presented il
the form OF an address to the people o
Utah:
We, the democrats of Utah, in con
vention assembled, hereby declare ou
devotion to the time honored principles
of the democratic party as enumerated
in the national platforms and imbed
ded in the harts of its members.
We are emphatically in favor o.
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
menU and support of home Industries
of the maintenance of local self-goyern.
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of strict construction of the pa
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-
ddcer, and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the luxurles. so lar as possible, and not
upon the necessaTIes of life. for the
plrpose 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 trrltf reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income tax by which those large
property b'ders who are best able
shall bear yer just share of the bur-
den of taxation. And we ienoUnce the
obstructive 7 ohcv of the republicans
in congress, 10 which a needed meas
ure TO prov lie public revenue is de-
lsyed, causius uncertainty and doubt
in CONNIE ,lsl and manufacturing
circles, and hus paralyzIng industry
and arresti "a TO the factious
hindrances which Re 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 lpon the delay.
We demand The restoration Of silver
to the Constitutional position 1t occua
pied as money previous to the act of
1873, by which 0he republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal. and caused the lncreas-
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 laborlng
classes and increasing the armies of
tramps which sWaTmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1898 and
Ls 70 fro
industry.
We call attention to the undeniable |
fact thst the republican party took the |
government from the democratic ad.
ministration in 1888, with more than q |
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 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 re-establish- |
ment of true blmetalism, which in
cludes tie 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.
ron, 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
that party in it's most recent utter
snces. 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 afilict 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
congress and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the
freedom of elections.
In formulating and endeavoring to
enact a bill TO reform the existing ex-
orbitant system of tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, so that
while all persons deserving the ala of
the country for services In It's defense
shall be secured in their rights, Impost-
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 !
law; and we favor the |
immediate restoration also OF the real [
SO escheated in view of the I
now indlsputable FACT that no pretexs 7
remains for charging that the majority c
of the people Of Utah are in opposition 1
so national authority. c
In the passage through the house G
and it's report in the senate Of liberal G
and excellent bill for the admission of t
Utah as a state on an equal footing t
with the existing states; and we urge i
its speedy enactment as measure of
simple justice to the Oldest and mott '
of the existing territories. I
In the appointment of bona tide 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 {
the situation Of our affairs as was G
the rule under republican sdministra- 6
tions.
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
deleqaLe in cnnQresS. Hon. j. j.. Raw.