The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-26

heSOtCe0. LDaJ as the convention Wdl
Lot called to make nominations Oh
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention to be presented III
the form of an address to the people o.
Utah:
We. the democrats of Utah. in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare our
devotion 10 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 privil-
eyes to none; of the greatest possible
liberty to every Individual compatible
with the public welfare; of the advance
ment anG support of home industries;
of the maintenance of local self-gOvern-
ment TO the fallest rightful extent;
and of a strict construction OF the ma
tional 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 Injuries, so far as possible, and not
upon the necessaries of life, for the
pul DOEC VI plONlOAOS 4CFCAioC 4OA OAsC
necessary expenses Of government, and
not for the special benefit OF any class
or private enterprise. We are opposed
to Che bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment of
few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trriff 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
n congress, 10y which needed meas
uTe 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 replbE.
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 Institutional position it occu-
pied as money previous to the act Of
1873. by which the republican party
GdSL uOh III L4dG l4obOllO anu CEoCnIldl
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, |
IN, thu MI of 1902
still spreads its blight upon trade and |
industry.
We call attention to the undeniable |
fact thet the republican party took the |
government from the democratic ad |
ministTation in 1889, with 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 system Of miser-
able makeshifts to palliate the repub-
lican financial crime of 1873. anu de-
GLAZE that only in and through the
party can the people of the
United States expect the re-establish-
ment of true bimetalism, which in
cludes the 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.
ton, 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 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 al 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 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 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-
thoTitY, and declining TO interfere when
1t would intrude on the rights of local
government.
In the restoration TO the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop I,
erty confseated under the provisions of
law; and we favor the
immediate restoration also of the real !
SO escheated in view of the /,
now indIsputable 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 liberal
and excellent bill for the admission of
Utah as a state on an equal footing
with the existing states; and we urge
its speedy enactment as a measure of
simple Justice to the oldest and most
prosperous of the existing territories.
In the appointment OF bona fide res
dents of the territory to the various
offices III the gift Of the government In
stead of men from other sections of the
unfamiliar with our people and
the situation of our affairs as was
the rule under republican administra-
tions.
And we further endorse all efforts to
int o5r fha t1iunifu and authority Of ]
the government and remove the effects
of over thirty wears of republican mis-
rule
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