The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-27
nEGoORArTC PLATFORM
ISSUED and Adopted by the Territorial
Convention il Session at Salt Lake, sat
urday, September 10, 1894.

Issued and Adopted by the Territorial
Convention il Session at Salt Lake, sat
urdsy, September 10, 1894.
We, the democrats of Utah, in con
ventlon assem- bled, hereby reafiirm oul
adherence to the principles Oh justice
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-
tions.
We believe in strict constru 3tion of
the conetituJion-the peoples grant of
power TO the federal gOVernment-to
the end that the rights OF the respec-
tive states may be preserved, that local
self-goYernm mt may be secured, and
that personal liberty may be exercised
to the fullest extent consistent with
the public safety.
We believe in wise economy in pub
lie expenditures; that officials should
be held TO strict accountability Tor
their acts; that the employment OF the
taxing power in any form by which the
few are entitled to the imDOyerlshment
of the many, by which trade is de-
stroyed or obstUucted, by which trusts
DIG Gl0dbCu anu 1OSEClC0 anu
Oiies sustained, is wicked perYeTsion
of the powers designed for the common
good.
We believe in commercial and indus
trial freedom and resent all attempts
TO prevent Its exercise, In the pro-Ao-
ton of education by the state;
in the full development of our national
resources; IN tine encouragement and
II 50,
the prote 3tlon of labor from the en-
croachments OF capital, and in equal
rights 10 all, special privileges TO
none.
Wedemand the passage of law for
the free and unlimited coinage OF both
silver and gold at ratio of l TO Is,
without waiting TOR the consent of any
other nation; and that the govern
menU 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 etfecting, by which hundreds
of millions OF dollars will be annually |
saved by American consumers and all
classes OF people viii be bene- |
ulOus LII J16 ulIduS6ul6uU VI bdIll
duties we favor such adjustment as |
viii operate equally throughout the |
country and not discriminate as be- |
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 I
constitution,
We emphatically disapproYe of the |
course Of those democrats who, by |
com bining with the republicans. thwar-
ted the expressed will OF the people In
reference to the tariff and prevent
ed the restoration OF silver to its right
place as money.
We endorse the income tax provision
of the tariff law, by which more
equitable distribution Is made of the
burdens of taxation, and wealth as
well as want is required to contribute
it's share to the public expense.
We endorse the acts OF the democra-
tic congress and administration: In
the oppressive and anti
American federal election laws AMI
thus securing freedom to citizens at
the polls.
uakn so revising the pension lists that
frauds which have robbed the
hurry Of vast sums of money will be
nted in future, while no worthy
kensioner will be deprived of the aid to
hich his services are entitled, -
T., /