The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-23
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People Of Utah, Delivered at Salt
Lake City on Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial De nocratic Convent

To the People OF Utah, Delivered at sal
Lake City on Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial De nocratic Convent
Resolved, That as the convention was
not called to make nominations OF
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention to 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 harts 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 pubic welfare; of the advance
ment and support of home industries;
of the maintenance OF local seIf-govern-
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of 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 necesSarles 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
q few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trriff reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for al income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their just share of the bur-
den of taxation. Aud we ienounce 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 mand the restoration of silver |
to the Constitutional position it occue
pied as money previous to the act Of |
1873, b. which the republican party |
cast dos, that historic and essential
money metal. and caused the increas. |
ing dis .ers which, beginning with |
the par e of 1873 and bursting forth at |
interl with terrible severity, de- |
pressi 9 the agricultural interes.s of |
the cL-utTY, eating unrest and dis |
contend among yhe oppressed laboring |
classes and Increasing the armies of |
trampe which y armed over the land,
culminatel Al Lae panic of 1923 and |
still sprea-s IL light upon trade and
industry.
We call a tention to the undeniable
fact that tie republican party took the
from the democratic ad
in 1889, with more than a
hundred million dollars in the national
treasury and turned 1t back to the
democratic party In 1893 with a treasury
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy of the
republican party as a system Of mlser-
able makeshifts to palliate the repub-
Iican 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
cludea 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
lion, independent OF European agree
nent if international CO. cooperation can
not be Immediately obtained.
We denounce 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 prostration of silver In
producing the poverty and distress and
social cslamities of various kinds which
till afflict our country.
We deny that the high tariffs placed
1pon lead and wool and other commod-
ties have raised their price or benefit
ID the producer of such materials.
Ehile 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
lection law and thus promoting the
reedom of elections.
In formulating and endeavOring to :
n8ct a bill to reform the existing ex-
,rbitant system OF tariffs.
In revising the pension lists. so that
While all persons deserving the ala oil !
he country for services in It's defense
hall be secured in their rights, lmpost-
rs and fraudulent pension agents
hall not be permitted to further bleed
he body polite.
In the exercise OF the federal forces !
0 suppress laWlessness where power to /.
10 80 is clearly vested in the federal au-
hority, and declining to Interfere when
would intrude on the rights of a local T.
OVernment.
In the restoration to the church OF
esus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop.
rty confscated under the provisions OF |
law; and we favor the !
immediate restoration also of the real
property SO eecheated in view OF the
ow indlsputable FACT that no preteXS
emaius for charging that the majority
4 the people of Utah are in opposition
o national authority.
In the passage through the house
IlQ lle I6JOlb ia GuS SCfIdNC VI q AASOAUA A
nd excellent bill for the admission of I
Jtah as a state on an equal footing
nth the existing states; and we urge =
Is speedy enactment as q measure of l
imple Justice to the oldest and most
of the existing territories .
In the appointment of bona ide resi- >
ents of the territory to the various
ficee In the gift of the government in '
tead of men from other sections of the !
ountry unfamiliar with our people and 7
he situation of our affairs as was :
ae rule under republican administra-
ions.
And we further endorse all efforts to
maintain the dignity and authority of
he rnrarnment and remove the effects