The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-16

lA1cilOCTdIlc nOSLS, reQ1SclpllneQ ana re-
iorganized, would be led forward to VIC
tory to strike down monopoly and in
dustrial bondage 1 remember in 1884
when the word was flashed over the
wires that Grover Cleveland had been
detected president. How. the hozannahs
went up from Utah's valley, for then,
the people saw, for the first time, a
CLEAN of hope. The people of Utah
were Democrats, >paturally, and believ-
led that in this land should be absolute
Justice to all, with special privileges to
none. There have been changes since
those days. Many have been made to
Irenounce the convictions of a lifetime,
but the ranks have closed up and the
Democracy today is like Gideon's host
lof old-tried and true. We shall march
ion to a glorious victory, and see no
more Republican legislatures in Utah.
llCheers) This is to be battle royal
1T is but little credit to a party to de-
feat an opponent without strength In
this conflict you all realize that there is
ito be a struggle upon a very small
margin. Will the victory be gained
Two years ago at Provo we selected our
candidate for delegate and time has
Shown that our choice was a wise one.
tApplause) In the coming campaign !
do not believe that greater force can
ibe arrayed against US than faced us in
the last election two years ago, and ]
do not believe there will be so many
republican votes in my district as
there were two years ago. Gentlemen
OF the convention, let your action to-
DAY be wise. Let your choice be the
man who represents you today or one
equally good" (Applause)
AT the conclusion of Chairman WINS
remarks the vice-chairman and secre-
taries assumed their duties.
THE PLATFORM
Farley l.. Williams, of Salt Lake city.
Ichairman of the committee on resolu-
tons, made the report The platform
lis as follows:
We, the Democrats of Utah. in conven-
tlon assembled, hereby reaffirnl our adj
nerence to the principles of Justice and
Tree government which the Democra tic
party was organized to establish and pre-
serve, and which have been embodied in
the platform adopted by the Democracy
IN their national conventions.
we believe in strict construction of
the Constitution-the peoples grant of
power to the federal governmental the
end that the rights of the respective
government 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 public
expenditures; that officials should be held
TO a strict accountability for their acts;
that the employment of the taxing power
IN any form by which the few are en-
titled to the impoverishment of the
many by which trade is destroyed or OBJ
structed, by which trusts are created
ana fostered and monopolieS sustained,
is wicked perversion of the powers de-
signed for the common good.
We believe in commercial and industrial
freedom and resent all attempts to pre-
education b. the state; in the full devel-
opment of our national resources; in the
encouragement and advancement of home
industries; in the protection of labor from
the encroachments of capital, and IN
equal rights to all, special privileges to
none.
We demand the passage of a law for
the free and unlimited coinage of both
silver and gold at ratio of l to IT,
without waiting for the consent of any
other nation; and that the government
shall pay out silver SO coined as a money
OF ultimate redemption the same as gold
We commend the Democratic Congress
and administration of the measures OF
reform which they have succeeded in eff
fecting, by which hundreds of millions OF
dollars will be annually saved by Ameri-
can consumers and all classes of people
will be benefited. In the arrangement of
tariff duties we favor such adjustment as
Will operate equally throughout the coun-
try and not discriminate as between
such duties as are laid on foreign imports
should be levied for revenue only, as con-
templated in the national constitution.
We emphatically disapprove of the
course of those Democrats who, by com
biniflg with the Republicans. thwarted
the expressed will of the people in refer
ence to the tariff and prevented the re-
storation of silver to its right place as
money.
We endorse the income tax provision
of the tariff law, by which more equit-
of taxation. and wealth as well as want
is required to contribute its share to the
public expense.
We endorse the acts Of the Democratic
ing the oppressive and anti-American fed
eral election laws and thus securing free
dom to citizens at the polls.
In so revising the pension lists that
ury of vast sums of money will be pre-
vented in future. while no worthy pen
soner will be deprived of the aid to
which his services are. entitled.
In restoring TO a religious organization
IN Utah its personal property, which was
confiscated under the provisions of law,
with the prospect of the further restora-
ton of the real estate also escheated.
In the appointments which have been
made of actual residents of the territory
to public office, many of them native to
the soil of Utah policy altogether diff
ferent from that of Republican admin
istratIons.
In throwing open to settlement the Vim
tab and Uncompahgre reservations, by
which a vast area Of ullable, grazing and
mineral lands will be utilized by white
labor and skill and be added to the
wealth of Utah.
In passing an enabling act by which
Utah may enter the Union as free and
sovereign state, on an equal footing with
the existing states. For this Utah owes
a debt of gratitude to the Democratic
Congress and president, whose kind treat
ment of this territory stands out IN
striking contrast to that harshness and
enmity extended by Republican Congress
ses and administrations for thirty years.
We are proud of our delegate to Con-
gress, Hon. J. L. Rawlins, to whose fidel
ity, perseverance and splendid political
tact and energy the numerous measures
of legislation so beneficial to Utah have
been obtained. His unparalleled success
has demonstrated to the people of Utah
that they made no mistake in sending
him to the national legislature, where ne
was recognized as the peer of his associ-
ates and a man of mark 2sd ability.
We denounce the Republican party for
it's obstruction to those remedial measures
demanded by the country to rescue trade,
industry and business fro2 the. chaos
into which they were drifting through
Republican legislation and misrule.
For attempting to foist the blame upon
the Democratic party for the effects of
Republican maladministration.
BY the characterization OF silver and
the unconstitutional and partial system
of class protection, the masses of the
people have been impoverished, the ag-
rlcultural ana laDOrlng Glasses oppressed.
and the land disturbed by the riots of
dissatisfied workmen, and the cries of
the unemployed.
we point to the only Republican legisla-
ture of Utah as a sample of the incem-
potency, partisanship and folly which
that party would exhibit if placed in
power in the new state.
In attempting to deprive the public
schools of one sixth of the revenue es-
sential to their support; refused to grant
necessary funds for the university, the
agricultural college and other public in
stitutions of an educational and reforma-
tory character: tried to appropriate large
sums of public money as bounties for
favored private industries; did make ex-