The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-10-01
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Issued and Adopted by the Territoris
Convention in Session at Salt Lake, SAT

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ventIon assembled, hereby reaffirm our
adherence to the principles OF 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 constitution OF
the constituUion-the peoples grant or
power TO the federal government-to
the end that the rights of the respec-
tive states may be preserved, that local
self-goYernmsnt 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 shoulc
be held to a strict accountability Tor
their acts; that the employment OF the
taxing power in any form by which the
few are entitled to the impoverlshment
of the many, by which trade is de-
stroyed or obstCucted, by Which trusts
are created and fostered and monop-
olies sustained, is wicked perverslon
of the powers designed Tor the common
good.
We believe in commercial and indus
trial freedom and resent all attempts
to prevent its exercise, IN the promo
ton of education by the state;
in the full development of our national
resources; In the encouragement and
advancement of home industries; IN
the protection of labor from the en-
croachments of capital, and IN equal
rights to all, special privileges to
none.
We demand the passage of law for
the free and unlimited coinage OF both
silver and gold at ratio OF / TO IL,
without waiting tor the consent of any
other nation; and that the govern
ment shall pay out silver so coined az
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 effecting, by which hundreds
of millions OF dollars will be annually
saved by American consumers and all
classes OF people will be bene-
fitted. In the arrangement OF tariff
duties we favor such adjustment as
will 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
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
euutsble distribution Is made OF the
burdens of taxation, and wealth as
well as want is required to contribute
its share to the public expense.
We endorse the acts of the democra-
tic congress and administration: In
abolishing the oppressive and anti
American federal election laws and
thus securing freedom to citizens at
the polls.
In so revising the pension lists that
the frauds which have robbed the
treasury of vast sums of money Will be
prevented in future, while no worthy
pensloner will be deprived of the alG to
which his services are entitled.
T., ,,oc+or;no to a relioious organiZa-
ton in ITtah its personal property.
w6icb was c0nfscated under the pro
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fnrtI1sT restoration of the real estate
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the peer OF his associates and man OF
mark and ability,
We denounce the repuphcan party
for its obstruction to those remedcal
measures demanded 10y the country TO
rescue trade, Industry and business
from the chaos into which they were
drifting through republican legislation