The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-30
ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

lcontrol of the constitutional conven-
ton, but is a contest between funda-
mental principles of government. The
lsame principles are oontesting for SUI
lpremacy that contested for supremacy
when the Nation was but newly born
Iand Jefferson and Hamilton were the
Headers on either side Jefferson was
the exponent OF those principles oil
freedom and the rights of men thai
never before had been recognized in
any form of government, until the
Thirteen Colonies severed the ties that
bound them to Great Britain and de-
cleared themselves free and indepen-
dent Hamilton stood forth as the ex-
pohent Of the old theory of government
that had dominated the world since
time was, the theory that held that
kings were possessed of divine rights
and that the people We're born to do
their viii. He placed his faith in a
strong centralized government, relying
upon power and precedent And
where did Jefferson, the greatest of all
Democrats, place his faith? He placed
lit in the people. knowing their virtues,
and believing in their capacity for self
government His was the idea that
triuFnphed and shaped the destinies of
the Republic.
The party that he founded is the
dominant party in the United States
to-day. 1t has seen parties spring up
and flourish for a time and then pass
away. Jefferson's party has seen the
birth and death of the FederaIist, the
Wing and the Know-Nothing parties.
1t Witnessed the birth of the Repub-
iliean party and it will witness its
death. for this party, like those that
have preceded it and whose legitimate
successor it is. is a party founded for
a single object, and that has long since
been accomplished, will die. having
worked out its destiny. But the
Democratic party will live so long as
this government lives. for 1t is found
led upon principles that are eternal and
.all powerful
The Republican party of today is
not the great party to which Lincoln
and Seward and Chase belonged. So
long ago as 1872, Horace Greeley left it,
and since that date others who were
identified with it in the days of its
greatness, have left it, There is
Schurz, Trumbull, Wayne ATcVeagh,
the late James Russell Lowell, .Presi-
dent Eliot. of Harvard, and others.
And why did they leave it? Because
it had become a party Of corruption,
a party that was prostituting IT'S rec
lord for the purpose of plundering the
people, by giving the power to tax
the people to the favored few.
Wll the people Of Utah he swayed
by the record Of that party, to give it
their allegiance rather than to the par
ty that has history and record that go
back to the times of the fathers of TIE
Republic? viii they accept the doc
trines of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
and jackson, or those of Harrison,
Mckinley and Tom Reed? The very
territory out of which Utah was crea-
ted was acquired by the government
under a Democratic administration.
There never Were any stronger Demo-
Gratis than the men who first settled
This Territory. and Won Hoist, in his
constitutional History of the United
States" shows this. But the people of.
Utah should decide what they will
make their political destiny from the
present, and not the past.
What does the Republican party Of
fer? 1t offers protection and bounties.
hoping TO win men to its standard by
appealing to their cupidity And who
pay for this proffered protection and
hounties? The people themselves. but
the people do not get the benefit from
these things; it goes to the great man
ufacturers and trusts. For more than
lection. and yet it has had some of its
very worst panics under the system.
The policy of protection eliminated in
the enactment of the Mckinley law
and under that law came as bad a
panic as this country ever experienced,
and only since the enactment of low
er tariff has it begun to recover from
it. And bounties? 1t has never been
claimed that the foreigner pays the
bounty They come from the taxes
paid by the people to defray the ex-
penses OF the government. 1t is a
game of solitaire. in which a man can
only beat himself
The people are about to assume the
duties and responsibilities of state
hood, and IN their constitution will put
those ideas Of government that will
conrol the policies of the state, not
only in their time. bat in that of their
children and their children's children.
Let them consider well the fundamen-
tai principles Of the two great parties
that are presented to them. and make
their choice wisely If they prefer
those PRINCIPLES in government that
are but temporary and are based up
on selfish motives, let them choose the
Republican party, but if they love
those principles Of eternal liberty
which recognize that governments are
created for man and not man for
if they believe that pa
triotism is something more than mon
eY making, and would inspire their
with the principles that
prompted and guided the founders of
The Nation, let them choose Democ-
racy-