The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-24
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

urdsy, september 10, 1894.
We, the democrats OF Utah, in con
ventlon assembled, hereby resffirm ou
adherence to tue principles OF JusIici
and free government which the demo
cratic party was organized to establish
and preserve, and which have beer
embodied In the platform adopted by
the democracy in their national con-
tions.
We believe in strict constru GtlOn OF
the constltution-the peoples grant OF
power TO the federal government-to
the end that the rights OF the respec-
We states may be preserved, that local
f-goYernment may be secured, and
tpersonal liberty may be exercised
le fullest extent consistent with
public safety.
ye believe in wise economy in pub
: expenditures; that officials should
oe held to a strict accountability for
their acts; that the employment Of the
taxing power in any form by which the
few are entitled to the impoverishment
of the many, by which trade is de
slroyed or obstTucted, by which trusts
are created and f0stered and monop-
oIies sustained, is wicked peTverslon
of the powers designed for the common
good.
We believe in commercial and indus
trial freedom and resent all attempts
to prevent it's exercise, in the pro 40
ton of education by the state;
in the full development of our national
resources; In the encouragement and
advancement Of home industries; in
the prote 3tiOn of labor from the en-
croachments of capital, and in equal
rights to all, special privileges to
none.
WedemaDd the passage of a law for
the free and unlimited coinage Of both
silver and gold at ratio of l to 10,
without waiting Tor the consent of any
other nation; and that the govern
ment 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 effecting, by which hundreds
of millions OF dollars will be annually
saved by American consumers and all
classes Of people will be bene-
flied. 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 10 the tariff and prevent
ed the restoration of silver to Its right
place as money.
We endorse the income tax provision
of the taritf law, by which a more
equitable distribution is made of the
burdens of taxation, and wealth as
we'll as want is required to contribute
its share to the public expense.
We endorse the acts OF the democra-
tic congress and administration: In
abolisnlng 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 1uture, while no worthy
pensloner will be deprived of the aid to
which his services are entitled,
In restoring to a religious organlza-
tiUn in Titan Its personal property,
which was confscated under the pro-
visions of law, with the prospect of the
EuIJneI IesUoraEIon- 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 she soil of Utah, a policy ale
together different from that of republl-
can administrations.
In throwing open to settlement the
Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations,
by which a vast area of tillable, graz
ing 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 debt of gratitude to the demo-
cratic congress and president, whose |
kind treatment of this territory stands |
out in striking contrast to that harsh |
ness and enmitY extended by republi- |
can congresses ard administrations for |
thirty years.
We are proud of our delegate to Con.
gress, Hon. j. l., RawlinS, to whose |
fidelity, perseverance, and splendid |
political tact and energy the numerous |
measures of legislation so beneficial to |
Utah have been obtained. His unpRr- |
alleled success has demonstrated to the |
people of Utah that they made no mis- |
take in sending him to the national |
where he was recognized as |
the peer of his associates and man of |
mark and ability,
We denounce the republican party |
for its obstruction to those remedial |
demanded by the country to |
rescue trade, industry and business |
from the chaos into which they We're |
drifting through republican legislation
and misrule.
attempting to foist the blame |
upon the democratic paFty-for The eff
fecIs of republican maladministrs !
ton
By the decentralization of silver and |
the unconstitutional and partial sYs-
tenn of class protection, the masses of |
G4lC pCObtC hohhF DCCAl iAApONCA1CA1Oo eAO l
and laboring classes op- |
pressed, and the land disturbed by the |
riots of dissatisfied workmen, and the |
cries of the unemployed.
We point to the only republican leg
islature of Utah as sample of the In
partisanship and folly |
which that party would exhibit II
placed in power in the new state.
Gin attempting to deprive the public
schools OF one-sixth of the revenue es-
seUtial to their support; refused to
grant necessary funds for the univer-
sity, the agricultural college and other
public institutions of an educational
and reformatory character; tried to ap.
propriate large sums of public money
as bounties for favored private indus
tries; did make expenditures for which
no revenue was provided; drafted