The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-07
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS

ResoIUed, That as the convention W.
not called TO make nominations {
formulate platform OF principles, tt
following be adopted as the sentiment
of the convention TO be presented
the form OF an address to the people
Utah:
We. the democrats of Utah, in cor
vention assembled, hereby declare on
devotion to the time honored principle
of the democratic party as enunciate
in the national platforms and imbed
ded in the harts of its members.
We are emphatically in favor Q
eoual rights to all and special privi
eyes to none; of the greatest pOssibl
liberty to every individual compatibl
with the pubic welfare; of the advance
ment and support of home industries
of the maintenance of local self-govern
ment to the fullest rightful extent
and of a strict construction of the ma
ional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform o
the tariff as is consistent with the II
terests of the consumer and the pro
ducer. and declare that duties upoI
foreign imports should be levied upon
the Injuries, so far as possible, and mo-
unon the necessaries OF life, for tbs
purpose of providing revenue for the
necessary expenses of government, anC
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
few.
We demand the speedy passage oil
the hin for trriff reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for An income tax by which those large
nronerty holders who are best able
shall bear their just share of the bur-
den of taxation. And we denounce the
obstructive policy OF the republicans
in congress, 10y 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 arTesting trade. 10 the factlous
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill py repAbli-
can senators are due to the slow pro-
press it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration of silver
To the CO.. stitutional position 1t occnS
pied as money previous TO the act OF
1873. by which the republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal. and caused the increas-
ing disasters which. beginning with
the panic of 1878 and bursting forth at
intervals with terrible severity, de-
pressing the agricultural Interests Of
the country, creating unrest and dis
content among the oppTr Ssed laborlng
classes and increasing the armies OF
tramps which sWarmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic OF 1898 and
still spreads its blight upon trade and
industry.
Ne call attention 10 the undeniable
fact that the republican party took the
government from the democratic ad.
ministration in 1899. with more than
hundred million dollars in the national
TREASURY and turned it back TO the
democratic party in 1898 with a treasury
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy OF the
republican party as system OF mlser-
able makeshifts to palllate the repub-
licau financial crime Of 1873, and de-
clare that only in and through the
democratic party can the people OF the
limited States expect the re-establlSh-
ment of true bimetalism, which in
cIudes 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
ton, independent of European agree.
ment if international cooperation can
not he Immediately obtained.
We denCunce the republican policy
of nroteetion as embodied IN the infa
nous Mckinley law and reaffirmed by
that party in it's most recent utter
snces. We regard it as an assistant
agency to the prostration Of silver in
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities of various kinds which
still afiict our country.
We DENY that the high tariffs placed
vinon lead and wool and other commod-
tiles have raised their price or benefit
cd the producer of such materials,
while " have been oppressive and
detriInent Il to the consumer and the
country a large.
We cor ally endorse the democratic
congress- md administration:
In re- 3alIng the obnoxious federal
electio law and thus promoting the |
freedo: IF elections.
In rnlr Ug and endeavoring to |
enact 2 bal. - reform the existing ex-
orbitanl system Of tariffs.
In revising The pension lists, so that
while al persons deserving the aid OF
the COUNT Tor services In Its defense |
shall be ecu eo n their rights, lmpost-
ers and fraudulent pension agents
shall not be permitted to further bleed
the body p -itic.
In the exercise Of the federal forces
Tn suppress lawlessness where power to
do 40 is clearly vested in the federal au-
thority. and declining to interfere when
II would intrude on the rights of local
In the restoration to the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop |
erfv eonfscated under the provisions of |
congressional law; and we favor the |
Immediate restoration also of the real |
nronerty SO escheated in view OF the |
now indlsputable fact that no pretexs
for charging that the majority |
of the people of Utah are In opposition |
TO national authority.
In the passage through the house |
and its report in the senate Of a liberal |
and excellent bill for the admission of |
Utah as state on an equal footing |
with the existing states; and we urge |
its speedy enactment as a measure of |
simnle Justice to the Oldest and most |
prosperous of the existing territories. |
In the appointment of bona ide resi- |
dents of the territory to the various |
offices in the gift of the government in |
stead of men from other sections of the |
country unfamiliar with our people and !
- Of off osrC nc sscyl
the rule under republican administra-
tions.
And we further endorse sll efforts to
maintain the dignity and authority of
the government and remove the effects
of over thirty wears Of republican mis-
rule