The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-20
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People Of Utah, Delivered at Salt
Lake City on Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial De Eocratic Convent


the Territorial De aocratie Convent
Resolved, That as the convention was
not called to make nominations OF
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention TO be presented III
the form of an address to the people OIL
Utah
We. the democrats of Utah, in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare our
devotion to the time honored principles
of the democratic party as enunciaUed
in the national platforms and imbed-
ded in the harts of its members.
We are emphatically in favor OF
equal rights to ali and special privil-
eyes to none; of the greatest possible
liberty to every individual compatible
with the pubic welfare; of the advance
ment anG support of home industries !;
of the maintenance OF local seIf-govern-
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of n strict construction of the ma
ional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the IN
terests of the consumer and the pro-
ducer, and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the Inquiries. so far as possible, and not
upon the necessarles OF lie, Tor the
purpose of providing revenue for tie
necessary expenses OF government, and
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 of
the bill for trritf reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their just snare OF the bur
den of taxation. And we denounce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, by which needed meas
ure to provide public revenue is de-
lsyed, causing uncertainty and QoubG
In commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyZlng industry
and arresting trade. 10 the facuous
hindrapces which are still thrown in
the wav of the Wilson bill by replbll-
can senators are due TO the slow pro-
gress it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration Of silver
to the CO.. stitutional position it occus
pied as money previous to the act of
1878. by which the republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal, and caused the increas-
inc disasters which, beginning with
the panic of 1873 and bursting forth at
intervals with terrible severity, de-
pressing the agricultural Interests OF
the country, creating unrest and dis
content among the oppressed laporlng
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. ,
We call attention to the undeniable
fact thst the republican party took the
government from the democratic ad
ministration in 1889, with more than a
hundred million dollars in the national
treasury and turned it back to the
democratic party in 1898 with treasury
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy OF the
republican party as system OF mlser-
able makeshifts to palllate the repuo-
lican financial crime of 1873. and de-
clare that only in and through the
democratic party can the people OF the
'Uuited States expect the re-eStabllsh'
menS of true bimetalism, which IN
- clIIGsS 10 fraa 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 ac-
hon, independent OF European agree.
iment if international cooperation can
mot be Immediately obtained.
We denounce the republican policy
Of protection as embodied IN the infa-
NOUS Mckinley law and reatfirmed by
that party in its most recent utter
snces. We regard it as an assistant
agency to the prostrstion Of silver In
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities of various kinds which
still afflict our country.
We deny that the high tariffs placed
-s1rcs9 lead and wool and other commOd-
titles have raised their price or benefit
ed thu producer of such materials,
while they have been oppressive and
detrimental to the consumer and the
eozntry at large.
We cordially endorse the democratic
congress and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the
freedom of elections.
In. formulating and endeavoring to
enact a bill TO reform the existing ex-
orbitant system OF tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, so that
while all persons deserving the aid OF
che country for services in It's defense
shall be secured in their rights, lmpost-
ers and fraudulent pension agents
shall not be permitted to further bleed
the body polite.
In the exercise of the federal forces
to suppress lawlessness where power TO
do 40 is clearly vested in the federal au-
fhority. and declining to Interfere when
it would intrude on the rights of local
government.
In the restoration to the church OF
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop
erty confscated under the provisions OF
congressional law; and we favor the
immediate restoration also Of the real
nroperty SO escheated in view OF the
now indlsputable fact that no preteXS
remains for charging that the majority
of the people of Utah are In opposition
TO national authority.
In the passage through the house
and it's report in the senate of liberal
and excellent bill for the admission OF
Utab as a state on an equal footing
with the existing states; and we urge
its speedy enactment as q measure OF
simple justice to the Oldest and most
prosperous of the existing territories
In the appointment OF bona 1de 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
the situation of our affairs as was
the rule under republican administra-
tions.
And we further endorse all efforts to
maintain the dignity and authority of
the government and remove the effecte
of over thirty wears of republican mis-
rule