The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-11

resulted in no choice, but showed gains
for Drake Before the sixth ballot had
preceded far brakes nomination was
/ assured The following was the result
/ Drake, S641s; Harlan, 1913 3-14; Parrot
/ 231 4-14; Harsh, 2; Kamrar, 2; Ormsby,
With the announcement of the vote
/ Chairman Young declared Genera
/ Drake the nominee of the convention
for governor.
PARROT Lieutenant-CfOvernOr
After prolonged cheering balloting
/ for acknowledgements was com
! menced. Matt PARROT, of Waterloo
was nominated on the third ballot, de-
/ feating ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DUNCAN
/ of Charlton. Henry Sabin was re
nominated for superintendent of public
/ instruction; George w. Perkins fol
railroad commissioner and Josiah
Given for judge of the supreme court
In a speech before the convention
General Drake said he was prepared
/ to make a vigorous campaign upon the
broad national platform adopted by
the convention.
The Main PIanks.
The platform presented to the. con-
vention was adopted without debate
or dissent. The following are the main
planks:
I'VE re-affirm our fealty to the great
Z -
from its birth has steadfastly pro-
claimed. We congratulate the people
of this country upon the evidences OF
returning prosperity and rejoice in
each instance of laborer re-employed,
wages restored and industry re-eStab-
lished upon a prosperous basis. In the
record Of the building UP of our in
dustries upon Republican policy, their
paralysis under Democratic power and
= hi. r6nJldi1 fiOn of
the Democratic party and the dissolu-
ton of the Democratic House Of Rep
resentatives, succeeded by one elected
upon the platform of the Republican
party the vindicatiOn of the policy OF
protection is complete. The Democratic
party is convicted Of obtaining power
in 1892 under false pretenses- In its
platform it declared the policy OF pro-
lection to be unconstitutional and in
its campaign it denounced the policy
as robbery. But with complete power
in its hands it's lawmakers have ut
terly failed TO carry out the policy to
which they were pledged. 1t is a far
cical pretense for the Democratic party
to claim credit now for a measure from
which, nine months ago, its president
withheld his approval and denounced
as a humiliating abandonment Of their
cardinal principles. The Senate bill,
substituted for the Wilson bill, is not
a measure which the Republican party
would father; it reduces the revenue
upon the luxuries, a method of levy
more effective than any income tax;
it resto. IS taxation to sugar; it re-
duces the wage rate in many indus
tries in which labor is the chief ele-
ment Of cost. but it maintains in many
of it's parts the principle which the
Democratic party declares TO be I'M
constitutional. To claim credit under
it is to claim credit for abandoning its
policy and adopting the principles
which it has denounced"
The platform further deplores the
revocation of reciprocity, denounces
tariff for revenue only and declares for
American wages.
On Currency.
On currency the platform says:
eve affirm the declarations of the
Republican national PLATFORM of 1892,
adopted at Minneapolis, that the
American people from tradition and
interest favor bimetallism, and the
Republican party demands the use of
both gold and silver as standard
money, with such restriction and I'M
der such provisions to be determined
by legislation as will secure the main
tenance of the parity of value of
the two metals, that the purchasing
and debt paying power of the dollar,
whether of silver, gold or paper, shall
be at all times equal The interest," of
the producers Of the country, it's farm
ers and the workingmen, demand that
every dollar. paper or coin, issued by
the government shall be as good as
any other.
I'VE urge that the Uniter States ex-
ert its influence to establish with the