The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-26

Secretary of state-tIoratio King,
Brooklyn
Comptroller-John B. Judson, Glovers-
Vile
State treasurer-D. c. Dow coblo-
skill
Attorney-general-Norton Chase, AL
bany.
State engineer-Russen R. Stuart, of
Syracuse.
Court of appeals-John D. Teller. Of
Auburn.
Resolutions and Platform.
Next Chairman Lockwood, of the
committee on resolutions. read the
platform, which is as follows:
First-Home rule. The first essential
condition of good municipal govern
ment; local Jurisdiction and control
over purely local affairs; no legislative
meddling.
Second-EconOmy in public expense;
no public money for private purposes
or political jobs; strict audit of official
expenditure; a low tax rate.
Third-Honesty in public office; no
tainted legislators; no corrupt traffic
in legislation; clean men and free
agents.
Fourth-Equal and honest enforce
ment of all laws; a proper observation
of a day of rest and an orderly Sun
day: notifications or repeal of laws
unsupported by public opinions; no IN
just sumptuary laws; no blue laws;
recognition of the fundamental Ameri-
can principle of freedom of conscience,
home rule in excise as well as in other
matters. within reasonable limitations
established to protect the interests OF
temperance and morality, and an
amendment of the excise and other
laws by the legislature of the state
which will permit each municipality
expressing its sentiments by popular
vote of a majority of its citizens 10
determine within such proper ieSlsla-
tive restrictions as shall be required by
the interests of the entire state what
may best suit its special necessities and
conditions.
Fifth-The attempts of prominent
Republican politicians in the large
cities of the state to repudiate their
own platform are renewed evidences Of
their hypocricy and dishonesty on the
excise question and OF their desire 10
deceive the people.
Sixth-EquaI taxation is an unjust
discrimina ton; no favored interests; no
partial Iegislation; home rule IN
methods OF strictly local taxation.
Seventh-Individual liberty. the right
of all citizens to equal opportunities
before the law; equal and exact justice
to all men.
EiEht-Eonest elections: compulsory
official accounting Of expenditures by
political committees as well rs candl-
dates; personal registration Of voters
as a safeguard against fraud
Nine-Practical and honest reform
in the civil service.
Ten-Intenigent and liberal promo
ton of agriculture.
Eleven-ImproVed highways Of travel
throughout the state in the interest Of
our citizens, and particularly Of the
farmers and bicycle riders.
TiweIve-Benefcial and needed leg
isIatfOn in the interest of labor; Oppo-
sition to combines, trusts and monop-
oIies in restraint Of competition in
trade; Improvement toward the main
flamenco of the canals Of the state, IN
accordance with the time-hOnored poll.
icy of the Democratic party.
Thirteen-Federal taxation for rev.
enue only: no government partnership
with protected mOnopolies; no med
ding with the present reformed tariff
to the injury and unsettling of busi-
ness and industries.
Fourteen-Sound money; gold and
silver the only legal tender; no cur
rency not convertible into coin; grad
ual retirement and extinction Of the
! greenback currency; no free and I'M
limited coinage of silver
Fifteen-Strict construction of the
federal constitution; rigid maintenance
of the reserved rights of the state. no
force bill.
Sixteen-No entangling alliances
with foreign nations; the vigorous en-
forcement of the Monroe doctrine; no
/ jingotsm.
We reaffirm the Democratic national
platform of '92 and congratulate the
people that Democratic legislation and
I Democratic administration have sue
cessfuIly brought the country out Of
the disastrous financial and industrial
condition into which it was plunged
bv the ill-conceived acts of the Repub-
lican party.
We endorse the administration Of
/ President Cleveland.
The platform closes with denuncia-
ton of the last Republican legislature.
The applause that greeted the bicy-
Gle clause was the heartiest of the ses-
sion and there was laughter mixed
with it. Lockwood moved the previous
! question, which was accepted without
debate unanimously, and the platform
was adopted
Mr.. Larkin read the resolution
! adopted by the state committee, Sc
I Iecting a star as the party emblem. It
was adopted.
Congressman Sulzer then offered a
resolution, which was adopted, SYM
| pathizing with the Cuban insurgents.
The state ticket was then made up
without much trouble, most Of the
nominations being made unanimously
! or by reclamation.
Lack of Enthusiasm.
/
Within two hours after the close OF
/ the convention the delegates had taken
regular and special trains for home,
] and tnnighf the town is deserted