The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-11
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS
Territorial, Adopted at Ogden
ESepU. 9Th

and Justice of the peOple-standln!
upon the constitution as a foundation
and limitation of the powers OF the GOV
eminent as well as the guaranty of The
liberties of the cltiZen-congratulat
the territory-now soon to be state
ON the assured success ofthe policy
adopted by the national organization
as laid down in ali its platforms.
For the democracy of the entire ter
ritory we reaffirm our faith in the per
m anence of federal union aud oul
devotion to the constitution and the
laws; and declare as cardinal doctrines
of democracy:
First-Absolute acquiescence in the
III of the majority as vital principle
of the democratic party.
Second-Total separation of church
and state for the sake alike of civil and
religious liberty.
Third--The liberty of the Individual
unvexed by sumptuary laws.
Fourth-Support by the state OF the
public schools.
Fifth-The supremacy OF the civil
oyer the military power,
Sixth-Exact equality of all persons
before the law.
Seventh The right to g free ballot
the right preserYatiye of all other
rights.
Eighth-That our democratic party
is the friend of the laboring man in
every ayocation of life, and will pro-
tect hia interest alike against the az.
| gresslons of monopoly as well as the
commune.
We believe the restoration of the
money of the constitution is now the
paramount issue before the country,
and insist that both parties shall
| plainly state their respective posi- ions
upon the question In order that the
voters may intelligently express their
selves in favor of the immediate res
toration of the tree and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the pres
| ent legal ratio of l6 to l, as such COIN
age existed prior to 1873, without wait,
ing for the aid or consent of any other
nation. Gold and silver coin to be
| full and legal tender for all debts pub.
| llc and private.
We denounce the republican party
| for the characterization of silver in 1873
and fer its repeated acts of hostility to
ward its reconciliation.
We call attention to the fact that the
country was in the throes of financial
panic when the democratic admins
! tratiOn assumed control in 1893. and we
congratulate The people upon the APP
preaching reign Of prosperity as re-
suit of democratic reform of the tar
if; and also to the fact that factories,
boundaries and mills have resumed
work since the repeal of the Mckinley
law, and to the constantly advancing
wages of Workingmen in almost every
industry.
We again express our hearty appre-
citation of the democratic congress- and
president in providing an enabling act
by virtue of which Utah is about to as
sumo its position as sovereign state.
We commend the action of the DEM
ocTatic members of the constitutional
convention in surrounding the taxing
aid revenue-raising power of the state
by such restrictions and limitations as
to preclude any squandering OF public
property III aid OF private enterprises,
and to confne the expenses of carrying
on the public business within proper
limits of economy, despite the almost
unanimous opposition of republican
majority. And we favor the adoption
OF the proposed constitution.
We congratulate the women Of Utah
upon their admission to equal political
rights with men under the provisions
of the constitution proposed, and the |!
democratic party for the earnest and |
able support OF that measure by ite |
representatives in the constitutional |
convention.
We denounce as false the charge |
that the democratic party of Utah has |
been guilty Of stuffing ballot boxes or
other election frauds, and condemn
the republican party for its I'M
warranted and libelous attack upon |
the majority of the Utah commission,
and deplore the lack of principle |
shown by its attempt without any |
evidence and for partisan purposes to |
citizens
Utah County, Adopted at Payson
Sept. 18th.
Hon, j. B. Miner, chairman of the
committee on platform and resolutions
the following platform:
The democratic party of Utah county
in convention assembled declare as fol-
lows:
We hereby endorse and reaffirm
held in Ogden on Septem Der 5, 1895.
We cordially and heartily approve of
the action of said convention in nomi-
mating Joseph l.. RaWlins and Moses
Thatcher for United States senators
for Utah, and demand that the mem
bers OF the legislature from Utah
county use every honorable means to
secure their election.
With heartfelt gratitude we appre-
ciate the muni6cent donation of public
lands granted by the federal govern
ment to the new state of Utah, and
urge upon the legislature the neces-
sity of passing such laws and adopting
such measures as will secure to the
state the most valuable public lands
within the state to the extent of all
grants made to it, and its public insti-
tutions.
We demand the passage OF such laws
as will provide for ths sale of state
lands to actual settlers only, in small
holdings; for the selection of suitable
sites for reservoirs; for the preServa
ton from destruction or waste of the
timber on the public lands; for the
Improvement of arid lands, and for the
development of all the natural pro-
ducts OF state lands.
We favor retention by the state of
all its lands not susceptible of imme-
diate improvement, and the leasing by
the state OF improbable lands, when
eyer such leasing will tend to their
more rapid and efficient improvement
and development.
We favor revision of the laws OF
Utah on irrigation. First, to secure
and ire yocably fix all existing rights
to the use of water; and second, to pro-
vide for an increased supply of water
and to distribute all the available
water fairly and justly among all per-
sons entitled to ifs use.
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