The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-22
THEY ENDORSE
CLEVELAND
Continued from Page l.,

THE leaders of this party have the un-
! paralleled audacity to attribute the dis
4 tress and disaster to a Democratic ad-
mlnlstration that had just come into
power and had not changed single law
| With such record they ask the people
of this country to restore them to power.
! With as much propriety might the in
| competent and discredited directors of a
banking corporation, wrecked by them,
ask to have an honest receiver removed
and the old directors returned to con-
troll. We protest against such party
| being again entrusted with the adminis-
tration of the government and declare that
! their return to power would be fraught
with danger to the business interests and
to the people of the country.
Believing that the true interests of the
people require that the
EARNINGS OF TRADE
and wages of labor be paid in money that
is intrinsically worth, in all the markets
of the world, what it purports to be
worth, we demand the maintenance of
the existing gold standard of value and
that the government shall keep all its OBJ
| legations at all times redeemable and
payable in gold; and we oppose the free
coinage of silver and any further pur-
chase of silver bullion and the coinage
thereof on government account.
I'VE reaffirm the demands of our re-
cent state platform that the government
shall take the initial steps for the with
/
der notes issued in time of war
UNDER THE PLEDGE
of prompt retirement. We denounce the
action OF the Republican majority in the
present house OF representatives, in at
tempting to reaffirm the law of 1878. re-
Quirlng the perpetual reissue of these
notes and their failure to deal properly
and honestly with this problem; we de-
clare our belief that this inaction has
added to the impairment of our credit
caused by the silver legislation enacted
during two Republican administrations.
I'VE demand that the necessity for an
adequate medium of exchange in all sec
lions of our country shall be met by pro-
vision for an elastic banking currency,
subject to such government control as
shall insure uniformity and redemption
in standard coin on demand.
Thanks are rendered Secretary Carlisle
tor his course as secretary OF the treas
ury and for his presentation of the money
question in addresses and papers.
The admission of raw material free of
duty is recommended.
TRUSTS.
The suppression of trusts and the regu-
lation OF monopolieS is demanded.
# IS demanded that the legislative CO.
operate with the executive department in
efforts for the further reform of the civil
service.
sympathy with the Cuban insurgents is
The Republican party is accused of
''coquetting with secret political or
ganization and in endeavoring to concil-
late men whose avowed object it is to
prevent a large number of the citizens OF
this republic from exercising their con-
stitutional rights"
On the other hand, it is declared to be
a principle of the Democratic party
that no subordination of any one sect
or denomination to another shall ever be
established by law and that it is the alb
solute right of every citizen to worship
God as his conscience dictates"
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
is endorsed and President Cleveland's at
titude on the Venezuelan boundary dis
pute IS praised as being firm and digni-
ned and it is said to be a subject for
congratulation that in this crisis the
office of secretary of state was filed by
a man whose state papers have reflected
new luster on American diplomacy-an
epoch-making statesman distinguished
son of Massachusetts, a great American,
Richard Olney."
The platform concludes as follows
.sFollowing the long established Demo-
cratic custom, the Democrats of Massa-
chusetts, in convention assembled. will
not in any way instruct or pledge their
delegates, but they do declare that 1t is
the wish of the Democratic party of the
state to present and they earnestly re-
commend to the consideration of the ma
tional convention to be held in Chicago
as their candidate for the Office of presi-
dent of the United States, the name of
their victorious, courageous, high prin-