Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-04-11

Salt Lake City, April Y.-The hrst re
publican convention Of the state as
sembled in this city today for the pGr-
pose of selecting six delegates to make
nominations for president and vice-Pres.
ident of the United States at the ma
tional republican convention, which will
be held at St. Louis, June 10 next, was
called to order BY John E. Dooly, chair
man of the republican state central com
mittee.
The following delegates were chosen
respectively:
Senator Frank ]. Cannon.
Colonel Isaac Trumho.
Senator Arthur RIowH.
Congressman c. E. Allen.
Thomas KeRrnS.
w. S. Mccormick.
The alternates were chosen from the
six having the next highest number of
votes, and this honor fell upon c. c.
Goodwin, L. R. Rogers, James M.
BolitAo, Webb Green, Joseph A. Smith
and John c. Graham.
The report of the committee on reso-
lutions was next in order, and Colonel
Nelson, the chairman, mounted the
stage and announced that the committee
had unanimously agreed to the follow
ing:
The representatives of the republican
party of Utah assembled in state con
lican national convention which is to
nominate candidates for president and
vice-president of the United States,
hereby renew.their fealty to the princi-
pies on which the republican party was
first launched and upon which all its
honors have been won.
We believe in protective tariff; we
believe in reciprocity; we believe in BIZ
metallism, which is the full recogni-
ton alike of gold and silver and their
free coinage in the minis of the nation
at the ratio of 10 to l.
We contemplate with sorrow and
shame the spectacle which our country
presents today because of the attempt
to substitute for a protective tariff a
tariff for revenue and because Of the
destruction of silver as money of final
redemption.
We hold that policy which has filled
the land with idle men, which takes
from labor its honest reward, which
doubles the burden OF debt, which, amid
bountiful harvests, in time of profound
peace, makes necessary the issuing OF
hundreds of million dollars worth Of
interest bearing bonds in order to meet
the current expenses of the government
is an impeachment of both the intelli
gence and integrity of those who con-
troll our government.
We hold that tariff for revenue has
failed to restore prosperity, so protec
tive tariff as long a. the money of the
country is held, ounce for ounce, 100 pei
cent higher than the money of the orr
emit and of Spanish America, is impo
tent to save our farmers ard manufac
turers against competition which the,
are helpless to meet, and we repudiatt
the belief that protection without bi
metalism can restore prosperity. tn,
situation makes clear that bi.metalisn
and protection must be accepted as con
stituting one vital, indivisible principle
that not only the progress but the safe
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the toilers who carry on those industries
make the acceptance of this princiPl
imperative protection by a tariff tc
equalizc the wages of our country an,
Those paid abroad, and bimetaisn L
take from gold It's present appreciation
and TO equalize the money of thi
country and that of the silver standar
nations.
We cordially endorse the stand take
in the national legislature by wester
senators and representatives in beha
of holding bimetalism and protecto
together as one.
We ask oar delegates to ST. Louis /
do their utmost to secure in the nations
republican platform full acknowledg,
ment Of an imperative need of retur
to real bimetalisn and promise of i
adoption without regard TO other nation
by opening our minis to the free coinal
of gold and silver at a ratio of 10 to
GREAT FIRE.