The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-21

DUBUQUE, Iowa, May 2O-The'
Democratic convention did not meet.
until after noon. At II o'clock c. S,
Ranck, chairman of the state commit.
tee announced S. S. Wright as tempor-
airy chairman.
In accepting the honor, Mr. Wright
said:
1.-THE state of Iowa is the farmers
! Eden. The state of Dubuque is one
of the flower gardens of Democracy.
The Democratic party is the true
champion Of the cause of labor, equal
rights and exact justice to all.
1 congratulate you, therefore, that
you this day represent the best area
of the most productive nation of the
earth; that you meet in the beautiful,
picturesque city of Dubuque and that
1t is your privilege and purpose to
spread the truth by means of another
plain spoken Democratic platform.
Our government affords many adj
vantages and corresponding variety
OF obligations unknown to citizens OF
nations less progressive =
Here the common people are king;
here titles of honor and distinction are
prohibited by the constitution; hera
there is no royal power; here the way
to complete republican federalism was
first made plain and clear; here the
shackles have fallen from socia.
caste; here every man has the right
to vote, and each ballot bears upon its
cold, white face some version of the
greatest political philosophy of the
age"
On the tariff question he said:
1T has been said that the Demo-
cratic party, when it did have the
power to enact laws, did not make an
| ideal tariff schedule. While it may
be true that the Wilson law is not
perfect in many respects, still it comes
nearer representing the best interests
Of the American people than any law
that has been enacted for years.
1T has been claimed also that it is
not revenue producing law, and yet b
recent treasury report shows that thE
deficit for the fiscal year, to the date
of report, was a little more than $23i
100000 and the remaining two months
at that rate would bring it up p
about SIS, 900, 900, while the deficit fog
last year was over $46,000O0O, and foi-
1894, under the Mckinley law, it was
over $72,OO0,OO0 And this showing Is
made in spite of the fact that
THE INCOME PROVISION
of the Wilson law was decided by tha
supreme court TO be unconstitutional,
and thus one of the greatest sources C,f
revenue, which was taken into corr
sideration by the trainers of the laH,
was cut off. Had not this decision
been made, in place of there being =
deficit there would. under this act.
now be a surplus. And let me say III
this convention, without fear of corr
tradiction or rebuke. that the reasoh
why a purely revenue law was nciE
enacted by that congress was not THE
fault of the Democratic party AMI
should not rest with them, but shoulh
fall with sledge hammer force upob
the hands of those congressman WHO
saw fit to represent their own localI-
ties and to protect the wealthy monoIi-
olists within their own district Or
state in place of representing the
whole people by carrying out the
principles universally adopted by the
party which gave them power.
IF a handful of senators and ref
resentatives have done the people 81
the United States an injustice, let tie
blame rest with them, and not with
the party making an honest effost
toward a much needed reform
when the Democratic admiDistrS-
ton surrendered national affairs to the
Republican party in 1888 there wss
about $3.50 ,0000 900 in the treasury, ia
Guiding the gold reserve. When Grt-
yer Cleveland was inaugurated pred-
dent Of the United States in 1898 he
fell heir to practically
AN EMPTY TREASURY
and threatening condition in finance.
the equal of which has never been
seen in this country. Immediately al
ter his inauguration he called together
in session extraordinary the congress
OF the United States for the purpoAe
of repeating the Infamous silver pus-
chasing clause of the Sherman a(st,
and Democrats and Republicans alik4
including the originator of the bill.
Mr.. Sherman himself, fairly fell OVER
themselves in their efforts to repeal It.
And this was not all the Democrats
inherited. You. will never forget the
summer of 1898. That summer we saw
vast industrial "commonweal armies"
here; we saw General RandiaH 1ejec-
ted, sad ana poor, leading a -eW huh
bred men from the Worlds Fair city:
we saw General Hogan, with his hair
sticking through the top of his hat,
astride a wild engine with throttle
pulled open, rushing at headlong speed
with a few cowboys and tramps over
the mountains and across the plains
of Montana: we saw General KELLY.
with about 1900 men, in the hot add
blistering sun, on 40
MODERN GUNBoATs
constructed by the inventive genius bf
General Weaver, floating down stream
with the tide in our own proud Iowa;
we saw Coxey, the commander-bn-
chief, heading this movement, frdrn
the great state of Ohio we saw n
dividuals, groups and armies Of idle
men scattered all over this land of the
free and the home of the brave I'll
marching upon the capital city at
Washington for the purpose of de-
handing legislation in their behalf.
And at that time it was estimated BY
careful statisticians that $4,000 families
owned one-half of the wealth of this
great nation.
Such was he legacy received by
President Cleveland and the DEMO-
cratic party when they went Into
power in 1893; such was the Legitimate
outcome of thirty years of uninterrIp-
ted high tariff legislation. What