Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-02
FOLLOW MR. BRYAN'S VIEWS
Resolution Adopted by State Democratic
Convention Of Utah.
The Chicago platforms Practically Re-
iterated. With Added Clause
Against Imperialism.

SALT LAKE, Utah, March 2.-The reso-
lutfons adopted by the democratic state
convention oppose the application of the
tariff laws to the products of Porto Rico
as being in violation of the federal Consti-
tuition, reaffirms the Monroe doctrine de-
nounces trusts and advocates the selection
of United States senators by direct vote of
the people.
On the money question the report says:
I'VE demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation. We
demand that the standard silver dollar
shall be legal tender, equal with gold, for
all debts. public and private. and we favor
such legislation as will prevent the de-
monetization of any kind of legal tender
money by private contract.
I'VE are opposed to the policy of surrend-
ering to the holders of the obligations of
the United States the option reserved by
the law to the government of redeeming
such obligations, in either silver or gold
coin. We are opposed to the issuing of in
terest-bearing bonds of the United States
in time of peace and the trafficking therein
by the government
Government Only Can Coin Money,
1.-THE federation Constitution conferred
upon Congress the obligation and the duty
of coming money and fixing it's value, and
we protest against all attempts to transfer
these functions of the government to ma
tional banks
I'VE demand that all paper money made
legal tender for public and private debts
shall be redeemable in coin, and that all
outstanding government bonds not in terms
made payable in gold shall be payable in
coin, gold or silver, at the option of the
government, to be exercised by the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury in accordance wit n
the law
I'VE are unalterably opposed to the Sem
ate and House bill in relation to the cur
rency, now pending in Congress.
I'VE oppose the House bill because, while
making gold the single standard of the
country, it also further degrades the silver
money of the people to single redeem
able promise to pay. We oppose both bills
because they are designed to place the ma
tional banks in control of the finances of
. the nation, and to give the Secretary of
the Treasury the power to create and per-
petuate national debts"
Opposed to Imperialism.
The clause on expansion says: I'VE are
opposed to Imperialism and nailitarism, but
favor commercial expansion and progr ress,
not by force, but by natural and peaceful
means. We are in favor of the kind of
expansion which Jefferson advocated and
practiced, and which is not incompatible
with our form of government, applying to
contiguous or neighboring territory whose
inhabitants are fitted, either Immediately OF
ultimately, to become citizens of the United
States. But we are opposed to wars of
aggression and conquest, by means Of
which alien peoples are brought under our
domination against their will. sSuch wars,
undertaken in a spirit of commercialism,
greed and covetousress, bringing to us col
onies and subjects, instead of sister states
and fellow citizens, are directly antago-
nstic to the idea that governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed"
EX-Representative w. II. King and D. c.
Dunbar were placed in nomination for Con-
gress
Before the first ballot was completed the
nomination of King was made unanimous.