The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-09-17
DEMOCRATS NAME TICKET.
Select Powers for Congress and Moyis
for Governor.

ticket in the field: Member of con-
gress, o. w. Powers of Salt Lake;
Governor, James II. Moyle Of Salt
Lake; secretary of state, Levi N. Har.
mon of Price; attorney general, Grant
G. Bagley of Provo; Auditor, J. w.
Gelger of Park City; treasurer, w. B.
Wilson of Ogden; superintendent OF
public instruction, Nathan T. Porter Of
Centerville; justice of supreme court,
G. s. Varian of Salt Lake; presidential
electors, Samuel Newhouse of Salt
Lake; Edward II. Snow Of st. George;
Fred j. Kiesel of Ogden
The Platform.
The Democracy of Utah, in conven.
ton assembled. reiterates it's belief in
the time-honored principles of the or
ganization that has always stood for
the rights of all the people, as against
the demands of the favored classes
since the founding of the republic, and
reaffirms its faith in the great under
lying principle laid down by Jefferson
incorporated into the Declaration Of
Independence in the following Ian
guage:
1--WE hold these truths to be self-evi-
dent: that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Crea-
tor with certain inalienable rights and
among these are life, liberty and T. }
pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are insti.
tuted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the gov.
erned," and we pledge ourselves to a
continuation of the policy which has
ever characterized this party; a strict
adherence to that principle. We de-
clare once again in favor of the time
honored axiom, first laid down by the
founder of the Democratic party:
Equal rights to all and special priv.
leges to none"
We endorse the platform adopted
and reafiirm the principles declared by
the national Democratic convention at
st. Louis, and cordially and enthu-
sfastically approve the nomination of
Alton B. Parker and Henry G.. Davis
for president and vice president of the
United States.
We direct the attention of our fellow
citizens of all parties to the conditions
confronting the electors of this state
because of the selfish and disgraceful
contentious which have divided the
Republican party in two opposing fac
tons. each led by a Republican Unit
ed States senator. Such conditions are
the net results of the success of the
Republican party in recent years, now
MI iplt 4 l.. a.
ural consequences of an attempt to ar
ray one class of our citizens against
another class In a feud, which, II per-
sisted In, will result in permanent in
jury to the best interests of the COM
monwealth. The Democratic party of
the state enters its protest against
these conditions and the causes there.
for, and calls upon the people of the
state to rebuke at the polls the as.
sumption and arrogance of the party
which Is alone responsible for the sit.
uation.
The Democratic party neither seeks
nor fears the interference of any &c.
clesiastical power with the expires.
sion of popular will at the polls, and
denies the right Of any power or of
any man, or set of men, to dictate po-
litical nominations or to control polit.
ical conventions. We hold that Amer
lean citizens are politically free and
equal, and the people alone should
WELD this power.
While We are willing and ready at
all times to accord to the president of
the United States the credit due him
for his work in securing the passage
of national irrigation law, at the
same time we positively refuse to con-
cede that 1t was a Republican meas
ure, but on the contrary was, as is
shown by the record, initiated by, la
bored for and introduced by a Demo
crat, advocated by Democrats, passed
by Democratic votes, and but for the
votes OF Democratic members of both
houses, wou.. have been defeated by
Republicans, overwhelmingly.
We believe in the dignity of labor
and recognize the rights of the toilers
OF our state and pledge our candidates
for office to the enactment of such pol.
icies and measures as will protect
them in their rights and insure their
personal liberty in the pursuit of their
several occupations. The Democratic
party now, as In the past, is the friend
of labor, and pledges its candidates to
a just and equal enforcement Of the
laws without discrimination in favor
OF persons, property or power. It ad.
yocates just and compensatory wage
for the service of an elght-hour day in
work on all public works, and in
mills and smelters, and in all
cases a fair and living remuneration
for the labor of all men and women
with firm reliance in the integrity
OF the people of Utah, we submit the
Issues of this campaign, national and
state, to their candid judgment at the
polls.