The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-10
something to vote for some parts of the

something To vote fer some parts or the
'e@-saecTatic policy.
Rises From the Lowly.
Rising from the hurablest walks of life
he has reached the. highest honor That
could be conferred upon him BY the
greatest Of the American states He IS
prominently q man Of the people, and m
close sympathy with both their asI-rd-
tons and the difficulties against which
they are obliged to contend in order to
achieve them. He will make a admirable
constitutional servant. and it IS one OF
the chief evidences Of his WorthineSs that
he seeks 10 be no other than this. It was
an extremely happy thought expressed
by Mr. Littleton, who placed his name in
nomination before the convention. when
IN the course Of Of explaining the reason
for the judges silence he said;
IT you ask me why he has been silent
tel you II IS because he does not claim
to be the master OF the Democratic party,
but Is content to be its servant
ne man who stands in that relation
ship to his party win stand in that re-
lationshiD to the whole American people
when elected to the presidency of these
United states; and that is the true reia-
llonship 81 president to the people Of
the United States. Under our theory of
government the people are the soVerciCgS.
the men whom they select to office are
their servants. Their duties are strictly
prescribed by the constitution and laws
81 the country. and those Wie submit In
their spirits 10 masters and rulers in this
fep0Dlc &bdicdte that sovereignty con-
ierred upon theTY By our American iusti-
tutiOns The Candidates Of the respecffva
parties 40 less than their conventions
reflect the spirit Of COvernTe MT we shall
see obtained IL these United States &C
cordlEg rs the one or the other succeeds.
The Democratic party stands for constiT1-
uon3t servants for the people The he
publican party for imDerialistic masters.
for rulers of the nation It is for the
people II the United States TO choose
which they will have.
Compares the Platforms.
Just word with reference to tie plat
forms of the two parties This is not
the occasion for exhaustive consideration
Of the various propositions ser forth in
the respective platforms. They can only
be noted now as to one or two things
IL IS written in holy scripture that in
the last days the wicked shall wax worse
and worse. and, truly. though without
the desire of giving Offense, l think the
Republican party is fulfilling this predic-
ton. / think more positively and ire
Vocably than ever before il prOclaims its
adherence 70 that iniquitOUs, unequal
class legislation miscalled 'protec-
ton It announces il as "a cardinal
policy of the Republican, party Nor
does it stop at this, but promises, If
granted a new lease of power to extend II
for the purpose of creating q merchant
building of ships. That is, after destroy
ing by It's mistaken policies, the most
magnlflcent merchant marine save one
found upon the seas when 1t first came
into power, it now proposes to employ the
taxing power of the government 10 re
build what its protection policy de-
StrOyed- In opposition to this avOwed
cardinal policy of the Republican party
the Democratic platform declares that
we favor a revision and gradual reduc-
ton Of the tariff by the friends Of the
masses and for the commOnweal. and not
by the friends of its abuses, its extOr-
tons and its determinations. keeping in
view the ultimate ends Of equality of
burdens and equality Of opportunities
and the executiOnaI purpose OF raising a
revenue by taxation for the support Of
the federal government in all its integrity
and Vlriiity, but III simplicity.
Money Question Settled.
With reference to the money question
which has occupied d prominent part in
the previous national platforms, the pres
ent platform is silent, and properly 50. /
a circumstance beyond the control or in
fluence Of either the Democratic or the
Republican party has settled for the
time that question. The circumstance re-
ferTed TO is the Increase in the production
OF gold by which there has beer added
in recent years TO the world gold supply
two thousand million dollars nj which.
It IS said. seven hundred millions falls
TO the share of the United States on
the 3Gth Of June at Portland. Ore, our
DISPATCHES represented George E Rob-
erts. director Of the United States mint.
as saying that our records showed a re-
markable increase in the gold production
Of the world during the past decade and
in 1874 the production viii PROBABLY be
three hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars and ne represents that the total out
put of the world has nearly trebled in
ten wears. These facts. 1 S2y. remove
for the present. the money question as a
political issue from the consideration OF
the people Of the United states
The effect of the world increase in the
out put of gold has demonstrated now
ever. the soundness Of the Dem ocratic
contention Of 1896, viz, that our volume
of metallic money was inadequate to the
volume Of business and credit resting
lIpo1 IL. We insisted then that the true
solution of the financial difficulties Of
those times would be to increase the me
tallic money Of the country by free
coinage of silver. That policy. however
va- not adopted. but now comes this un-
Urpccdented increase in the output OF
gold which sWellS the volume d metallc
money acceptable to the people, and the
result which Democrats believed would
have followed the free coinage OF silver
is produced. Meantime, the Democratic
party stands in a better position e Crap
ple with future contingencies that may
arise respecting this question t1an Goes
the Republican party. which has unalteI-
ably avowed its adherence to the gold
standard.
Discusses Polygamy Plank
Time will not permit now a further con-
sideration of platform differences between
the two great national parties. as WISH
TO Utah Democrats, and there are a
number Of gentlemen whom you are anX-
ious to hear. Some short-sighted people
have thought that the reference IN the
national platform to the 'exterEuinauon
of uOlygamy and the separation or church
and state would have dlscOuraglug Ell
feet upon the Utah Democracy. IN my
Judgment this reference u these subjects
in the form they come t. US n the na-
tfonal platform viii have no such erect
These questions are already settled IN
10 r1ftrN
people are concerned. They were settled
by the constitutional convention OF our
state. When the people OF the inteQ
States. speaking through the national
congress made IL a condition precedent TO
statehood for Utah that pOlygamOus mar
RACES should forever be prohibited the
constitutional convention ADOPTED the very
language of the enabling act ara pro-
hibited pOlygamOus or plural marriages.
When. in the opinion of some members OF
the convention. this did not SuIIlclehJiy
meet the demand of the people OF the
United States. the convention aCcepteu
the national Iegislat lures definition OF the
term ''poIvgamy.' and the pans 2uu pen
altics IL had prescribed Tor me NlOiatiou
OF the law The convention p ut ms IiiSO
the constitution made It operative with
out further legislation and irreVocdoie
without the consent Of the people OF the
United States It stands so new IN our
constitution and is made the law OF the
land BY this constitutions PROVISION
Nowhere in the United states IS leg1s~
Iatfon so stringent and posture on IhlS
subject as in the state OF Utah. NO
where is this subject so completely under
the ban of the law. II. IN the opinion OF
members to the convention, they tnllk IL
necessary in this class OF leg1slsti ZION 10
follow the example thus set by Utah, We
of Utah. certainly ought to nave no objee-
Touches Up Dubois
If the distinguished gentleman from
Idaho. who is supposed to have fathered