The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-27

tice and subyersive OF Democratic govern.
ment.
| fore, TO ascertain the actual cost OF operation
| OF oil public service corporations and to tx
! from time TO time reasonable rates for the
] service they perform.
We dcpouDcc ms n crime against morals
J and deceDcy the refusal of the Republican
| administration 10 permit investigation OF
! the different departments especially the
| banking department. II entrusted with tho
! administration Of the State government we
promise that there shall be an impartial and
public investigation Of every department Of
the State
The recent investigation OF insurance com.
panies affords but a faint idea OF the gross
ministTation for a long period. II is a
scandal Of unparalleled dimensions that
these shocking exposures have resulted mere
y in the discharge OF few officers whose
1nemclency for plunder was. established by
the fact that they had allowed the enormities
70 be discovered, while the more desperate
culprits. who were most sdroit in plotting
these vilapies and who profted by them
most extensively, have been allowed to re.
main in control OF the vast trust funds they
have pillNged and wasted.
We demand passage OF such legislation
VIII des! effectively with the whole subject
OF life insurance and encourage this form
OF economy by making its fruits absolutely
secure. We are resolved, above all, that
every rogue who has aided in planning this
p.un;der' who has G0nnived al it or shared
punitive weapon of the law, welded BY
honest, fearless. loyal public prosecutors.
Sympathy for the Jews.
We ask the Federal Government TO ex.
erciSe its influence to bring about speedy
cessstion Of the atrocities now being com
miited against the Jews in Russia.
In common with the demands OF all the
States, and expressing the sentiment OF the
high minded citizenship OF the Republic
witaont party, wc view with pride and sat
isfaction the hospitality and acclaim which
have been accorded, 1T home spd abroad To
that great Democratic leader aud typical
hSmerlean. William Jennings Bryan, to whom
cordial and sincere fluctuations
Finally, we record cur solemn belief that
corruption IN the public service or in cor
while schemes OF plupder implanted in
the very body OF the law itself.
Where the law not only permits, but en-
powers the great trusts 10 exact for their
products from the people of this country
prices vastly exceeding those asked in for.
elen countries. and this power TO plunder
our citizens is treated as the property OF
certain private corporations capitalized for
billions OF dollars, the vast volume OF tribute
drawn from the masses OF the community
rs the least pernicious OF its results The
wide emulation IN plundcr which it evokeS
is its worst result.
The spectacle Of the Government taking
from masses OF men some OF the profits
created by their labor to enrich few Ia.
yorites encourages the socialist 10 insist that
me eoyernemnt should monopoolize the entire
among the whole people.
VIC denounce the socialism which seeks to
make the Government the sole agent OF
production AS nothing less than a proposal
TO re,estHolish the Institutions OF tyranny and
slavery which persisted before the advance
OF Christian civilization. For the very es-
absolute control OF all industry and there.
fore ownership OF all its products while the
essence OF Democracy is 10 confirm in every
man the right 70 dispose OF his own labor
and gTCrytlip0 Orodnced
by it.
Realizing every socalistic proposel--how.
ever disguised under soporous and miScad.
ing phrsees-to be u step leading inevitably
toward the establishment OF despotism in
Government and servLtude ~ labor, the Dem
masking it and inGexible in opposing It.
In this opposition We ask the cooperation
aud support OF all citizens who feel that the
struggle for Office. or for advantage between
political parties, but a contest for the ex.
'stence of Christian civilization and OF Dem
oeeTatic government its last and most yalu.
able fruit
Nearly every paragraph received ap.
plause, notably that denounciug the
Jewish massacres in Russia,
There were cheers for the para.
graph extending felicitatioua to vii.
liam Jennings Bryan, but the demon
stration was brief.
The platform was adopted unsnim,
ously. W. V. Cooke OF Albany
county then took the platform to nomi
nate ", R. Hearst.
Meagher Attacks Hearst.
Philip Meagher took the platform in
behalf of the Kings county delegation
ard made an impassioned appeal for the
convention to take heed before it
placed at the head of The Democratic
ticket man like william r. Hearst,
1.-The fact that Hearst has ridiculed
Tamnlany Hail. said Mr. Moagher,
may be of no Importance, He has
cartooned and Inundated Murphy.
Cochran and Grady, but the Tammany
delegation seems TO think it is Joke.
That may be of no Importance But
the fact remains that this man TO whom
they would give the first place on our
ticket is pretty near succeeding in con.
yipcin2 every man, woman aud child in
this State that the Democratic party
is the party of corruption and thievery.
OF | were to stand here tonight and
call any man in this hall thief 7 would
he torn limb from limb. But this man
Hearst, who has pictured Temmany's
leader in prison stripes. is now to be
given the Democratic nomination for
Governor, Is that the kind Of candi.
date we want?'' (Cries Of "No, no. -
''T say NO and ] second the nomi.
nation of William Sulzer.
William Hepburn Russell seconded
the Hearst nomination on behalf of
Tammany Hall for New York county,
and then Bourke Cochran took the
platform.
Mr. Cochran defined his attitude at