Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-06
Utars Representatives at Dem
YER Leave on Special With
Fast Schedule.
viii WORK FOR GOOD ROADS
s. 1. smith of Weber County Carries n
Paragraph Tor Platform on This
Subject and One on Finance.

Weber county's delegate, to the
national Democratic convention is in
fovor of a good roads plank in the
Democratic platform. The automobile
drivers of ogden caucussed ON the sub
tect and they then had meeting
with Delegate S. S. Smith of Ogden
and asked him to submit to the COM
mittee on resolutions, n plank calling
B for National Bureau of Highways,
with liberal appropriations for inter-
state thoroughfares.
Delegate Smith, when he boarded
\ Tho delegates special last night at 7:1O
5 o'clock carried a plank drawn up en-
rorsing good roads in the following
terms:
dependence of interstate tarffc upon
q good roads, we favor the establish
#nent of a bureau of highways, with
liberal appropriations for maintenance
OF the same and for the construction
of national thoroughfares
FINANCIAL PLANK.
Judge William H. King is Utah's
representative on the resolutions com
mittee and the plank will be submit
4 ted through him. Delegate Smith
while a member of the Utah legis-
lature in 1897 was conspcuously iden-
tilted with financial resolutions, and
in fact made this subject one of special
study. He was heartily in accord with
the views of Mr.. Bryan at that time,
and Judge King has requested him io
draw up a financial plank for discus
sion among the others that VIII no
doubt be brought In.
His plank on this subject calls for
postal savings banks and national
..1..sa IL I'D md
DIV the government. instead of by ma
.ional banks.
The plank reads:
We demand return to the letter OF
the Constitution, that all money
whether gold. silver or paper shaH p1
issued by the general government; ana
shall be full legal tender for the
PAYMENT of all debts, both public ana
private. Recognizing as we 90, the
uuantative theory of money, we FAVOR
an increase in our currency in accord
ance with the increase OF population
and the demand of commerce, sald IN
crease to be placed IN Circulation
Through appropriations for INTERNAL
improvements.
We demand that our financial system
shall be 50 controlled that acute dis
turbances in the money market may pe
properly and speedily met, and such
needless panics as we have Just passed
through, aVeTtcd. this can only ne upn'
BY Congress exercising its constitu-
tional right to coin and issue the
money of the country. and by author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
use a reasonable amount of money In
times of large financial failures, to ar
rest and avert such panics. said money
FUSED for that purpose to be properly
secured. and such safeguards thrown
.iarcund it as viii insure its speedy re-
.it,,t.sa tn the treasury
"a we demand that government eposta
savings banks be established for the
deposit of the peoples savings, and
tthat Congress shall provide system
of assessments on national banks. TO
provide for the security of the deposit
ors therein
A FAST RUN.
The Democratic special to Denver
was run from Salt Lake to Ogden, at
tached to the 6:15 regular train, and
arrived in Ogden at i:10. AS %. w
Powers, w II. King and Samuel New
house had already gone to Denver, the
delegates on the train were S. s. Smith
of Weber, Abel John Evans of Provo,
and Mrs. Hayward. In addition tn
these delegates n number of alternates,
and about As prominent Democrats
made up the party. They are due at
Denver tonight, after a straight run
through from Ogden on 2O-hour
schedule.