Show = J = O f PEHOCBAIXO ADDS ESS To the People of Utah Delivered at Salt Lake City on Saturday June 16th by the Territorial Democratic Convention Resolved That as the convention was not called to make nominations or formulate a platform ot principles the i following be adopted as the sentiments I of the convention to be presented in the form of an address to the people of Utah We the derogate of Utah in convent con-vent on1i d l hereby declare our uevoton to the time honored principles of the democratic party as enunciated in the national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in the harts of its members We arc emphatically in favor of equal lights to all and special privileges privil-eges to none j of the greatest possible liberty to every individual compatible with the pubic welfare of the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries ot tue maintenance of local sell uvern ment to the fullest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the na ional constitution We are in tavor of such reform the tariff as is consistent with the interests in-terests of the consumer and the producer pro-ducer and declare that duties upon foreign imports should be levied upon the luxuries so far as possible and not upon the necessaries of life for the purpose of providing revenue for the necessary expenses of government and not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We ere opoosed to the bounty system by which the many are taxed for the enrichment of a few We demand the speedy passage of the bill for trriff reform now pending in the senate including the provision for an income tax by which thote large property holders who are best able shall bear their iust share of the burden bur-den of taxation And we denounce the obstructive policy of the republicans i in congress ny which a heeded measure meas-ure to provIde public revenue Is delayed de-layed causing uncertainty and doubt in commercial and manufacturing circles and thus paralyzing industry and arresting trade To the factious hindrances which are still thrown in the way of the Wilson bill by repabli can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it is making and the disasteis that are consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration of silver to the costitutional position it occupied occu-pied as money previous to the act of 1873 by which the republican partv cast down that historic and essential money metal and caused the increa ing disasters which beginning with the panic of 1S73 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible seventy depressing de-pressing the agricultural interest If the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content am ng the oppressed laboring classes and increasing the armies of tramps which swarmed over Jie land culminated the panic of 18l3 and still spreads its blight upon trade and industry i We call attention to the undeniable fact thst the republican parly took the government from the democratic administration ad-ministration in 1SS9 wiih mote than a hundred million dollars in the national treasury and turned it back to the I democratic party in 1893 with a treasury practically bankrupt We denounce the silver policy of the republican party as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the republican repub-lican financial crime of 1873 and de elate that only in and through the democratic party can the people of the United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true bimetalism which includes I in-cludes tue free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold Ve believe that ibis cn be lone with safety ana profit to this nation by American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment if international cooperation cannot can-not be Immediately obtained We denounce the lepubhcan policy of protection as embodied in the infamouS infa-mous McKmlej law and reaffirmed by that party in its most recent utterances utter-ances We regard it as an assistaiJ agensy to the prostration of silver in producing tbe poverty and distress and social calamities various kinds which still afilict our country We deny that the high tar ffs placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benefited benefit-ed the producer of such materials while they have been oppressive and detrimental to the consumer and the country at large We cordially endorse the democratic congress and administration In repealing the obnoxious federal election law and thus promoting the freedom of elections In formulating and endeavoring to enact a bill to Deform the existing exorbitant ex-orbitant system of tariffs In revising the pension lists so that while all persons deserving the aid of the country for services in Its defense shall be secured in their rights imposters impost-ers and fraudulent pension agents shall not be permitted to further bleed the body politic In the exercise of the federal forces to suppress lawlessness where power to do so is clearly vested in the federal authority au-thority and aeclining to interfile when it woula intrude on the rights of a local government In the restoration to the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty confiscated under the provisions of congressional law and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property so escheated in view ot the now indisputable fact that no pretext remains for charging that the majority of the people of Utah are in opposition to national authonty in the passage through the house and its report in the senate of a liberal S and excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a etate on an equal footing I with the existing states and we urge its speedy enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and mopt prosperous of the existing territories In the appointment of bona tide residents resi-dents of the territory to the various offices in the gift of the government instead in-stead of men from other sections of the country unfamiliar with our people and the situation of our affairs as was the rule under republican administrations administra-tions And we further endorse all efforts to Maintain the dignity and authority of tbe government and remove the effects of over thirty years of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of our delegate in congress Hon J L Rawlins Raw-lins and offer his able and successful services as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy and fidelity to the interests of the people of Utah We denounce the hyprocrisy of that portion of the republican press and party which infamously endeavors to Charge the effects of the legislative errors of a third of a century upon a party which had but just entered into power when those terrible evils overspread over-spread the country The logic which imrues that effects precede their causes is lit reasoning ior a party which affirms af-firms that the foreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported goods purchased by the American pfoplf We arraign the republican party for its treacherous course in relation to the socalled industrial armies HayIng Hay-ing brought the laboring classes into the conditions under which tbey suffer through the vicious legislation of A r long career of power republicans have Il fostered if not originated the movement move-ment upon Washington by thousands of the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the efforts of the judiciaiy and tha executive in different places to enforce the law riley have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of government gov-ernment of thousands of homeless men made desperate by republican legislation leg-islation hoping that their presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false impression that the party in power is responsible for thirty years of republican misrule In this arraignment we include those local lepublicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule upon the governor opprobrium op-probrium upon the judges and insult upon tbe militia and the constabulaiy while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seeking seek-ing to turn back the tide of poverty which was Sowing into the territory We deeply sympathize with the distress dis-tress of our lellow citizens the unemployed unem-ployed working people of the country and particularly of those who are dwellers in our territory We deplore the policy which has brought into our midst large bodies of destitute men who bave been SUpplibd with the very means that was required for the support sup-port of the resident poor aud some of wnom sought obtain the work which was needed by our own > population We declare it to be our conviction that only by the reforms which will be introduced in-troduced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be afforded to the oppress + d and needy working population and prosperity be assured to the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the republican re-publican party by which they seek to decieve the voters of the United States into the belief that they are friends to silver by linking it withthe heresy of protection The terms bimetalism and the enlarged use nof silver by which they seek to dazzle the eyes of the west and the south are only catchphrases catch-phrases to fool the unsophisticated They do not mean the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 which is the only true solution solu-tion of the money problem and the only genuine bimetallic policy We denounce the national republican republi-can party For its false pretenses of sudden regard for tne people of Utah against whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility from its inception Its simulated simu-lated affection is coincident with the appearance of a possibility of republican republi-can eupuorc in the territory and that its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness whicu the spider leele for the flyWe We denounce the only republican legislature leg-islature ot Utah territOlY For its waste of pnblic lime and money inV in-V dU endeavors to manufacture party capital For its opposition to the educational interests of tbe territory by refusing to appropriate sufficient funds for the agricultural college and to carry on tile university according to the provisions of the law creating tbe institution and requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments and also by endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the public schools in a scheme to take away part of the revenue rev-enue necessary to their support and divert di-vert it for the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to benefit unyate enterprises For striving to commit the representatives represent-atives of the people in memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation of fact and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple For defeating legislation which would be for the general interest but not favorable fa-vorable to republican advancement For making appropriations after refusIng re-fusing to give necessary support to the educational insti utious and the deaf route reform school insane asylum and kindred institutions and neglecting to provide sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations inconsiderately made Tbe spectacle of republican legislators legisla-tors running away In hot haste to avoid au issue which they had raised themselves them-selves evading the officers sent to arrest ar-rest them and hiding until a republican majority could be aosured thus stopping stop-ping the progress of public business in the upper house of the legislature and bringing that body into public con temut was a scene unparalleled in the annals of our country and exhibits tbe republican party in an attitude of cowardice and absurdity The republican legislature showed more bombast and less capacity more parsimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrower statesmanship than any other legisla tive assembly in the history uf the territory ter-ritory We endorse the action of Governor i Caleb W West in the interposition of i the veto power vested in hin by law to prevent the enactment of viciuus j and partisan measures and insulting I and misleading memorials by which the republican legislature would but for his action haye injured and disgraced the territory And we recognize in the governor a firm discreet and able executive whose influence has been cast on the side of law and order and the public welfare generally We confidently apoeal to the citizens of Utah to stand by and support the party of the constitution and the peo DIe from which alone political refemp ion can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation which will demonstrate the superiority of its principles and policy as soon as measures of reform it has inaugurated can be put into force and produce their effects winch works for tbe greatest good to the greatest number which is the foe of monopolies and the friend of the masses which does not depend upon any one man however powerful for its guidance or its victory and which will maintain and hear off triumphant umphant those sacred doctrines and institutions in-stitutions for which the fathers of our country fought and bled and to which vo hereby pledge our faith our devo ion and our energies with the full conviction that success will crown our efforts and Utah will enter the Union as a free and vigorous democratic state WILLIAM H KING Chairman WM K REID Secretary DAVID EVANS JOHN T CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MONSON 1 J STJ WART Committee |