Show republican PLATFORM i 1891 in convention assembled th republic renew lo 10 the party of freedom and jnet the party of free spee chand a free ballot the party that believes i n he protection of american ln the american wor kineman and american citizen and congratulates the people of utah op the near approach of statehood and declare firstin vor of the american doctrine of protection to home industries established by the founders of the govern established reestablished re by the republican party and steadily practiced by the pioneer and people ot utah Second We recognize the silver question as one of paramount importance to the believe that can be until silver beall be restored and wo demand its on the old ratio with cold of au to 1 third we favor the cession or the unsold non mineral public lands to the states and territories respectively in bid of irrigation and the public schools fourth we view with regret the increase of tha areat army of unemployed men and women of our country and charge thi unfortunate condition to abo and misrule of the democratic parly fifth we advocate national board of arbitration whore province it shall be to adjei i all controversies between u and labor to the end that strikes lockouts and obber similar disturbances may be authoritatively adjusted on principles of justice sixth we as cruel and unjust the blacklisting of the employed emp loyes vrho are discharged from or leave alie service of abe employer seventh we favor the eight conr system of labor and beliey that eight hours should constitute a legal days work upon all public and private contracts eighth we favor the establishment of a postal telegraph system by the general government thus furnishing to the people cheap and abundant faculties for the transmission of intelligence ninth we favor the exclusion from our country of the pauper criminal and anarchistic archi elements of other countries Tenth The party has ever been the friend of the free publeo school system of our country and we pledge our unfaltering support to every measure which shall serve to increase its power for good eleventh we believe that public officers should receive fixed salaries and that fees should be paid into the public treasury and we favor judicious legislation to thia end as far as practicable twelfth we denounce the democratic party for its attitude on all questions aft the material interests of our people especially by placing our raw materials on the free fist and specially for its advocacy of free wool thus compelling the wool prowers of the territory to compete with tho cheap labor of the world and destroying an industry the in i of importance in the union for its advocacy of free lead thus compelling the miners of the country to compete with the cheap labor of masic i working for from 30 to CO cents per doy ife cause it advocates the placing of the farraci aei the laborer and the mechanic in close and bitter competition walli the cheapest labor under the sun thirteenth we arraign the democratic party for the suppression of the cun vote in the majority ot the southern states by fraud violence and unequal laws thus violating toe sanctity of institutions fourteenth we unito our blushes of shame with those of all other civilized people when we contemplate the record of the present administrations treatment ol 01 the hawaiian question Fifteenth We adraian abo democratic administration for its failure to enforce the chinese exclusion law and its refusal to enforce the purchasing clause of the bherman jaw before its repeal we arraign the utah commission for its partisan course in inz the appointment of registration officers to one political party in violation of the spirit of the law seventeenth we arraign ake democratic territorial officials of utah for gross and repealed violations of the civil service law and such of the democratic judges as have dragged their high offices down to the offensive partisanship level eighteenth we favor the granting of equal sut trace to women nineteenth we demand for the new state of utah a wise liberal constitution and an economical government and pledge the republican party if given the power to seccie both twentieth we rejoice in the past of the republican party we elory in the fact that no other political organization ever approximated to its achievements and look confidently for its swift restoration to power and a renewal of its benefactions to the people of the united beatea twenty first that we favor as far an practicable compensation of public bials by fixed salaries and the enactment of judicious legislation providing for the payment ot fees collected into the public treasury we endorse the now beine made throughout the territory to encourage the purchase of home manufactured roods and pledge ourselves to support fuca a policy |