Show DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Issued and Adopted the Territorial Convention inSesBion at Salt Lake Saturday Sat-urday September 15 1894 We the democrats ot Utah in convention con-vention assembled hereby reaffirm our adherence to the principles of jUStic and free government which the democratic demo-cratic party was organized to establish and preserve and which have been embodied in the platform adopted by the democracy in their national con tionsWe believe in a strict construction of the constitutionthe peoples grant of power to the federal government the end that the rights of the respective respec-tive states may be preserved that local selfgovernmjut may be secured and that personal liberty may be exercised to the fullest extent consistent with the public safety We believe in wise economy in public pub-lic expenditures that officials should be held to a strict accountability for their acts that the employment of the taxing power in any form by which the few are entitled to the impoverishment of the many by which trade is destroyed de-stroyed or obstructed by which trusts are created and fostered and monopolies monop-olies sustained is a wicked perversion of the powers designed for the common goodWe believe in commercial and industrial indus-trial freedom and resent all attempts to preyent its exercise in the promotion promo-tion of education by the state in the full development of our national resources in the encouragement and advancement of home industries j in the protection of labor from the encroachments en-croachments of capital and in equal rights to all special privileges to noneWedemand the passage of a law for the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at a ratio of 1 to 16 without waiting for the consent of any other nation and that the government govern-ment shall pay out silver so coined ae a money of ultimate redemption the same as gold We commend the democratic congress con-gress and administration of the measures meas-ures of reform which they have succeeded suc-ceeded in effecting by which hundreds of millions ot dollars will be annually saved by American consumers and all classes or people will be benefited bene-fited In the arrangement ot tariff duties we fayor such adjustment as will operate equally throughout the country and not discriminate as between be-tween classes or sections We contend that such duties as are laid on foreign imports should be levied for revenue only as contemplated in the national constitution We emphatically disapprove of the course of those democrats who by combining with the republicansthwar ted the expressed will of the people in reference to the tariff and prevented prevent-ed the restoration of silver to its right place as money We endorse the income tax provision of the tariff law by which a more equtable distribution Is made of the burdens of taxation and wealth as well as want is required to contribute its share to the public expense We endorse the acts oi the democratic democra-tic congress and administration In abolishing the oppressive und anti American federal election laws ansi thus securing freedom to citizens at the polls In 30 revising the pension lists that the frauds which have robbed the treasury of vast sums of money will be prevented in future while no worthy pensioner will be deprived of the aid to which his services are entitled In restoring to a religious organization organiza-tion in Utah its personal property which was confiscated under the provisions pro-visions of law with the prospect of the urther restoration of the real estate escheated r which have 1A ai > poiilir6Eis actual residents otthe office many of them tah a policy aU that of repubh settlement there the-re reservations tillable graz ill be utilized id be added t by which as a free uai footing this Utah he demo ent whose itory stands that harsh byrejpubli pnistrations for r delegate to Con Rawlins to whose nee and splendid W energy the numerous islation so beneficial to Ian obtained The unpar EBB has demonstrated to the ftah that they made no mis ending him to the national ALature where he was recognized as the peer of his associates and a man of mark and ability We denounce the republican party f for its obstruction to those remedcal measures demanded by the country to rescue trade industry and business r from the chaos into which they were drifting through republican legislation and misrule For attempting to foist the blame upon the democratic party for the effects ef-fects of republican maladministra tion By the demonetization of silver and the unconstitutional and partial system sys-tem of class protection the mass eof the people have been impoverished the agricultural and laboring classes oppressed I op-pressed and the land disturbed by the riots of dissatisfied workmen and the cries of the unemployed We point to the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah as a sample of the in competency partisanship and folly which that party would exhibit if placed in power in the new state I oIn attempting to deprive the public schools of onesixth of the revenue essential 4 sential to their support refused to grant necessary funds for the university univer-sity the agricultual college and other public institutions of an educational and reformatory character tried to appropriate aropriate large sums of public money I i bounties for favored private Indus Ba did make expenditures for which no revenue was provided drafted memorials to congress containing en jra j of fact and fallacies in principle resorted re-sorted to evasion of duty and political trickery which were disgusting to onlookers on-lookers and made the assembly a laughing laugh-ing stock to the public We appeal to the people of Utah to adhere to the principles of the party which has endured sbce the nation 1 was founded and to see to it that the coming state shall rest upon the broad foundation of those doctrines which the father of democracy promulgated We demand that the constitution of the new state shall be framed on a nonpartisan basis shall provide for the equal protection of alll law abiding citizens citi-zens zensWe demand that economy shall rule in all branches of the public service that public money shall be expended only for public uses and that no class of the community shall be specially favored by the state to the detriment L Of stay other class > We rejoice in the fact that it is I through the labors of a democratic delegate del-egate that a democratic congress at it first regular session has given to Utah the freedom for which she so long appealed ap-pealed to rGpublican ad sin s-in vain and bat a oemocratic president presi-dent signed the enabling act as soon as it was presented to him In view of the benefits conferred by the democratic party upon this territory terri-tory and the utter absence of any benefit ben-efit received from the republican party and of the undying orincipJes of liberty and equal rights which democracy upholds up-holds we are fully confident that the people Utah who are not forgetful or ungrateful will so rally to the polls in November that the victory of 189C will be repeated and Utah will enter the union crowned with glory as a free and democratic state The democrats of Utah are unequivocally unequivo-cally in favor of woman suffrage and the political rights and privileges of I women equal with those oC men including includ-ing elieibility to office and we demand that such guarantees shall be provided in the constitution of the state of Utah as will secure to the women of Utah these inestimable rights And we demand that in providing for the settlement and disposal of the public pub-lic lands granted to the state of Utah care should be taken prevent speculation specu-lation therein and to provide for small holdings and that the arable portion thereof should le granted only to actual act-ual settlers upon and cultivators of the same We denounce as unAmerican any society or organization that is pledged to deprive any citizen of his right to vote or hold office on account of his religious re-ligious beliefs or nationality |