Show or OF plea tire T uc democracy clie county utah in convention assembled adopts tho the following platform and resolutions A we reaffirm our allegiance 0 to tho the principles of jeffersonian jefferson ian democracy jacv and commend the tion of grover cleveland as an exemplification ein alifi cation of those principles we commend the democratic administration for the earnest manner with which it undertook tile the almost hopeless task of redeeming the he country from its do dc preb sion and righting 0 tile the wrongs of republican tariff financial and force bill legislation we corn commend mend tho the democratic party larty for the persistence with which it t fought the sugar trust and other protected infant industries of the republican party we coni commend mend the present administration for its fearless arrest and adrai arraignment of armor frauds pension frauds and other frauds and for comi compelling P ellin 0 these overfed republican favorites who have grown fat at tire public crib to disgorge sonic some of their ill rotten ZD gains we commend the prompt repeal of the federal election law so that partisan hirelings under guise of governmental yo authority may no longer invade the various states and interfere in their local elections TAX we commend without reservation the democratic income tax now a law which places a 1 yearly assessment of two per cent on tl that bat part of the incomes of persons or corporations that exceeds annually by this tax the masses of t the lie people will be relieved of tho the payment of some a year in taxes on oil the common necessaries of life which taxes have now been transferred to and will be paid from the superfluous incomes of the rich we call the attention of the whole people to the fact that the republican party joined hands bands with the forces of centralized wealth in an attempt to defeat this J just and equitable tax this tax is only the beginning of the democratic policy of compelling 0 the wealth of the nation to pay a fair proportion of the expenses of government and we reiterate the d declaration ecla ration made in convention one year ago that we encourage the people to stand by their colors and never relax their efforts until the burdens of unequal taxation shall have been lifted from the overburdened back of labor and more equitably distributed among the wealthy the luxurious and the idle classes of focient society v we rejoice in the returning prosperity of tha people and hail with satisfaction tho the news from every section of this country that factories foundries mills and industries of every ever kind are starting g 3 up that even republicans recognizing 0 the fact f that hat the time is opportune and i the conditions favorable for pr promoting 0 home industries are arc be bein begin in in ing n to interest themselves in power plants and railway schemes in which they never engaged r during republican administrations we point with pride to the many generous concessions of the present administration to the people of utah Becu secured redin in a great measure by the eberg energy ability and influence of our honored delegate a to congress joseph L rawlins we contrast republican promises with democratic performance perform arce and express our gratitude ast 1st for the act conferring statehood a boon for which tho the people have long petitioned and which republican administrations have persistently denied them 2 for F or the defeat of the effort of colorado republicans to dump the colorado utes upon the public lands of utah V 3 F for or the law which opens the indian reservation of utah to actual settlers thus increasing 0 tile the wealth of the territory many in millions of dollars 4 1 I for the generous provision made by the government 7 out of these lauds for the A agricultural ri cultural college and the university of utah 5 for the bill which restored to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints nearly half a million dollars in personal property to the government under the edmunds tucker let I 1 we congratulate the lie people of utah upon the attention and consideration shown them by president cleveland 1 in abolishing 0 the old republican system of anakin making t reli religious I 1 bious belief a basis for official 1 appointments 2 in placing a latter day saint in the office of secretary of the territory another 6 upon tho the utah commission another upon the bench of ua till and others in minor positions of trust truss and honor 3 3 0 in fi filling 0 all appointive offices with bona fide residents and taxpayers of the territory 4 1 in signing 0 the statehood enabling act immediately upon its presentation to him notwithstanding in n claims made by republicans that the people of the state ho be wa was 5 thus cre creating atina would repudiate the party that iad had in franchised them 5 in granting full free and unconditional ani amnesty nesty to all who are now obeying the law and ing their political disabilities whether they have been convicted under the edmunds tucker act or not TARIFF we re regret 0 ret eliat a 0 greater reduction of tariff duties could not be made at this session of Con congress oress 0 but con congratulate r tho the democracy upon ln making aking 0 any headway at all against the trusts and combinations that have crown Z grown so rich and powerful under republican legislative patro patronage naye M we approve the measure of tariff reform enacted by the democratic congress 0 as a step in the direction of abolishing the present illogical and unjust system of taxing in Z the necessities of the poor more heavily than the luxuries of tile the we especially approve the additions to the free list of such articles of common necessity as lumber luin ber salt binding twine and wool WOOL we approve the free wool section and the le lessened bened taxes on woolen clothing which without decreasing in the price of bf home hoine C grown m wool have lifted over ii a year farm m the he 4 cost of the clothing of the masses as witnessed in the reduction in price of all woolen goods from the very very day of the passage of this law SUGAR we approve the new sugar schedule in so far as it has reduced the droter protection tion of the sugar trust from 0 one ne half a cent to one ei eighth 0 ath of a cent per pound but we execrate the alliance of four democrats with all the republican senators iu in voting to continue this gift to a gigantic monopoly BOUNTIES we condemn all schemes for paying money out of the public t treasury rea sury without value re regularly 1 barly received to priva private te corporations pora po rations tiong under tinder the plea that it builds up home industry to take money from the whole people in the e shape ha pe of taxes and then to hand band portions of it over to favored corporations po rations in the bounties we maintain that each man should build up home indu industry Etry with liis his own and not with other PeO peoples money bonev this transfer of wealth from the whole people to a favored few does not increase the total wealth of the community but S serves eres only to enrich a few at tile the expense of all others and we maintain that the results of this policy are seen today in tho the vast and arroo arrogant ant power of trusts monopolies and combine sand in the fact that less les than persons in this country now possess more wealth than the remaining we have seen no reason to change V our approval of the doctrine of the supreme court of the united states that to lav ii with ith one hand the power of the th government on the property of the citizen and with the oilier ier to bestow it upon favored corporations or individuals is none ill the less a robbery because it is done under r the fornis forms of law and is called taxation we Weare are proud of the fact that home industry ind has bali no DO warmer friends in utah than members of tho the democratic party and we nye endorse the democratic policy of afen ofen en con raging 0 every meritorious enterprise by patronage and investment rather than by legislative protection awl adlof of tup supporting porting thern them with their ow own n means ra her than with willi taxes extorted ex tortel from tile the people wo we afore conde condee nn n the republican party for having introduced into this country countr the war between labor and capital for having widened the ft gulf ulf between employer and employee for having 0 made the employer rich arrogant and powerful under tinder the guise of helping ing his workingmen a fur for cau causing si n discord crime a an rid d bloodshed in trying 0 to enforce its policy of war taxation in time of peace for paralyzing commerce creating panics impoverishing tile the farmer and burdening the people with debt SILVER we favor the free and unlimited coinage 0 of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 and independently of the wishes of any foreign power we characterize the of silver bythe republican party Ds as one ortho of the causes cfall of all our financial troubles and call attention to the fact that in every vote upon the silver question in con congress grees the great majority of republicans republican have opposed free coinage coina 0 c while the great majority of democrats have a always livars favored it HE PUBLICAN we especially arraign 0 that ag aggregation 0 gre gation of partisanship folly and inefficiency known as the only republican legislature of U utah t a lil 1 for its refusal to provide for the educational interests in tereAS of tile the people in failing n to appropriate funds for the satiable sutia ble maintenance of the university and the agricultural college for its reckless blow at the progress M z of these institutions reducing the appropriation of the university to less than one half and that of the she agricultural college 0 to less than one sixth the amount appropriated to these institutions by the previous democratic legislature 2 for attempting to abolish the normal department of the university in order to prevent the training of homebred home horne bred teachers and thus to compel the employment of non residents iu in our district schools 3 for the partisan folly of the attempts made by that legislature 0 to divert the school moneys moneys thus taken from our institutions of learning 0 to the payment of bounties 4 for the cowardice and incompetency of the majority in fleeing flecking 0 from a fearless bearle s minority in consequence of which officers were compelled to dra drag 7 the republican lican members from their hiding places place back into the legislative le illative halls balls to the seats they had been elected to fill 5 for voting down the resolution introduced by judge powers in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver 6 for rejecting the memorial introduced trod by a democratic D emo cratic mem member b er in favor of statehood and afterwards presenting 0 a similar memorial for N which V hi C h all democratic members voted 7 for creating indebtedness without making 0 provision for paying it 0 we commend the action of kentucky democrats in relegating rele gating to the shades of private ii life fo 0 one ne of their most gifted drifted and experienced statesmen in in recognition of the fact that personal character is essential to representative place we endorse the territorial democratic platform and particularly that portion relating to womans comans suffrage we believe in the democratic principle of rotation in office and pledge our nominees to tho the reduction of official and other county expenses to the lowest limit consistent with efficiency we call attention to the fact that registration 0 under the auspices of the democratic party has been absolutely fair impartial and nonpartisan we direct the attention of the people to the fact that the republicans of utah have thrown down the ithe gauntlet and have demanded a par partisan ti qan constitutional convention 1 j with the evident intention of thru thrust st ing into the state coni and thus fa g 1 upon afie territory TeriI tory thid the odious S of cliss class favoritism I 1 and unequal taxation of in lit this platform wo ask the people what has become of the leading 0 campaign declarations cla of the local republican city county count yand and legislative legi platforms demanding M a tax on mortgages this demand condemned by the homo home owners of the territory ridiculed and c introverted controvert ed by bv the press of all parties and finally flouter flouted and reject rejected eil oven even by the republican majority in tile the late legislature 0 constituted the main part art of tire the jagt apt local republican campaign 0 and the he ludicrous disappearance of this thi 3 mortgage 0 A tax campaign is a measure of the ability of local republican leaders either to conceive desirable measures or to put into operation the measures they advocate we therefore ask the people of this county to bear in mind these leading 0 truths and p principles and then to decide for themselves in favor of that party which in their judgment 0 most fully frilly represents the theory and practice of a true government of for and by the people |