Show < K > DEMUORArIQ PLATFORM IsMied and Adopted by the Territorial Convention in Session at Salt Lake Saturday Sat-urday September 15 1894 We the democralS or Utab 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 tile democracy in their national con tions Wo believe in a strict construction of the constitution the peoples grant ot power to the tedeial government to the end that the rights ot the respective respec-tive states may be preserved that local seltgoverum may be secured and that personal liberty may be exercised to the fullest extent consistent with the puolic safety We believe In wise economy in public pub-lic expenditures that officials should be held to a stnci accountability for theIr acts that the employment of the taxing puwer in auy form by which the few are entitled to the impoverishment of tue many by which trade is de sirojed or obstiucted by which trusts I are created and fostered and monopolies monop-olies sustained is a wicked perversIOn ot the powers designed for the ommon goodWe believe in commercial and industrial indus-trial freedom and resent all attempts to prevent its exercise in the pro io tum of education by the state in tile full development of our national resources In the encouragement and advancement of home industries in the protetion of labor from the encroachments en-croachments of capital and in equal rights to all special privileges to none We demand the passage of a law for the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold ata ratio of 1 to 16 without waiting tor the consent of any other nation and that the government govern-ment shall pay out silver so coined as 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 ol millions oi dollars will be annually saved by American consumers and all classes ot people wilt be benefited bene-fited In the arrangement ot tariff duties we favor sucn 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 tnoe democrats who by combining with the lepublicansthwar ted the expressed will of the people in rttlerence to the tariff and prevented prevent-ed the restoratIOn of silver to its right plure as money We endorse the income tax provision of the tariff law by which a more equtnbie demolition Is made of the I burdens of taxation and wealth as well as want is required to contribute its share to the public expense We endorse the acts ol the democratic democra-tic congress and administration In abulishiug the oppressive ind anti American federal election laws ani thus fctcurmg freedom to citizens at the polls In so levising the pension lists that the frauds which have robbed the treasury of vast sums of money will be prevented m 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 Utau its personal property which was confiscated under the j 4 pro vlsims law with the prospect ot tue further restoration of the real estate also escheated In the appointments which have been made ot actual residents ot the territory to public office many of them native to the soil ot Utah a policy altogether al-together different from that of republican republi-can administrations In throwing open to settlement the Uintah and Uncompabgre reservations by which a vast area of tillable grazing graz-ing and mineral lands will be utilized by white labor and skill and be added tonne wealth ot Utah In passing an enabling act by which Utah may enter the union as a free and sovereign stateon an equal footing with the exiting states For this Utah owes a debt of gratitude to the democratic demo-cratic congress and president whose Kind treatment of this teintory stands out in sinking contrast to that harshness harsh-ness and enmity extended by republican republi-can congresses aiU administrations for thirty ears We are proud of our delegate to Congress Con-gress Hon J L Rawlins to whose ndelity perseverence and splendid political tact and energy the numerous measures of legislation so beneficial to Utau have been obtained His unpar allelea success has demonstrated to the people of Ftan that they made no mistake mis-take in sending him to the national legislature where he was recognized as the peer ot his associates and a man of mal t and ability We denounce the republican party for its obstruction to those re ± tdcal measures demanded by the country to rescue trade industry ana business 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 tionBy the demonetization of silver and the unconstitutional and partial system sys-tem ot claes protection the masses of the people have been impoverished the agricultural and laboring classes oppressed 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 in attempting to deprive the public schools of onesixth of the revenue essential es-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 ap-propriate large sums of public money bounties tor lavored private industries indus-tries did make expenditures for which no revenue was provid d drafted memorials to congress containing errors 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 Ve appeal to the people of Utah to adhere to the principles of the party which has endured since the nation 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 t We demand that the constitution of the new state shall be framed on a nonpartisan basis shall provide for the equal protectIon of all law abiding citizens citi-zens We 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 clase of the community shall be specially favored by the state to the detriment of any 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 its tiiat regular session has given to Utah the freedom for which she so long appealed ap-pealed to republican admInistrations in vain and that a aemocratic president presi-dent signed the enabling act as soon aa it was presented to him In view of the benefits conferred by the democratic party upon this territory terri-tory and the utter absence or any benefit ben-efit received from the republican party and of the undying orinciples of liberty and equal rights which democracy upholds up-holds we are fully confident that the people Utah who are not forgetful or ungrateful vill so rally to the polls in November that the victory of 1892 will repeated and Utah will enter I 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 women equal v 101 those ot men including includ-ing eligibility to office and we demai d that such guarantees shall be provded 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 thould be taken to prevent specu lat on therein and to provide for small holdings and that the arable portion thereof should te 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 I vote or hold office on account of his religious re-ligious beliefs or nationality |