Show 1 1114MUORAfID PLATFORM Issued and Adopted the Territorial Convention in Session at Salt Lake Saturday Sat-urday September 15 1894 We the democrats or Utah in con ventiou assembled hereby reaffirm our adherence to the principles of jusiic 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 tionsWo believe in a strict construction of the constitution peoples grant of power to the ledeial poverument the end tnat the rights 01 the respective respec-tive states may be preserved that lOcal seltgoyerum may be eecureu and that personal J rty may be exercised to the fullest extent consistent with the jmohc safety We believe in wise economy in public pub-lic expenditures that officials should I be held to a ctuct accountability tor theIr acts that the employment of the taxing pjwer In auy form by which the few are entitled to the impoverishment I of tue many by which trade is de I siroyed or obsttucted by which trusts i are created and fostered and monopolies monop-olies sustained is a wicked perversion I ot the powers uesitued for the common I good goodWe heiieve in commercial and industrial indus-trial freedom and resent all attempts to pit ent its exercise in the pro 10 thin of education by the state in the full development of our national resource in the encouragement and advancement ot home industries in the protection 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 1C without waning tor the consent of any other nation and that the government govern-ment shall pay out silver so coined BE a money of ultimate redemption the same as gold We commend the democratic congress con-gress and administration of the measures meas-ures ol 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 ot people will be benefited bene-fited In the arrangement ot tariff duties we fayor sued 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 tnobe democrats who by Combining with the republicans thwarted thwar-ted the expressed will ot the people in I iHierence to the tariff and prevented prevent-ed the restoratIon of silver to its right plaie as money We endorse the income tax provision of the tariff law by which a more equtabie distiioution 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 01 the democratic democra-tic congress and administration In abulishiijg the oppressive and anti American tederal election laws ani thus tecuring freedom to citizens at the yolls In so i evising the pension lists that the frauds which have robbed the treasury of vast sums of money will be pre ented 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 1 the pro 111I viuvima 01 law with the prospect ot tbe furtner restoration of the real estate also escheated In the appointments which have been made ot actual residents of the ten torv to public office many of them native to the soil oi Utah a policy al togethei different from that of republican republi-can administrations In throwing open to settlement the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations by which a vast area 01 tillable grazing graz-ing and mineral lands will be utilized by white labor and skill and be added loathe 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 exfsting states For this Utah owes a debt of gratitude to the democratic demo-cratic congress and president whose Kind treatwent of this teintory stands out in striking contrast to that harshness harsh-ness and enmitv extended by republican republi-can congresses ai administrations for thirty years We are proud of our delegate to Congress Con-gress Hon J b Rawlins to whose fidelity pereeyerence and splendid political tact and energy the numerous measures of legislation so beneficial to Utah have been obtained His unpar allelea success has demonstrated to the people ot Utah 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 rnaiHi and ability We denounce the republican party for its obstruction to those remtdcal measures demanded by the country to rescue trade industry ana business from the chaos into which they were drifting through republican legislation s 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 of 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 simple 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 lor layered private indue tries did make expenditures for which no revenue was provid d drafted memorials to congresscontaining 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 We 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 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 fur public uses and that no class 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 mstregular 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 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 ot 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 will 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 0 Ill those or men including includ-ing eligibility to office and we demar d 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 thould be taken to prevent epecu lat on therein and to provide for small holdings and that the arable portion thereof should 1e 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 ligious beliefs or nationality |