Show i i I COUKTY DEMOCRATIC PLATFOEM Adoptedat the Convention Held in Provo I On Monday October I 1894 The democratic party of Utah county in convention assembled hereby proclaims the following principles princi-ples We reaffirm our allegiance to the party principles as aRt forth in the national platform adopted at Chicago in J une 1892 and we are in hearty accord ac-cord with the territorial platform adopted at Salt Lake city On September Septem-ber 15 1891 I We rejoice with the whole people of the territory that Utah is about to enter en-ter the union as a free and soverign state Local selfgovernment ie a democratic dem-ocratic principle vouchsafed to us J Our party has again demonstrated that the people may be trusted We extend to the demoratic congress con-gress aud president ourheartfelt gratitude grat-itude lor toe many expressions of goodwill good-will to the people of Utah in the passage pas-sage of the liberal enabling act in restoring re-storing to the Mormon church its contis cated property in opening the Indian reservations for settlement in the wise appointment of bona fide citizens of Utah to local offices in the extensive grants of land for various public pur noses in the enfranchisement of hundreds I of our citizens by the provisions provis-ions of the enabling act and by the more recent amnesty proclamation of President Cleveland all of which acts of friendship are in striking contrast to the treatment accorded Utah by the republican party lroudly we point to the record of our I delegate in congress ion J L Rawlins Raw-lins whose untilmg zeal great ability tact and diplomacy have secured to us so many acts benefical to Utah His indefatigable labor and unparalleled succeso wih surely be approved and rewarded re-warded by his return to congress with a vastly increaed majority We further commend the action of the democratic congress and administration administra-tion for the measure of tariff reform effected hereby Hundreds of million ot oullars will be saved annually to people of this country Obstructed as they W ere at every move by determined opposition they nevertlieleps succeeded in wresting from wealth and plutocracy portion of the means of increasing their lllguLUn gains and in rendering McKinleyism a lost cause We especially es-pecially enaoise the income tax provision pro-vision of the ariif law wh reby those most able will be required to hear amore a-more just portion of the burdens of taxation In the repealinc of the federal election elec-tion law and thus securing freedom of citizens at the polls In revising the pension lists and pension laws so as to prevent spoliation spolia-tion of the public treasury by the undeserving un-deserving while dealing liberally and justly with those who deserve the aid government It behooves the people of this county and this territory to keep the republican re-publican party out of power It is a party of broken and postmortem promises prom-ises whose policy prompted by avarice and individual aggrandizement has precipitated the recent panic and brought this country to the verge of ruinWe We arraign the recent republican legislature of Utah for its intense partisanship and inefficiency for its attempt to divert the public moneys from their legitimate use to the payment pay-ment of bounties to select private enterprises en-terprises Had it not been for the wise action or the governor more than 880 000 would have been taken from the public school tuna For its refusal to appropriate sufficient funds for the Insane In-sane Asylum the Agricultural College and the University of Utah by which I parsimony those institutions nan only 1 be crrried on as required by law by loans which must be met bv the people peo-ple in the future For passing unwise laws and refusing to pass others which would be for the common good We call attention to the efficiency and honesty which has marked every department of our present county government gov-ernment Wise economy should rule in eyery branch of public service We believe that competency and fidelity are the only qualification for office We are in favor of home industries We are in fayor of the full enfranchisement enfran-chisement of women and pledge ourselves our-selves to use our every effort to the end that our new constitution shall provide for woman suffrage on an equality with men We call upon the people to see to it that the state of Utah shall be founded upon the broad principles of the democratic demo-cratic party which are the principles of jntice and frep government Care must be exerc ed that monopolies shall not get control of the public lands granted to the state of Utah and that as far as possible these lands be granted only to the actual settler We declare ourselves in favor of the free public school system where the children of the rich and the poor alike may partaK freely of the blessings of public instruction We are in favor of the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold Relying upon the fidelity intelligence and patriotism of the people of Utah countv we confidently expect by their f votes a complete vindication of the principles herein enumerated |