Show I i DEMOCHATIQ AUDEESS z To the People of Utah Delivered at Salt Lake City en Saturday June 16th by I the Territ orial Da oo ratio Convontio I Resolved That as the convention was not called to make nominations or r formulate a platform ot principles the following be adopted as the sentiments of the convention to be pieaeuted in the form of an address to the people of Utah We the democrats of Utah in convention q con-vention assembled hereby declare our I 1 devotion to the time honored principles HL of the democratic party as enunciated In the national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in the harts of its members We are emphatically in tavor of equal rights to all and special privileges privil-eges to none j ot the greatest possible liberty to every individual compatible with the public welfare of the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries of the maintenance of local Belijoveru meat to the fallest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the na ioiial constitution We are in favor of such reform of the tariff as is consistent with the interests in-terests of the consumer and the producer pro-ducer and declare that duties upon foreign imports should be levied upon the luxuries so far as possible and not upon the necessaries of life for the purpose of providing revenue for the necessary expenses of government and not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We are opposed to the bounty system by which the many are taxed for the enrichment of a few We demand the speedy passage of the bill for trrilf reform now pending in the senate including the provision for an income tax by which those large z property holders who are best able shall bear their just share of the burden bur-den of taxation And we denounce the obstructive policy of the republicans in congress oy which a needed measure meas-ure to provide public revenue is delayed de-layed causing uncertainty and doubt in commercial and manufacturing circles and thus paralyzing industry and arresting trade To the factious hindrances which are still thrown in the way of the Wilson bill by republican republi-can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it is making and the disasteis that are consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration of silver to the costitutional position it occupied occu-pied as money previous to the act of 1873 by which the republican party toast down that historic and essential money metal and caused the increasing > increas-ing disasters which beginning with the panic of 1873 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible severity depressing de-pressing the agricultural interests of the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content among the oppressed laboring < classes and increasing the armies 01 itramps which swarmed over the laud culminated in the panic of 1893 and still spreads its blight upon trade and industry We call attention to the undeniable fact that the republican party took the government from the democratic administration ad-ministration in 1889 wiih more than a 1 hundred million dollars in the national treasury and turned it back to the < democratic party in 1893 with a treasury practically bankrupt We denounce the silver policy of the xejnlblicau party as a system of miserable miser-able to palliate the republican repub-lican financial crime of 1873 and de I claie that only in and through the democratic party can tue people of the United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true biinetalism which includes in-cludes the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold We believe that this can be done with safety and profit to this nation by American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment if international cooperation cannot can-not be immediately obtained We denounce the republican policy of protection as embodied in the infamous infa-mous McKinlej law and reaffirmed by that party in its most recent utterances utter-ances We regard it as an assistant i agency to the prostration of silver in I I 1 producing the poverty and distress and I social calamities various kinds which still afflict our country p We deny that the high tariffs placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benefited benefit-ed the producer of such materials while they have been oppressive and < detrimental to the consumer and the country at large We cordially endorse the democratic congress and administration In repealing the obnoxious federal election law and thus promoting the freedom of elections In formulating and endeavoring to i enact a bill to reform the existing exorbitant ex-orbitant system of tariffs In revising the pension lists so that while all persons deserving the aid of the country for services in its defense shall be secured in their rights Imposters impost-ers and fraudulent pension agents shall not be permitted to further bleed he body politic io the exercise of the federal forces to suppress lawlessness where power to do so is clearly vested in the federal au ithority and declining to interfere when I would intrude on the rights of a local government Jn the restoration to the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty confiscated under the provisions ot A congressional law and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property BO escheated in view ot the now indisputable fact that no pretext remains for charging that the majority < ot the people of Utah are in opposition I to national authority In the passage through the house and its report in the senate of a liberal and excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a state on an equal footing with the existing states and we urge itsspeefly enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and mOft prosperous of the existing territories In the appointment of bona tide residents resi-dents of the territory to the various offices in the gift of theJt everncaent instead in-stead of men from other sections of the country unfamiliar with our people and the situation of our affairs as was the rule under republican administrations administra-tions And we further endorse all efforts to maintain the dignity and authority of government and remove the effects of over thirty years of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of our delegate in congress Hon J L Raw jlins and offer hw able and successful services as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy and fidelity to the interests of the people of Utah We denounce the hyprocriey of that portion of the republican press and party which infamously endeavors to charge the effects of the legislative errors of a third of a century upon a party which had but just entered into power when those terrible evils overspread over-spread the country The logic which argues that effects precede their causes is fit reasoning for a party which affirms af-firms that the foreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported goods PJIrchased ty the American people We arraign the republican party for Its treacherous course in relation to the eocalled industrial armies Having Hav-ing brought the laboring classes into the conditions undor which they suffer through the ylcloui leO 11iUoJl of I = If = = p hug career of power republicana i have fostered if not originated the movement move-ment upon Washington by thousands of the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the eflorts 01 the judiciaiy and the executive in different places to enforce the law Ibey have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of government gov-ernment of thousands of homeless men made desperate by republican legislation leg-islation hoping that their presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false impression that the party in power is responsible for thirty years of republican misrule In this arraignment we include those local republicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule upon the governor op prubrium upon the judges and insult upon the militia and the constabulaiy while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seeking seek-ing to turn back the tide of poverty which was flowing into the territory We deeply sympathize with the distress dis-tress of our tallow citizens the unemployed unem-ployed working people of the country and particularly of those who are I dwellers in our territory We deplore the policy which has brought into our midst large bodies of destitute men who have been supplied with the very means that was required for the support sup-port of the resident poor and some of whom sought to obtain the work which was needed by our own population We declare it to be Our conviction that only by the reforms which will be introduced in-troduced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be afforded to the oppressed and needy working population and prosperity be assured u > the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the republican re-publican party by which they seek to decieve the voters of the United States into the belief that they are friends to silver by linking it withthe heresy of protection The terms bimetalism and the enlarged ase of silver by which they seek to dazzle the eyes of the west and the south are only catchphrases catch-phrases to fool the unsophisticated They do not mean the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 which is the only true solution solu-tion of the money problem and the only genuine bimetallic policy We denounce the national republican republi-can party For its false pretenses of sudden regard for the people of Utah against whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility from its inception Its simulated simu-lated affection is coincident with the appearance of a possibility of republi can support in the terntoly and that its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness which the spider feels for the flyWe denounce the only republican legislature leg-islature ot Utah territoiy For its waste of public time and money in vain endeavors to manufacture party capital For its opposition to the educational interests of tbe territory by refusing to appropriate sufficient funds for the agricultural college and to carry on the university according to the provisions of tha law creating the institution and requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments and also by endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the public schools in u scheme to take away part of the revenue rev-enue necessary to their support and divert di-vert it for the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to benefit private enterprises For striving to commit the representatives represent-atives of the people in memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation ol fnct and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple Por defeating legislation which would oe for the general interest but not la voruble to republican advancement For making appropriations after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the educational institutions and the deaf mute reform school insane asylum and Kindred institutions and neglecting to provide sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations inconsiderately made The spectacle of republican legislators legisla-tors running away In hot haste to avoid an issUe which they had raised themselves them-selves evading the officers sent to arrest ar-rest them and hiding until a republican majority could be assured thus stopping stop-ping the progress of public business in the upper house of the legislature and bringing that body into public contempt con-tempt was a scene unparalleled in the annals of our country and exhibits the republican party in an attitude of cowardice and absurdity The republican legislature showed more bombast and less capacity more parsimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrower statesmanship than any other legislative legisla-tive assembly in the history of the territory ter-ritory We endorse the action of Governor Caleb W West in the interposition of the veto power vested in him by law to prevent the enactment of vicious and partisan measures and insulting and misleading memorials by which the republican legislature would but for his action haye injured and disgraced the territory And we recognize in the governor a firm discreet and able executive whose influence has been cast on the side of law and order and the public welfare generally We confidently appeal to the citizens of Utah to stand by and support the party of the constitution and the people peo-ple from which alone political redemption redemp-tion can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation j which will demonstrate superiority of its principles and policy as soon as measures of reform it has inaugurated can be put into force and produce their effects which works for the greatest rood to the greatest number which is the foe of monopolies and the friend of the masses which does not depend upon any one man however powerful for its guidance or its victory and which will maintain and hear off triumphant tri-umphant those sacred doctrines and institutions in-stitutions for which the fathers of our country fought and bled and to which we hereby pledge our faith our devotion devo-tion and our energies with the full conviction that success will crown our efforts and Utah will enter s the Union as a free and vigorous democratic state WILLIAJH H KING Chairman WM K REID Secretary DAVID EVANS I JOHN T CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MOKSON 1 J STJ > WART Committee |