Show THE DEMOCRATIC COWEMIOX The Democrats of Utah have met Instate in-state convention and adopted a platform plat-form elected six delegates to the national na-tional convention and adjourned The Dlatform is just what it should be It declares adherence to the principles prin-ciples of the Democratic party as announced an-nounced from time to time and especially es-pecially to those principles announced by the reconvened convention of 1895 and declared in favor of the Immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present pres-ent legal ratio of 16 to 1 as such coinage coin-age existed prior to 1873 regardless of the action or policy of other nationo gold and silver coin to be a full legal tender for all debts public and private pri-vate That is all the platform contains and It covers all the Issues of the day It is a model The delegates were instructed to vote as a unit in favor of the adoption of the foregoing principle of free coinage coin-age by the national convention for the nomination of candidates for president and vicearesident known to be sincerely sin-cerely and steadfastly in favor of carrying car-rying the principle into operation Those elected as delegates are thoroughly thor-oughly representative Democrats and silver men and in their hands the interests of Utah will be safe The nomination of Hon Moses Thatcher was by acclanlation and was a remarkable re-markable tribute of respect to that gentleman To him it will no doubt be most gratifying to know how dear he is to the Democracy of the state His election by acclamation a unique distinction In naming three ladies for alternates the cOnention extended a well merited recognition to the women voters All the ladies named are well known to the Democrats of Utah They should certainly accompany the delegation dele-gation to Chicago if possible Thus far the Democrats of Utah have done their work well There was no dissension in the convention nothing noth-ing but harmony in fact everything was as it should be The addresses of State Chairman Powers Temporary Chairman Ellis and Permanent Chairman Chair-man Evans were to the point and pointed out what the issues of the day are and What the duty of the Democracy Demo-cracy is The Democratic state convention con-vention augurs well for the partys success in November |