Show I Platform Adopted by Americans I The American party born In the pro protest protest protest test against the brutal and shameless as assumption that the consciences of oC the men and women of or Utah were dead and the tho law A thing to be ba spurned and scorned is poud proud of ot the grand support it has received at the hands of or the free electors of ot this commonwealth It glories in the evidences that conscience is not dead here and that public sentiment is awakening to the need heed of or enforcing the law not only be causo it is the law Jaw but because the only right foundation for a government based upon justice and equal rights is In the supremacy of or time the law in the willing obedience to It of all good citizens and the tho Impartial enforcement of Its penal penalties tics ties against all who break its mandates The American party stands for the emancipation of all aU from the lawless ty tyranny tyranny tyranny ranny of it rejects as spurious any revelation or any asserted divine right of any class to defy deC r the law and declares that all ramparts built bunt to pro protect protect protect lawbreakers must be broken down It demands that the voters must be freed from any domination sought to be ex ox exercised exercised over oyer them in their political action or affiliation by holding that any claim of ot such domination by b man manover manover over Oyer man is ia an Insult to republican institutions Institutions and a sacrilege before Almighty God The fhe American party demands that the constitutional separation of or church and state stath be made something more than mere words that it shall be made In good faith and shall be put Into effect radical radically ly Jy practically and effectively and for all aU time In view of ot the bad faith so conspicuously shown by the heads of or the dominant church in making their pledges of sub submission submission mission to the law and then defying the law we see no real cure for tho perverse inclination toward polygamy manifested b by the chief chier Mormon leaders and their evident nursing of ot that illegal system other than an amendment to the federal constitution giving national jurisdiction over that offense VVe We therefore favor such amendment We point with admiration to the great record of or public service performed and being performed by the American party administration in Salt Lake At no former period was tho city ever ver so prosperous never were there so many public and vate irate improvements being made never nover was Industry so fully employed nor so well paid This is in bright contrast with the futile and ineffective administration which preceded the present American con control control control while the open fair lair clean methods pursued are In marked contrast to the scandals which pervade the administrations administrations of both the church parties whether in municipal county count or state affairs So shameful and humiliating are the expos exposures exposures exposures ures made of oC these church party derelictions derelictions that every voter Is covered with sorrow and disgust at the lack of con conscience conscience conscience science shown and the failure of the ma machine machIne machine chine officials to respond to even the most elementary standard of efficiency and public duty There Is neither a decent sentiment nor ordinary rule of accountability to the peo people people plo under the ecclesiastical domination which exists These authors of ot the preva prevalent prevalent lent contempt for tor law and for public opinion opinIon opinion ion are a rule unto themselves and they require others to conform to their way oC or thinking The American party means to tOJ t change all aU this It will wUl make one rule for fo all allowing no special class of or ty tyrants t trants tyrants rants no special class exempt from the requirements of ot the tile law It will lift all aU Utah up to the level leel of ot the principles of or the great American Declaration of In Independence Independence dependence giving to every voter political political I Ical cal and commercial liberty and clothing I every everyone one in the sacred privileges that I Ip pertain p to American sovereignty We de deplore deplore deplore the fact that a great political party declined to pass a resolution that de denounced denounced denounced ecclesiastical domination in poll tics and declare that the doctrine of that resolution Is the chief chier need of ot the state Our cause is the tho cause of or American right It can never nover be beaten its tri tn triumph umphis is as sure ure as the perpetuity of the tile republic On these principles we rest our cause before the people confident of the result We Ve see the citadel or exclusive exclusiveness ness and church control over civil affairs and of ot the political consciences of ot men weakening every day All AH that Is needed is for those who are of our mind and who are coming to the same convictions an as we hold to vote ote with us and the victory will not be postponed even eyen for tor a arear year rear And we wo call caU for local ocal organizations of oC the American party In every county of the state |