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Show REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Adopted by the District Couveutlon Erery i'laak u Plain and tit tu Point. The republican district convention In session at the federal court room July 22A adopted the following platform. plat-form. Every plank iu the pUifonu ii plain aud to the point. It provide the following as the honest sentiment of the party: First That the principles of the national na-tional republican party are those best adapted to promote the welfare of our territory, protect it industries aud products, pro-ducts, and secure to it people the just rewards of their labor. Second We are unanimously in favor of the American system of protection. pro-tection. The protective system must be maintained; its abandonment lias always been followed by general disaster disas-ter to all interest except those of the usurer and the sheriff. Third The principle of protection to American product and labor is of the highest importance to tho vast agricultural, ag-ricultural, stock-raising and wool-growing interests of our territory. It is oi equal importance to our great miuing interests, which furnish o large an amount of remunerative labor aud yield audi an important part of our income. in-come. Without protection, we cannot successfully establish manufacturing in Utah. With it, wo may hope to utilize the abundance of material our territory terri-tory all'on!.",, and employ the labor required re-quired to utilize it. Fourth We are unanimously in favor of remonoli.ing silver and the free coinage of silver. We also claim that the American tit nil net sliniiM l,e protecte 1 in all the ues to which it is adapted, incliidinj? its use as a medium of exchange, under the republican principle prin-ciple of protection. Fifth We also assert and recognize the dignity of labor and the necessity of proper legislation to protect its interests. in-terests. That homo laborer and contractor con-tractor who contribute to the public funds are justly intitied to tho preference prefer-ence n all public works, that I tab work should go to Utah workmen, aud that on all public works, eijjht hours should be considered a day's work. Sixth Wo are opposed to the disfranchisement dis-franchisement of any citizen, except for crime of which lie shall have been convicted by due process of law, and we favor the free exercise of amnesty to all citizens disfranchised ou account of polygamy or polygamous relations who will obey and uphold the laws of the United Mates. Seventh The national republican party, iu its platform adopted in lxss, declared, "the government by congress of the territories, is based upon necessity, ne-cessity, only, to tho end that they may become stales in the union. Therefore, whenever the coudiliou of tho population, popula-tion, material resources, public intelligence intelli-gence and morality are such as to insure in-sure a stable local government therein, the people of the territories should be permitted, as a right inherent in them, to form for themselves constitution I and state governments, and be admitted into the union." We deny that the republican party is organized in Utah to procure or unduly hasten statehood, ami such charges a.'e not only untrue, but tend to injure the business interest of tho territory by creating false alarms and endeavoring to present false issues. The (juestion of Blatehood for Utah is not involved in the present political issues, or in the present movement for a division of tho people of this territory on national party lines, aud discussions of that question are premature. At present, political action should be wholly preparatory. Among the preparatory pre-paratory agencies are the discussions and controversies appertaining to party politics. Kighth We indorse the Sentiments of our eminent Chief Justice Zane, as expressed ex-pressed by him on tho Mh day of July, liH, before the county convention, held that day at Salt Lake City. We will use all honorable means to forward the best interests of our territory, aud its educational, social and material development, de-velopment, and especially in the building build-ing up of our public school system, which we regard as the very foundation of republican institutions. To this end, suitable provisions to aid in the support of the common schools of the territory is of the highest importance, impor-tance, ami the republican party pledges itself to use its inlluence to obtain from the general government grants of land or of the proceeds of tho sales of land adequate to give to Utah, when it shall heroine a stale, a school fund equal to that received by other states from tho bounty of the government, and in tnis work wo invite the co-operation of all parties. Ninth Wo are in fhvor of a personal registration law and a ballot law that will secure an absolutely fair vote and correct count in every election to be held in Utah." |