OCR Text |
Show PARTY OTpiESS A Platform that Suta Forth wi'li Eiug-ing Eiug-ing Effct the Attitu3a of the Grand Old Party. THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER Utali Work Mint So to Utah Workmen Opposed to Disfranchisement Lx-cept Lx-cept fir Crime, Tin republicans of Salt Lake county bate adoptod tlio following platform: The republican!) of Salt Lake county iu couvimtbn assembled cotiRratulato tbu penpio of l. lali that Ihe time lira I'OiiiB wlien pahed conditions can bo itit behind them, and when, uudei the (janneie of ttie firvM national i:ivti!S tlu?y can niovo forward in tiiH devolop- i Hu nt of lac grtat territory in whicuj they live, uutrainmnied bv cl.isr otiuc- : tioua, and without the resttauu of tlio ljittiriiM that has atloudod tiio p.:ot tistory ot lhii ptioplo. tVn. coii(.;ratulat! the n?pu?i i'u-at.s of Utah thai thn (ima has co.-uo win n they can publish their aiiii.'iaia to tho party of pronrtia ami ii'.i-man ii'.i-man liberty ' and follow its fortuu" in the couliUcut belief that it wili lie liruily and triumphantly eaial .'.tri-td in thl territory. Wears litm iu too tudiff that a majority of the people of Utah will yield alii Kiauce lu the republican party, and we invite all lii'iii, without regard to par-t poll-ical poll-ical alliiintioiift, to join with ua under tne etamlard of tho crauduat psluical party ever ot jjfini.cd runout" moil. ith the cunvivlion that outs i the party whioh bhould altract the alio jfiam ii of every progressive citini, we dnclare our abiding belief in it pritici-plus, pritici-plus, and hernby resolve: 1st, That tho general principle of the National republican party are those best adapted to promote the wtliare of our territory, protect its industries and product, and secure to it peopib tau jimt riwai' U of their labor. 2nd. "Utiaro tincoiuproiiminjEly iu favor of tho American , aystcm of protection. pro-tection. 'Iho protective ytem must be maintained; iu aliatidotimniit tin always been followed by general disaster disas-ter to all intereiits txci pt those of the usurer and the sheriff." 8rd. That the principle of protection protec-tion to American products and labor is of the hi(fhett importance to the vast arricuUiiral, atock-raising and wool-growing' wool-growing' interests of our territory. It is of ettial importance to our great ruininj' intere-ts, which furnish so larjfii an biuount of remunerative labor and ?'iolds such an important part of our UClllllll. Without protection we cannot sue cessfullv establish manufacturing in Utah. "With it we may hnpo to utilize the abundance of material our territory ati'ords and employ the labor required to utilize it. 41 h. We are unanimously in favor of remont'ti.ing ttilver. and of tho free coinage of American silver. We also claim that tho American product Bhould be protected in all of tho uses to which it is adapted, including it use as a medium of exchange, under the republican principle of protection. Gth. We nlso assort and recognize the dignity of labor and the neceasity of proper legialatioa to protect its interest. in-terest. Tho home laborer and contractors who contribute to the publio fuud are juslty entitled to the preference in all public works, and that Utah work hottld po to Utah workmen. 01 h. We are opposed to the disfranchisement disfran-chisement of any citizen except for crime of which he shall have Leon convicted con-victed by due process of law, and wo favor the free exercise of the power of amnesty to all citi.eus disfranchised on account of polygamy or polyga. moti relations who will obey and up bold the laws of the United States. 7th. The National republican party can point to a Ii story and achievement unequalled in the history of any other political party of the world. Since its first organization il has been the advocate advo-cate of freedom, of equal rights to all citizens, and the leader in all the progressive pro-gressive measure which characterize nearly a third of a century, and mark an era of unsurpasud national prosperity. |