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Show (ith. We are opposed to the disfranchisement disfran-chisement of any citizen except for crime of which he shall have been convicted con-victed by duo process of law, and we favor the free exercise of the power of amnesty to all citi.ens disfranchised on account of polygamy or polyga. mom relations who will obey and up hold the law of the United Mates. 7th. The National republican party can point to a history and achievements unequalled in the history of any other political party of the world. Since its tirst organization it has been the advocate advo-cate of freedom, of equal rights to all citizens, and the leader in all the progressive pro-gressive measures which characterize nearly a third of a century, and mark an eia of unsurpassed national prosperity. i'AIITV t)F FlUKiHESS i Flatforra that Bets Forth with Ringing Ring-ing Effect the Attitude of ths Grand Old Party. THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER Utah Worlt Mast Go to Utah Workmen Opposed to DisfrauohiBemeut Except Ex-cept fur CriuiB. The republicans of Salt Lake county have adopted the following platform: The republicans of Salt Lake county in couventnn assembled congratulate the people of Utah that the limo nr. some when passed conditions can be put behind thuin, and when, under the banners of t.'io great national parties ihey can move forward iu the development develop-ment of ttie great territory in which Ihey live, uutraaioieieii by classdistiuc-;ions, classdistiuc-;ions, aud without the restraint of the bitterness that has attended the past History of this people. We congratulate the republicans of Utah that the time has come when ihey can publish their allegiance to the party of progress and hu-Usui hu-Usui liberty and fidlow its fortune n the confident belief that it will so (irmly aud triumphantly established :ii this territory. We are tirm in the belief that a majority of the people of Jiah will jield allegiance to the republican party, sud we invite ill men, without regard to past political polit-ical affiliation, to join with us under Jit- tianiJai-d of the grandest political party ever organized among men. I With trie conviction that ours is the party which (should attract the alle-tiaiue alle-tiaiue of every progressive citizen, we ieclare our abiding belief iu its principle?, princi-ple?, and hereby resolve: 1st That the general principles of ihe National republican party are those Dcst adapted to promote the welfare of jur territory, protect its industries and I products, and secure to its people the iiist rewards of their labor. i 'Jnd. "We are uncompromisingly in lafor of the American syi-tem of projection. pro-jection. The protective system must :e mHintained; its abandonment has ilways been followed by general disas-:er disas-:er tu all interests except those of the smirer and the sherilf." lid. That ihe principlo of protection protec-tion to American products and labor is 5f the highest importance to the vast igiiciiltiiral. stock-raising and wool-lowing wool-lowing intcre-ts of our territory. H is of ojual importance to our great mining interests, which furnish so large in amount of remunerative iabor aud rieids such an important part of our ncome. Without .protection we cannot suc-tessfuily suc-tessfuily establish manufacturing in "tah. With it we may hope to utilize ;he abundance of material our territory itfords and employ the labor required to utilize it. 4th. We are unanimously in favor Df remonetizing silver, and "of the free coinage of American silver. We also tlaim that the American product ihould be protected in all of the uses io which it is adapted, including its ai.e as a medium of exchange, under he republican principle of protection. 5th. We also assert and recognize the dignity of labor and the necessity nf proper legislation to protect its interests. in-terests. The home laborers and contractors who contribute to the public funds are justiy entitled to the preference in ail public works, and that Utah work should go to Utah workmen. |