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Show REITIILIQNI'LATFOiai Adopted tj the District Convoritiun Erery Plank in Plain and to the Point. IHS PRINCIPLE OF PE0TE0:ri0N. Iu Tavorof tlie Reraoautizition and Pro. Coiuarts of Elver Horns Work lor Home Workman- Tho republican district convention in fission at t tin federal courtrooms Wed-nosday Wed-nosday last adopted the following platform, plat-form, livery jjlnuk in the platform is plain and to the point. It provides the following as the lioucst suntiuiunts of Ihe party: l irit Tlint th riii(-iple of the national na-tional republican parly ura tliotit) bust Riluptod to proinotu i'-Jiu nt h'ara of our territory, proliict il i nilw.sti ii'H and pro-(iiu pro-(iiu tH. and sfcuru to itn pnopla tlie just ri'wanls of th'.r laboi?. Second We r uuauimounly in favor of th Amsrican system of pro-trfitton. pro-trfitton. 'J h proti'div system inu.t be luaintiiined ; its abandonment bas altvays bi'i;ii loliowcd by general diaat-Ur diaat-Ur to nil icl": etils enccpt thmo of ttie unrer and l lie slu'i iir. 'J bird Xlia prinrip!.i! of protection to American, products and labor is of tlm liiyiicl imporlaiiof 1'J ton Tast sf-1 sf-1 ion Itural, ptock-raiHintr and wool-growing iiiteiesn id our territory, it in of equal iuportance to our great mining inlrretls, wb.uii fundi li so !arj;e an mount of remunerative, labor and yield such an importaui part of our in-coiuu. in-coiuu. Wiiliout protection, w cannot succsfiilly enuliliiili maniilactarin in I'tali. Vy'ilh it, we may hope to utilize tlm abundance of innieriiil our territory terri-tory affords, a'ld employ tbs labor required re-quired to utili.e it. lourtli We are unanimously in favor (d rmiKiiieli.ing silver and thn frw cmnaije yf siher. V. also claim that the Ainsricaa product hIioiiIiJ be protected id all ue to A li cit it is adapled, inoliidini; ln use as a medium of exi'hauo, under tlm .frpublican principle prin-ciple of proU etiou. lifl h -We niso asert and rcconie tlm digtrty of labor and the ucceh-iiy id projier lenislation to protect its in- Icrests. J hat homo laborers atl.l eon-tract eon-tract irs who conlnb'ii'e to the public fiiuils are justly intitiod to tho pn fer-eiice fer-eiice in all public works, that L'tali work should go to Utah workmen, and that on all public works, ei'ht hours should be considered a day's work. S.xlh Wo are opposed to the disfranchisement dis-franchisement of any citizen, except for cr.nie of which he shall have been convicted by dun process of law. and we favor Iho fi'i'fi exercise of nmuesly to all citizens disfranchised u account of polygamy or polygamous relations who will obey and uphold the laws of th 1'nited S:ale.s. Seventh Tim national republican party, in its platform adopted iu I--, declared, "tho government by congress of the territories, is based upon necessity, ne-cessity, only, to tlm end that they may In inn staies iu tin! union. Therefore, w henever the condition of the 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 lor themselves constitutions and state governments, and bo admitted into the union." We deny that thn republican party is lirganized in Utah to procure or unduly hasten statehood, and such charges am not cnly untrue, but. lend to injure tho business interests of tho territory by creating false alarms and endeavoring to present false issues. i he ijiiestion of statehood for Utah is not involved iu tho present political issues, or in the present movement for a division of the people of this territory nu national parly liues, and discitssious of that question are premature. At present, political action should bo wholly preparatory. Among the preparatory pre-paratory agencies are tlie discussions nn. I controversies appi rtainiiij; to party polities. Kighth We indorse thn sentiments of our eminent Chiof Justice Zaue, as expressed ex-pressed by him on the Sih day of July, JXH, before tho county convention, held that day at Salt Lake City. We will use all honorable means to forward t he best interests of our territory, and its educational, poeial and material development, de-velopment, niid especially iu the build- ing up of our public school system, i which we regard as the very foundation I of republican institutions. To this end, suitable provisions to aid in the support of t he common schools of the territory is of the highest importance, impor-tance, and the republican party pledge i:-ci! to use. iis inlluence to obtain from the general government grants of land er of the proceeds of th salts of land adequate to give tn Utah, when it shall I'ocoine a state, a school fund eoitai tn that received by other states from the bounty of thn government, and in tnis j work W9 invito the co-operation of all parties. .Ninth- We nre in favor of a personal registration law and a ballot law that will secure an absolutely fair vote and count in every election to bo held in Lull." |