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Show til h . We are opposed to the disfranchisement disfran-chisement of any citizen except for crime of whioh lie shall have becu convicted con-victed by duo process of law, and we favor the free exercise of the power of amnesty to all citizens disfranchised on account of polygamy or polyga. mous relatious who will obey and up hold the laws of the United States. th. The National republican party can point to a history and achieve menu unequalled in the history of any other political party of the world. Since its first organiatiou it ha 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 era of unsurpassed national prosperity. PMlJWSS A Platform that Seta Forth with Kinging King-ing EJTrtct the Attitude of tbs Grand Old Party. TEE FREE COINAGE OF SILVIB Utah Work Must Oo to Utah Workmen-Opposed Workmen-Opposed to Disfranchisement Ex-cupt Ex-cupt for Crime. The republicans of Salt Lake county have adopted the following platform: The republicans of Salt Lake county in convention assembled congratulate the people of Utah that tho tiuio br.s come when passed conditions can bo put behind them, aud when, under the bauueia of tho great national parties they can move forward in the development develop-ment of tho great territory iu which they live, untrammoled by class distinctions, distinc-tions, and without tha restraint of tho bilterne-ts that has attended the pabt history of this people. We congratulate the republicans of Utah that the time has come when they can publish thejr allegiance to the party of progress and human hu-man liberty and follow its fortunes in the confident belief that it will be firmly and triumphantly established in this territory. We are firm in the belief that a majority of tho people of Ut&h will yield allegiaucu to the republican party, and we invite ail niea, without regard to pat political polit-ical atliliatious. to join with us under the standard of the grandest political party ever organized among men. With the conviction that ours is the party which should attract the allegiance alle-giance of every progressive citizen, wo declare our abiding belief in its principles, princi-ples, and hereby resolve: 1st That the general principles of the National republican party are those belt adapted to promote the welfare of our territory, protect il industries and products, and secure to its people the just rewards of their labor. 2nd. "We are uncompromisingly iu favor of tho American system of protection. pro-tection. The protective system must be maintained; its abandonment has always been followed by geueral disaster disas-ter to all interests except those of the usurer and the sheriff." 3rd. That the principle of protection protec-tion to Americau products and labor is of the highest importance to the vast agricultural, stock-raising and wool-growing wool-growing interests of our territory. Jt is of equal importance to our great mining interests, which furnish so largo an amount of remunerative labor and yields such an important part of our income. Without protection wo cannot successfully suc-cessfully establish manufacturing iu Utah. With it we mar hope to utilize the abundance of material our territory affords and employ tha labor required to utilize it. 4lh. We are unanimously in favor of remoneiiziug silver, and "of t lie free coinage of American silver. We also claim that the American product should be protected in all of tho u:es to which it is adapted, including its iiMj as a medium of exchange, under tha republican principle of protection. 5th. We also assert and recogui.e the digniry of labor and the necessity of proper legislation to protect its interests. in-terests. The home laborers and contractors who contribute to tho public funds are jualty entitled to the preference in all public works, aud that Utah work should go to Utah workmen. |