Show THAT PLATFORM Our friends the enemy made an error er-ror In the very preamble of theIr putt form I says We sllll believe In perfect per-fect equality before tho law Thai Is good but why was It necessary Again If It was thought necessary why have any mental reservations Why not tell the whole truth and have it read as understood un-derstood by thai convention us follows fol-lows We still believe In perfect equality equal-ity before and behind and above the law lawThat That would give an old and familiar I sound The spaces devoted to free silver Is touching We believe that It exceeds in length all that was said for silver by nil tho Democrats In the last Utah Legislature Leg-islature with the exception of what one Democrat said In advocating the election elec-tion of a man to the Senate who had proved his belief in it and his ability to make clear the reasons for his belief be-lief That only establishes what has long been suspected that the anxiety of the Democracy of Utah for slver Is chiefly confined to campaign uses Tho tariff plank Is strictly Democratic Demo-cratic and made to suit the latitude and longlludo of Utah where most uf tho people believe In the tariff and I whero It will not do for a Democratic platform to antagonize tho majority I too much In declaring against the proposed pro-posed tariff for Porto Rico our friends with an easy and confident air declare I that It Is unconstitutional Will some of the expounders of the Constitution I who were In that convention tell us in what way It mangles and violates the Constitution Of course the convention was strong on the Monroe doctrine That la I cheap and has a sonorous symphony to the average Democratic ear Bul It adds to it an unalterably hostility to unnlcrablo hosll any alliances with foreign powers That Is good but what was the occasion for It rill Was thai Intended ns a cOert In cols mel t of Macrum I After the experience of our friends In electing and trying to elect United Stales Senators we do not wonder lhat they desire to turn that business over to thc people That we take it IH the most honest plank In their platform or course every man In the mal convon lon was opposed lo trusts I5ul why were they all i ascribed to the tariff I The very greatest trusts In the world are made on enterprises that no tariff I attaches to I points to the Standard I I Oil trust us l legitimate result of Republican Re-publican legislation What does that I I mean If it that the prosperity oC the I presenttlmo Is what Incites men of 1 great capital to combine Surely there r was not much of that during the last j I Democratic administration And what J I remedy do our friends propose t Tho Cuban resolution Is good and Is I an Indorsement of what has been done I r and is being done for that Island I The plank on expansion IH another In I doraomont of the present Administra I tion so Ie the plank on the Philippines The plank opposing centralization of power is a good one So Is the praise of and thanks to the I soldiers I The peroration Is 1 exceedingly lume It wants the people to direct their attention atten-tion to the record of the Republican part during the past four three I years Is not that a little dangcrous Has It not been rather successful In forwarding the material Interests of the people What Is meant by the words Mad with tho lust of conquest and power It has launched the country upon 0 course of spoliation and wrong What do our friends mean by that Who I has been despoiled who wronged the reminds Sliver i Then when platform SI ver Republicans who pulled aay from their parly in 89fi that It was the I Democratic party which gave them tile I I opportunity to vote their convictions why was no reference made to the way I i that help was received and acknowledged acknowl-edged And Is It not n bit cheeky for the Democracy to ask the use o their paws once more to pull Democratic I cheslnuty out of tho lire As to the final resolution one would think the Mormons of Utah would gel over that kind of imbecility after aWhile a-while While they please to combat men who tell the truth here wlml sense I I Is 1 there in their firing an Impotent de fiances at Congress In what way does their impotent wrath affect anything I save to increase the dIstrust already engendered Apontlcs and bishops with neW the plural wives of apostles seventies patriarchs slake presidents and bishops filling Utah with children was that the covenant was that the understanding understand-ing Was it necessary to placate the famous two t J icr cent with I a resolution resolu-tion of that kind ton The Democratic platform Is as much overworked as thu Republican platform Is underdone |