Show PLATFORM OF principles tile the democracy of cache con county n ty utah in c convention assembled adopts the following platform and resolutions we reaffirm our alle allegiance 1 bance to tile the principles of jeffersonian democracy gaev and commend the administration of crover G rover clevel cleveland and as an exemplification of those principles we commend the democratic administration for the earnest maew IT with itil which it the almost hopeless basl of of redeeming 0 the ho country froni froin its depression and righting the wrongs 0 11 1 1 of republican tariff financial and force bill V we alle commend tile the democratic party for the persi persistence tence with which it fou fought the sugar trust and other protected infant industries of the republican party we comi commend liend the present administration for its fearless arrest and arraignment n of armor frauds pension frauds and other frauds and for compelling 0 these aliese overfed republican favorites who have grown fat at the public crib to disgorge ore some of their ill gotten otten gains gain 11 ID 0 we commend tho the prompt repeal of the federal election law so that partisan hirelings under guise T of go governmental vernnie antal authority may no longer invade the various states and interfere in their local elections INCOME TAX we commend without reservation the democratic income tax now a law which places a yearly asse assessment of two per cent on oil that part of the incomes of persons or corporations that exceeds 1000 annually by this tax the masses of the people will be relieved of the payment orsome of some 3 a year in taxes on the common necos necessaries sir of life which taxes have now been t transferred r to and will be paid from the superfluous incomes of the rich we call the attention of the whole people to the fact that the republican party i I 1 joined coined hands bands with the forces of centralized wealth in an attempt to defeat this just and equitable tax this tax is only the beginning of the democratic policy of Com compelling Pellin y the wealth of the nation to pay a f asir a ir proportion of the expenses expense of government and we reiterate tile the declaration made in convention oni one year ago I 1 that we encourage the people to stand by their colors and never relax their efforts until the burdens of unequal taxation shall have been lifted from the overburdened back of labor and m more re equitably distributed among 0 the wealthy the luxurious and the idle classes of socie society tv we rejoice in the returning prosperity of the people and hail bail with satisfaction the news from every section of this country that factories foundries mills and ind industries of every kind are arc starting up P that even republicans recognizing 0 mizing 0 tile the fact float h at the time is opportune and the conditions favorable for promoting home industries are be bagin n in ing to interest themselves in in power plants and railway schemes in which they never engaged during durin r republican administrations we ve point with prid to the many generous concessions of the present administration to the people of utah secured in a 0 great areat measure by the energy 0 ability and influence of our honored delegate 0 to congress joseph L rawlins we conti contrast ast republican promises with democratic performance and express our gratitude 1st ast for the act conferring state hood a boon for which the people have long a petitioned and which republican administrations have persistently persistent lv denied them 1 21 for the defeat of thefford th effort of colorado republicans to dump the colorado utes upon the public lands of utah 0 3 for the law which opens the indian reservation of utah to actual cuttlers lers thus increasing the wealth of alie territory many millions of dollars 4 for tile generous provision made by the government overn ment out of these lands for the agricultural colle college collee 0 e and the university of utah 5 for the bilt bill which restored to the church of jesus christ of latter day da saints nearly half a million dollars in personal property es cheated to the government under tinder ti alic ic E edmunds tucker net let wo we congratulate the people of utah upon tile the attention and consideration shown them by dent Cl oveland I 1 in ili abolishing t the old republican system of making makin 0 religious 0 belief a basis for official appointment I 1 2 in ili placing a latter day saint i in n the office of Seere secretary tary of the ter citory another upon the utah Comm ulon another upon the bench of utah and others in ili minor minor positions of trust and lionor honor 3 in filling all appointive offices with bona fide residents and taxpayers of the territory 1 in ili signing tho the state statehood bood ell abling act immediately upon its presentation to him notwithstanding I 1 dino ding claims made by republicans that the people of tile the state slate he was thus cr eiting eLting would repudiate the baity that had in franchised them 5 in ili granting full free arid and unconditional ain amnesty nesty to all who are now obeying 0 the law and removing in 0 their political disabilities whether they have been convicted und under er the edmunds tucker act or not TARIFF I 1 1 we rc regret 0 ret that a greater reddic tion of tariff cl duties could not be k made at this session of Con congress oress bat con congratulate the democracy upon making 0 any hearl headway way at nil all a against the trusts and combinations that have grown so BO rich and P powerful powerful under republican legislative pi patronage we approve the measure of tariff reform enacted by the democratic cr atie con congress ress as a ste step in the direction of abolishing the present illogical and unjust system of taxing in 0 the necessities of the poor more lica heavily vily than tile the luxuries of tile the I 1 arieh we especially approve the additions to the free list of such articles of common necessity as lumber salt binding twine and wool WOOL we approve the free wool section and the leis lessened ened taxes on woolen I 1 clothing 0 which without decreasing the price of home grown have lifted over a year flom the coltof cost of the clothing 0 of the masses as witnessed in the reduction in price irice of all woolen goods from the very day of the passage 0 of this law SUGAR we approve the new sugar schedule in so far as it has reduced the protection protection of the sugar trust from one half a cent to one eighth of a centner cent per pound but we execrate the alliance of four democrats with all the republican senators in ill voting to continue this gift to a gigantic D monopoly BOUNTIES wo vc condemn all schemes for paying paving money out of the public treasury without value regularly r received received to po rations under the plea that it builds up home industry to take money from the whole people in the shape to hand portions of it oyer over to favored corporations po rations in tile the bounties boninti CS we maintain that each man should build up home indu industry Etry with his own and not wi with alth others peo peoples plea money this transfer of wealth from the whole people to a favored few does not increate the total balth of the community but serves only to enrich a few at the expense of all others and we maint maintain Bin that the results of this policy are seen toda today y in the vast I 1 and arrogant power of trusts monopolies and combines in the fact that less than persons per tons in this country now possess more wealth than the remaining we have econ been no reason to change our approval of the doctrine of the supreme court of the united states that to lav mith one hand the power ol of tile government on the property ol of the ali citizen anil and with tile ilia other to bestow I 1 it il appon favored or individuals I 1 ia one none the atie less a robbery because it is dolie done under tinder the forms forma of law and is called taxation wo are proud of the fact that home industry has no warmer friends in utah than members of the democratic party and we endorse the democratic policy of ell cn con raging 0 0 every meritorious enterprise filter by patronage 0 arid and investment rather than legislative protection an and 1 l dieni with their own meana ra fier than with taxes extorted from froin the people wo we ther therefore afore cont lemn tile republican party for cavit having intro introduced bicad into this country the war between labor arid and capital for having widened tile the gulf Ie between tween employer and employee for having made tile tl io employer rich arrogant arid and 1 powerful under the guise of helping helpin in 0 his workingmen C i for causing 11 discord crime and bloodshed in trying 0 to enforce forgeits its pulley policy of war taxation in time of peace for paralyzing b commerce creating 1 panics impoverishing the he farmer and bur burdening burdekin denin the poop people I 1 e IV with ith debt n we favor the free and unlimited cogdill CO coinage IDIll of silv silver er it at the ratio of 10 16 to 1 and indu independently of the wishes of any foreign 0 power we characterize character iye the of silver by bythe the republican party as one of the causes of all our financial troubles and call attention to tile the fact that in every vote vole upon the silver question in congress Con greos rees the great majority of republicans have opposed free coinage 0 while the great t reat majority of democrats have always favored it legislature we especially arraign that aggregation to gre gation of partisanship folly and inefficiency known as the only republican legislature of utah 1 for its refusal to provide for the educational in interests tereAS of the people in failing to appropriate funds for the satiable sutia ble maintenance of the university arid and tile the agricultural college for its reckless s blow at the progress of these institutions reducing the appropriation of the university to less than one half and that thai of the agricultural 0 college to less than one sixth the amount appropriated to these institutions by the previous democratic legislature 2 for attempting 0 to abolish the normal department of oatlie the university in order to prevent the training of home bred teachers and thus M to compel tile the employment of non residents in our 3 for the partisan folly of the attempts made by that legislature to divert the school moneys thus taken from our institutions of learning to the payment of bounties 4 for the cowardice and incompetency of the majority in flecia fleeing g from a fe fearless arleEs minority in consequence of which olli cera were coni compelled to dra drag the republican members from the hiding places back into tho the legi legislative dative dialls halls to the seats they had been elected to fill 5 for voting down the resolution introduced by judge 0 powers in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver G for rejecting tile the memorial in introduced trod by a 1 D democratic e mo cratic member in favor of statehood and afterwards presenting a similar memorial for which all berno democratic cratic members voted 7 for creating 0 indebted c d n nassi es without making 0 pr provision for paying paling it we commend the alie action of kentucky democrats in relegating D 0 to the shades of private life one of their most gifted and experienced statesmen 1 in n reco recognition of tile the fact that personal character is essential to representative place wo endorse the territorial democratic plat platform forni all and particularly that portion relating 0 to womans comans suffrage 0 we believe in the democratic principle irin ciple of rotation in office and pledge ledge our nominees to the reduction of 0 official ali cial and other oilier county expenses to the lowest limit consistent with efficiency wo we call attention to the fact that registration 0 under the auspices of the democratic party hasteen lias been absolutely fair impartial and non part parelean parti ean lean we direct the attention of the people to the fact that the republicans of utah have thrown down the a gauntlet and have dern demanded a partisan constitutional convention with the evident intention of thrust t ing anto into the state constitution and thus fi fastening 15 upon the teri territory atory tho the odious systems cf class favoritism and unequal taxation i of in this platform wo ask the people what has bas become of the leading 0 campaign declarations cla rations of the local re republican p publican city county arid and le legislative platforms demanding a tax ti on mong ages this demand condemn condemned td by the home owners of the terr tory tiry ridiculed arid and controvert ed by b the press of all Fir parties ties and finally flo flouted arid and rejected even by the republican in the lat la legislature coniti con 16 tho main part of the last local republican campaign C and the ludicrous di disappearance ppe arance of thi this 3 mortgage tax campaign C is a mcdurm mca oftie ability of f local republican republic an leaders either to to conceive desi desirable ralle measures or to put into operation the measures they advocate we therefore risk ask the people of this county to bear in mind these leading 0 truths arid and principles arid and then to decide for themselves in favor of that party which in th their air judgment 1 most fully represents the theory and practice of a true government of for and by the people |