| Show democratic PLATFORM we the democrats of utah in convention asem assembled bled hereby reaffirm our adherence to the and free government which the democratic party was vias organized to preserve and which havo have been eni embodied bodied in the platform adopted by the democracy national nati onil conventions wo believe in ina a strict construction of the lie constitution the peoples gra grant it of poll poirer er to the federal government to the end that the rights of the respective states nay may be preserved ved that local self C govern ment may inay be seemed secured and that personal liberty may be exercised to the fullest extent consistent with the public safety we believe in wise wife economy in public expenditures that officials should be held to a strict accountability for farj their acts that the employment of the taxing power in any form by which the few are arc entitled to tho the impoverishment of the many many by which trade is destroyed or obstructed by which trusts are created aud and fostered and monopolies sustained is a wicked perversion of the powers designed 0 fur for the common good we believe in commercial and industrial freedom ani and resent all attempts to tits exercise it in the promotion of education by the state in the full development of 0 on lira relational n resources in the encouragement cour coura a gement and advancement of home industries indu atries in the protection of labor from the encroachments encroach ments of capital and in equal rights 0 to all special privileges to none na we cde demand clemand the passage of a law for the iree free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold old at al a ratio of 1 to 16 without v acting for the content conent of any other nation and that the government eliell pay out silver so coined as a money of ultimate redemption the same fame as gold old we commend the democratic congress and administration for the measures of reform which they have succeeded in ebli eating b by y which hundreds of millions of do dollars will be annually saved to american consumers and all classes of people will be benefited in the arrana arrangement ement of tariff duties we favor 0 such adjustment as will operate equally throughout the country and not discriminate as between als classes zes or cec certion tion we contend that such duties as aa are laid on foreign imports should be levied for revenue only as contemplated in in the national constitution we emphatically disapprove of the chui coui couise se of those democrats who by bv combining com combining binin 0 with the republicans th waited the espres expressed ed will of the people in refe reference lence to the tariff and prevented alie of silver to its right a place as money we endorse the income tax provision of tile the tariff law by which a more equitable distribution is made of the burdens of taxation and wealth as well as want is required to contribute its share to the public expel expense iFe we e endorse the acts of the democratic congress t and administration in abolishing 0 the oppressive anil anti american federal election laws laws and thus securing freedom to citizens at the polls in so revisit revising the pension liz lists ts that tile the frauds which have robbed the treasury of vast sums of money will be prevented in future while no worthy pensioner will bo be deprived of the aid to which his services are entitled in ili restoring 0 to a religious 0 organization r in utah its per personal onal property which was confiscated under the provisions provision of law with the pios hect of the future restoration lest iest oration of the real estate betat ilso also c es cheated in alie appointments iii which have been made of actual residents ts of the territory to public office many of them thein native to tho the soil boil of utah a policy alto altogether ether dif different from that of R republican administration administrations in ili throwing open to settlement tile the uintah and 0 re ie ions by which a vat area of tillable grazing and mineral lands will be utilized by white vojt labor and edill and be added to the weilt li of if utah in passing an all enabling act bi by which utah may enter tho the union as a free and sovereign state slate on an equal footing with the existing states for this utah owes a debt of gratitude to the democratic congress and president whose kind heat ment of this territory stands out in striking 0 contrast to that harshness and enmity extended by republican congresses and administrations for thirty years year we are proud of our delegate to lo congress lion ilon J L rawlins Raw lina to fidelity perserver ence and splendid political tact and energy the numerous measures of legislation so beneficial to utah have been obtained his unparalleled success has demonstrated to the people of utah that they made no mistake in sending fending him to the national leg where he was recognized as the peer of his associates and a man of mark and ability we lve denounce the reau republican alican party for its obstruction to tho those ke beni adial measures demanded by the country to decue trade industry and business from the chaos into which they wore were drifting through h republican legislation and misrule for attempting to foist the blame upon the democratic party for the effects of republican administration by the of silver and the unconstitutional and partial system of class protection the m masses asses of the people have been im impoverished ed the agricultural 0 arid and laboring classes oppressed and the land disturbed by bv the riots of dissatisfied workmen and the cries of the unemployed we ilo point to the only republican legislature of utah as a sample or of the incompetency partisanship anil and fo fol iy ay y which that party would exhibit if placed in power in the new nevy state it attempted to deprive the public schools of one sixth of the revenue essential to their support refu ed to grant grano 1 nace seary forles funds for the university tile the agi agricultural cultural college coll e 0 ge and other public institutions afan of an educational anil and reformatory character tried to appropriate large sums of public money as bounties for favored private industries did make inake expenditures for which no revenue was provided drafted memorials to Cong congress rss containing errors of fact and fal fallacies aces in principle resorted 0 to o evasion of duty and political tri trickery ekern which were dis ting 1 to onlookers and madette nia detho assembly stock to the public we appeal to the people of utah to adhere to the principles principle of the party parly which has endured since the nation wai founded and to fee to it that the coming state shall rest upon 0 n the broad foundation of thoe doctrines which the father of democracy promulgated we demand that the constitution of the new state shall be framed on a nonpartisan non partisan basis shall hall provide for the equal protection of all law abidin abiding citizens citizen we demand that economy shall rule in all branches of the public service that public money shall rhal be expended only for public uses use and f that hat no class of tile the community nuni 1 shall be specially favored by ta alie ie s state late to the detriment of any any other class we rejoice in the fact that it is iq through the labors of a democratic delegate that a democratic congress at its first regular s beet ion liis has s given t ti utah the freedom for which she has so eo long appealed to republican administrations in vain and that a democratic pies president ident ined the enabling let act as soon a 3 it was presented to him in view of the benefits benefit conferred by bir the democratic party upon this territory and the utter absence of any benefit received from the republican party and of the undying principles of liberty and filial rights 1 which democracy upholds we are arc fully confident that the people of utah who are not forgetful or grateful will so rally to tile the polla in november that the victory of 1892 will be repeated and utah will enter the union crowned lory glory as a free und and democratic bbate the democrats of utah are unequivocally in favor of woman biage and the political rights and privileges of women equal with those of men including 0 eligibility to office and lie e demand that such guarantees shall be provided in the constitution of the state of utah as will secure to the bromen of atall these inestimable rights and we demand that in providing C for the settlement and disposal of the public lands granted to the state of utah care should be taken to prevent speculation therein and to provide for small holdin holdings gt and that tile tho arable portion thereof should be granted only to actual settlers uron upon and cultivators cultivators of the same we denounce as ag un any society or organization that is is pledged to deprive any citizen of his right to vote or hold office on account of his 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