Show A declaration of principles or tho peoples parly tho peoples party for supremacy of constitutional law and the sacred privilege of local belf gov submit tho following dac af principles first vo believe that tho pro action of lifo liberty and tha pursuit of happiness is the object of free nud that the ion of the united states was or lainca and to secure tho possible liberty to man jomaa aud child consistent with ho public welfare second wo that rement CAU only exist tho governed participate m tho thereof third wo believe any party r faction of a political c immunity hat seeks to the institutions f local self government aims ft badly thrust at tho constitution ind that such party or faction ia un tho sua agas of a arco poo die afo ariy dufft cial who attempts to alio ar boico a expressed at tho ballot jox is guilty of against tho sovereign fifth wo boileve that the right to framo laws suited to tho requirements of alio territory having been vested by congress in alio legislature elected by its citizens to deprive them of that right bv tilting 1 commission arbitrarily appointed and thus to a hundred and fifty thousand and tu a condition of surf dom would bo unprecedented in tho hist ry of alio bation an net that could not bo justified by any actual necessity and that tho attempt by a pi political party to create such a revolution in alio government of tins ter atory is only of and political adventurers sixth wo in the right of alio people of a territory as well as of a to test in alio courts established by the the constitutionality tiona lity or construction of any enactment act ment legal or congressional and express our astonishment at the public declaration of a ghigli federal official of this territory and the enunciation by a so called political party that the people have no rights except such as congress may grant to them aal that to daiil berwith tho territorial rit orial executive about the construction of a is nullification vo utterly repudiate such a monstrous doctone doc tine as worthy alone of tho most absolute despotism and claim that the united slates iu its benign provisions extends aliko over the states and territories af alio am bencan union and that it is the duty of tho governor as much as tho humblest citizen to yield obedience to the laws as thoy are constructed by alio courts wo utterly repudiate the unconstitutional attempt by an executive to usurp judicial or legislative functions and to hold tho american citizen bound by tho partial prejudiced unfair and illegal construction which ho may see fit to place upon any statute seventh citizenship is the basis of tho right of while alio franchise ia a privilege conferred by law tho qualifications for its exercise out of the condition of citizenship and as citizenship is not dependent upon 01 regulated thereby whatever right of voting originates in the citizenship of men inheres also in tho citizenship of women fonalo citizens equally with male cit izona aro to the law an equal boico with men in the framing of the law aa all just of government anro derived from tio consent of tho governed and hat consent ii expressed by the suffrage annj n women as well as men arc made mb jacl to abc or this country attic denial of alic to women ii in consistent willi the principles which un deallo cur institutions the moral and intellectual aa well as physic al excellence of our sous and daughters being largely dependent epou tho cioth era who bear and train tham alio women nation should be endowed with rall political freedom that being made with political and pica aliey ac abo to into tho hearts of the rising generation the spirit of natii holism alio tovo ol 01 liberty and reverence for republican institutions for twelve years alio women citizens of utah have enjoyed alio llio right to vote at all in his and hare exercised it with credit to to the benefit of lie aud alio peoples party hereby denounces the attempts which lavo been made to deprive women vol ars of the right of suffrage 03 illiberal and unmanly assaults upon vested rights and upon justice equality and tho principle of eighth we believe in an honest and economical administration of government and point with pido to the economy and honesty with which public havo been administered by officers fleeced fleeted from the ranks of the peoples party and also to ho fact that alio fixes in utah aro lighter than any other territory the territory is out of debt the coant ica with one or two exceptions arc in the same satisfactory condition alio records fail to furni sli any instance of in or misappropriation of public funds by any of that party on alio other hand when by frauds committed at alio poll county was wro acil froin tho copular ro pular control alio taxes of tho county shamefully mis appropriated anil embezzled county scrip depreciated froni par to less alian 15 on tho dollar ai d even by ho isonomy and honesty of alic peoples oell bials who control of its nf faira aad although its Is now worth 90 per cent county 13 not yet out of debt and lias not fully recovered from alio evils of liberal role ninth wo repudiate and deny tho charges of lw lessng which have been nude as people of utah and as 1 roof that ilese slanders arc without foundation wo point to the records of the chief of which arc not in any way in the control cort rol of the people aud which abo striking fact hat the so called liberal clay constituting less thin th in 20 per cent of tho iopu lr ion of the territory furnishes over SO per cent of we further repudiate and dony alic charges eliat in a dominates alio that priestly control is exercised in auy manner to in fringo upon ahe freedom ot tho individual cither at tho polls in convention or in any official that perjury or lab chood of any binl is justified whether fur tho pro of persons from the action of law or for any other purpose whatever that li exhibited cither lor alic discouragement of alie settle ident of public domain or invasion of alio rights of any individual tat auy taxation is cither encouraged or tel eliat pubic arc not given of tho expenditure cf public moneys eliat alio tenets of a church arc taught in alic district schools or that the nrc influenced 10 disloyalty or antagonism to alio government of tho united states or aar eleventh wo uffing eliat it u the duly of acry american to lender obedience to tho constitution cl the united states and every law enacted iu kursu arco thereof twelfth we ihra with confidence tint of butali having i he requisite and all alio llio necessary to scalf its bains aljy honest sober frugal and cicer blo is cu tilled to admission into the union as a stale we clodo a a pirty p to alic and defence of constitutional aol aal aliu inalienable rights of mankind abid proclaim alie friends of ciuc lib city political end religious to all iu every art vl ilo clybe |