Show CENTRAL democratic CLUB A secret meeting of the central democratic club of utah was held on tuesday night at the office of mr F ha dyer on commercial street the organization has a membership of persons the officers are F H dyer president H C lett and L williams vice preal decito J R letcher recording secretary AT A T schroeder financial see sec detary H T r duke treasurer H 0 belth sergeant at alarms arms executive A G norrell J W judd W H irvine and J A mar tin the details of the proceedings of the meeting are WiLb withheld liela from the public A reporter called upon a number of the officers of the club toisy to jay but each of them was politely non it was learned how owe r that forty ti anve ve persons were present amont among them were the following JP H dyer A 0 N norrell orrell J G suther gauther tend land J rhomas marshall J B walden waiden W VaD cott dr free tard n dr john J mcachran H C tatt A T Seb ceiler J B R letcher samuel uel lewis ewis and C R barratt the fo following preamble and resola ff jas which are self pelf explanatory were Ato pLed and ordered published avo the people of utah believing as aa we do that the changed JW well as the rapidly changing conditions in social and political ltv aticus us of this ke territory ari tory justify the abandonment of the political organizations which hate heretofore existed and that the time has now arrived when hen the political political oli parties of this territory should be formed upon the lines of V rational Hat zonal ional cleaving each individual citizen to choose for himself aimse f his affiliation with the one or the other of the two great PoU political parties of the country according to 10 his preference and confident of the virtue virttie patriotism aud and integrity of the mass of the people as Demo democrats crais we make the following declaration of princa faw 4 vi ill we believe that the govern ament of the united states is a national sovereignty supreme within its sphere as aa delegated and defined in the constitution and to that government our first allegiance indue is due and we believe in a willing and loyal obedience to all its is laws and a strict enforcement of the same 2 we believe that the several states of the union are sovereign within their sphere and that upon the preservation of 61 their autonomy depend the benefits of local self government the liberty of the citizens and the perpetuity of the union 3 we are opposed to the idea of a centralized or paternal government believing that the best government is the one that governs least and therefore we believe in the largest liberty of the individual citizen cillien consistent with good goad government ern ment 4 we are opposed to iny any legislation by the federal government which looks to orope or operates rates in ie levying vying taxes for the benefit of any one class at the he expense of any other but we believe ch that at the primal idea 0 of f all taxes should be revenue and that confined to the needs of the government economically administered 5 we are opposed to any legislation tending to build up monopoly as the result is to make rich the few to the hurt of the many and we believe that the rule of government should be the greatest good to the greatest number special privileges to none equality zo 10 all 0 we are unalterably opposed to the disfranchisement of any citizen except for crime whereof he shall have been first duly convicted 17 7 we are unalterably opposed to force and fraud in the conduct of elections or er to any interference with them by extraneous powers or means the constitution ution of the united states should not be vitiated by makeshift legislation to facilitate party advantages the foregoing we believe to be an embodiment of the true principles of republican democratic government which find their expression in the just interpretation of our constitution and we most cordially invite the people of utah without regard to previous political affiliations who are willing to subscribe thereto and abide abad the action of the democratic party in its organized capacity to join with us in our effort to build up a party in UV utai in sympathy and harmony with the democratic party of the nation franx FRANK H president of the central democratic club of salt lake county utah A adleat At leat aj J R LETCHER secretary |