Show r < DiGiot1Luqc iOitSS To the People ol Utah Delivered at Salt Lake City on Saturday June 16th by the Territorial Da ocratio Convent Resolved That as the convention was not called to make notuiiiaiioua or formulate a platioiin ot principles the following be adopted as the sentiments of the convention to be piebetittd in the form of an address to the people of Utah We the democrats of Utah in convention con-vention assembled hereby declare our devotion to the time honored principled of the democratic party as enunciated in the national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in the harts of its members We are emphatically in favor of equal rights to all and special privileges I privil-eges to none of the greatest possible liberty to every individual compatible with the public welfare uf the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries of the maintenance of local eeliyovern mont to the fullest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the na ioual constitution We are in lavor of such reform the tariff as is consistent with the interests in-terests of the consumer and the producer pro-ducer and declare that duties upon foreign imports should be levied upon the luxuries so far as possible and not i upon the necessaries ot lite for the I purpose of providing revenue for tLe I necessary expenses oi government and not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We are opposed to the bounty system by which the many are taxed for the enrichment of a few aWe demand the speedy passage of the bill for trriff reform now pending in the senate including the provision for an income tax by which those large property holders who are beat able shall bear their just share of the burden bur-den of taxation And we Jenounce the obstructive policy of the republicans in congress by which a heeded measure meas-ure to provide public revenue is delayed de-layed causing uncertainty and doubt in commercial and manufacturing circles and thus paraljzing industry and arresting trade To the factious hindrances which are still thrown in the way of the Wilson bill by lepabh can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it is making and the disasteis that are consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration of silver to the constitutional position it occupied occu-pied as money previous to the act of 1873 by which the republican v > cast down that historic and KB u t < money metal and caused the iucn a ing disasters which beginning iiu ithe panic of 1873 and blasting forth at Intervals with terriule severity de pressing the agricultural interess of the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content among the oppnsaed laboring classes and increasing the armies of tramps which swarmed over the land culminated in the panic of 1893 > > and still spreads its blight upon trade and Industry We call attention to the undeniable fact thAt the republican party tooK the government from tUe democratic administration ad-ministration m 1889 wnu more than a uundred million dotlais in the natIOnal treasury and turned it back to > h democratic party in Ib93 with a treasury practically bankrupt We denounce the silver policy ot the republican patty as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the republican repub-lican financial crime of 1873 and declare de-clare that only in and through the democratic party can the people of tile United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true biiuetalism which includes in-cludes tie free coinage of silver at the I ratio of 16 to 1 with gold We believe that this can be done with safety und profit to this nation by American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment if international cooperation cannot can-not be immediately obtained We denounce the Iepublican policy of protection as embodied in the infamous infa-mous McKi le3 law and reaffirmed 03 that party in its most recent utterances utter-ances We regard it as an assistant agency to the prostration of silver in producing the poverty and distress and social calamities of various kinds Which gtill afflict our country We deny that the high tar ffa placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benet ted t-ed the producer of such materials while they have been oppressive and detrimental to the consumer and the country at lar eWe e-We cordially endorse the democratic congress and administration In repealing the obnoxious federal election law and thus promotIng the freedom of elections In formulating and endeavoring to enact a bill to reform the existing exorbitant ex-orbitant system of tariffs In revising the pension lists so that while all persons deserving the aid of the country for services in us defense shall be secured in their rights imposters impost-ers and fraudulent pension agents ohall not be permitted to further bleed the body politic In the exercise of the federal forces to suppress lawlessness where power to do AO is clearly vested in the federal authority au-thority and Declining to interfere when it would intrude on the rights of a local government In the restoration to the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty confiscated under the provisions ol congressional law and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property so escheated in yiaw ot the ROW indisputable faci that no pretext remains tor chanzing that the majority Ot the people of Utah are in opposition to national authority In the passage through the ii > i and its report In the senate of a I r I and excellent bill for the admisi Utah as a state on an equal lootng with the existing states j and we urge its speedy enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and mOlt prosperous of the existing territories In the appointment of bona tide residents resi-dents of the territory to the various offices in the gift of thegevernment instead in-stead of men from other sections of the Country unfamiliar with our people and the situation of our affairs as was the rule under republican administrations administra-tions And WP further endorse 11 effort to t uanintain the dignity anl Authority ol the government auu lemove the effects of over thirty vears ot republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of our delegate in congress Hon J L Raw line and offer his able and successful services as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy and fidelity to the interests of the DooDle of Utah We denounce the bvprocrisy of that portion of the repcblicin press and party which InfamouIY endeavors to chance tho effects of the legislative errors of a third of a century upon a party which had but just entered into power when those terrible evils overspread over-spread the country The logic which argues that effects precede their causes is tit reasoning for a party which affirms af-firms that the foreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported goods purchased by the American people We arraign the republican party for its treacherous course in relation to the gOCftlled industrial armies HayIng Hay-ing brought the laboring classes into the condition under which they suffer ii the Tidoos legislation of a long career ot power reoiiMicaiiB have fe irt ed u nor o iguied the move Uient uuOn WnMiiugton uy thousand 01 the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the eilorts ol the juUeiai and the executive in diffeieut places to enforce the jaw They have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the sent oi goy i trimu ut of thousands of home ess men made des rate by republican legislation leg-islation hoping that their presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false impres ° ion that the party in power is responsible for thirty years of republican misrule In this arraignment we include those local lepiilhicaiis who have pndeavoreu to cast ridicule upn the govern opprobrium op-probrium upon the judges and insult upon the militia and the coustabulaiy while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seeking seek-ing to turn back the tide of poveru which was flowing into tue territory Vedeepl svmuuthize with the distress dis-tress of our lellow citizens the unemployed unem-ployed working people of the country and particularly of those who are dwellers in our territory We deplore the policy which has brought into oui midst large bodies of destitute men who nave been supplied with the very means that was required for the support sup-port of the resident poor and some of whom sought obtain the work which was needed by our own population We declare it to be our conviction that only bv the reforms which will be in tiudnced by a democratic congress and administration can relief ie afforded to the oppressed and netdy working population and prosperity be assured to the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the republican re-publican party by which they seek to decieve the voters of the United States into the belief that they are friends to silver by linking it with the heresy of protection The terms bimetalism and the enlarged Jse of silver by which they seek to dazzle the eyes of the west and the south are only catchphrases catch-phrases to fool the unsophisticated They do not mean the free and unlimited limited coinage of silver at tao ratio oi 16 to 1 which is he only rue solu ion of the money problem and the only genuine bimetallic policy We denounce the national republican republi-can party For its false pretenses of udoen regard for tne people of Utah Against whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility trom its inception Its simu hued affection is coincident with the tarance of a possibility of renubli UPPOrt in tne territory ant that li support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unelfisH tenderness tend-erness whicn the spider teela for the fly fivWe Ve denounce theonly republican leg islature of Utah territoiy for its waste of public time and money in vain endeavors to manufacture party capital For its opposition to the educational interests ol the territory by refusing to appropriate sufficient funds 1 for t agricultural college and to carry on tr uuiyersity according to the provision ot th law cieutiu the institution au requiring the establishment of neces sai b departments < uid also oy endear tiring to ripple me public schools in a i scheme to take away part 01 tho revenue rev-enue necesarv lo their auujtort and d veil it lor the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to ben tit uiiyute eulerpneed For striyux to commit the representatives represent-atives gt the people in memorials to congresb to gross mitieprebentation ot fact and egregious blinders in principle princi-ple pleFor For defeating legislation which would be for the general interest but not favorable fa-vorable to republican advancement For making appropriation after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the educational inoti utcus and the deaf mute reform school insane asylum and kindred institutions and neglecting to provide sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations inconsiderately made The spectacle of republican legislators legisla-tors running away in uot haste to avoid an issue which they bad raised themselves them-selves evading the officers sent to arrest ar-rest them and hiding until a republican majority could be assured thus stopping stop-ping tile progress of public business in the upper house of the legislature l and bringing that body into public contempt con-tempt was a scene unparalleled in till annals of our country and exhibits the republican party in an attitude of cowardice and absurdity The republican legislature showed more bombast and less capacity more paisimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrower statesmanship than any other legislative legisla-tive assembly in the history oi the territory ter-ritory e endorse the actior of Governor Caleb W West in the interposition of the veto power vested in bin by law to prevent the enactment of vicious and partisan measures and insulting and misleading memorials by which the republican legislature would but for his action haye injured and disgraced the territory And we recognize in the governor a firm discreet and able executive whose influence has been cast on the side of law and order and the public welfare generally We confidently apoeal to the citizens of Utah to stand by and tnpport the party of the constitution and the pea ne from which alone political redemption redemp-tion can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation vnicli will demonstrate the superiority ot its principles and policy as soon as measures of reform it has inaugurated can be put into force and produce their it cis winch works for the greatest d to the greatest number wmcu is oe of monopolies and the friend of uie masses wmch does not depend upon any one man however po triu for its guidance or its victory aid which will maintain and hear triumphant tri-umphant those sacred doctrine L L stitutions for wuch the fathe 3 c country fought add bled an J VT o WH hereby pledge our faith cv v tion and our energies Vi j u conviction that success will en u efforts and Utah A ill enter the oas o-as a iree and vigorous democratic state WILLIAII H KING Uliat man WlI K REID cretary DAVID EVANS JOHN T OAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MONSON L J bTKWABT Committee |