Show lC i BBMOCBAT1G PLATFORM Nfiott and Adopted tho Territorial GoiiveUkion 111 i0jilou at bait XidKuSat ray aeptetiiuer 15 1894 We tde democrats or Utah in con veution assembled hereby reaffirm our adherence to the priuciplea of jusuce and free government which the democratic demo-cratic party was organized Lo establish and preterve and which have been embodied in the platform adopted by the democracy in their national con tions We believe in a strict construction of I the constitution Ihe peoples grant of I power to the iedeul l government the end that the rights of the respective respec-tive states way ba preserved that local selfgoveruminC may be secured and that personal lioerty may be exercised to the lulluat extent consistent with tim puuuu otvcuj We believe in wise economy in public pub-lic expenditures that officials should be held to a strict accountability for their acts that the employment of the taxing power in any form by which the few are entitled to the impoverishment of tue many by which trade is destroyed de-stroyed or obsuucted by which trusts are created and fustered and monopolies monop-olies sustained is a wicked perversion of the powers designed for the common good We believe in commercial and industrial indus-trial freedom and resent all attempts to preyent its exercise in the promotion promo-tion of education by the state in the full development of our national resources in the encouragement and advancement of home industries in i the protection of laoor irom the encroachments en-croachments of capital and in equal eights to all special privileged to none Wedemand the passage of a law for the fiee and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at a ratio of 1 to 16 without waiting tor the consent of any other nation and that the government govern-ment shall pay out silver so coined as a money of ultimate redemption the same as gold We commend the democratic congress con-gress and uuministration of the measures meas-ures oi reform which they have succeeded suc-ceeded in fclleutiuti by which hundreds 01 mIllions ot UJlar8 Will lJe annually saved by American consumers aud ail elates or people win be benefited bene-fited In the arrangement or tariff duties we favor coca adjustment as will operate tquaily luruujjliout the j country and not ducriohnate as between be-tween claasts or secuona U e contend that such duties as are laid on loieiga imports should be levied lor revenue onlyas contemplated in the national constitution I We emphatically disapprove of the course of tnose deuiociais who by combining with theicpubacanatbwar ted the expressed will ot the people In reiereuce to the tariff and prevented prevent-ed the restoration 01 silver to ItS right place as money We endorse the income tax provision of the tariff law by which a more equtabie distribution Is made ot the burdens of taxation and wealth as well as want is required to contribute its share to the public expense We endorse tan acts 01 tue democratic democra-tic congress and administration In abohsuiug the oppressive and anti American federal election laws and thus securing lreedom to citizens at the polls In so revising the pension lists that the frauds which have robbed tne treasury of vast sums of money will be I prevented in luture while no worthy pensioner will be deprived of the aid to which his services are entitled In restoring tJ a religious organization organiza-tion in Utau its personal property f which was confiscated under the provisions pro-visions of law with the prospect ot the furtnerrestoration of the zeal estate also escheated In the appointments which have been made of actual residents of the territory to public office many of them native to he soil of Utah a policy aU together different from that of republican republi-can administrations In throwing open to settlement the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations by which a vast area of tillable grazing graz-ing and mineral lands will be utilized by white labor and skill and be added to the wealth of Utah In passing an enabling act by which Utah may enter the union as a free i and sovereign stateon an equal footing with the existing states For this Utah owes a debt of gratitude to the democratic demo-cratic congress and president whose Kind treatment of this territory stands out in striking contrast to that harshness harsh-ness and enmitv extended by republican republi-can congresses and administrations for thirty years We are proud of our delegate to Congress Con-gress Hon J L Rawins to whose fidelity perseverence and splendid political tact and energy the numerous measures of legislation BO beneficial to Utah have been obtained His unparalleled unpar-alleled success has demonstrated to the people of Utan that they made no mistake mis-take in sending him to the national legislature where h was recognized as the peer of his associates and a man of mars and ability We denounce the republican party for its obstruction to those itmtdcal measures demanded by the country to rescue trade industry and business from the chaos into which they were drifting through republican legislation and misrule For attempting to foist the blame upon the democratic party for the eLect e-Lect c repuulicau maladmimetra tionBy the demonetization of silva and the unconstitutional and partial system sys-tem of class protection the masses of the people have befn impoverished the agricultural and laboring classes oppressed op-pressed and the land disturbed by the riots of dissatisfied workmen and the cries of the unemployed We point to the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah as a sample of the In competency partisanship and folly which that party would exhibit if placed in power In the new state tIn attempting to deprive the public schools of onesixth of the revenue essential es-sential to their support refused to grant necessary funds for the university univer-sity the auricultual college and other public institutions of an educational and reformatory character tried to appropriate ap-propriate large sums of public money as bounties lor lavored private industries indus-tries did make expenditures for which no revenue was provid d drafted memorials to congress containing errors of fact and fallacies in principle resorted re-sorted to evasion of dutv and political trickery which were disgusting to onlookers on-lookers and made the assembly a laugh innetoek to the public We appeal to the people of Utah to adhere to the principles of the party which has endured since the nation was founded and to see to it that the coming state shall rest upon the broad foundation of those doctrines which the father of democracy promulgated We demand that the constitution of the new state shall be framed on a nonpartisan basis shall provide for the equal protection of all law abiding citizens citi-zens zensWe demand that economy shall rule in all branches of the public service that public money shall be expended only for public uses and that no clasa of the community shall be specially favored by the state to the detriment of any other claB = We rejoice In the fact that it is I through the labors of a democratic delegate del-egate that a democratic congress nt its hid regular session has given to Utah the ircedt m for which she so lone appealed ap-pealed to republican adrflinJstwtioiis in vain find that a democratic president presi-dent signed the enabling act as soon as it was presented to him In view ol the benefits conferred by the democratic party upon this territory terri-tory and the utter absence of any benefit ben-efit received from the republican party I and of the undying principles ot liberty and equal rights which democracy upholds up-holds we are fully confident that the people Utah who are not forgetful or ungrateful will so rally to tne polls in November that the ictorv of 1892 will ba repeated and Utah will enter the union crowned with glory as a free and democratic State The democrats of Utah are unequivocally unequivo-cally in favor of woman suffrage and the political rights and privileges of women equal with those ot tneniuclud ing elieibiiity to office and we demand that such guarantees shall be provided in the constitution of the state of Utah as will secure to the women of Utah these inestimable rights And we demand that in providing for the settlement and dispoal of the public pub-lic lands granted to the state of Utah care should be taken to prevent epecu lat on therein and to provide for small holding and that the amble portion thereof should le granted only to actual act-ual settlers upon and cultivators of the same We denounce as unAmerican any society or organization that is pledged to deprive any citizen of his right to vote or hold ullice on account of his religious re-ligious beliefs or nationality |