Show > DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS To the People cf Utah Delivered at Salt Lake City on Saturday June 16th by the Territorial Da ocratio Convanti Resolved That as the convention was not called to make nominations or formulate a platform ot principles the following he adopted as the sentiments of the convention to be presented 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 principles of the deniedtic party as enunciated in the national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in tile harts of its members We uie emphatically in favor of equal lights to all and special privileges privil-eges to none of the greatest possible liberty to every individual cQmpatible with the public welfare of the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries of the maintenance of local eelfyovern ment to the fullest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the na ional constitution We are in favor of such reform of the tariff as is consistent with the Interest In-terest 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 upon the necessaries of life for the purpose of providing revenue for tle necessary expenses ot government and not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We ere opposed to the bounty system by which the many are taxed for the enricnment of a few We 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 best able shall bear their just share of the burden bur-den of taxation And we denounce the obstructive policy of the republicans in congress uv which a heeaed measure meas-ure to provide public revenue Is delayed de-layed causing uncertainty and doubt in commercial and manufacturing circles and thus paralyzing industry and arresting trade To the factious hindrances which are still thrown in the way of the Wilson bill by repabh 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 costitutional position it occupied occu-pied as money previous to the act of 1873 by which the republican party cast down that historic and essential money metal and caused the increasing increas-ing disasters which beginning with the panic ot 1873 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible severity depressing de-pressing the agricultural interess of the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content among the oppn ssed 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 undeniaLle fact that the republican party took the S government from the democratic administration S ad-ministration in 18S9 wiih more than a S hundred million dollars in the national treasury and turned it back to the democratic party in 1893 with a treasury practically bankrupt We denounce the silver policy of there the-re ubUcan party as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the reoub S iican financial crime of 1873 and de date that only in and throuch the democratic party can the people of the United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true binietalism which includes in-cludes the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold We believe that this can be done with safety and 4 Cprofit to this nation by American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment if international cooperation cannot can-not be Immediately obtained I i 5 We denounce the republican policy of protection as embodied in the infa nonS McKmlej law and reaffirmed by ihat party in its most recent utterances utter-ances We regard it as an assistantS assistant-S agency to the prostration of silver in producing the poverty and distress and social calamities various kinds which still afflict our country We deny that the high tariffs placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benefited benefit-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 f freedom of elections In formulating and endeavoring to enact a bill to reform the existing exorbitant ex-orbitant system of tariffs In revising the psnsion lists so that while all persons deserving the aid of the country for services in its defense shall be secured in their rights impostS S agents ers and fraudulent pension shall not be permitted to further bleed the body politic 1 In the exercise of the federal forces rto to suppress lawlessness where power do so is clearly vested in the federal authority au-thority and declining to interfere when it would intrude on the rights of a local nVArnmpnt In the restoration to the church ot Jesofl Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty confiscated under the provisions of congressional law and we favor tha immediate restoration also of the real property BO escheated in view ot the now indisputable fad that no pretext remains for charging that the majority of the people of Utah are jn opposition to national authority In the passage through the houseS house-S and its report in the senate of a liberal S and excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a state on an equal footing with the existing states and wo urge its speedy enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and mot prosperous of the existing territories 5 In the appointment of bona tide residents resi-dents of the territory to the various offices in the gift of the government 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 we further endorse all efforts to maintain the dignity and authority of the government and remove the effects of over thirty years of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of onr delegate in congress Hon J L Raw Jins and offer his able and successful services as evidence of democratic en S S firgy and fidelity to the interests of the people of Utah We denounce the hyprocney of that portion of the republican press and party which infamously endeavors to charge the 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 1 ie fit 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 treacherouB course in relation to the cocalled industrial armies Having Hav-ing brought the laboring classes into the conditions under which they suffer t g h hO YItQU 5 Qn 1 I long career of power republicans have fostered if not originated the move merit upon Washington by thousands of the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the efforts of the judiciaiy and the executive in different places to enforce the law They have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of goy eminent of thousands of homeless men made desperate by remibhcai legislation leg-islation hoping that their presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false iuapres ion that the party in power is responsible for thirty years Of republican misrule In this arraignment we include those local republicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule up > n the governor opprobrium op-probrium upon the judges and insult upon the militia and the constabuluiy while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seeking seek-ing to turn hack the tide of poverty which was flowing into the territory We deeply sympathize with the distress dis-tress ot our telfow 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 our midst large bodies of destitute men I I who have been supplibd with the very means that was required for the support sup-port of the residentpoor and some of whom sought obtain the work which was needed by our own population We declare it to be our conviction that only by the reforms which will be in I trodnced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be afforded to the oppressed and needy working population and prosperity be assured u 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 Jinking it withthe heresy of protection The terms himetalism and the enlarged ase 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 the ratio of 16 to 1 which is the only true solu tion of the money problem and the only genuine bimetallic policy We denounce the national republican republi-can party For its false pretenses of sudden regard for the people of Utah against whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility from its inception Its simulated lated affection is coincident with the appearance of a possibility of republican can support in the territory and that its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness whicn the spider feels for the flyWe We denounce the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah territory for its waste of pnblic time and money in vain endeavors to manufacture party capital Fonts opposition to the educational interests of the territory by refusing to appropriate sufficient tunds for l agricultural college and to carry on t university according to the provision of th 3 law creating the institution an requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments and also by endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the public schools in a scheme to take away part of the revenue rev-enue necessary to their support and divert di-vert it for the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to benfit private enterprises For striving 10 commit the representatives represent-atives of the people in memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation 01 fact and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple For defeating legislation which would be for the general interest but not favorable fa-vorable to republican advancement For making appropriations after refusing re-fusing to Hive necessary support to the educational iiisti utions 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 legislator legisla-tor runuint away in hot haste to avoid an issue which they had 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 the progress of public business in the upper house of the legislature and bringing that body into public contempt con-tempt was a scene unparalleled in the annals ot our country and exhibits the republican party jn ap attitude of cowardice and absurdity The republican legislature showed more bombast and less capacity more parsimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrower statesmanship thanany other legislative legisla-tive assembly in the history of the territory ter-ritory We endorse the actior of Governor Caleb W West in the interposition of the veto power vested io him by law to prevent the euactjieut of vicious and partisan measures and insulting and misleading memorials oy which the republican legislature would but for Ins action have injured and disgraced the territory And we recognize in the governor a firm discreet an J 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 support the pacty of the constitution and the pea ole from which alone political redemption redemp-tion can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation whic will demonstrate the superiority of its principles and policy as soon as measures of reform it has inaugurated can be put into force and produce their effects wnich works for tile greatest good to the greatest numbr wnicii is i tile foe of mojinp dies aud the friend of the masses j whiCh does not depend upon any one man however powerful for its guidance or its victory and which will maintain and bear triumphant tri-umphant those sacred do trin L stitutions for which tha fath1 ox country fought aud bied an 37 we hereby pledge our faitl 7 tin and our energies w conviction that success wi 11 1 01 J j efforts and Utah will enter tilA u as a free and vigorous democratic t > il WILLIAM H KING Chairman WJT K REID Secretary DAVID EVANS JOHN T CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MOXSON 1 STKWABT Committee |