Show r I W ii JBJ OCfiATlG PLATFORM isRttod and Adopted the Territorial I Convention intension at Salt Lakes Sat urday September 15 1894 We the democrats ot Utah in convention con-vention assembled hereby reaffirm our adherence to toe principles of justice and free government which the democratic demo-cratic party was organized to establish and preserve and which have been I embodied in the platform adopted by the democracy in their national con tions We believe in a strict construction of the constItutionthe peoples grant of power to the federal government the end that the rights of the respec ve states may be preserved that lOcal fgoyernm may be secured and I v personal liberty may be exercised le fullest extent consistent with mbhc safety re believe in wise economy in pub o expenditures that officials should 06 held to a strict accountability for their acts that the employment of the taxing puwer in any form by which the few are entitled to the impoverishment of the many by which trade is destroyed de-stroyed or obstructed by which trusts are created and fostered and monopolies 4 monop-olies sustained is a wicked perversion of the powers designed for the common 7 good I We believe in commercial and industrial indus-trial freedom and resent all attempts to prevent its exercise in the promotion d promo-tion of education by the state I in the full development of our national r resources in the encouragement and I advancement of home industries in 9 the protection of labor from the encroachments en-croachments of capital and in equal rights to all special privileges to l none J Wedemand the passage of a law roi the free and unlimited coinqge of both silver and gold at a ratio of 1 to 16 without waiting for the consent of any other nation and that the government I govern-ment shall pay out silver so coined as a 1 money of ultimate redemption the same as gold We commend the democratic congress con-gress and administration of the measures meas-ures oi reform which they have succeeded suc-ceeded in effecting by which hundreds I of millions 01 dollars will be annually 15 saved by American consumers and all classes of people will be benefited bene-fited In the arrangement ot tariff duties we fayor such adjustment as I will operate equally throughout the country and not discriminate as between be-tween classes or sections We contend I that such duties as are laid on foreign t imports should be levied for revenue onlyas contemplated in the national constitution We emphatically disapprove of the course of those democrats who by combining with the republicansthwar ted the expressed will of the people in reference to the tariff and prevented prevent-ed the restoration of 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 of the burdens of taxation and wealth as well as want is required to contribute its share to the public expense We endorse the acts of the democratic democra-tic congress and administration In abolishing the oppressive and anti 1 American federal election laws and thus securing freedom to citizens at the polls In so revising the pension lists that the frauds wnich have robbed the treasury of vast sums of money will be prevented in luture while no worthy pensioner will be deprived of the aid to which his services are entitled In restoring to a religious organization organiza-tion in Utau its personal property which was confiscated under the pro Visions of law with the prospect of the runnerreucoration of the real estate also escheated In the appointments which have 1 been made of actual residents of the territory to public office many of them 1 native to the soil of Utah a policy altogether al-together different from that of republican republi-can administrations j In throwing open to settlement the TJintah and Uncompabgre reservations I 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 and sovereign stateon an equal footing with the existing states For this Utah owes a debt of gratitude to the democratic J demo-cratic congress and president whose xind treatment of this territory stands out in striking contrast to that harshness harsh-ness and enmity extended by republican republi-can congresses and administrations for thirty years We are proud of our delegate to Congress Con-gress Hon J L Rawlins to whose fidelity perseverance and splendid political tact and energy the numerous measures of legislation so beneficial to Utah have been obtained His unparalleled unpar-alleled success has demonstrated to the people of Utah that they made no mistake mis-take in sending him to the national I legislature where he was recognized as the peer of his associates and a man of mark and ability We denounce the republican party for its obstruction to those remtdcal measures demanded by the country to rescue trade industry and business from the chaos into which they were drifting through republican legislation and misrule afteisptuig to joist the blame upon the democratic partytor the effects k ef-fects of republican maladministra tionBy the demonetization of silver and I the unconstitutional and partial system I sys-tem of class protection the masses of the people have been impoverished the 1 agricultural and laboring classes oppressed J op-pressed and the land disturbed by the J riots of dissatisfied workmen aDd the I cries of the unemployed We point to the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah as a sample of the in j competency partisanship and folly which that party would exhibit if placed in power in the new state wIn attempting to deprive the public schools of onesixth of the revenue essential es-sential to their support refused to grant necessary fund for the university univer-sity the agricultual college and other public institutions of an educational and reformatory character tried to appropriate ap-propriate large sums of public money as bounties lor favored private industries indus-tries did make expenditures for which no revenue was providd drafted memorials to congress containing errors of fact and fallacies in principle resorted re-sorted to evasion of duty and political trickery which were disgusting to onlookers on-lookers and made the assembly a laughing laugh-ing stock 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 tbe 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 We demand that economy shall rule in all branches of the public service 4 that public money shall be expended only for public uses and that no class of the community shall be specially favored by the state to the detriment gl any other elill > t i f We rejoice in the fact that it Is I through the labors of a democratic delegate del-egate that a democratic congress at its first regular session has given to Utah the freedom for which she so long appealed ap-pealed to republican administrations in vain and that a aemocratic president presi-dent signed the enabling act as soon as it was presented to him In view oi 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 and of the undying orinciples of 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 the polls in November that the victory of 1892 will bu 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 men including includ-ing eligibility 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 tu prevent specu laton therein and to provide for small holdings and that tile arable portiou thereof should Le granted only to actual act-ual settlers upon and cultivators of the same We denounce as unAmerican any I society or organization that is pledged to deprive any citizen of his right to vote or hold office on account of his religious ligious beliefs or nationality |