Show it DEMOCRATIC ADDKESS To the People of Utah Delivered at Salt Lake City on Saturday June 16th by the Territ orial De oo ratio Conventio Resolved That as th6 convention was not called to make nominations or formulate a platiorin or principle the following be adopted as the sentiments of the convention to be pitfaenfd in the lorm of an address to the people of Utatr We the democrats of Utah in convention con-vention assembled hereby declare our devotion to the time honored principles of the democratic party as enunciated in the national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in the harts of itb members We are emphatically in favor of equal rights to all and special privileges I privil-eges to none of th greatest possible liberty to every Inuiviuual compatible I with the pubic vveltare uf the advance meat and fcuport ol hume industries of the maintenance ot local Bfcliyoveru ment to the tallest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the n < t ional couetitution We are in lavor of such reform of the tariff as is consistent with the In tercels ot toe consumer and the producer pro-ducer and declare that unties upon foreign imporu should oe levied l upon the luxuries so far as possible and not upon tue uecessttries 01 lite for th8 purpose of ptoviamg revenue for LLe necessary expenses of government and not lor the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We are opuosed to the bounty system by which the many are taxed for the enrichment oi a few We demand the speedy passage of the bill for trrilf reform now pending in the senate including the pro isbn for an income tax by which those lar e property holders who are best 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 heeaed measure i meas-ure to provide public revenue is delayed i 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 reV bli can senators are due to the blow progress pro-gress it is making and the disasteis that ure consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration ot silver to the constitutional 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 terriole severIty s depressing de-pressing the agricultural iuteress if the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content am ag the oppressed laboring classes and mcreatjiiig the armies ot tramps which swarmed over the land culminated in the panic of 18i > 3 and still spreads its blight upon trade and industry We call attention to the undeniable fact thst the republican party took the government from the democratic administration ad-ministration in ISbJ virn more than a hundred million dollars in the national treasury and turned it back to the democratic party in 1S93 with a treasury practically bankrupt We denounce the silver policy of the republican part 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 tae people of tue United States expect tile reestablishment reestablish-ment of true bimetalism which includes in-cludes ti > e tree coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gOld We believe Umtthis can be done with safety and profit to this nation oy American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment if international cooperation cannot can-not be immediately obtained We denounee the icpubhcan policy of protection as embodied in Ihe < infamous infa-mous McKinlej law and reaffirmed by that uartv in its moat recent 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 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 large 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 Its defense shall be secured their rights Imposters impost-ers and fraudulent pension agents shall not be permitted to further bleed the body politic In the exercise of the federal forces to suppress lawlessness where power to 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 tIn t-In the restoration to the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty confiscated under the provisions of congressional law and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property EO escheated in yiew ot the now indisputable fact that no pretext remains for charging that the majority ot the people of Utah are in opposition to national authority in the passage through the house and its report in the senate of a liberal and excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a etate on an equal footing witn the existing states and we urge its speedy enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and mopt prosperous of the existing territories In the appointment of bona fide 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 I 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 vears of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of our delegate in congress Hon J L Rawlins Raw-lins and offer his able and successful services as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy and fidelity to the interests of the people of Utah We denounce the hyprocrisy 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 arttues that effects precede their causes is 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 tne republican party for its treacherous course in relation to the BOcailed iudublrml armies HavIng Hav-Ing brought the laboring classes into the conditions under which they suffer thrpuh thf Tirimjf legislation of 9 I r long career of power republicans have I fostered if not originated the movement move-ment upon Washington by thousands of the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the eflorts ol the judiciary arid the executive in different places to enforce the law They have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of goy ernrneut of thousands of homeless men made desperate by reimbhcan legislation leg-islation hoping that their presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false impression that the party in power is responsible for thirty years ot republican misrule III this arraignment we include those local lepublicaus who have end avore1 to cast ridicule upiu the governor op pri biium upon tile judgts and insult upon the militia and the constabulary 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 so nipdthize with the dis trees of our rellow citizens the unem I ployed working people of the country and particularly or those who are dwellers in our territory We deplore the policy which has brought into our 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 arid some of wnom sought to obtain the work which was needed by our own population We declare rt to be ourconvictIOn that only by the reforms which Will be introduced in-troduced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be affordEd to the oppressed and needy working population and prosperity be assured 10 the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the republican re-publican party by which they neck to decieve the voters of the United States into the belief that they are friends to silver by linking it withthe heresy of I protection The terms bimetalism and the enlarged Ise of silverby 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 un-limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 which is the only true solution 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 K dinst whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility from its inception Its simulated simu-lated affection is coincident with the appearance of a possibility of republican republi-can support in the terrItory and tits t-its support was the only cause of its i new attitude It is the unselfish tend ernees whicn the spider feels for the flyWe We denounce the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah territOlY For its waste of pnblic time and money in vain endeavors to manufacture party capital For its opposition to the educational interests of tbe territory by refusing to appropriate sufficient funds for the agricultural college and to carry on the university according to the provisions of tha law creating the institution and requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments and also by endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the public schools in a icheme to take away part oi the revenue rev-enue necessary to their support and divert di-vert it for the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to benefit uriyate enterprises For striving Jo commit the representatives represent-atives of the people in memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation ol fact and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple jjor defeating legislation which would oe for the general interest but not ta I7orii hi < to j 4 i > Bliorti Jvununt i For making appropriation after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the J educational inatr 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 legislators legisla-tors running away in hot haste to avoid an issue which they had raised them telves 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 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 parsimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrower statesmanship than any other legislative legisla-tive assembly in the history uf the territory ter-ritory We endorse the action of Governor Caleb W West In the interposition of the veto power vested in hiru 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 have 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 support the party of the constitution and the peo Die from which alone political redemption redemp-tion can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation which 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 wniclr works for the greatest good to the greatest nutnb wnich is the foe ot monopolies and the friend of the masses which does not depend upon any one man however powerful for its guidance or its victory and which will maintain and bear off triumphant tri-umphant those sacred doctrines and institutions in-stitutions for which the fathers of our Country fought and bled and to which T3 hereby pledge our faith our devotion devo-tion and our energies with the full conviction that success will crown our efforts and Utah will enter the Union as a free and vigorous democratic state WILLIAM H KING Chairman WH K REID Secretary DAVID EVANS JOHN T CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MONSON 1 J STJ WART Committee |