Show J 1I7 n IIIW Sg DEMouELIW DDE1 d 0 Delivered at Salt To the People c1 TT orTrttrdart June 16th > by LAke City C ria1 J3a osracic Ooaventi the Tor 3 esolved That as the convention was not called to make nominations or formulate a platiorm 01 principles the following be adopted as the sentiments of toe convention to be piebeut d in the torin ol an address to the people of Utah We the democrats of Utah in convention con-vention assembled hereby declare our devotion to tb < s time honored principles of the democratic party ao 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 privil-eges to none i ol tue greatest possible liberty to every individual compatible with the pubnc vellare of the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries of the maintenance or local eellKOVeru ment to the tallest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the na ional constitution We are in lavor of such reform of 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 nut upon the necessaries of life lor the purpose of providing revenue for tl e necessary expenses 01 government ana not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We sre opposed to the bounty system by which the many are taxed for the enrichment of a few We demand the speedy passage of the bill for trriff reform now pending in the senate including the pro ision for an income tar by which those large property holders who are best able shall bear their just share of the burden bur-den ot taxation And we denounce the obstructive policy of the republicans in congress uy which a heeded measure meas-ure to provide public revenue is de laved 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 republican republi-can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it is making and the disarms that ire < conEequent upon the delay We demand the restoration or silver to the co stitutional position it occupied occu-pied as money previous to the act of 1873 by which the republican part cast down that historic and essential money metal and caused the increasing increas-ing disasters which beginning with the panic ot 1S73 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible severity depressing de-pressing the agricultural iuteiess of the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content am ng the oppr ssed laboring l classes and increasing the armies of tramps which swarmed over the land culminated in the panic of 183 > and still spreads its blight upon trade and industry We call attention to the undeniable fact that the leoublican party tOOK the government from tue oeuiocratic administration ad-ministration in 18b9 wiiu wore than a hundred million doilais in the national treasury and turned it back to the democratic party in 1S93 with a treasury pnirtieaiiy bankrupt We denounce the silver policy of the republican pal ty as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the reoub licau financial crime of Ib73 and de ale that only in and thiouch the i fttic party can the people of there I AS expect the the-re estabiish talibm which in Clf i silver at the v lieve Inri ac J azree Deration can ained the lepubhcan policy o Is embodied in be infamouS infa-mouS McKinlej law and reaffirmed b > 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 various kinds which still afflict our country We deny that the high tar ifs placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benefited tilt 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 Jn 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 in their rights impost era and fraudulent pension agents ahall not be permitted to further bleed the body politic In the exercise of the federal forces to suppress lawlessness where power to do BO is clearly vested in the federal authority au-thority and declining to interffre when it would intrude on the rights of a local government In the restoration to the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints prop erty c < ntlseatea under the provisions or congressional law i and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property s < > escheated in view ot the now indisputable fact that no pretext remains for charging that the majority of the people of Utah are in opposition to national authority In the passage through the houe and its report in the senate of a liberal and excellent bill for the admission ol Utah as a etate on au equal toofng with the existing states i and we urje its speedy enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and mOt prosperous of the existing territories In the appointment of bona tide residents resi-dents of the territory to the various oQices in the gift of government instead in-stead of men irom other sections of tI e iountrv unfamiliar with our people and the Pituation of < > nr affairs as was the rule undo republican administrations administra-tions And we further endorse > all efforts to maintain the dignity an I authouty of the government and remove the effects of over thirty vears of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of onr Delegate in congress Hon J L Raw sins and offer his able and successful fieryipeB as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy aod fidelity to the interests of the people f Utah We denounce the hyprocriBy of that portion of the republican press and party which infanioisly endeavors to charge the effects of the legislative arrore of a third of a century noon 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 ic tit reasoning a party which af firmrthat the foreigner pays the tariff tJi ie imported goods purchased by tl ican people We arr ha republican psrty for its treacherous courpe in relation to the ocalled industral armies Hav ing broiFb the laboring elapses into tbe conditions under which they suffer brQugh the Yieiouj legislation o I F T 7 = iJ long rPr of power republicans have fostered if not originated uliC m ye mem upon V tvajjiuatou uy thousauua of the unemuloyed They have inter I iVrtd with the efforts ol the juJiciaiy and the executive in different places I to e forc he law Kiev have encjur i aged he massing at the seat oi government I gov-ernment of thousands of homeless men I jiMd desperate by republican leg islation hoping tnt thei presence would embarrass the administra I Lou and convey the false impresr I that the party in power is ie5ponsihle for thu ty years of repuhlicnn misrule In this arraignment we include those local republicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule up n tue aoemor op prubrium ujou tile jUdgs and insult upon the militia and the constabulary while those officers were engaged In I prepervirig the public peace and seek I mz to turn back the tide of poverty which was flowing into the territory I Ve deeply sympathize with the distress dis-tress of our lellow citizens the unemployed unem-ployed working people of the country and particularly of those who are I dwellers in our territorY We deplore the policy which has brought into our midst large bodies of destitute men who have been supplied with the very means that was lequirtd for the support sup-port of the resident poor and some of wnom sought obtain the work wbich was needed by our on population We declare it to be our conviction that only he the reforms which Will be in j trodnced 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 winch they seek to decieve the voters of the United States into the belief that they are friends to silver by linking it withthe heresy of protection The terms bimetalism and 4the 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 un-limited coinage of silver at toe ratio of 16 to 1 which is he only true solution solu-tion of the money problem and tne only genuine bimetallic policy We denounce the national republican republi-can party For its false pretenses of sudden regard for toe people of Utah against whom in its platIorms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility Irom its inception Its simulated simu-lated affection is coincident w th the appearance of a possibility of republican republi-can support in tue territory and that its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness whicn the spider reels for the flyWe We denounce theonly legislature leg-islature of Utah terntoiy For us wastt of public time and money in vain endeavors to manufacture party capital For its opposition to the ain a-in of the territory by refusing to appropriate sullicient funds for the agricultural college and to carry on tile university according to the provisions of th law creating the institution and requiring the estibh hineut of necessary neces-sary departments hud also bv endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the public schools in a scheme to tuke away part of the reyj dine neeebsaiv to their support and divert di-vert it fur the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to ben fit private enterprises For stnvTii to commit the representatives represent-atives of the people in memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation 01 fact and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple pleFor For defeating legislation which would be for the general interest but not favor fa-vor ble to re uohcaa advancement For making appropriations after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the educational insti uuous and the deaf mute reform school insane asylum and kindred icslittiuone and neglecting to provide sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations inconsiderately nwle The spectacle of republican legislators legisla-tors runl1llJl away in hot haste to nvoid an issue which they had raised themselves them-selves evaaiuv the cllicers sent to arrest ar-rest them anti hiding ulwl 1 a republican majority could be assuied thus stopping stop-ping the progress of public business in the upper house of tne legislature and bringing that body into public contempt con-tempt was a scene unparalleled in tne annals of our country and exhioits the republican party in an attitude of cowardice and absuiditv The republican legislature showed more bombast and les capacity ruoze parsimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrower siateu3liip than any other legislative legisla-tive assembly in the history of the territory ter-ritory We endorse the actior of Governor t Caleb W Vest ill the interposition of j the veto power vested in him by law j to prevent the enactment of vicumb i and partisan measures and insulting and misleading memorials oy whuii tile j republican legislature would but for his action haye injured and disgraced the territory And we recognize in tbe governor a firm discreet and abe executive wnose influence has been cast on the side of law and order and the public ueitare generally We confidently appeal to the citizens of Utah to s and by anti support the party of the constitution and the people peo-ple from which alone political redemp tin can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation whic will demonstrate the superiority of its princ pies and policy as soon as measures of reform it haS inaugurated can beput into force and produce their effects winch works for the greatest cood to the greatest number winch is tile foe of monopolies and the friend o the masses widen does not depend upon any one man however powerful for its guidance or its victory i aud which will maintain and bear off triumphant tri-umphant those sacred doctrines and institutions in-stitutions for WIIch the fathers of our ionitr > fought and bled and to which WI hereby pledge our faith our devo tii1n and our eneraiep with the full conviction that succtss will crown our efforts and Utah ill enter the Union as a free and vigorous democratic state WILLIAM H KINO Chairman Wu K REID cretary DAVID EVANS JohN T CAIXE 0 W POWERS JOSKPII MllNSON 1 J bTKWAKT Committee |