Show I COUKTY DEMOCKATIC PLATFORM Adopted at the Convention Held in Provo On Monday October 11694 The democratic party of Utah county in convention assembled hereby proclaims the following principles princi-ples We reaffirm our allegiance to the party principles as st forth in the national platform adopted at Chicago in June 1892 and we are in hearty accord ac-cord with the territorial platform adopted at Salt Lake city on September Septem-ber 15 1894 We rejoice with the whole people of the territory that Lsah is about to enter en-ter the union as a free and soverign state Local selfgovernment is a democratic I dem-ocratic principle vouchsafed to us Our party haH again demonstrated that the people may be trusted We extend to the demoratic congress con-gress and president our heartfelt gratitude I grat-itude for the many expressions of goodwill good-will to the people of Utah in the passage pas-sage of the liberal enabling act in restoring re-storing to the Mormon church its confiscated confis-cated properly in opening the luumn reservations for settlement in the J wise appointment of bona fide citizens of Utah to local oflios in the extensive grants ofland for various public purposes pur-poses in the enfranchisement of hundreds of our citizens by the provisions provis-ions of the enabling act and by the more recent amnesty proclamation of President Cleveland all of which acts I of friendship are in striking contrast to the treatment accorded Utah by the I republican party lroudly wo point to the record of our t delegate in congress Hon J L Raw line whose untiling zeal great ability tact and diplomacy have secured to us so mauv acts benetieml to Utah His indefatigable labor and unparail leI le-I succes will surely be approved arid rewarded re-Warded by his return to congress with a vastly increastd majority We further commend the action of j the democraticcongrees and administration administra-tion for the measure of tariff reform effected whereby Hundreds of million J of dollars will be saved annually to people of this country Obstructed as they were at every move by determined opposition they nevertbeleEs succseded I in wresting from wealth and piutocrpcy a portion of the means of increasing their illgotttn gains and in rendering McKinley a lost cause We especially es-pecially enaorse the income tax provision pro-vision of the tariff law whereby those I 1 most able will be required to bear amore a-more just portion of the burdens of taxation J In the repealinc of the federal election o elec-tion law and thus securing freedom oi r citizens at the polls In revising the pension lists and pension laws so as to prevent spoliation spolia-tion of the public treasury by the undeserving un-deserving while dealing liberally and 1 justly with those who deserve the aid 01 government It behooves the people of this county and this territory to keep the republican re-publican party out of power It is a r party of broken and postmortem promises prom-ises whose policy prompted by avarice and individual aggrandizement has precipitated the recent panic and f I brought this country to the yelge off of-f ruin ruinWe arraign the recent republican legislature of Utah for its intense J partisanship and inefficiency for its J attempt to divert the public moneys from their legitimate use to the payment pay-ment of bounties to select private enterprises en-terprises Had it not been for the wise action or the governor more than 80 000 would have been taken from the public school tuna For its refusal to appropriate sufficient funds lor the Insane In-sane Asylum the Agricultural College L and the University of Utah by which 4 parsimony those institutions ran only J be cr rried on as required by law by loans which must be met bv the people peo-ple in the future For uassinc unwise laws and refusing to nuts others which would be for the common good Wecall attention to the efficiency and honesty which has marked every department of our present county government gov-ernment Wise economy should rule in every branch of public service We believe that competency and fidelity are the only qualification for office We are in favor of home industries We are in favor of the full enfranchisement enfran-chisement of women and pledge ourselves I our-selves to use our every effort to the end that our new constitution shall provide b for woman suffrage on an equality with men We call upon the people to see to it that the state of Utah shall be founded upon the broad principles of the democratic demo-cratic party which are the principles of jutlce and free sovernment Care must be exerceu trat monopolies shall not get control of the public lands granted the state of Utah and that J as far aa possible these lands be granted only to the actual settler We declare ourselves in favor ofthe free public school system where the children of the rich and the poor alike may partake freely of the blessings of public instruction We are in favor of the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold Relying upon the fidelity intelligence and patriotism of the people of Utah county we confidently expect by their votes a complete vindication of the principles herein enumerated |