Show < DEMOCRATIC AUDKESS To tho People of Utah Delivered at Salt Lake Oity on Saturday June 10th by the Territorial Da ooratio Convents Resolved That as the convention was not called to make nominations or formulate a platform ot principles the following be 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 thi time honored principles of the democrntic party as enunciated In tbe national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in the harts of its members We are emphatically in favor of equal lights to all and special privileges privil-eges to none of the greatest possible liberty to every individual compatible with the public welfare of the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries i of the maintenance of local eellyoveru 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 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 not upon the necessaries of life for the purpose of providing revenue for the necessary expenses oi government and 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 triiff 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 by which a heeded measure meas-ure to provide public reveuue Is delayed de-layed causing uncertainly and doubt In commercial and manufacturing circles and thus paralyzing industry and arresting trade To the factious hindrances which are still thrown iu the way of the Wilson bill by republican republi-can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it IB making and the disaeteis that ire consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration of silver to tbe 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 of 1873 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible severity depressing de-pressing the agricultural interess of the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content am ii f the opprrssed laboring classes and increasing the armies of tramps which swarmed over the land culminated in the panic of 18P3 and still spreads its blight upon trade and industry We call attention to the undeniable fact that the republican party took the government from the democratic administration ad-ministration m 1889 wiili more than a 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 ublicll1 party as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the reoub lican financial crime of 1873 and de crate that only in and through the democratic party can the people of the United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true bJUietaliem which includes in-cludes tue free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold We believe that this can be done with safety und I profit to this nation by American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment international cooperation cannot can-not be Immediately obtained We denounce the republican policy of protection as embodied in the infamous infa-mous McKinle law and reaffirmed by 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 of various kinds which still afflict our country We deny that the high tarffa placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benefited benefit-ed the producer of euch 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 in their richts 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 ao is clearly vested in the federal authority au-thority and declining to interfAre when it would intrude on the rights of a local government In the restoration to the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty conGseated under the plovieions ot congressional law and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property BO escheated in view ot the now indisputable fact that no pretext remains for chareing that the majority iot the people of Utah are in opposition to national authority In the passage through the house and its report in the senate cf a liberal and excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a etate on an equal tooting with the existing states ana we nlfi8 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 thegevernment 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 ears of republican mis rule i111leVe 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 areues that effects precede their causes 3a fit reasoning for a party which affirms af-firms that the foreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported gooda purchased 5y the American people We arraign the republican party for its treacherous course in relation to the to called industrial armies Having Hav-ing brought the laborinp elapses into the conditions under which they suffers 1bg 1l tho 1 4Itl11 iRiblstj0i Qt suffer-s long career of power republicans have fostered if not originated the movement move-ment upon Washington by thousands of the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the efforts of the judiciary and the executive in different places to enforce the law They have encour ajted the massing at the seat of goy eminent of thousands of homeless men made desperate by republican 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 of republican misrule In this arraignment we include those local republicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule upon the coyernnr opprobrium op-probrium upon the judges and insult upon the militia and the constabulaiy while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seek inc to turn back the tide of uoverty which was flowing into tbe territory We 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 dwellers in our terri orY We deplore the policy which hasbrought into our midst large bodies of destitute men who have been supplied with the very means that was required for the support sup-port of the resident poor and some of wiiom 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 trod fced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be afforded to the oppressed and needy working Copulation and prosperity be assured 10 the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the re Hibhcan party by which 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 the enlarged jse of silver by which they seek to dazzle the eyes of the went and the south are only catch olrases 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 he only true solution solu-tion of the money problem and the only genuine bimetallic policy I We denounce the national republican i republi-can party For its false pretenses of sudden regard for the people of Utah against whom in its platforms and by xueiiie legislation it indicated intense lohtility from its inception Its simu lated affection is coincident With the appearance of a possibility of reoubli can support in the territory and tits t-its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness which the spider feels for the flyWe We denounce the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah territory For its waste of public time and money in vain endeavors to manufacture party capital For its opposition to the educational interests of tbe territory by refusine to appropriate sufficient funds for t agricultural college and to carry on t uniyeisity according to the provision of th J law creating the institution an I I requiring the establishment of neces Srtry departments and also by endeav onng 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 bentfit piiyate enterprises For striving to commit the representatives represent-atives of the people m memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation ol fact and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple For defeating legislation which would be for the general interest but not favorable voruble to republican advancement For making appropriations after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the educational iu utions and the deaf mute reform school insane asylum and kindred institutions and neglecting to provide sufficient revenue to meet the approbations inconsiderately made The spectacle of republican legislator legisla-tor running away in hot haste to uvoid 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 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 Ve endorse the actior of Governor Caleb W Weal in the interposition of the veto power vested in him by law to prevent the euactjieut 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 appeal to the citizens of Utah to stand by and support the party of the constitution and the people peo-ple irom which alone political redemption redemp-tion can come to this territory and permanent per-manent prosperity to the nation vvhici will demonstrate the superiority of its principles and policy as soon ag measures of reform it has inaugurated pan be put into force and produce their effects wllch works for the greatest good to thereat st number which is the foe of monopolies and the friend of the masses i which does not depend upon any one man however powerful for its guidance or its victory and which will maintain and hear triumphant tri-umphant those sacred do ° tiin L stitutions for which the fathj GUI country fought and bled an vr we hereby pledge our faitt vj ti in and our energies wt M conviction that success wil 1 cr r efforts and Utah will enter the oas o-as a free and vigorous democratic Btlc WILLIAM H KING Chairman WM K REID Secretary DAVID EvA s JOHN CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MONSON t J STKWABT Committee |