Show 1 O JF J T DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS To the People of Utah Delivered at Salt Lake City en Saturday June 16th by 1 harerdtorial DJ osrasia Convjnti Resolved Tnat 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 torm of an address to the people of I Utah I 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 1 in the national platforms and imbedded imbed-ded in the harts of its members We are emphatically in favor of I equal rights to all and special privileges privil-eges to none of the greatest possible liberty to every indivmual compatible with the public welfare of the advancement advance-ment and support ot home industries of the maintenance of local eelfyovern ment to the fullest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the n a ional constitution We are in lavor of such reform oft of-t 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 unon the necessaries of life for the purpose of providing revenue for the necessary expenses ot government and not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We are 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 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 DV which a heedea measure meas-ure to provide public revenue is delayed de-layed causing uncertainty and doubt in cojiniercial and manufacturing circles and thus pard zing industry and arrtsting trace TJ the factious hindrances wlch ale s1I1 thrown in the way ot the Wilsju bill by republican republi-can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it IE making and the disasteis that are consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration of 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 hich beginning with the panic ol 1S73 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible seventy depressing de-pressing the agricultural interess of the country creating unrest and discontent dis-content am jiig the oppressed laboring classes and increasing the armies of tramps which swarmed over the land culminated in the panic of ls > 3 and still spreads its blight upon trade and industry We call attention to the undeniable Tact thet the republican party took the government from the democratic administration ad-ministration in Ib89 with 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 the republican patty as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the repub lican financial crime ot 1873 and de < claie that only in and through the democratic party can the people of the United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true bimetalism which in eludes tie free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold We believe that this can be done with safety and profit to this nation by American action ac-tion independent of European agreement agree-ment if 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 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 tariffs placed upon lead and wool and other commodities commod-ities have raised their price or benefited benefit-ed the producer of such materials vhile 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 ithucountry for services in its defense shall be secured in 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 government 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 inow indisputable fad that no pretext remains for charcing that the majority ot the people Utah are in opposition o national authority la the passage through the house and its i report m the senate of a liberal and excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a state 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 tide residents resi-dents of the territory to the various otlices in the gift of Piwernment instead in-stead of men from other sections of the country unfamiliar th our people and the situation of oi > r 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 years 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 b en-ergy and fidelity to the interests of the i people of Utah We denounce the hyprocrisy 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 partv 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 is lit reasoning for a party which affirms af-firms that the foreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported good purchased by the American people We arraign the republican party for its treacherous course in relation to the gocalled industrial armies Having Hav-ing brought the laboring classes into the conditions under which they suffer VlTouli the Tleious legislation el t = i > 5 long career of power republicans have fostered if not oiijiinated the move went upon Washington by thousand of the unemployed They have interfered inter-fered with the ellorts ol the judicialy and the executive in different places to enforce the law They have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of goVernment goV-ernment 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 l we include these local republicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule uoon the governor opprobrium op-probrium upon tin judges and insult upon the militia and the constabulary while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seek inz to turn back the tide of poverty which was flowing into the 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 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 required for the support sup-port of the resident poor and some of whom sought btain 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 trodnced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be afforded to oppressed and needy working population and prosperity be assured to the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the republican re-publican 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 ae 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 i coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 which is he only true solu Ilion I lion 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 against whom in its putionns and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility from its inception Its simu lated affection is coiuciiient with the appearance of a possibility of reiiubli can support in the territory and that its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness which the spider reels for the flyWe We denounce t only republican leg islature ot 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 the territory by refusing to appropriate suflicienc lunde for the agricultural college and to carry on the university according to the provisions of this law creating the institution and requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments stud also by endeavoring endeav-oring 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 benefit private enterprises For striving 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 For defeating legislation which would be for the general intsf eat but not favorable fa-vorable to republican Jiceineut For making appropriations after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the educational institutions 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 l legisla-tors running away in hot haste to avoid an issue which they had raised themselves I 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 UDDer 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 I 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 of the territory ter-ritory We endorse the actior of Governor Caleb W West in the interposition of the veto power vested in hint 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 haye 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 peo ule 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 cm be put into force and produce their effect P which works for the greatest good to he greatest numbr wnich is tile i e of monopolies and the friend of the mas es which does not depend upon an ue man however powerful for ito guidance or its victory and nich will maintain and hear off triumphant tri-umphant those sacred doctrines and institution in-stitution for wnich the fat ers of our country fought and bled an 1 to which we hereby pledge our faiu our devo nn 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 WM K REID Secretary DAVID EVANS JOHN T CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MONSON 1 J SlJCWABT Committee |