Show DEMOCRATIC ADJJliE S To the People of Utah Delivered at Sal Lake Oity on Saturday June 10th by tho Territorial Us ocrauc Convanti Resolved That as the convention was not called to make nominations or formulate a plattonn ot principles the following be adopted as the sentiment of the convention to be prebentd in the form ot an address to the people of Utah We the democrats of Utah in convention con-vention assembled hereby declare our devotion to the time honored principles of the democnilc party as enunciated 1 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 of the greategt possible liberty to every individual compatible with the pubic welfare of the advancement advance-ment and support of home industries of the maintenance of local sellgovern ment to the fallest rightful extent and of a strict construction of the na ional constitution We are in lavor I 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 ot life for the purpose of providing revenue for tl e necessary expenses oi government and not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise We ere opoosed I 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 trnff reform now pending in the senate including the provision for an income tax by which those large property holders who are best ab e shall bear their just share of the burden bur-den of taxation And we Jenounce the obstructive policy of the republicans in congress oy which a heeded measure meas-ure to provide public revenue is delayed 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 ot the Wilson bill by republican republi-can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it is making and the disasteis that re consequent upon the delay We demand the restoration ot silver to the co stitucioual position it occupied occu-pied as money previous to the act of 1873 by which the republican party J cast down that historic and essential money metal and caused the increasing increas-ing disasters which beginning with the panic of 173 and bursting forth at intervals with terrible seventy depressing I I de-pressing the agricultural inteiess of the country creating unrest ana discontent dis-content am ng me oppr ssed laboring classes and increasing the armies of tramps which swarmed over the land culminated in the panic of 1893 and still spreads its blight upon trade and lindustry We call attention to the undeniable Tact that the rouublican party tooK the government from tae Democratic administration ad-ministration III ISm viia more than a hundred rniilujii doilais in the national treasury and turned it back to the democratic party in 1893 with a treasury Tiruitiiiiilv hmilnunt J We denounce the silver policy of the republican pal ty as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the rewib lican financial crime of 1873 and de date that only in and Ihrouch the democratic party can the people of tile United States expect the reestablishment reestablish-ment of true bimetaliem which includes in-cludes te free coinage of silver at the jatio 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 t agree-ment if international cooperation can 1 not be immediately obtainea I Wo denounce the leputolican policy of protection as embodied in the infa mouB McKmlej 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 of various kinds which still afflict our country We deny that the high tarfft 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 i detrimental to the consumer and the I > 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 Ben Les 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 BO is clearly vested in the federal authority au-thority and aeclining to interfpre 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 i and we favor tl e immediate restoration also of the reai property so 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 with the existing states i 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 government 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 years of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse tbe official acts of onr delegate in congress Hon J L Rawlins Raw-lins and offer his able and successful services as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy nd fidelity to the interests of the peep y f Utah We denounce the hyprocrisy of that portion of the republican press and party hich infamously endeavors to charge tue effects of the legislative errore a third of a century upon a party wnich had but just entered into pow when those terrible evils over sprer u tl > untry The logic which argu hKt Tects precede their causes is tit reason for a party which af t firma lhit thE foreigner pays the tariff tax on th iJi orted goods purchased by the > rwr f in people 1 We a i en ae republican party for its trepcberrM J course in relation to the BOcall6J industrial armies HayIng Hay-ing brou n the laboring claeeeB into the eowJitioap undfir which they Buffer tDIi tl a yidoui 1e1ton l at i I long rppr of power republicans have I fostered if not originated the m ve nuint uuim Wasniu um oy thouaanu of the unemployed They have inter I fred f with the oflorts of the judicial aid the executive in different places to enforce the law They have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of goy ernment of thousands of homeless men mild desperate by republican legislation leg-islation hoping that their presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false impres ion that the party in power is re poneihl for thirty years Ot republican misrule In this arraignment we include those local republicans who have endeavored to cast ridicule up n toe luneuinr opprobrium op-probrium upon the judges and insult upon the militia and the conetabulaiy while those officers were engaged in preserving the public peace and seek i ing to turn hack the tide of poverty which was flowing into the territory We deeply sympathize with the distress dis-tress of our fellow 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 mfans that was required for the support sup-port of the resident poor and some of whom 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 introduced in-troduced by a democratic congress and administration can relief be afforded to the oppressed and needy working population and prosperity be assured to the toiling masses We denounce the false pretenses 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 binietalism and the enlarged jse of silver bj i vhich they seek to dazzle the eyes of he west and the south are only cutch ihrases to fool the unsophisticated rllev do not menu the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 which is he only true solu tion of the money problem and the only eiume bimetallic policy We denounce the national republican i republi-can party For its false pretenses of sudden regard for tue people of Utah against whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense lostility from its inception Its simu lated affection is coincident w th the appearance of a possioility of republican republi-can support in tne territory and that its support was the only cause of its new attitude It is the unselfish tenderness tend-erness whicii the spider leafs for the flyWe We denounce the only republican legislature leg-islature of Utah territoiy 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 refusing to appropriate sufficient lunda for the agricultural college and to carry on the university according to the provisions of th j law creating the institution and requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments and also Oy endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the public schools in a scheme to take away part of the rev enue necessary to their support and divert di-vert it for the purpose of giving bounties boun-ties to benefit unyate enterprise For striving to commit the representatives represent-atives of the people in memorials to congress to gross misrepresentation ol fact and egregious blunders in principle princi-ple pleFor For defeating legislation which would be for the general interest but not favorable fa-vorable to republican advancement For making appropriations after refusing re-fusing to give necessary support to the I educational inati utious and the deaf mute reform school rpswne asylum and kmilreii inBtmiuoiiF and neglecting to provide sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations inconsiderate I made The spectacle of republican legislators legisla-tors running away in hot haste to avoid an issue which they bad raised themselves them-selves evauing 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 l 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 mo t parsimony and smaller economy greater partisanship and narrown statesmanship than any other legislative legisla-tive assembly in the history uf the territory ter-ritory I We endorse the actior of Governor Caleb W West in the interposition of the veto power vested in bin by law to prevent the eiiactnent of viciuus and partisan measures and insulting and misleading memorials by which the republican legislature would but for I 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 apoeal to the citizens of Utah to sand by and support the party of the constitution and the people peo-ple 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 I can be put into force and produce their effects wHich works for the greatest I good to the greatest numbr which is the foe of monopolies and the friend of the masses which does not depend upon any one man however powerfu for its guidance or its victory i 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 aud bled and to which we hereby pledge our faith our devotion devo-tion and our energIes with the full coniction that success will crown our efforts and Utah will enter the Union as a free and vigorous democratic state WILLIAM H KINO Chairman W3i K REID Secretary DAVID EVANS JOHN T CAINE 0 W POWERS JOSEPH MONSON 1 J STKWART Committee |