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Show IMOlKA'IIC ADDliKSS To the PeopJe of Utah. Delivered at Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 10th, by the Territorial De . ocratic Convention. Hesolved, Ti.al as the convention was not t-all-d to make nominations or lormulite a platform or principle, the following he adopted as the sentiments ot the convention to be presented in the lorm ol an address to the people of Utah: We, the democrats of Utah, in convention con-vention assembled, hereby declare our dcvot.on lo the time honored principles of the democratic party as 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 privil fes to none; of th givaiett possible jiiierty to every individual compatible with the pub ic welfare; uf theadvance went and support of iiome industries; (A the maintenance of local et-ll-govern merit to the tallest rightful extent; and of a strict construction ot the Da Iuonaj congiiLULion. We are in tavor of such reform ol the tand' as is consistent with the in terests uf the consumer and the pro di.cer, and declare that duties upon foreigu imports should be levied upon the luurit s, so lar as porB.bie, and Dot upon the htcessanes ot hie, forth purpose of providing revenue for the necessaiy expenses ol government, aim not for the special benefit of any class or private enterprise. We tre opoi sed to the bounty system, by which ibe many are taxed for the enrichment of a lew. We demand the speedy passage ol the bill for trnff reform now pending in the senate, including the provision for i;n income tax by which those la:te property holders who are best aple shah bear their just share of the bur- I den of taxation. And we denounce the obstructive policy of the republicans in congress, oy which a heeoed measure meas-ure to provide public revenue is delayed, de-layed, causing uncertainty aud doubt, in commercial and manufacturing circles, and thus paralyzing industry and arresting trade. To the factious hindrance which are still thrown m the way of the Wilson bill by repjbh can senators are due to the slow progress pro-gress it is making and the disasters that are consequent upon the oeiay. We demand the restoration ot silvei to the constitutional position it occupied occu-pied as nit.ney previous to the actot 1673, by which the republican paru cast down that historic and essential money metal, and caused the increas ing disasters which, beginning with the panic of 1873 and bursting furth at intervals with terrible seventy, depressing de-pressing the agricultural iuteres.s i f the country, creating unrest, and discontent dis-content aniuug the oppressed laboring classes and increasing the armies ol tramps which swarmed over the lauu, culminated in the panic of 183 and still spreads its blight upon trade ana industry. We call attention to the undeniable fact thst the republican party took the government from the democratic ad ministration in 1SS9, wiih more than a hundred million dollais in thd national treasury aud turned it back to the democratic party in 1&93 with a treasury practically bankrupt. We denounce the silver policy of the republican paity as a system of miserable miser-able makeshifts to palliate the republican repub-lican financial crime of 1S73. anu de- claie that only in and through the democratic party can the people of tne United fcftates expect the re-establishment of true bimetalism, which includes in-cludes U.e free coinage of silver at the ratio of lt to 1 with gold. We believe that this can be done with safely anil proht to this nation by American action, ac-tion, independent of .European agree uncut if international co operation can Bot be Immediately obtained. We denounce the iepublican policy uf protection as embodied in 'he infamous infa-mous McKinlej law7 and reaffirmed bv 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 aud distress and social calamities of various kinds which still afflict our country We d-ny that the high tar lfa placed pon lead and wool and other cummod- ities have raised their price or heneht- d the producer of such materials while they have been oppressive aDd detrimental to the consumer and the country at large. "We tordiallv endorse the democratic Congress and administration: In lepeahng the obnoxious federal election law and thus promoting the freedom of tactions. In formulating and endeavoring to enact a bill to preform the existing exorbitant ex-orbitant Fvstem of tariffs. j In revising the pension lists, so that while all persons deserving the aid of the country for eenites in is defense shall be secure t in their rights, impost ers and fraudulent pension agents cchall not be permitted to further bleed Abe body politic. In the exercise of the federal forces to suppress lawlessness where powtrto do an is c, early 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 Latter-day Saints prop erty C' -Mi seated under the provisions ot congressional law; and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property so escheated in view ot the now indisputable fact that no pretext reroaius lor charging that the majority of the people of Utah are in opposition to national authority. In the passage through the house and its report in the seriate of a liberal jmd excellent bill for the admission of Utah as a state on an equal looting with the existing states; and we ure its speedy enactment as a measure of simple justice to the oldest and most prosperous of the existing territories In the appointment of bona hde residents resi-dents of the territory to the various otliceB in the gift of the government instead in-stead of men from other sections of the country unfamiliar with our people and the situatnn of our affairs as was the rule under republican administra- tiODS. And we further endorse all efforts to maintain the dinnity and authority of the government and remove the effects of over thirty vears of republican misrule mis-rule We endorse the official acts of our delegate in congress, Hon. J L. Rawlins, Raw-lins, and idler his able ana successful servi. es 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 par-y, which infamously endeavors to charge lb effects of the legislative em-re of a third of a century tinon a party winch had bat just entered into power when those terrible evils over spread the country. The logic which argues that effects precede their causes, is fit reasoning lor a party which affirms af-firms that the foreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported goods purchased by the American people. f$ We arraign the republican party for its treacherous course in relation to the eo called 'industrial" armies. Hav ing brouh . t:. laboring clmes into the c 'iiditi u under which they suffer through the vi?iou )eg uslttion of t .7 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 01 the judiciary and the executive iD different places lo enforce the law. They have encouraged encour-aged the massing at the seat of government gov-ernment of thousands of homeiess men. made desperate by republican legislation, leg-islation, hoping that thei.- presence would embarrass the administration administra-tion and convey the false impression that the party in power is responsible lor thirty years of republican misrule. In this arraignment we include these loi.al republicans who have endeavorea to c ast ndicule up n the governor, opprobrium op-probrium upon the juog-s and insult upon the militia and the constabulaiy, while those officers were engaged in pieeerving the public peace and seeking seek-ing to turn hack the tide of poverty which wa9 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, .ind particularly ol those who are owelleis in our termor v. We deolore tne policy which has brought into onr midst large bodies of destitute men, .ho have been supplied with the very means that was rtquiitd for the support sup-port of the resident poor, and some of whom sought lo obtain the work which a as needed by our own population. We Ueclare it to be oar conviction that only by the reforms which will be in-, trod need by a democratic congress and administration, can relief be afforded ,o the oppressed and needy working population and prosperity be assured ,o the toiling masses. We denounce the false pretenses recently re-cently put forth by leaders of the re piiohcan paity, by which tney seek to decieve the voters of the United istateB .nto the belief that they are friends to silver bv unkiug it wuhthe heresy of protection. The terms "bimetalism" and "the enlarged Jse of silver" by which they Beek to dazzle the eyes of the west and the south, are only catch phrases to fool the unsophisticated, f hey do not meau the free and unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at the ratio mI 16 to 1, which is the only true solution solu-tion ol the money problem and the only genuine bimetahic policy. We denounce the national republican republi-can party: For its false pretenses of sudden regard ior the people of Utah against whom in its platforms and by extreme legislation it indicated intense hostility from its inception. Its simulated simu-lated affection is co incident wTith the appearance of a possibility of republican republi-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 feels for the Uy. VTe denounce theonly republican leg islature of Utah territoiy: For its waste of public time and money iu vain endeavors to manufacture party capital. For its opposition to the educational interests of the territory, by refusing Co appropriate sufficient funds for the agricultural college and to carry on the uniersity according to the provisions of thi law creatin? the institution and requiring the establishment of necessary neces-sary departments, and also by endeavoring endeav-oring to cripple the publi:; 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 strivng to commit the represent atives ot the people, in memorials to congress, to gross misrepresentation it fact and egregious blunders in principle. princi-ple. 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 educational iusti utions 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 legisla-tors running away In hot haste to avoid 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 of the territory. ter-ritory. We endorse the action of Governor Caleb W. West in the interposition of the veto power vested in him 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 conlidently apoeal to the citizens of Utah to stand 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 aud policy as soon as measures of reform it has inaugurated c ui be put into force and produce their effects; which works for the greatest good to lie greatest number; woich is the foe of monopolies and the friend of the masses; which does not depend upon any one man, however powerful, for its guidance or its victory; 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 w hereby pledge our faith, our devotion devo-tion 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. Kixg, Chairman. Wm. K. Reid, Secretary. David Evans, John T. Caine, 0. W. Powers. Joseph Moxson, 1. J. fcTuWART, Committee. |