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Show HIS EECOHD. Three Scraps From the Deino-ltepublican Deino-ltepublican Orgran. Blaine Scored for Attempting to Give This Territory Into the Hands of the Eepublican -W olves. THK INAUGURAL ADDRESS. President Cleveland has begun his administration under auspicious circumstances. cir-cumstances. His inaugural address, which appears elsewhere in this isiiiie of the Enquirer, is a plain, somewhat brief but rather clever and clear manifesto mani-festo of sound general principles of Democratic doctrine. Among the most marked features ot" the document is an expression of paramount devotion to the national constitution as a chief guide established in a "spirit of amity and concession" which should be maintained main-tained by the administration "in oider to promote the lasting welfare of the country and secure a full measure of its priceless benefits to us and to those who will succeed to the blessings of our national life." The new chief magistrate magis-trate pledges himself, moreover, to be guided in the discharge of his olhcial duties by a just and unstrained construction con-struction of the constitution." From this it must be understood that be in-, j tends to adhere carefully to the plain meaning of the great Federal compact, and this is just what Utah desire.. The foreign policy which he forecasts is truly American and cannot fail of general gen-eral approbation. The elucidation of his idea of a government by the people ; is entirely satisfactory and, indeed, as a general thing, he appears to be pariicu- j larly fortunate in handling every sub- j ject that he has touched, with the ex- ception of polygamy, which has evi- I deutly received only a casual consider- j ation. It is worthy of note, however, that in this connection he did not deliver de-liver a single invective phrase against 'Mormonism." And taken all in till President Cleveland's inaugural address ad-dress must be regarded as disjreet and wise, and as friendly towards the people peo-ple and institutions of Utah as could have been reasonably expected Enquirer, En-quirer, March 6, ISSi. "SOLID" FOR THE ANTI-MORMON PLANK . As might naturally be expected Mr. Blaine, in his letter of acceptance, felt constrained to say something of an unpleasant un-pleasant character about the Mormons. As a Republican, and the candidate of the party for the place of president, it is expected that he will oppose religious religi-ous liberty so far as the Mormons are concerned, and if he should succeed in securing the presidential prize he has so long coveted, it is further expected ex-pected that he will, or at least try to, wipe out the Mormons and their religion re-ligion and give this fair Territory over into the handa of the Republican wolves who have so long and incessantly inces-santly kept up their how lings for Mormon plunder. Blaine imagined when he wrote his little piece about the Mormons that his antipathy oo I them would be duly appreciated by the j vicious sectarian voters. Personally, he knows nothing, and cares less about the Mormons and their religion, but botn nave become subjects or national envy and it sounds well for an office-seeker office-seeker to pitch into them. Enquirer. April 2.9, 1SSS. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. j The platform on which the Demo-1 cratic party propose to stand during ! the coming struggle for the national j supremacy was adopted last night by the convention. It is a grand exposition expo-sition of principles that fully accord I with the political creed of the party. The polygamy resolution introduced the day before "by a presumptuous self-styled self-styled Democrat lrom Ogden. named Smith, and referred to the committee, was ignored; Smith and his anti-Mormon resolution g"t 'left." Had the convention adopted such a proposition as the man Smith introduced, it woulu have been a decided renunciation of the position assumed by the party since its birth in regard to the right of the Territories Ter-ritories to legislate for themselves. As it is, the platform is a strong and vigorous vigor-ous declaration. It maintains the preservation pres-ervation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens before the law, the reserved re-served rights of tiie states and the' su-; premacy of the Federal government within "Constitutional limits. It advo- ' cates the right of local self-government, and denounces the arbitrary ami corrupt cor-rupt administration of the Republican party. It also denounces that party for unnecessarily overtaxing the people, for having failed to relieve the people from crushing war taxes which have paralyzed business, crippled industry, and deprived labor of emplovment, while there exists a surplus in the treasury of more than a hundred millions mil-lions of dollars. The Democratic platform plat-form pledges relief from these burdens, to restore economy, reduce taxation to the lowest possible, limit, and to revise thp tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests. in-terests. One plank in the platform is of particular interest to the people of the territories; it guarantees the selection se-lection of Federal officers for the territories terri-tories from among the citizens previously previ-ously resident therein. We believe the policy of the party thus defined in their platform is amply am-ply libers! and broad enough to meet all requirements and suit all classes of American citizens, and one that is certain to secure to them the administration adminis-tration for the next four years. Enquirer, En-quirer, July 11. 1884. |