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Show day ot' July. 1891, before the county convention held that day at Salt Lake City. "We will use all honorable honor-able means to forward the best interests of our Territory, and its educational, social and material developments, and especially in the building up of our public school system, which we regard as the very foundation of Republican institutions." in-stitutions." To this end, suitable provisions to aid in the support of the common com-mon schools of the Territory are of the highest importance, and the Republican party pledges itself to use its influence to obtain from the general government grants of land or of the proceeds of the sales of land adequate to give to Utah, when - it shall become a state, a school fund equal to that received by other states from the bounty of the government, and in this work we invite the co-operation of all parties. E. A. Box, . Thus. Hakpek. IsKAEI- HllNSAKER. Peter Lowe, Hyhi:m Jensen. Republican Central Committee. th; republican platform. Adopted at the County Convention at Uriham City. The Republican party of Box Elder county, through its representatives repre-sentatives in convention assembled, affirm our allegiance to the general principles ui the Territorial and National Republican platform, as being best adapted to promote the , welfare of our Territory, to protect its industries and products and to secure to its people the just reward of their labor. The length of the Republican platform prevents its production in full, but the following extracts announce political principles that we deem vital to the prosperity of this Territory. In the tirst place we pause, ino .r enunciation, to repudiate as untrue un-true and misleading the statements made and published by Democracy, that the Liberal organ of Salt Lake City or the Liberal party voices in any way the sentiment of the Republicans Re-publicans or the Republican party of this Territory. 1. The Republican party is committed to an unswerving devotion devo-tion to the American Constitution . and to the indissoluble union of the States; to the autonomy reserved re-served to the States under the Constitution; to the personal rights and liberties of citizens in all States and Territories in the Union. 2. The National Republican party in its platform of 1858 declared: de-clared: "The government by Congress Con-gress of the Territories is based upon necessity only, to the end that they may become States in the Union; whenever the condition of population, material resources, public intelligence and morality are such as to insure a stable local government therein, the people of such Territories should be pe:m it-ted, it-ted, ab a right inherent in them, the right to form for themselves constitutions and State govern ments, and be admitted into the Union." 3. The name of American applies alike to all citizens and we believe in equal rights to all. American citizenship is and must be the panoply pan-oply and safeguard of him who wears it, and protect him, whether high or low, rich or poor, in all his civil rights. It should and must afford him prottct ion at home, and follow and protect him abroad in whatever land he may be on a lawful law-ful errand. 4. We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. The Democratic party in seeking to destroy that system are serving the interests of Europe; we will support the interests of America. The protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment abandon-ment has always been followed by general disaster to all interests, except those of the usurer and the sheriff. The principle of protection protec-tion to American products and labor is of the highest importance to the vast agricultural, mining, stock-raising stock-raising and wool-growing interests of our Territory. Without protection, protec-tion, we cannot successfully estal -lish manufacturing in Utah. With it we may hope to utilize the abundance abun-dance of material our Territory affords and employ the labor required re-quired to utilize it. 5. We declare our opposition to all combinations of capital, organized organ-ized in trusts, combines or monopolies, monop-olies, to control arbitrarily the condition con-dition of trade among our citizens by effecting undue charges on their supplies or products, or unjust rates for their transportation. 6. Favoring the use of both gold and silver as money, we condemn con-demn the Democratic party in its efforts to demonetize silver, and favor unanimously (he free coinage of American silver. 7. We declare our hostility to the introduction into this country of foreign contract labor and of Chinese labor, alien to our civilization civili-zation and our Constitution, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the existing laws against it. and favor such immediate legislation as will exclude such labor from our shores. 8. The Republican party asserts and recognizes the dignity of labor and the necessity of proper legislation legis-lation to protect it. We also hold that home laborers and contractors who contribute to the public funds are justly entitled to the preference in all public works, and that Utah work should go to Utah workmen. 9. In view of the peculiar history his-tory of Utah in the past and the fears of its citizens for the future, the Republican party of Utah announces an-nounces that they are opposed to the disfranchisement of any citizen, excepting for crime of which he shall have been convicted by due process of law, and that it favors the free exercise of the power of amnesty to all citizens disfranchised disfranchis-ed on account of polygamy or polygamous relations, who will obey and uphold the law? of the United States. j 10. We endorse the sentiments of our eminent Chief Justice Zanc, as expressed by him on the 8th |