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Show hers for three hundrca years, a murderous mur-derous tribe then planned to kill our soldiers and they had to be put down. Is that conquest? When a policeman arrests and runs in a murderer is any essential law of personal liberty violated? vio-lated? The convention affirmed ad approved ap-proved the Democratic platform adopted at Kansas City. Will sm member tell us which tenet ef it is Democratic? it is simply a Popnlist platform and pledges, if successful, an ocean flow of greenbacks. Is that Democratic. What plank Va It Is Democratic? The next plank asserts that "the success of the party means the restera-, tion of the people's power." Where? In Mississippi, or North Carolina r Missouri? Where have the people lost ene fundamental fun-damental right or privilege except where the Democratic party is In full control? It tells us that "the impositiea ef despotic government upon the people of the Philippine islands will cease." Why not put it in plainer English and say: "Restore us to power and we will haul down the flag in the Philippines, put the government there in the hands of the assassins who have been killing our soldiers, and guarantee that they shall not be disturbed so long as we have a man. a ship or a gun left?" That is what Mr. Bryan proposes. Under that program how is the army to be reduced in numbers? Of course there is the usual declaration declara-tion agaiiist trusts. It is in every Populist Pop-ulist platform. So far, however, no 'plan has been provided to eliminate the evil save the threat to do away with the tariff. How do the men of Utah like that prospect? Salt Lake Tribune. UTAH'S DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM A Flimsy Tissue of Meaningless Platitudes Plati-tudes and Bald Misrepresentations. A unique and characteristic instrument instru-ment is the platform which the Democracy De-mocracy of Utah last evening launched tipon the swelling waves of the campaign. cam-paign. "We stand for the Old Republic" is good, but which one does It mean? The one which the Democracy declared In 1864 and again In 1868 was destroyed under "that tyrant and usurper Lincoln" Lin-coln" and ''that butcher Grant." It "opposes expansion by conquest;" where is any conquest going on? Spain ceded certain territory which has been |