Show I r AMERICAN PARTY PLAT PLATFORM ORM I T THE HE E American part In tho the great things it has done for this city In of Its water supply in paving the streets In buildIng building build build- ing sidewalks and sewers and In providing providing pro pro- viding a like business-like s system stem of keepIng keepIng keeping keep- keep Ing its accounts renews its fe fealty lt to the principles of American freedom It denounces as heretofore ecclesiastical ecclesiastical ecclesiastical dominance In politics and while In no way countenancing opposition to toan an any rell religion lon or r religious organization it demands that the people be bo left free from all ecclesiastical rule or claim of I dominion over them In their temporal and civil affairs It demands the just and complete enforcement enforcement enforcement en en- of the law without fear fa favor favor fa- fa I fa-I vor dread of ot ostracism or of losing of office or- or flee fice on all offenders alike holding that thata a partial or lax enforcement of the law brings law and courts alike Into public con contempt tempt It denounces commercialism m In any religious organization as calculated to repress s individual effort eUort and create op- op presslye monopolies sustained b by large revenues used without accountability to those who contribute them and available t to crush all rivalry and In Individual Individual Individual In- In enterprise It denounces as opposed to free Institutions in institutions institutions In- In the act net of of dominant bosses in this state In forcing upon the people people peo peo- pie of this city a new and untried form of government o unlike that put into ef effect ef- ef feet anywhere el else e. e in that It is stripped of all Its ts partisan non features features fea tea tures though coming In under pro- pro tense of partisanship non while the bosses knew lenew well that it is sheer partisanship partisanship par par- throughout In acting on party part lines the American party finds Itself constrained thereto b by the very law which is falsely alleged to be nonpartisan non- non partisan The American J party part praises without reserve the attitude of the thc noble women women wom wont en who have succeeded through their public spirit and devotion to moral principle in eradicating the noisome sore upon the municipal bod body politic c known as the red light district The rhe action of ot this spirited public-spirited woman citizenship in what it has done and arid in what It Is to do In this regard Is deserving of or the warmest praise from eer every good citizen n Confident In tile the splendor of its principles prin- prin principles prin In the greatness of its work for this city and for tor the leavening of political political po po- po- po deadness sl in this state the h A Amer Amner- er- er lean ican party part claims that It Is distinctively distinctive distinctive- ly the thc business mens men's organization diStinCtive I that Its success was coincident with and was the cause of the magnificent ad advance advance advance ad- ad vance in population and wealth shown b by the United States census of 1910 for Salt Lake LakeS It holds that the toe gain here hereIn In population in iii the ten years was in fact a gain glIn made almost entirely in Inthe inthe the tho five years ears of ot American control It points to the c census figures as a convincing convincing convincing con con- demonstration of the benefits of American rule showing as the they do do that this city has advanced under American rulo rule at a rate double that of ot the state at large and beyond all comparison with other places In the state and with its own past history It denounces the Republican Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- lature laturo of ot 1910 for not making a fair apportionment for leg legislative purposes This refusal was wa-s a clear violation of ot the tile oaths of the legislators since they swore to conform to the constitution in their labors whereas the constitution constitution constitution tion peremptorily requires such apportionment apportionment apportionment at t t the session following the federal census but did not do so 50 the result being that this city Is 18 deprived to a great extent of Its Just and proper representation In the Legislature L of ot the state The Thc American party part appeals to the people of ol this city for their support on the great work which It h has s done lone for forthe forthe forthe the advancement of this community and andon andon on its on-its its basic principles of equal rights for all So appealing and confident In iii Inthe Inthe the good work It has done clone It again asks the support of the pro progressive citizens and of all the patriotic loving liberty citizenship of Salt Lake Cit City Resolved T That at the American f party in convention assembled requests the President of the United States and the tha secretary of the tho nay navy to accept for the bat battleship Utah silver service the slIver silver sli sliver slI- slI ver tra tray showing sho a patriotic de design and reject the tra tray sho showing the design of or Brigham Young and the Mormon tem tern plo a |