The Salt Lake Herald

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE
Issued Yesterday By the Democratic Territorial Committee.
VICTORY
IS
CERTAIN.
IF
ONLY THE
VOTERS DO THEIR
DUTY.
The
Business
Revival-The Democracy
is Not Bidding For Republican
Votes-The Constitutional Convention-"Eternal Vigilance is the
Price of Liberty."
The Democratic Territorial committee
yesterday issued the following address, copies of which are now being
scattered broadcast over Utah:
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF
UTAH TERRITORY
Headquarters Democratic Territorial
Committee.
Salt Lake City, October 30, 1894.
The Committees having in charge the
Democratic Campaign in this Territory submit this Statement to the
Voters of Utah:
A thorough and conservative canvass,
giving to the Republicans not alone all
those known to sympathize with that
party, but also the doubtful voters,
shows the territory to be Democratic
by a handsome majority. Neither fraud
nor the use of money can defeat the
Democracy in this territory.
Giving to the Republican party all
those counties hitherto carried by
them, and such Democratic counties as
are close, the Democracy will control
the Constitutional convention by a safe
working majority.
All talk of improper registration is
the talk of desperation--is the talk of
defeat. The Democracy has no need of
an improper registration, the territory
all along having been absolutely certain for Democracy.
Republican assurance of success has
been based wholly upon its rampant
assertions (dissipated by the truth and
by improving trade conditions) that
hard times are the result of Democratic
legislation.
When the light was turned on, the
whole political complexion changed.
Voters then recalled that it was under
the McKinley bill that the strikes and
wage reductions, and the closing of
factories which filled the land with
tramps, had taken place; that the Carnegie and Buffalo strikes were under
the McKinley bill and occurred before
the election which gave a Democratic
majority. Major McKinley himself, and
Mr. Charles Foster, secretary of the
treasury under Mr. Harrison, failed
during the operation of the McKinley
law. The Republican press of the land
and ex-President Harrison explained
that the Republican party had been defeated by the hard times then existing
and brought on while the McKinley
high tariff bill was still in force. Then
the good sense of the people was aroused. They found that they had been
frightened at the fear of immediate distress into forgetfulness of what caused
that distress, and that six months ago
was the dark hour before the dawn of
A BRIGHTER TRADE DAY.
Today
Chauncey
M.
Depew,
a
Republican
candidate
for
presidential
honors,
declares that business
is
improving.
Republican
papers of the east concede the same
fact. In Utah we have evidence of it.
Ten days ago the heaviest shipment of
freight ever known took place over
Sherman on the Union Pacific railway.
This was the shipment east of western
products. Merchants concede the improvement because the demand for
goods is increased. Z. C. M. I. alone, of
the wholesale houses in Utah, sold in
the month of September of this year,
$50,000 more goods than it did in September of 1893 the year before.
These truths are being felt as strong-
ly as they are made clear to the mind.
And as the light of truth was turned
on, Republican unsupported claims and
dogmatic assertions were driven before
it like mists before the wind, till at
last, Republican party leaders in this
territory had but two hopes left-one
to cry Democratic attempts at fraud-
the other to renew the fight on religious lines. They have not hesitated to
resort to both.
Happily the voters of this territory
are neither forgetful nor ungrateful.
They do not forget that the only party
which has ever shown any friendship
for them has been the Democracy.
Were the people of Utah not already
"Democratic to a man" (as one strong
Republican puts it) their desire to do a
friendly act to those who, in hours of
sore trial, had befriended them, would
still prompt them to strengthen the
hands of the Democracy.
Our committees have forborne to
make any issue on these lines-feeling
that to do so would be an insult to the
intelligence and a direct reflection on
the sense of justice that have ever been
recognized as characteristics of the
people of this territory.
The Democracy of Utah is not bidding for Republican votes. The executive and campaign committees have but
one aim-to secure the casting of the
Democratic vote on the 6th day of November. This end obtained, the results
already promised will be realized.
We are not unmindful of the fact
that strong (we hesitate to say religious) pressure is often brought to bear
in the interest of Republican candidates. In whatever of contempt we
may hold those using these unholy
ways, we can entertain only feelings of
pity for such as may
BE LED ASTRAY BY THE FALSE
LIGHTS
of these deceivers.
The political honesty of the people
should be as dear to them as their
other principles. We know of but one
way to properly lead the young in the
paths of truth and of manliness--by
sterling example. No father can hope
to have his children value principle before expediency, when he himself can
be turned from a plain principle to do
a thing, that his honest convictions
cannot approve, and that by the persuasion of men who love personal ends
more than the integrity of a people,
and who give corrupting counsel for
questionable purposes. If fidelity to
principle shall come to be unknown
among our children, and its place shall
be supplanted by the doctrine of expediency (in the hopeless hope that
some good may follow the doing of a
wrong, it will be for the reason that
fathers have been persuaded to sacrifice the guiding star of their lives-to
cease to be honest in word and act.)
and have followed the advice of unwise
if not unscrupulous men.
In this contest we appeal to the patriotism of every voter-to be honest
with himself, to be true to the high
example he should set before his own
children and before the children of
others.
Whatever may be the views of voters
as to the political faith of Mr. Joseph
L. Rawlins, the honest and manly
among them will feel that there is a
warrant of truth for the utterance of a
prominent Democrat who, speaking of
Mr. Rawlins, said he had done much
for the people of Utah, while the Republican party had done nothing for
the territory, and who expressed the
conviction that every Utah bred and
every Utah born boy, should vote for
this man-the man that the Tribune
says is "a distinguished lawyer" and
who, it declares, has lived an honorable life."
In the coming year a constitution is
to be adopted-a charter to which the
present voter, his children and his
children's children, for countless years,
shall turn for light and liberty. In this
campaign,
and
before
it
began,
Democrats
pleaded
that
it might
be
framed
in
a
non-partisan
spirit
and
by
a
non-partisan
body.
The leaders of the Republican
party
rejected the proposition. They
have manifested their scorn of the idea
by selecting among their representatives for this high task, men with
reputations so tarnished that they will
not bear fair scrutiny. It is also true
that other men, high-minded and pure,
have also been chosen; but in such a
motley throng of good and of bad,
what just hope may possess the people
for the framing of a charter that, in
the years for which it is builded, coming generations shall turn to it either
with hope or with pride?
Possessed and controlled
by
this
partisan spirit, the work of such
a
body is certain to
FAIL OF ITS GRAND PURPOSE:
and the charter must become the instrument of politicians and of men designing ends for their personal elevation and aggrandisement.
In view of these truths, we feel warranted in making a direct appeal to
every voter to assert his manhood on
the 6th day of November; to vote for
the light as it is given him to see it-
that his share in the noble work may
be as exalted as that
work itself
should be when finished.
No Democratic voter should permit
any condition to arise that will keep
him from the polls on that day.
No
voter, who prizes the liberty that
awaits him and the high privilege that
has been accorded the people of Utah
by the Democracy after years of delay and contumely and revilings and
persecutions at the hands of Republicans, will fail to work constantly until election is past-and to increase the
vote upon which our estimate is based.
And so, with this high purpose held
clearly in view, with the exercise of
that faith which manifests itself in
work, we will return Hon. Joseph L.
Rawlins to Congress with a heavier
majority than before; and by giving
the constitutional convention a safe
Democratic majority, we will save our
state the shame of a partisan charter.
The old and patriotic admonition can
have lost none of its savor nor of the
force to those that love mankind-
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
In behalf of the Democratic territorial committee, we remain, very
respectfully.