The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-03


ment upon Washington by thousands
of the unemployed. They have inter
fered with the efforts of the judiciary
and the executive in different places
to enforce the law. They have encour-
aged the massing at the seat OF gov
eminent of thousands of homeless men.
made desperate by republican leg
islation, hoping that their presence
would embarrass the administra-
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule.
In this arraignment we include those
local republicans who have endeayored
to cast ridicule upon the governor, OPP
probrium upon the judges and insult
upon the militia and the constabulaTy,
while those officers were engaged in
preserving the public peace and seek
ing to turn back the tide of poverty
which was flowing into the territory.
We deeply sympathize with the dis
tress of our fellow citizens, the unem-
ployed working people of the country,
and particularly Of those who are
dwellers in our territory. We deplore
the policy which has brought into our
midst large bodies of destitute men,
who have been supplied with the very
means that was required for the sup
port of the resident poor, and some of
whom sought to obtain the work which
was needed by our own population.
We declare 1t to be our conviction that
only by the reforms which will be in
trodnced by democratic congress and
can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
to the toiling masses,
We denounce the false pretenses re-
Gently put forth by leaders of the re
publican party, by which they seek to
deceive the voters of the United States
into the belief that they are friends to
silver by linking it withthe heresy of
protection. The terms 'tbimetallsm"
and 1.-The enlarged Use cot silver" by
which they seek to dazzle the eyes of
the west and the south, are only catch
to fool the unsophIsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is to l, which is the only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republi-
can party: For its false pretenses of
sudden regard for the people of Utah
against whom in its platforms and by
extreme legislation it indicated intense
hostility from its inception. Its simu-
lated affection is co-incident with the
appearance of a possibility of reDubli-
can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfish tend
erness which the spider feels for the
dY.
We denounce the only republican leg.
stature of Utah territory: For its
waste of pnblic time and money in
vain endeavors to manufacture party
capital.
For its opposition to the educational
interests of the territory, by refusing
to appropriate sufficient funds for the
agricultural college and to carry on the
according to the provisions
of the law creating the institution and
the establishment of neces-
sary departments, and also by endeav-
Oring to cripple the public schools in
scheme to take away part of the rev
enue necessary to their support and d.
vert it for the purpose of giving boun-
lies to benefit private enterprises.
For striving to commit the represent
atiges of the people, in memorials to
congress, to gross misrepresentation OF
TACT and egregious plumbers in princi-
Pile.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general interest but not IA
-rrS1ng 10 gUe h6ican rfgapeepGESsappI
educational institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
Kindred institutions, and neglecting
% provide sufficient revenue to meet
he appropriations inconsiderately
made,
The spectacle of republican legisla-
ors running away in hot haste to avoid |
4nlissue which they had raised them.
elves, evading the officers sent to ar
est them and hiding until republican |
majority could be assured, thus stop
ing the progress of public business in |
be upper house of the Legislature and
ringing that body into public con-
empt, was a scene unparalleled in the
nnals of our country, and exhibits
be republican party in an attitude of
1wardice and absurdltY.
The republican legislature showed
lore bombast and less capacity, more
arslmony and smaller economy.
reater partIsanship and narrower
than any other legisla. ,
We assembly in the history of the ter
tory.
We endorse the action of Governor
aleb w. West in the interposition of I.
e veto power vested 10 hin. by law,
prevent the enactment of vicious
Id partisan measures and insulting
Id misleading memorials by which the
publican legislature would, but for
8 action, have injured and disgraced
e territory. And we recognize in
e governor firm, discreet and able
ecutive, whose influence has been
st On the side of law and order and
e public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
Utah to stand by and support the
rty of the constitution and the peo-
:, from which alone political redemp-
n can come TO this territory and per-
anent prosperity to the nation;
Itch will demonstrate the superiority
It's principles and policy as soon az
assures of reform it has inaugurated
! be put into force and produce their
ects; which works for the greatest
ID to the greatest number; which is
foe OF monopolies and the friend of
masses; which does not depend
IN any one man, however powerful,
its guidance or its victory; and
ich Will maintain and hear off tri-
plant those sacred doctrines and in.
utions for which the fathers of our
ntry fought aud bled, and to which
hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
4 and our energies, with the full
Vlction that success will crown our
'rts and Utah will enter the Union Z
free and vigorous democratic state. d
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
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