The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-18

r aged the masslng at the seat OF COY
, eminent of thousands of homeless men
, made desperate by republican leg
lslation, hoping that their presence
/ would embarrass the administers
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule
In this aTraignment We include those
local republicans who have endeayored
to cast ridicule upon the governor, op'
probrium upon the judges and insult
upon the militia and the consta bulaIy
while those officers we're 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
/ administration. 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 "bimetaliSm"
aud 1.-THE enlarged use nOf silver" by
which they seek to dazzle the eyes of
the west and the south, are only catch
phrases to fool the ophlsticated.
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-incideDt with the |
appearance of possibility OF republic |
can support in the territory, and that |
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfsh tend |
erness which the spider feels for the |
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
islature 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
university according to the provisions
of the law creating the institution and
the establishment of neces-
sary departments, and also by endeav-
oTing 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-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving TO commit the represent
atiVes of the people, in memorials to
congress, to gross Misrepresentation OF
fact and egregious blunders in princi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for, the general interest but not IA
vorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing to give necessary support to the
institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
kindred institutions. and neglecting
to provide sufficient revenue to meet
the appropriations inconsiderately
made,
The spectacle of republican legisla-
tors running away in hot haste to avoid
an issue which they had raised them
selves, evading the officers sent to ar
rest them and hiding until republican
majority could BIZ assured, thus stop
ping the progress of public business in
the upper house of the legislature and
bringing that body into public con- !
5empt, was scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
he republican party in an attitude of
,owardice and absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed ,
more bombast and less capacity, more :
,arslmony and smaller economy, :
greater partlsansbip and narrower 8
craftsmanship than any other legisla-
i've assembly in the history of the ter
'itory. n
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interposition of
he veto power vested in him by law,
o prevent the enactment of vicious
md partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
republican legislature would, but for
lis action, haYe injured and disgraced
he territory. And we recognize in
he governor firm, discreet and able
whose influence has been
asst on the side of law and order and
he public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
# Utah to stand by and support the
,arty of the constitution and the peo-
lie, from which alone political redemp-
ion can come 70 this territory and per-
nanent prosperity TO the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
f its principles and policy as soon as
neasures of reform it has inaugurated
an be put into force and produce their
fleets; which works for the greatest
God to the greatest numbsr; which is
he foe of monOpolies and the friend of
be masses; which does not depend
pom any one man, however powerful,
or its guidance or its victory; and
which Will maintain and bear off tri.
mphant those sacred doctrines and in
titutions for which the fathers of our
ountry fought aud bled, and to which
re hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ion and our energies, with the full
onviction that success will crown our
fforts and Utah will enter the Union
IS free and vigorous democratic state. !
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN 7. GAME,
o. w. POWERS,
JOSEPH MOEsON,