The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-30


s to enforce the law, They have encour
p aged the massing at the seat OF COY
o eminent of thousands of homeless men
made desperate by republican leg
! lslation, hoping that their presence
E 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 endeavored
. to cast ridicule upon the governor, OPP
prubrium upon the judges and insult
F upon the militia and the constabulaIy,
while those officers were engaged in
, preserving the public peace and seek
, ing to turn hack 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
jewellers 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''
and 1.-THE enlarged Use of silver" by
which they seek to dazzle the eyes OF
! the west and the south, are only catch
phrases to fool the uns0phlsticated.
| They do not mean the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Il to l, which is the only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denouDce the national Tepubli
can party: For its false pretenses OF
sudden regard Tor 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 a possibility OF reDubi |
, 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 |
fiy.
We denOunce the only republican leg |
islature of Utah territory: For It's |
waste of pnhIic 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
requiring the establishment of neces-
saTy departments, and also by endeav-
oring to cripple the public schools in a
scheme to take away part OF the rev.
enue necessary to their support and d.
vert 1t 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 blundeSSaui2 princi-
pie. 49, =
Vor8ble to re ! . % y Y 4
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing 10 give necessary support to the
educational insti utionS and the deaf
mute, reform school, ms aEe 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
al / ssue which they had raised them
serves, evading the officers sent to ar
rest them and hiding until republican
majority could be assured, thus stop
ping the progress of public business in
the upper house of the legislature and
bringing that body into public con-
tempt, was scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country and exhibits
the republican party in an attitude of
cowaTdice and absurdIty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
parslmony and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla
tive assembly in the history of the ter
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb w. West i'll the interposition of
the veto power vested 10 him by law,
10 prevent the enactment of vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
republican legislature would. but for
mis- action, haYe injured and disgraced
the territory. And we recognize in
the governor firm, discreet and able
executive, whose influence has been
cast on the side of law and order and
the public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
of Utah to stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
pie, from which alone political redemp-
ton can come To this territory and per-
manent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
of It's principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has inaugurated
C be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
good TO the greatest number; wnich is
the foe of monopolies and the friend of
the masses; which does not depend
u Don any one man, however powerful,
for its guidance or its victory; and
which Will maintain and hear off tri-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
for which the fathers of our
country fought sdd bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ton and our energies, with the full
conviction that success will crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
as a free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS.
JOHN Il. GAME