The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-26
ing career Of power, republicans have

fostered If not originated the move
ment upon Washington by thousands
Of the unemployed They have inter
tered with the efforts oil the judiciaIy
and the executive in different places
TO enforce the law. They have encour.
AGED The masslng at The seat OF COY
eminent of thousands of homeless men.
) made desperate by republican leg
. islatlon, hoping that their presence
would EN- barrass the administra
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 endeavored
to casE rldicuie upon the governor, OPP
prvbJium upon the judges and Insult
upon the militia and the constab ulaIY
while those officers were engaged in
preserving tue 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-
pioyed working people of the country,
and particularly Of those who are
dWeileTs In our territory. We deplore
the policy which has brought into our
midst large bodies Of destitute men,
who nave been supplied with the very
means that was required for the sup
port of lie resident poor, aud some of
whom sought To obtain the work which
was needed by our own population.
We declare IL to be enrGonvietton that
only by the reforms which Will be in
trodnced by democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
10 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 heTesy of
protection. The terms "bimetaIism"
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 unsophlsLicated.
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 blmetallic policy.
We denounce the national republic
can party: For its false pretenses of
sudden regard Tor the people OF Utah
against whom III 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 thai
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unseltish tend
ernees which the spider feels for the
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
islaJure OF Utah territory: For it's
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 tn law creating the Institution and
requiring the establishment Of neceS-
sary departments, and also by endeav- |
orlng to cripple the public schools III a |
scheme to take away part OF the rev.
enue necessary to their support and di- |
vert 1t for the purpose of giving boun- |
lies to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 30 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 |
De for the general interest but not Ia
,orl4 BILE to repnh lican advanean1erat--
For making appropriations, after rer |
fusing to give necessary support to the
educational instl utions 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 at
rest them ami 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 /
cowardice and abSurdIty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
parslmony and smaller economy,
greater partIsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla
tive assembly in the history of the ter
rltory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb w. West in the interposition of
the veto power vested ia hin. by law,
to prevent the enactment of vicious
and partisan measures and Insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
republican legislature would, but for
his action, have 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 its principles and policy as soon as
of reform it has inaugurated
can be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
GOOD to the greatest number; which is
the foe of monopolies and the friend of
the masses; which does not depend
upon any one man however powerful,
Tor its guidance or its victory and
which Will maintain and hear off tri-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
stitutions for which the fathers OF our
country fought aud bled, and to which
We hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
tinn and our energies, with the full
conviction that success win crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
as free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
WNF Il