The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-16

to enforce the law. They have encour.
: aged The maseing at the seat OF COY.
eminent of thousands of homeless men.
made desperate by republican leg
lslation, hoping that their presence
would embaTrass the admiDistra
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, op-
probrium upon the judges and insult
upon the militia and the constabulaIy,
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 IeiiUw 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
hu NH IN
deceive the voters of the United States
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 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 repnbli- |
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 possibility of repuhli-
can support In The territory, and that
its support was the only cause of it's
new attitude. 1t is the unselfish 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 endeavoTs to manufacture party
capital.
For its opposition to the educati nal
interests of The territory, by refus.lg
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-
sary departments, and also by endeav-
Oring to cripple the public schools in
enue necessary to their support and d.
vert 1t for the purpose of giving boun-
Iies TO benefit private enterprises.
for strlYspg to commit the represent
atives OF the peorIe in memorials IN
congress, to gross mislurrasentation ut
fact and egregious blundeTs - nrinoi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general interest but not IA
gorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, alter 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 mconslderately
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 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
he republican party in an attitude of
,owardice and absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
carsImony and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
than any other legisla-
i've 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 10 him 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, haYe injured and disgraced
the territory. And we recognize in
the governor a firm, discreet and able
executive, whose influence has been
cast on the side of law and order and
5he public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
IF Utah to stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
Die, from which alone political redemp-
ion can come TO this territory and per-
nanent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
If its principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has inaugurated
AN be put into force and produce their
Effects; which works for the greatest
rood to the greatest numbsr; which is
he foe of monopolies and the friend of
he masses; which does not depend
Upon any one man, however powerful,
'or its guidance or its victory; and
which VIII maintain and hear off tri-
those sacred doctrines and in
Ititutions for which the fathers of our
country fought aud bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ion and our energies, with the full
conviction that success will crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
rs free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS,
JOSEPH Monsoon