The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-27

aged the massing at the seat OF goY-
eminent of thousands of homeless men,
made desperate by republican leg
lslstion, 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 consta bulaIy,
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
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 toiliDg masses,
We denounce the false pretenses re-
Gently put forth by leaders of the re
publican party, by which thev GEEK to
deceive the voters of the United States
into the belief that they are friends y
silver by linking it withthe heresy of
protection. The terms "bimetaljsm"
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 unsophlsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is to /, which is the only true Solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetalljc policy.
We denounce the national republic
can party: For its false pretenses of
sudden regard for the people of Utah
against whom in its platforms and by
extreme legis' alton it indicated intense
hostility from its inception. Its simu-
lated affection is co-incideDt with the
appearance of possibility of republi-
can support In the territory, and that
it's support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unsejnsh Tend
erness when the spider feels o the
fly,
We denounce the only republican leg
islature OF Utah territor,: For its
waste of pnblic time AMI 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
unly ersity according to the provisions
of th5 law Creating the institution and
recurring the estaDhshmant If neces-
sary deuartments, and also by en- cav
oring to cripple the public schools In a
scheme to take away part of the rev
enue necessary to their support and di-
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 princf-
pie.
ror defeating legislation which would |
De for the general interest but not ia |
vorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing TO give necessary support to the |
educational institutions and the deaf |
mute, reform school, insane asylum and |
kindred institutions, and neglectlng |
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, eyading 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
cowardice and absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any oiher |. gisla-
tive assembly in the history of the ter
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb w. West in the interposi'ion Of
the veto power vested ia him by law,
to prevent the enactment of vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
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
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 Tedemp-
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
IF reform it has inaugurated
C n 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,
for its guidance or its victory; and
which Will maintain and hear off tri-
those sacred doctrines and in
ssitutions Tor which the fathers OF our
country fought add eled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ton and our energies, with the full
that success will crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
as free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS,
JOSEPH Monsoon,