The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-23

to enforce the law, They have encour
aged the massing at the seat OF COY
eminent of thousands of homeless men,
made desperate by republican leg
Islation, 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 endeavored
TO cast ridicule upon the governor, OPP.
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 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
troduced 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 "bimetallsm"
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 unsOphlsIicated.
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 blmetaliic policy.
We denounce the national republic
can party: Fer its false pretenses of
sudden regard for the people of Utah
against whom in its platforms and by
hostility from its inception. Its simu.
lated affection is cO-incideDt with the
Of possibility OF reDubli
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 endeavoTs to manufacture party
capital.
For its opposition to the educational
interests of the territory, by refusing
10 appropriate sufficient funds for the
agricultural college and to carry on the
according to the provisions
IF the law creating the Institution and
occurring the establishment of neceS-
Iary departments, and also by endeaV-
,ring to cripple the public schools in a
scheme to take away part of the rev
enue necessary to their support and dl-
vert it for the purpose Of giving boun-
les to benefit private enterprises.
For striving to commit the represent
atives OF the people, in memorials to
congress, to gross misrepresentation OF
act and egregious blunders in princi-
Die.
For defeating legislation which would
De for the general interest but not ia
Yorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
using 10 give necessary support to the
educational institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
kindred institutions, and neglecting
% provide sufficient revenue to meet |
he appropriations inconsiderately |
made.
The spectacle. of republican legisla-
jors running away in hot haste to avoid |
IN issue which they had raised them
elves, evading the officers sent to ar
est them and hiding until a republican
majority could be assured, thus stop |
1ing the progress of public business in |
he upper house of the legislature and |
bringing that body into public con- |
empt, was a 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
and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
than any other legisla-
i've assembly in the history of the ter
itorv.
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
md 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
executive, 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 to this territory and per-
nanent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
# it's principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has iDaugurated
an be put into force and produce their
fleets; which works for the greatest
God TO the greatest numbsr; winch is
he foe of monopolies and the friend of
he masses; which does not depend
Ipon any one man, however powerful,
or its guidance or its victory and
which VIII maintain and bear off tri-
lmphant those sacred doctrines and in
titutions for which the fathers of our
ountry fought add bled, and to which
We hereby pledge our faith, our devo
ion and our energies, with the full
conviction that success will crown our
fforts and Utah will enter the Union
IS free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
WIN. x. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,