The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-25
PROVO CITY. JUNE 25, 1894
A FREE AND VIGOROUS DEMO
CRATIC STATE.


The last paragraph of the most hap
PLY conceived democratic address is
sued On Saturday June 10Th by the
democratic state convention of Utah
reads as follows:
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 REDEEM
tion 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
measures 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,
for its guidance or its victory and
which will maintain and bear off tri-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
stitutions for which the fathers of our
country fought and bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
tion and our energies, with the full
conviction that success will crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
as free and vigorous democratic state.
And the appeal to the citizens of
Utah to stand by the party of the con-
stitution will not be made in vain, was
not SO made. The people of Utah are
natural democrats and were they not,
their surroundings, their interests,
their memories Of the past, their strug-
Rles, sacrifices and natural resentments
would forever unite them as by hooks
of steel to the party always favoring
the braYe forefathers of fair Utah,
while on the other hand they ca II
never cordially or permanently work
with or favor the party which, for thirty
years, has held them in bondage and
kept her men in position of infer
iority to the remainder of the citizen
ship of the union bp keeping the terri
tory out Of that relationship to the
government which alone can clothe
with the dignity of citizenship the man.
hood of Utah.
The democratic party contemplate
the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der. 1t is aware that some must sacri-
fee for the national good. The ex-
pense of the government must be borne
by the rich, not the poor. This is
democracy. The republican party
has ever favored the rich. It's
whole theory of protection is
projected to protect the rich and
comedies to the poor, the poor privilege
of protecting themselves after the ma
tional power has robbed them effect
ually of all the means of doing so.
This is the protection the cat extends
to the unwary mouse entlced into its
reach, or the serpent extends to the
bird it has thrown glamour over.
We apprehend that the good people of
Utah will want but little of this kind
of protection, or any other outside of
fair field and no favors. The democratic
party has been from the fist the foe of
the privileged classes. But for this great
principle there had been no United
States and no Utah today. Incident
to the democratic struggle against the
privileged has been the growth of this
nation and Utah. Never fear but
Utah will do her part manfully this
fall when the vital principles of this
pure political gospel will be on trial
as against the malign principle which
picks out as the recipients of its favor
the rich and the powerful-those, in
deed, who need no protection.
With these great and vital virtues,
indeed is the democracy independent
of any man or any one or a thousand
cl q les of men. 1t honors the man or
men, who and which stand closest to |
the great rules of political faith which |
should and must govern all. No man, /
be be president or potentate shall drop
from our political creed single article,
not even sllver's safety. When he
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show fair record and fair action on
every tenet of the faith.
No fear but Utah will choose this fall
10 enter the union free, untrammeled,
democratic state, and in doing SO she
will glitter like gem on the brow of
the nation. She will win glory by
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good judgment to vote in the line of
her interests as we'll as in the line of
her gratitude. The fathers of the ter,
ritorY were democrats and their sons
have good memories as well as filial
piety. They viii be found always in the
of their heroic sires, never
ear it.