The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-25

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
lslation, hoping that their presence
would embarrass the administra-
ton and convey the false impress ion
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-
pTobrium 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 hack 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
tTodnced by democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
| TO the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
10 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 ''bimetalIsm"
and 1.-The enlarged ISe 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 republi-
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-incideDt with tie
appearance of possibility OF republi-
can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause CT its
new attitude. 1t is the ulseltish tend
erness which the spider feele for the
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
iSlature of Utah territory: For It's
Of 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-i
sary departments, and also by endeav- |
oring to cripple the public schools in
scheme to take away part of the rev.
enue necessary to their support and d. |
vert 1t for the purpose of giving bOun- |
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 10 commit the represent |
atives Of the people, in memorials to |
to gross Misrepresentation OF |
fact and egregious blunders in princi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general interest but not IA
vorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing 10 give necessary support to the
insUi 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 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 a scene unparalleled in the
annals of cur 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 other legisla-
tive assembly in the history of the ter
rltory.
We endorse the actor of Governor
Csleb W. West IN the interposition of
the veto power vested 10 hin. by law,
to prevent the enactment of Vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
legislature would, but for
nd Il aOI
the territory. And we recognize In
the governor tlrm, 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-
Die, from which alone political redemp-
ton 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
IAN be put into force and produce their
Effects; which works for the greatest
rood to the greatest number; which is
he foe Of monopolies and the friend OF
he masses; which does not depend
lpon any one man however powerful,
or its guidance or its victory; and
which Will MAINTAIN and bear off tri-
those sacred doctrines and in
,titutions for which the fathers of our
country fought aud bied, 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 FL. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS