The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-18

In fact, he wants the G0v ernmen
 to go into all sorts of business
 build national roads in the vafi0n4
 parts of tho country. Losini
 sight of the fact hat the peo pie living tributary to said road
 would be the only ones benefited
 and that it would largely increast
 the value of their land, at the ex
 pense of the general government A scheme, which the committee
 composed of all parties, appointed
 by Congress to inquire into, and tt
 listen to "General Coxey and hi: associates in advocacy thereof, de
 cided without 8 dissenting vote (unless possibly one populist vote,,
 to be entirely impracticable and contrary to tho genius of our gov ernment. Butlittle things like those don't seem to bother Oakes any.
 He advocated Banks of depost by the government, apparently not thinking of their accompanying multitudInous employees. Involving tho govern ment in all manner of suits. AbscondiDg cashiers. Thous- ands of dctetives etc., that would follow in the train oi such scheme. Expressions like "Goyernment should be father to it's people" are favorites of his. This all goes 10 show the visionary character of his mlnd, and how dangerous to the liberties of the people it would be to place such an one in the high posi- tion to which he aspires.
 His utter lack of defence to the terrible arraignlnent as to the mis- appropriation of public monies in connection with the Loan Commis. sion, was so conspicuous as to cause general comment. The positive charges virtually stand confessed.
 His remarks as to statehood were really so absurd as to deserve no mention here. The idea that tho dominant party will ad init Territory with oursmall pop ulation and taxable values with every prospect of two D.. $. Senators, and a Congressman of the opposite political faith is positively rediculous.
 He wound up with an appeal 10, our Mormons citizens. Denied be- ing the author of the plank in tho republican Territorial platform, as published elsewhere in this issue Bnt mark you, he did not deny the fact that he gave his support to that platform, and to the ticket nomi- mated by the samo convention. Now we ask in all candor, what difference does it make as to who is the author of that plank, if he (Gov. Murphy) endorsed it by his acts. He said the charge, that he re- commended test oath, (also pub lished in this issue) for the Nor mon citizens, in his eport to the secretary of the Interlor, was par tialIy true," but since then he had found out that he had made Q mis- take. We ask our readers to caro- fully read that report and then tell us if that is only "partially true" what they would think of a recom- mendatton he would make that was wholly true. Isi not little strange that he did not discover his mistake until he received isrecentnomina- tion? And then possibly not until he arrived in Apache county on his cam paign tour? After advertising to the world his charges,against those citizens, as he did Tn said report. would not simple justice demand that he, after he discovered his er- TOT, give some publicity to tbat fact? Did anyone ever hear of his doing so |? We don't See how any people can vote for 8 man who has maligned them as he has done, and place him in position where he may do incalcuable harm.
 As to NIT. Doran there is little to say. He disagreed with his chief as to the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, and can-- didly admitted that the republican party was solely responsible for the demonstration of silver in 1893. But clalmed that the party is now friendly 10 silver. He told them that various laws on our stat ute books were greatly defective and that he would do his utmost to have them remedied. But he fail ed to state why he had not done something in that line during his service in the legislature. We think the people will decide as to what he will do if elected, by what he has not done in tho past.