The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-04

S TO enforce the law. They have encou
r aged the massing at the seat OF GO
? eminent of thousands of homeless mel
3 made desperate by republican LEI
/ lslation, hoping that their presenC
would embarrasS the administrs
ton and convey the. false impressio
that the party in power is responsible
T for thirty years of republican misrul,
J In this arraignment we include thos
local republicans who have endeavore
to cast ridicule upon the governor, OK
probrium upon the judges and insu
upon the militia and the constabulaIy
while those officers were engaged i
preserving the public peace and seek
ing to turn back the tide of povert
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 ar
dwellers in our territory. We deplor
the policy which has brought into GU
midst large bodies of destitute men
who have been supplied with the yerI
means that was required for the sup
port of the resident poor, and some. O
whom sought to obtain the work which
was needed by our own population
We declare 1t TO be our conviction tha
| only by the reforms which Will be in
trodnced by democratic congress anC
| administration. can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
10 the toiling masses.
We denounce the falae pretenses re.
Gently put forth by leaders of the re
publican party, by which they seek tt
deceive the voters of the United Statef
into the belief that they are friends to
silver by linking it withthe heresy OF
protection. The terms "bimetallsm'
and tine 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 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 the
appearance of a possibility of reDubli
can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unseifsh tend
erness which the spider feels for the
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
islature of Utah Territory: For its
waste of public time and 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
university according to the provisions
of th5 law creating the institution and
requiring the establishment of neces-
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 it for the purpose of giving boun-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 70 commit the represent
atives of the people, in memorials to
congress, 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 republ 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 neglecting
to provide sufficient revenue to meet
the appropriations inconsiderately
made.
The spectacle of republican legisls-
tors running away In hot haste to avoid
selves, evading the officers sent to ar
rest them and hiding until a 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-
was scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
the republican party In an attitude of
cowardlce and absurdIty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla
i've assembly in the history of the ter
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West i'll the interposition Ut |
5he veto power vested in him by law, |
% prevent the enactment of vicious !
md partisan measures and insulting |
and 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
whose influence has been
;ast on the side of law and order and
he public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
IF Utah to stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
Die, from which alone political redemp-
ion 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
fleets; which works for the greatest
good to the greatest number; which is
he foe of mOnOpolies and the friend of
he masses; which does not depend
loon any one man however powerful,
or its guidance or Its victory; and
which Will maintain and bear off tTi-
lmphant those sacred doctrines and in
titutions for which the fathers of our
country fought aad 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.
VIM. 4. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS