The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-28

!nont upon w washington ny InOuSdHui
of the unemployed They have inter
fered with the efforts of the judiciary
: and the executive in different places
; TO enforce the law. They have encour
: aged the massing at the seat OF COY
! eminent of thousands of homeless men
J made desperate by republican leg
lslation, 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
rVbrium 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
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 OWE population.
We declare 1t to be our conviction that
only by the reforms which will be in
| trodnced 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 tn
| deceive the voters of the United States
into the belief that they are friends 20
silver by linking it withthe heresy of
protection. The terms "bimetallsm"
and 1.-THE enlarged Use rof 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 l, which is the only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republic
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-incident with the
appearance of possibility of republic
can support In the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselhsh TEND
erness which the spider feels 20 the
fy.
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 the law Cheating tue institution and |
requiring the establishment Of neces-
sary departments, and also by enieav- |
oring to cripple the public schools in a
scheme to take away part of the rev.
enue necessary to their support and di-
vert it for the purpose of giving boun-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving TO 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
DE for the general interest but not ia
Vorable to republican 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 10 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 scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
the republican party in an attitude of
cowardice and abSurdity.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
earslmony and smaller economy,
greater partlsauship and narrower
than any oher legisla-
i've assembly in the history of the ter
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interposition of
5he veto power vested ia hin, by law,
to prevent the enactment of vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
republican legislature would, but for
his action, haYe injured and disgraced
he territory. And we recognize in
5he 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
If Utah to stand by and support the
)arty 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
II its principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has inaugurated
an be put into force and produce their
fleets; which works for the greatest
God to the greatest numbsr; which is
he foe of monopolies and the friend of
be masses; which does not depend
pon any one man, however powerful,
or its guidance or its victory; and
which Will maintain and bear off tri-
mphant those sacred doctrines and in
titutions for which the fathers of our
ountry fought add bled, and to which
re hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ion and our energies, with the full
onviction that success will crown our
forts and Utah will enter the Union
IS free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM H. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,