The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-19
PROVO CITY. JULY 49, 1894
THE REPUBLICAN WAY.

It takes the republicans good while
to understand if it is matter upon
which they should jubilate or not. The
president signed the bill at midnight
Monday, The news reached Provo
Tuesday afternoon and at night the
democrats turned out and had rous-
ing celebration. OF course, in the
light of the previous policy of the re-
publican party of the nation on this
same question of statehood, Utah re
publicans are in quandary. They do
not know ifit is- right and proper for
them to celebrate the defeat of one of
the purposes of the national party. 1t
takes time to determine such point,
But the republican city committee very
magnanimouely makes call for a
general celebration Saturday, but just
why the action should have been taken
by the republican committee, II II
were purely a non-partisan matter, we
fail to see. Could not the same gentle
men in non-partisan way and with
out calling themselves a republican
committee at all, have taken the same
action? The simple truth is the repub-
licans, with their voice and mouth
piece, were caught sleeping on their
post and it will take the action of all
the people to lift them out of the awk-
ward position, and in this way the re.
publican city committee determines 1t
shall be done. They send US copy OF
the notice of celebration which we
gladly publish as the time is rather too
brief for their organ, with its limited
circulation, to properly disseminate
the call and we do not wish TO balk
them in their new born enthusiasm for
Utah statehood after the democracy
has secured it absolutely.
They will find it exceedingly diff
cult to pluck this laurel of statehood
from the brow of democracy if not en-
tirelY impossible. It is powerful rea-
son why the patriotic people of Utah
should vote this fall the entire un-
scratched democratic ticket, no mat
ter what party they hn'-sa- to or sym
nothi-s with. The people do esteem
this great advance for Utah. They
do know that it was conferred by the
democratic party and that IT has been
op posed from the very start by the re-
publican party. Not all the sharp
play the party managers can make can
obscure the main truths of the sItua-
tion. If they wish to take non
partisan action in this great
matter they can best do it by
voting the democratic ticket. That
would mean something. That would
represent non-partisanism and patriot
ism at one and the sRmetime. But to
call the republican city government
into the matter, after it had fair op-
portunity to join in with the demo-
Gratis Tuesday night, but did not en-
brace it, lie, to say the least, bit of
non-partisanship which very closely
resembles unfrank as well as wiley par
tisansbip of brand not TO be mis-
taken. The republicans will forgive
rs for frankly stating these facts, as
for the way we take in announcing to
them that they cannot handle the de-
mocracy of Provo with the same means
they would choose to lead lot of cal
low school boys. We do not thus
tamelY consent to surrender vital ad-
vantage such as this is unquestionably,
and permit them falsely tn play the
winning card after we have held it for
so many years.
The democrats of Utah have to deal
with slippery, wary and thoroughly
unscruplous foe--and it will pay them
to exercise the utmost vigilance. No
point is so small that we can afford to
overlook it. Eternal vigilance is said
to be the price of liberty, in dealing
with Utah republicans it is the price of
of democratic victory, Let US not be
caught mapping, Let us watch as well
as pray I'D dispute every square itch
with them, with the stern purpose of |
wiping up the earth with them in No
Vember next.