The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-31

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.
made desperate by republican leg
Isiation, hoping that their presence
would embarrass the adminietra.
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, op.
probrium upon the judges and insult
upon the militia and the constabula1y
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
trees of our fellow citizens, the uDem-
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 declare1t to be our conviction that
only by the reforms which will be in
troduced by democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
10 the toiling masses.
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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 "bimetallsm"
and 1.-THE 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 slmu-
lated affection is cO-incident with the
appearance of q possibility of republi-
can support In the territory, and that
its support was the only cause Of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfish tend
erness when the spider feels for the
fly.
We denounce theonly republican les
islature of Utah Territory: For its
waste of pnblic 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
agricultural college and to carry on
university according to the provision
of the law creating the institution ali
recurring the establishment of neces
sary departments, and also by endeav
oring to cripple the public schools IN a
scheme to take away part OF the rev.
eDue necessary to their support and d.
vert it for the purpose of giving boun-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 10 commit the represent.
atives of the people, in memorials to
congress, to gross misrepresentation OF
fact and egregious blunders In prlnci-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general interest but not ia
yorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing to give necessary support to the
educational insti 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 not 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 abSurdltv.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
DarSlmony and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other leglsla-
tive assembly in the history uf the ter
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interposition of
the veto power vested 10 him 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
the territory. And we recognize In
the governor firm, 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-
pie. from which alone political redemp-
ton can come to this territory and per-
manent prosperity TO the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
of its principles and policy as soon as
measures Of reform it has inaugurated
can be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
good to the greatest numbar; watch is
the foe of monopoiies and the friend of
the masses; which does not depend
upon any one man however powerful,
for its guidance or It's ylcto"Y; and
which Will maintain and near tri-
umphant those sacred do trim :. /
stituti0ns for which the fathe CT
country fought aad Gied, 81 = =
we hereby pledge our fats q
tion and our energies, W. I
conviction that success VIII u
efforts and Utah will enter the
as free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K, REID,
Secretary
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