The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-20

to enforce the law. They have encour-
aged the massing at the seat OF g0Y-
eminent of thousands of homeless men,
made desperate by republican leg
lslation. hoping that theic 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 arraignmenU we include those
local republicans who have endeavored
TO cast Tldicule upon the governor, OPP
prUbrium 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 Tor the sup
! port of the resident poor, and some OF
whom sought to obtain the work which
was needed by our own 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 0y 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
8 liver by linking it whit le hereSy of
protection. The terms "bimetalIsm"
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 sophisticated.
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 Sou-
ton OF the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republI-
can party: Fer its false pretenses of
sudden regard Tor 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 ofreDu5G-
can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unseltish tend
erness which the spider feels for the
fly,
We denOunce the only republican leg
islature OF Utah territory: For It's
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 creating the institution and
requiring 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.
enue necessary to their support and d.
vert it for the purpose of giving boun-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving to commit the represent
atiy es 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 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 to 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 ami 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 a 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 partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla-
tive assembly in the history of the ter
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb w. West in the interp0sitiOn Of |
the veto power vested 10 him by law, |
TO prevent the enactment of vicious |
and partisan measures and lnsultnr |
and misleading memorials by which
republican legislature would, but for
his action, have 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 10 stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
pie. from which alone political redemp-
ton can come 10 this territory an per-
manent pTosreritv to the nation
which will demonstrate the superiority
of its principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform IL has luaugurated
can he put into force and produce their
effects: which works for the greatest
good to the greatest numbEr; which is
the foe of mOnOpolieS and the friend OF
the masses; which does not depend
upon any one man, however powerful,
for its guidance or Its victory; and
which Will maintain and bear Oft trl-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
situations for which the fathers of our
country fought aud bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo.
| ton and our energies, with the full
conviction that success will crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
as free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING.
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN Z. GAME,