The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-27
PROVO CITY.
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY.

Just now the republican pdTtYi lUS
henchmen and organs, are storming
heaven to convince the people Of Utah
that it is the first. original and only ad-
vocate of statehood. You will see that
every declaration, resolution, or plat
form they compile will, as does the
Denver declaration of the Utah dele.
CATION, declare in stentorian tones for
statehood. This, after thirty years op-
portunity wasted, will catch only
gudgeons. Let no Utonian be cajoled
by the thin trick, the transparent and
false assumption. If we had been re-
fusing this boon for the same length of
time we would not expect to be sue
cesstul in csjoling the voters of this
territory. All! but they tell US that
the conditions have changed, that now
the policy of the church and of the peo-
pie is not the same, that polygamy is
stamped out. Now human nature diff
fers in Utah vastly from what it is else
where if this argument would win very
may votes or make very much enthus.
iasm for the republican cause. While
it is undeniably true that polygamy is
gone and the Severance of church and
state in Utah has been accomplished,
yet we cannot see that the people are
other than they were when the repub-
lican party stood at the door OF the
union and swore by all the gods on
high olympus that Utah shall never
enter the union. Either the republi-
D II party has most wretched memory
or else 1t credits Utah with one of the
most defective ever known-or per-
haps it rates the old settlers as fools
who will vote their ticket no matter
what their record is in tie past or may
become In the future.
There is no indignity which this
party of hypocrisy has not piled upon
the people of Utah in the past, and
even today they continue the hostile
work. Last spring when the bill of ad
mission was before the house the only
opposition it experienced either on the
floor or outside was republican op-
position. People from all the new
England states thronged the lobby
and worked like Trojans to
defeat it there. 1t is not for
gotten that Morse, that poor
spirited victim of Joe. .Rawlins's, is re-
publican, and that his warfare was in
spired by the leading republicans of
the east. All the opposing mlssionar.
les, both male and female, were active
republicans, and even when battling
sin here, when they hit one blow for
the Lord, they struck thousand
against the Mormon church. Is it in
the nature of things that they now
favor this great boon tor the people
they affect to be afraid to trust with
the dignity, privilege and power o
citizenship?
We dislike to think that there is no
frankness anywhere on earth, but we
doubt if there is any in the republican
party. Republicans are the Jesuits of
politics. With them the end sought,
justifies the means used to obtain it.
Thus it is that We doubt the genuine
ness of the old Utonian who filings
himself into the arms of this rotten old
enemy of Utah. There is surely some.
thing wrong in his makeup, mentally
OF morally, or else he has hugh axe to
grind himself, and is using his old-time
enemy to do the drudgery.
The record of last winters republi-
can legislature more than abundently |
proves that that party is not seeking
the good of the territory, when it takes
the money of the schools and gives it to
the monopolists. When the party sus.
tains the anarchists, and opposes the
officers who sustain the laws. For
these reasons we believe that the re-
publican vote this fall will not be a
very Overwhelming one.