The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-23

t OF the unemployed. They nave Intel
y fered with the efforts of the judicia1
and the executive in different place
to enforce the law. They have encoul
S aged the massing at the seat OF COY
I eminent of thousands of homeless men
e made desperate by republican leg
s Islatjon, hoping that their presenc
! would embarrass the administra
+ ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule
r In this arraignment we include thos
local republicans who have endeavoret
to cast ridicule upon the governor, op
: probrium upon the judges and insul
upon the militia and the constabulaIy
while those officers were engaged il
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 ouI
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 declare 1t to be our conviction that
only by the reforms which will be in
PRODUCED by democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
TO the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
20 the toiling masses,
We denounce the false pretenses re-
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 1t 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 l, 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 simu-
lated affection is cO-incideDt with the
appearance Of a possibility of republic
can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfsh tend
erness which the spider teels for the
fly.
We denOunce the only republican leg
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 tunds 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
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 10 commit the represent
atives of the people, in memorials to
congress, to gross misrepresentation OF
fact and egregious hlunders 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 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 d scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
the republican party in an attitude of
and absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
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 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
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 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
of reform it has inaugurated
can be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
good to the greatest number; which is
jhe foe Of monopolies and the friend OF
he masses; which does not depend
lpon any one man however powerful,
,or its guidance or Its victory; and
which Will maintain and bear off tri-
lmphant those sacred doctrines and in
,titutions for which the fathers of our
country fought aud bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our deyo-
ion 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