The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-08
MAY s, 1884
PROVO CITY.
SPEAKS OF DEMOCRACY.

A new hand at the bellows uses
space in the Enquirer to tell what he
doesn't know of party politics, but
more especially what be doesn't know,
or won't say, of democracy.
This modern Daniel who has come
to Judge democracy says truly that
democracy has existed in all ages OF
the world. 1t has been very good
thing for this same world that it has
had bit of democratic principle all
along since governments were insti-
tuted among men.
The Enquirer man AYERS that it
takes a peculiar trait of character to
make man democrat. True, it is a
peculiar man Who will bare his bosom
to the embittered shafts of the pluto
Gratis, the gold bugs and who stands
up for the rights Of the poor as well as
of theirich. These peculiar democrats
never hesitated to front kings where
the rights of the people were assailed.
King John and King George can both
testify to the truth of this peculiarity
of the democrats of their days.
"The democracy Of our day and time
has been the negative party" has itF
The democracy did not formulate the
Monroe doctrine? Did not admit
more new states than any other party? +?
The democratic party, it is quite true,
did not sell instead of manumitting its
slaves to another section and then
spend ten billions of money in setting
them free. 1t meyer led raid against
q constitutional right in its life.
When once the bayOnet issue was
Joined and it became no longer a mat
ter of constitutional right but simple
question of the national existence, the
democracy, instead OF holding the re-
publicans back, pushed those Of them
who could not hire a substitute into the
fight for the national autonomy. And
the democracy actually put more men
into the field than the republicans did,
hordes of aliens imported from Europe
to help out. Yes, such men as Grant,
always democrat before the war;
Hancock, Rosecrans, Thomas, Porter,
McClelland and hundreds of other
honored soldiers Of the union defended
slavery (?). The frsnkness of this
new hand at the bellows on the En-
Quirer, would not swamp a seventy-four
gun ship, to be sure.
Yes, it is to the democratic contin-
Rency that is due the fact that radical
republicans did not hang the defeated
and disarmed confederates after stealing
by force of numbers the very slaves
sold to the south and spend
ing a world Of blood and money in
the work of wrestling them from them,
regardless of the constitutional guar
sntees by which the weaker party held
property in negro slaves,
We are astonished to hear thatspecie
resumption WAS opposed by the demo-
Gratis. To the fact that the democratic
minority, led by the illustrious
Sehleicher of Texas, Joined to the few
honest republicans in congress is
due that resumption was ever made
possible.
The special writer is very sadly mis-
taken in another important statement,
1t was not the transcontinentsl roads
themselves to which the democracy
was opposed, but it was those gigantic
frauds of the Credit Mobilier which fin
ally drove Schuyler Oolfax, vice-pres-
ident Of the republican party, 0akes
Ames great republican leader and
numerous other republican patriots
into premature graves by the exposure
by the democrats Of their enormous
frauds, corruptions and outright steals
to which the democrats objected.
In dealing with these fellows, of the
Enquirer stamp, it is necessary to re-
call history bit and when you do they
are always left without q leg to stand
upon.
So STEPPED in fraud and 30 fercely
clutched by the favored classes were
the tariff advantages-the favored
classes, the republican institutions
built up by republican exactions
upon the taxpaying masses-and so
reeking with fraud are the millionaires
built out Of these advantages that the
task of looseniBg their clutch
upon their filthy gains is a far
greater one than even the demo-
cratic leaders had the ghost of an
idea Of at the outset. But never
mind, we will have tariff reform be-
fore congress adjourns, of which the
petted favorites of the republican party
will become very tired.