The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-22
GKNKRHL ELECTION, nov, 6, 1894.
REPUBLICANISM VS., UTAH.

The republican party is thirty
seven years old 1t has been In power
every year of its existence save fer the
last eighteen months. Utah asked for
statehood fnrty-fve years since, she
has asked for it every since the re-
publican party has been in power. A
steady refusal was received. The pre-
texts upon which this refusal was made
are infinite in number, and range from
comic to severe, from grave to gay,
Not one piece OF favorable legislation
in ali those years. On the contrary
one indignitY after another, one per-
secution after another. one hardship
after another, one bitter result after
another was offered by the national
government to poor, helpless Utah
loyal, honest AMI patriotic Utah.
American to the core and loving the
United States with ineXpressible ten
derness; STEADY as the needle to the pole
to American sentiments, and not one
single reason why she should not be
admitted, was kept out all these years.
And it is said that now to show her
whipped dog humility she is going to
vote for the party which prosecuted
her and treated her with contumelY all
these long years. 1t is a,eruel slander
upon q PEI pie entirely irnocent of the
least shadow of such an intention. If
the republican party could point to
single act of decent liberation, or one
petty service Of any kind or any act re-
sembllng in the least degree hearty
manly liberation or confidence, it
would not be so bad, but thirty
seven years OF unbroken, unrelieved
hostility is hardly the preparation to
make to ask the votes and the fealty
of such people as are those of Utah.
The simple asking is but another bit
ter insult offered to the people.
Utah may owe allegiance too political
combination, but it is certainly not to
the republican party. This party has
maligned her noble women, and in
suited and despitefuIly treated her
manhood, and did every thing in its
power to retard and hold back her
progress. And yet despite all
this it has the superb and
wonderful impudence to come
before this people to ask for the suffrages
of her people TO replace it in power.
No word of apology for the cruel past.
No word of sorrow or regret. No word
of promise for the future. The offeu-
sive leaders of the offensive and reek-
ing past still enthroned in power, still
leading her hosts. The Tribune with
all Of its bitterness of the past unat-
toned for, unapologized for, giving
The law to the party, to the iliustri-
ous churchmen now for some darkly
inscrutible reason enrolled under Its
banners, or rather the banners Of the |
republican party. This is a state of
things which could exist in no other
state or country on earth. 1t is too
good. too forgiving. The tune of the
other rh1ek doctrine of the holy scrip
lures is carried to an extent never
contemplated, by the Divine Author,
who is called just God as well as a
loving God. This party aud this pa
per have both insulted the Mormon
people in the most cruel way, year in
and year out, for thirty years, even 60
ing to the extent of calling their child.
rem bastards and their wives by the
most opprobrious titles the language is
capable of fashioning.
1t is time that Utah began the great
and solemn duty of resenting these
hings and the only, as it is the most
effective way, in which it can do this
work is to 60 to the polls and vote
;olidly against its men.
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