The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-09

! n6nt upon washington by thousand
| OF the unemployed. They have inter
tered with the efforts of the juiiciaI,
and the executive i'll different place
TO enforce the law. They have encour
aged the massing at the seat OF GOV
eminent of thousands of homeless men
made desperate by republican leg
lslation, hoping that their presenc,
would embarrass the adminlstra
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule
In this arraignment we include the 81
local republicans who have endeavoret
TO cast rldlcule upon the governor, OPP
probrium upon tbs judges and insult
upon the militia and the constabulaly
while those officers were engaged III
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
dwellers in our territory. We deplore
the policy which has brought into nuI
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 cur conviction that
only by the reforms which will be in
trodnced by a democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
10 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 uns0phlsJicated.
They do not mean the free and un-
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 bimeJaliic policy.
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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 q possibility of republic
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
isIature 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 funds for the
agricultural college and to carry on the
according to the provisions
Of the law creating the institution and
the establishment of neces-,
sary departments, and also by enGeay-
oring to cripple the public schools in a
scheme TO take away part OF the rev.
9nue necessary to their support and d.
vert it for the purpose of giving boun-
les to benefit private enterprises.
For striving to commit the represent
atives of the people, in memorials to
to gross misrepresentation OF
act and egregious blunders in princi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
De for the general interest but not IA
vorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
using TO give necessary support to the
educational institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
Kindred institutions. and neglecting
o provide sufficient revenue to meet
he appropriations inconsiderstely
made.
The spectacle of republican legisla-
ors running away In hot haste to avoid
IN issue which they had raised them
elves, evading the officers sent TO ar
est them and hiding until republican
majority could be assured, thus stop
ping the progress of public business in
he upper house of the legislature and
bringing that body into public con-
empt, was scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
he republican party in an attitude of
owardice and absurdItv.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
,arslmOny and smaller economy, |
,reater partlsanship and narrower
workmanship than any other legisla |
i've assembly in the history of the ter
ltory.
We endorse the action of Governor
}aleb W. West in the interpOSitiOn of |
he veto power vested 10 him by law, |
o prevent the enactment of vicious |
nd partisan measures and insulting |
nj misleading memorials by which the |
epublican legislature would, but for
is action, haye injured and disgraced
he territory. And we recognize in
be governor q firm, discreet and able |
Xecutive, whose influence has been
asst on the side of law and order and
be public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
Utah to stand by and support the
arty of the constitution and the peo-
lie, from which alone political redemp-
ion can come TO this territory and per-
lament prosperity to the nation;
'hich will demonstrate the superiority
f its principles and policy as soon as
of reform it has inaugurated
an be put into force and produce their
fecta; which works for the greatest
God to he greatest number; which is
le ice of monopolies and the friend of
he mas ,es; which does not depend
pom an one man however powerful,
u lis guidance or Its victory; and
mich VIII maintain and hear off tri-
mphant those sacred doctrines and in
5itutions for which the fat lerS of our
ountry fought aud bled, AMI to which
e hereby pledge our fsitn, our devo.
on and our energies, with the full
Onviction that success will crown our
forts and Utah will enter the Union
6 free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,