The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-10

A PARTISAN CONSTITUTION.

1uG hDCLD chAC o0oA fAAS
for partisan constitution. q repubI
can constitution. Well, q non-partisan
constitution is good enough for us,
providing there is a right smart
sprinklng of intelligent democrats,
really majority of democrats, en-
gagged in its construction. A republ1-
can constitution would be one which
favored the corporations, trusts and
the like. In it the sugar bounty
would be at home and all similar
political dogmas would have a bright
easY-sailing future before them. A
democratic non-partisan constitution
would favor the masses Of the people
while il would be perfectly fair to the
rich. The fact is when it comes to a
fair deal all round you can only haye
it by and through democratic legisla-
ton, 1t is Just as natural for the re-
publicsns to consort with the corpor-
ations and trusts as it is for water to
run down grade. Therefore the
masses of the people do not want re-
publican constitution, and they do
want democratic or nonpartisan
one. WHAT is of more consequence in
this matter is, that all classes of peo
pie be r resented in the constitu-
tional corVention SO that each class
may be o. The ground to protect itself.
That is hat we mean by non-parti-
san COL ttul'cl, by real simon pure
democrs ia COL tuition. =
The fact is that every prospective
new citizen gf Utah viii reach for our
new constitutiou eagerly TO see just
what kind Of people we are. Nothing
will 90 farther toward giving them an
impression ,l The worth of the new
state, the character and intelligence
of its people, their fairness, integrity,
character and get-up than the consti.
tuition we are to frame. If the mem
bership of the convention is capable of
framing 6. broad, liberal, progressive
constitution, the chances are equal that
we will have it. If it is narrow ,preiu-
diced and warped we cannot have it,
and we will have to pay the ineyita-
BILE penalty in another convention at a
vast cost in few years to get up bet
ter one.- We can avoid all this sort of
right Kind Of safe, cool-headed
G.otic men be chosen now and
9nstitution will be sufficient
the development and safety
be from the start. This is
we dare not monkey
There is too much at
stake, too much depends upon it.
For these excellent reasons we do not
want partisan or republican consti-
tuition and we do need democrats or
non-partisan constitution. If both
parties will see to it that none but hon.
est and capable men are sent to the
convention the result cannot but be
satisfactory, but if either or both send
their old chronic party hacks, half
broken down politicians, the result
will not be satisfactory to any one nor
useful to the territory. For this rea-
son we do not want to see the Fri.
bune's republican constitution theory
prevail.
All true patriotic Utonians ought to
be willing to sacrifice to the end that
We may have constitution which will
challenge the admiration of honest
men everywhere. This would be
good thing for any new state entering
the union, but it is of far more import
ance to Utah than any other. This
territory has been on the boards for
many years and has been kept out of
the union for SO long upon one shallow |
preteXt and another and upon some
peculiar grounds that our new consti-
tuition will be scrutinized from so
many points of observation that of
needs it must be well-nigh faultless.
Ii this sort of a constitution is made
many of the old and veteran prejudices
against Utah will disappear like frost
work before the up Using sun. Utah
will be the peer of any OF the states, of
this We are fully convinced and we
want the states to understand from the
first step off that this is true. We cannot
effect this IN any more impressive
way than by giving the new state a
whaling good" set of fundamental
laws.