The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-23

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to enforce the law, They have encour
aged the massing at the seat OF COY
eminent of thousands of homeless men
made desperate by republican leg
lslation, hoping that their presence
would embarrass the administers
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule
In this arraignment we include those
local republicans who have endeavored
to cast ridicule upon the governor, op
probrium upon the judges and insult
upon the militia and the constabulaIy,
while those officers we're engaged in
preserving the public peace and seek.
ing to turn back the tide of poverty
which was flowing into the territory,
We deeply sympathjze 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 our
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
trodnced by democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
to 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 it withthe heresy Of
protection. The terms 'bimetaIism"
and 1.-The enlarged use rof silver" by
which they seek to dazzle the eyes of
the west and the south, are only catch
phrases to fool the sophisticated.
They do not mean the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
OF Is to l, which is the only true soIu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republic
can party: Fer its false pretenses of
sudden regard for the people of Utah
against whom in it's platforms and by
extreme legislation it indicated intense
hostility from its inception. Its simu-
lated affection is co-incident with the
appearance of possibility ofrepubli-
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 feels 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 funds 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-
orlng 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 blunders in princi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general interest but not IA
vorabe to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing TO give necessary support to the
educational institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, inssre 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 scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
the republican party in an attitude OF
cowardice and absurd1ty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
parSImony 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 |
republican legislature would, but for |
wi
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
measures of reform it has inaugurated
can be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
good to the greatest numbsr; which is
the foe of monopolies and the friend of
the masses; which does not depend
upon any one man however powerful,
for its guidance or its victory; and
which VIII maintain and hear off tri-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
stitutions Tor which the fathers of our
country fought and bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ton 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
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS
JOSEPH MoNsON,