The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-14

] ment upon w asElug ION Oy Thousand
t OF the unemployed. They have inter
? fired with the efforts OF the ju3lciaI
a I'D the executive in different place
10 enforce the law. They have encoul
) aged the massing at the seat of COY
+ eminent of thousands OF homeless men
made desperate by republican leg
islatiOn, hoping that their presenc
would embarrass the administra
ton and convey the false impress iel
that the party in power is responsible
: for thirty years OF republican misrule
In this arraignment we include thos
local republicans who have endeavore'
to cast ridicule up n tue governor, Op
probrium upon the judges and insul
upon the militia and the cOnstabula1y
while those officers were engaged IL
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 uDem-
ployed working people of the country
and particularly of those who are
dwelieTs in our territory. We deplOrt
the policy which has brought into nUl
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
10 the t0iling masses,
! We denounce the false pTetenses 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 ''bimetalIsm"
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 unsuphlsticated.
They do not mean the free and IN
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is TO l, which is he only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetaiic policy.
We denounce the national republi-
can party: For its false pretenses Of
sudden regard for the people OF Utah
against " HON i'll its platforms and by
extreme legislation it indicated intense
hostility from its inception. Its simu-
lated affection is cO-incident w th the
appearance of a possibility of republi
can support In the territory, and that
its support was the only cause Of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfsh tend
or M, for
fly,
We denounce the only republican leg
islature of Utah territory: For It's
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 th : law creating the institution and
requiring the establishment OF neceS-
saTy departments, and also by endeav-
Orlng to cripple the public schools in a
scheme to take away part OF the rev.
enue necessary TO their support and d.
vert 1t for the purpose OF giving bOun-
Ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 20 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
vorable 10 republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing TO give necessary support to the
educational instl utions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
Kindred institutions. and neglectlng
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 10 ar.
rest them and hiding until a 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 pubic con-
tempt, was scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits
the republican party IN an attitude OF
and absurdlty.
L
more bombast and less capacity, mort
parslmony and smaller economy,
greater craftsmanship and narrowel
than any other legisla-
tive assembly in the history of the ter
rltOry.
We endorse the actor of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interpOsltlOn OF
the veto power vested in hin, by law,
to prevent the enactment of vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by winch the
republican legislature would, but for
his action, haYe injured and disgraced |
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 S and by and support the !
party of the constitution and the peo- |
pie, from which alone political redemp-
tiuD can come TO this territory and per-
manent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority |
of Its principles and policy as soon IS
measures of reform it has inaugurated
can be put into force and produce their
effectg; which works for the greatest
good to he greatest numbHr; which is
the foe of monopolies and the friend oil
the masses; which does not depend
upon anv one man however powerful,
for its guidance or its victory; and
which Will maintain and hear off trl-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
situations for which the fathers of our
country fought aud 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 H. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K, REID,
Secretary