The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-27


and the executive in different place
to 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
lslation, hoping that their presenc
would embarrasS the administra
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule
In this arraignment we include thos
local republicans who have endeavoreC
to cast ridicule upon the governor, OPP
probrium upon the judges and insul
upon the militia and the cOnstabulaIy
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 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 oul
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 toiling masses.
Ln Il In Ka1
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 "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 unsophIsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'm
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of Is to 1, which is the only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republi-
can party: For its false pretenses of
sudden regard Tor 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-incident with the
appearance of possibility of republi-
can support In the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfish 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
agricultural college and to carry on
university according to the provisior
of the law creating the institution al
requiring the establishment of neceh
saTy departments, and also by endeay
oring to cripple the public schools in Z
scheme to take away part of the rev.
enue necessary to their support and di.
vert it for the purpose OF giving boun-
lies 10 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.
be for the general interest but not IA
Vorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusing TO give necessary support to the
educational insti utions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
kindred institutions. and negleeting
to provide sufficient revenue to meet
the appropriations inconsiderstely
made,
The spectacle of republican legisla-
tors running away in hot haste to avoid
an issue which they had raised them
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 absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more |
and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla |
tive assembly in the history of the ter
ritory.
We endorse the actor. of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interposition of |
The veto power vested in him by law, |
to prevent the enactment of vicious |
and partisan measures and insulting |
and misleading memorials by which the |
legislature would, but for
his action, haYe injured and disgraced
-he territory. And we recognize in
The governor firm, discreet and able
whose influence has been
cast on the side of law and order and
.he public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
If Utah to stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
lie, from which alone political redemp-
ion can come TO this territory and per-
nanent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
If It's princip pies and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has inaugurated
,an be put into force and produce their
Effects; which works for the greatest
rood TO the greatest numbsr: which is
he foe of monOpolies and the friend of
he masses; which does not depend
lpon any one man however pow erfu!,
or its guidance or its vlctorv; and
which VIII maintain and bear tri-
lmphant those sacred do tim i
for which the fati Of cur
ountry fought aud Eled, an wHsQ1
ye hereby pledge our faiti u
ion and our energies, W : L
that success W}il cIo IL
forts and Utah will enter the IN
is free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS
JOSEPH MoNsON,