The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-01

ana the executive IN Qiu6r6nt place
5 to enforce the law. They have encoui
I aged the massing at the seat OF COY
: eminent of thousands of homeless men
5 made desperate by republican leg
! Islation, hoping that their presenc
t would embarrass the administra
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
T for thirty years of republican misrule
In this arraignment we include thos
local republicans who have endeavore,
to cast ridicule upon the governor, op
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 povert,
which wac 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 art
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
PRODUCED 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 "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 unsophlsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'M
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 bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republic
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-incident with the
appearance of a possibility of republi
I 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 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-
saTy departments, and also by endeav-
oring 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 to commit the represent
atives of the people, In memorials to
congress, to gross Misrepresentation of
fact and egregious blunders in prinei-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
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 institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
kindred institutions. and neglecting
70 4 sosn 70
the appropriations inconsiderstely
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 a 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
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 in him by law.
to prevent the enactment of Vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
publican 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 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 numbEr; 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 bear off tri. |
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 II. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS
IOSEpu MnNuON