The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-11-13
PROVO CITY


steps in the future few reflections
with regard to the recent conflict here
il Utah will not be entirely out CT
place. In the fret place the result is
oae which induces one to think deeply,
TO pry into the possible causes pro-
ducing the wonderful result which re-
verses the political order OF things en-
tirely in this territory. OF course the
hard times prevailing has had its
malign Office in this nosegay of evils,
The republican speakers and papers
had the ingenuity required to induce
the people to lay the cause at the door
OF the present administration, to shift
it from the shoulders of the republican
party to those of the democratic party.
We persist in charging ali our financial
woes of the last few years to the orig
inal cause, demonetization, and this
has been so well established that we do
not deem further argument necessary.
The republican party certainly did de-
monetize. Just how they have been
able to shift the responsibility is easy
TO be seen. 1t is found in the fact
that while the great masses of the dem
ocratic party have always favored re-
mOnetization few of its great lead
ers, including the president of the
United States, have been, are low ,and,
to all intents AMI purposes. will be in
the future, gold standard men. They
have ignored the free silver masses of
the party and confined their fight to
the leaders. Where one is inclined to
accept even a bad reason, as good an
one as this will not be overlooked.
Another potent element in the
late struggle here in Utah has
been that they have been able
to conYince large number
of the people that the first presidency
Of the church was partisan for the re-
publican cause-which was true be-
yond doubt. With one of that ven
erable body nearly out of the whlrl by
reason of his great age, another having
his son heading the republican cohorts,
and the other bitter, open and active
partisan for the republican cause, it is
little wonder that the common people
arrived at that view of the case. We
leave the gentlemen of the first presi-
dency to settle with their own con-
sciences as to the good faith of their
former declarations of non-partisan-
ship, while We say to the people that it
has been fully demonstrated that in
politics the preachers and religious
dignitaries are no more to be trusted
than other people. While the first
presidency will be respected and
obeyed as the ecclesiastical leaders of
the people, they will no longer lead the
hosts politically. A feeling has grown
up that even the church may do wrong
politically. We do not care to in
quirer if the triumph they have won in
this matter is worth the sacrifice, but
we do not believe it is. We are very
certain that the trusting faith of a
whole state full of honorable, virtuous
people, is worth more than the pool
triumph of seeing Frank Cannon fl
the seat of delegate in congress fol-
one session. Especially when tc
reach this result the hard, honest work
of faithful man, a true friend of Utah
and her people, is discredited, denied
falsifed and dishonored. We do moi
know how churchmen might reason on g
proposition of this kind, but to rea-
sonably honest plodding man of the
world of politics, it seems a species OF
partissnship nearest akin to unfaith-
tulness if not of utter partisanship.
1t was not worth the sacrifice. The
church should pour oil on the troubled
waters of partisanship. 1t should not
add fuel TO the flames and heat mems
passions unnecessarily without ade-
quate cause. The simple triumph OF
one who owns as father one of the
heads of the church was an insufficient
cause. We believe this is the conclu-
sion which the people have reached
and we further believe that the first
presidency will also reach it ere long.