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

and tie executive IN dlHeT6nG place
5 to enforce the law. They have encour
+ aged The massing at the seat OF COY
, eminent of thousa nds of homeless men
) made desperate by republican leg
/ lslation, hoping that their presenct
( 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 these
| local republicans who have endeavoret
to cast ridicule uDon the governor, OPP
probrium upon th3 judges and insult
{ upon the militia and the constabulaIy
while those officers were engaged in
preserving the public peace and seek
ing to turn back the tide of poverty
which was flowing into the territory.
We deeply svmpathize with The dis
tress of our Fellow citizens, the unem-
ployed working people of the country
and particularly of those who are
dwellers in our territory. We deplore
the policy which has brought into ouI
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 De 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 heTeSy 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 unsophlsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'm
! limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l, which is he only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bImetailic policy.
We denounce the national republi
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
| lated affection is cO-incident with the
| appearance of possibility OF reUubli
can support in the territory, and that
! its support was the only cause of It's
new attitude. 1t is the unselish tend
erness which the spider feels for the
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
islature OF Utah terrltoIy: For its
waste of pnbiic time and money in
vain endeavoTs 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 th5 law creating the institution and
requiring the establishment of neces-.
sary departments, and also by endeav-
oring to cripple the public schools in
scheme to take away part OF the rev.
enue necessary to their support and di-
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 princi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general intsFest bat not ia
vorable to republican adN@slcement.
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
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 ami 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 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
parslmony and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla-
tive assembly in the history of the ter
iItory.
We endorse the actor of Governor
Caleb w. West in the interposition of
the veto power vested ia 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 |
n SC uofJ hox inn
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 viii demonstrate the superiority
of its principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has iDaugurated
Can be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
good to he greatest number; which is
tie Il of monnpolies and the friend of
the mas es; which does not depend
upon an nne man however powerful,
for 40 guidance or Its victory; and
which Will maintain and hear off tri-
umphant those sacred doctrines and in
stitutiOns for which the fat ers of our
country fought aud bled an to which
we hereby pledge our faitl., 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. X. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS,