The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-17
PROVO CITY. MAY II, 1884
REPUBLICANISM-INDU DUSTRIALISM

1t is broadly known fact that in the
very crowd Of industrlals lately squat
ting on the bleak banks of the city
ditch within the corporate limits of
Provo, are many men who have been
conspicuous voters and workers in the
liberal ranks, in former years, in Salt
Lake city. Doubtless many Of the
trsinmen on the Western recognize
old familiar faces among them. That
was in the days when liberalism and
republicanism were engaged together
to beat the peoples party. 1t will not
be forgotten that it has often in the
past been charged that the Western
was deep in sympathy with the objects
for which they were then struggling,
However this may now be, it is certain
that there is close affinity between
the present leading republicans and
the leaders of the industrial "armies, "
"scratch a wealel's back and a repuo-
lican will groan."
1t wont do to say that this situation
is due to the fact that the sdministra-
tion Of the law is in the hands of the
democrats and that of course the re-
publicsns naturally sYmpathize with
those who are arrested and held by
democratic officers. We fear that the
matter is. farless innocent than that,
the evident good fellowship xisting
belongs rather to a community of in
terests, purposes and principles, be-
tween the parties to this lawlessness,
rather than to any purpose or fact of
an effort to bring upon the democratic
executive officers of the territory the
simple odium of failure to execute the
law. The sympathy exhibited here on
Saturday last for the wealers was un-
deniably exhibited by republicans. The
Enquirer was tooth and toe nail
on the side of the lawless horde
and all the men it painted to see the
wealers duck and maltreat, were demo-
Gratis. Not one republican among the
crowd that day but who went with
the Enquirer in its grotesque patting
of the wealers on the back. The
bondemen of Mr.. Garter are al promi-
nent Salt Lake republicans, or liberals,
which is much the same thing. To the
thoughtful Mormon people who have,
from mistaken idea of independence,
thrown their allegiance to the republi-
can party these reflections cannot fail
70 prove interesting, They will ask:
"Is it possible that l have not only
been throwing my sympathy, support
and votes 10 the bitter enemies of my
faith, but by the sympathies l have
manifested, encouraged these same
men in their wild attempt to set aside |
the law and inaugurate the reign of
anarchy, the subYersion of all law?"
If their reflections were to take this |
direction, they would not be far from |
the correct lie, but there would be |
precious little satisfaction in it TO one |
of the old faith no matter how sud-
denly or violently his conversion to re-
publicanism or liberalism had been.
The democratic party of this territory
stands in the attitude today of being
the only law and order party in it. The
Tribune, the great mouth piece of both |
repubhcanism and liberalism, is also
the champion, the fearful sympathetic
champion of the industrials. Cannot
our people make the application? The
forces standing behind the admins
trAtion of law here, this day, are dem
ocratic, and democratic only. Surely
no part of it is republican and equally
no part of it is liberal.