The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21


and the executive in different places
TO enforce the law. They have encour-
aged the massing at The seat OF gov
eminent of thousands of homeless men,
made desperate by republican leg.
lslation, hoping that their presence
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 those
local republicans who have endeayored
TO cast ridicule upon the governor, op-
probrium upon the 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 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 our
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.
We denounce the false pre- enses 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 beresy 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 uns0phlsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'm
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
OF Is to l, which is The only trEe solu-
ton OF the money problem and the only
genuine blmetallic 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
hostility from its inception. Its simu
lated affection is CO incident with the
appearance of a possibility OF reDubh-
can support III the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unSeltish 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 i'll
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 di-
vert it 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 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
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 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 III an attitude of |
cowardice and absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed |
more bonn bast 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
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor |
Caleb W. West in the interposition of |
the veto power vested 10 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 |
his action, have 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,