The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-17

tered with the efforts Oh the JuJlclalY
and the executive in different places
to enforce the law. They have encour-
-aged the massing at the seat OF goY-
eminent of thousands of homeless men.
made desperate by republican leg
islation, hoping that their presence
would EN- barrass the adminlstra-
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, OPP
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
dwelIers 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 a 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 sinking it withthe heresy of
protection. The terms "bimetalJSm"
and 1.-The enlarged use sof 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 IN
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 IF
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 possibility OF reDubli-
, can support in the territory, ana that
it's 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 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-
sary 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 1t for the purpose OF giving D0un-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 10 commit the represent
atives of the people, III memorials to
congress, to gross misrepresentation OF
fact and 6gregious blunders in princi- |
pie.
For defeating legislation which would |
be for the generaI 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 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 :
ritory.
We endorse the action of Governor !
Caleb W. West in the interposition of
the veto power vested 10 hin. 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, 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
5he public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
If Utah to stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
Die, from which alone political redemp-
ion can come to this territory and per-
nanent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
# Its principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has inaugurated
an be put into force and produce their
fleets; which works for the greatest
.ood TO the greatest number: which is
he foe of monopolies and the friend of
he masses; which does not depend
Ipon any one man, however powerful,
or its guidance or its victory; and
Which will maintain and hear off tri-
those sacred doctrines and in
titutions for which the fathers of our
ountry fought aud bled, and to which
Te hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ion and our energies, with the full
that success will crown our
forts and Utah will enter the Union
S free and vigorous democratic state. ]
WILLIAM III. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS,
JOSEPH Monsoon,