The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-03

and the executive III QiuoIeHt ptdoeS
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 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 endeaVored
to cast ridicule upon the governor, OPP
probrium upon the judges and insult
upon the militia and the constabuiaIy,
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
dwellers 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
troduced by democratic congress and
can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
10 the toiling masses.
We denounce the false preteDses 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 wlththe heresy 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 is to l, which is the only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetallic policy.
We denounce the national republl.
can party: For its false pretenses OF
sudden regard for the people OF Utan
against whom in its platforms and by
extreme legislation it indicated intense
hostility from its inception. Its slmu-
lated affection is co-incident With the
appearance of q possibility OF repuDll'
can supporr in the territory, and That
its support was the only cause OF It's
new attitude. 1t is the unseltish tend
erness which the spider feels for the
We denounce the only republican les
isIature of Utah Territory: For its
waste of pnblic time and money in
vain endeavors to manufacture party
capital. j.,
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 dl-
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
FS'of making apProprfatione, alter 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 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-
i've assembly in the history of the ter
'itory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interposition of
he veto power vested ia him by law,
o prevent the enactment of vicious
md partisan measures and insulting
md misleading memorials by which the |
epublican legislature would, but for |
liz action, haYe injured and disgraced |
he territory. And we recognize in
he governor q firm, discreet and able
Executive, whose influence has been
asst On the side of law and order and |
he public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
f Utah to stand by and support the
arty of the constitution and the peo-
lie, from which alone political redemp-
ion can come TO this territory and per-
lament prosperity to the nation;
7hich will demonstrate the superiority
f 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
God to the greatest number; which is
re foe of monopolies and the friend of
le masses; which does not depend
pom any one man however powerful,
II its guidance or its victory; and
hich VIII maintain and bear off tri-
nphant those sacred doctrines and in
buttons for which the fathers of our
'untry fought aud bled, and to which
g hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
On and our energies, with the full
'nvicti0n that success will crown our
forts and Utah will enter the Union
free and vigorous democratic state. :
WILLIAM 81. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
o. w. POWERS
JOSEPH MoNsoN,
l. J. Stewart