The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-11

anu lLt executive III ul10I6uI
, to enforce the law. They have encour
: aged the massing at the seat OF COY
eminent of thousands of homeless men
made desperate by republican leg
IslaUiOn, hoping that their presence
would embarrasS the administers
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, 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
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 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 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 unsophIsticated.
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 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 possibility Otrepubli-
can support In the territory, and that |
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfsh tend
erness which the spider feels for the
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
islature of Utah territoIy: 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 d.
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
to gross Misrepresentation OF
TACT and egregious blunders in princi-
pie.
For defeating leglslatio9-ghich would
De for the general interest but not IA
,orable to republican advancement.
For making approprlatlo1s, after re-
using to give necessary Support to the
educational institutions and the deaf
mute, reform school, insane asylum and
kindred institutions, and neglecting
20 provide sufficient revenue to meet
he appropriations inconsiderately
made.
The spectacle of republican legisla-
ors running away IN hot haste to avoid
IN issue which they had raised them
elves, evading the officers sent to ar ,
est them and hiding until republican
majority could be assured, thus stop
,lng the progress of public business in
he upper house of the legislature and
bringing that body into public con-
empt, was scene unparalleled in the
annals of our country, and exhibits !
he republican party in an attitude of
owardice and absurdlty.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
;arsImony and smaller economy,
reater partlsanship and narrower
than any other legisla- Z
i've assembly in the history of the ter
itory.
We endorse the action of Governor :
}aleb w. West in the interposition of
he veto power vested 10 him by law,
0 prevent the enactment of vicious
nd partisan measures and insulting
nd misleading memorials by which the
epublican legislature would, but for
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he territory. And we recognize in
be governor 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;
Thich 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 numbhr; which is
ne foe of monopolies and the friend of
re masses; which does not depend
pom any one man, however powerful,
II its guidance or its victory; and
hich Will maintain and hear off tri-
mphant those sacred doctrines and in
,itutions for which the fathers of our
ountry fought aud bled, and to which
q hereby pledge our faith. our deyo-
on and our energies, with the full
Onviction that success viii crown our
forts and Utah will enter the Union 4
S free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM FL. KING,
Chairman.
WIN. K. REID,
Secretary.
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
q w pOWERS