The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-28

THE REPUBLICAN TACTICS.

In view of receLt events both in the
United States and Europe the bull
DOING policy adopted by the republi-
can party of Utah in the commonweal
business, shows up very badly. Peo-
pie understand that if 'Wealerism were
in France it would be anarchy; IN
Utah according to republican interpre-
tation. it is patriotism; any opposition
TO it, legal or otherwise, is crime Of the
rankest kind. Now, because the demo-
cratic authorities of the territory
sought to control them here Sld to
prevent and punish them for stealing
trains, begging and otherwise infrsct
ing the law, the republican party flew
to the breach and declared in angry
and threatening words that the judges
OF the courts should resign, simply be-
cause they spoke out firmly against the
Iawlessness of this American form of
anarchy. This circumstance is being
used by the republican party as an
argument in favor of the republican
ticket to be voted for this fall, and
against the democratic. 1t is possible
that majority of the good people of
Utah are in favor of this heresy, this
line of policy, and OF placing this fair
territory in the hands of the anarchists.
Wen believe it when the pigs fly, but
not until then. Do the people of Utah
realize how poor a compliment the re
publican party is paying them u pred
icating campaign upon the ignor-
ance and lawlessness of the.voters of
the territory? 1t is simply monstrous.
It is hellish.
What would the outside world, with
these facts before it, think of Utah if
she should, by any means, vote the
republican ticket this falls We do
not relish such conclusion as this.
We have greater interest in Utah
than to want to see her fair name be
bedraggled by the fixing of charge of
laWlessness upon her which a republl-
can vote this fall would surely do. We
want to see the people who share this
pride in their fair young com
monwealth with us ponder upon
the matter, and see if they can afford
to invite this sort of opprobrium and
pay such price for the,prestige of-e-
party which has ever been hostile to a
vast majority of the people of this ter
ritorY, to their religious opinions as
well as their national interests. This
hostility is shown in thousand ways.
Last winters legislature, with the de-
Election of the school money to the
uses and benefits of a great private
corporation, the sacrifice of the real in
terests of the people to party advan-
tage by an assumed and false economy
which is In and of itself the widest
extravaganza. There is every reason
why the republicans of Utah should
be defeated and not single valid rea-
son why they should triumph this fall
The dominant people of the territory
are unquestions5lyt the Mormon people.
Charged up against the republican
party there stands thirty-four years
of hostility, active, bitter and uncom-
promising, not only to that church but
to the territory itself. This has been
exhibited by their national admins
trstions, every one of them, as well as
by every man ever sent here to enforce
their national policies and to interpret
the national will. Now we believe the
Mormons are good people, but we do
not believe they are so internally an
gelic as to reward thirty years of con-
tumelious treatment by crowning the
republican party with the laureIs of |
victory this fall.