The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-09
PROVO CITY.
THE RECENT RECORD.

THE REGENT RECORD.
1t is a noticeable circumstance that
for several days the republican papers
Of Utah are saying but little about the
commonweal. That party has re-
Gently made g record on that and
other manifestations of lawlessness
which is likely to provevery trouble
some to it IN the near future. Perhaps
some premonitions of that future
trouble have already forced themselves
upon the leaders and the fat has gone
forth, "Hold! Enough, and damned be
he who says any more" F." Only few days
since the Tribune was so certain that
We couldn't fnd three reputable law
yers in Salt Lake city who were not in
favor of impeaching the judges, that it
was willing to wager on the PROPOSE
ton. The other day there was a gen.
eral bar-meeting in that city on some
proposition, which we do not now re-
member, and during Its slit ing strenu-
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lutions asking for the impeachment Of
Judge Smith at least,if not both he and
Merritt, and but three lawyers were
found who would entertain it at all.
We will not speak Of their repute, but
we know that here in Provo, at least,
one of these same lawyers does not ind
his standing of the highest. These
LAWYERS were Varian, Elmer B. Jones
and Allen, The remainder of the
LAWYERS of Salt Lake would not hear of
it, and the resolution died in Mr.
Varian's hands. All honor to the bar of
Salt Lake for refusing to place stigma
upon the proud names of Merrt and
Smith simply to VIII bipartisan advant-
age. In q few months this circum-
stance will prove mighty fine campaign
thunder, but it will be on the other
side of the fence.
The republican party itself is but
an ism. Its remote ancestor was fed
eralism. The progeny of that was
whigism Her offspring was know
nothingism and then came this leading
ism of the ages, republicanism, In
every manifestation and under every
circumstance its instincts have been
lawless. Its prejudices and its pre-
fng consultation Hn0Fi-t nor tdS EFET
ever controlled it. The knowH=UTnfngs ~
in the early fifties were built upon the
theory that none but Americans should
rule or enjoy citizenship in America.
The asylum theory was douted with
scorn, and a continent settled and a
government established, where the op-
pressed of the earth, for opinions sake,
could find asylum, protection and
liberty was fiercely assalled. This
would have been won but for the grand
battle fought against it by the demo-
cratic party of that day. Had the
mother of the republican party of to
day triumphed, there could have been
no Utah now, because the vast ma
lority of her people are of foreign birth
and sought these shores because free
dom OF religious opinions was guaran
teed by the constitution. The A Amor-
ines, A. P. A., and all other forms of
religious intolerance are but the fruit
of the republican womb, and from re-
ligious Intolerance to political intol- |
ersnce is but q step.
All forms of laWlessness, now as in |
the past, are traceable to republican
ism, so that when the wealers put in |
an appearance in Utah, the demo- |
cratic influences and administration
instinctively and naturally placed !
themselves across their pathway.
Equally instinctiYely the republican
hosts stepped to the front as the ma
tuTal accomplices and champions of
the lawless men. In this champion
ship they did not hesitate to attempt
to drag down the judges of our courts,
and turn the Interpretation of the law
over to those who were but a degree
behind the WealeTs themselves in their
for all law and for the pro-
perty rights of the people. Blood will
tell, and the lawless instincts in the
blood of the old federalists and on
down the line to know-nothingism, and
into the veins of republi-
canism, was true to itself even here in
Utah, and on one side of the law
was arrayed the democracy, and on the
other side was arrayed the hosts of
Now the law loving, law-abiding
and conservative people of Utah, bene-
iciaries Ia large majority of theml of
The wise, tolerant and faith redeeming,
aw abiding democratic policy which !
refused in the ffties to exclude the
people of foreign birth from citizen
ship here, will not forget the obiiga- {
AOnP they owe to the party which sue i
,essfully protected them from the cruel '
md dastardly exclusion OF tie republi-
ian party of the past and its immedi-
.te progenitors. They will come up in
old masses and vote masterful re- s
,roof to t party which endeavored to +
~ down lure judges, who were en- q
aged only IL enforcing the laws they f
themselves assisted In constructing. t
The res~tt Jhis fall will among other =
indicati yiudicate Judges Merritt
nd Smiti il 1e noble stand they
ook for law aud order. n