The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-21

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l. and the executive in different place
s TO enforce the law. They have encou
+ aged the massing at the seat OF COY
2 eminent of thousands of homeless meI
6 made desperate by republican les
1 lslation, hoping that their presenc
f would EN- barrass the administra
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
r for thirty years of republican misrule
! In this arraignment We include thos
local republicans who have endeavoTe
to cast Tidicuie upon the governor, or
probrium upon the judges and insnl
{ upon the militia and the constabulaIy
while those officers were engaged il
preserving the public peace and seek
ing to turn back the tide OF povert,
. 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 arr
jewellers in our territory. We deplor'
the policy which has brought into oul
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
wnom 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 democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
10 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 nof 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 /, which is the only true solu-
lion of the money problem and the only
genuine bimetailic policy.
We denounce the national republic
can party: For its false pretenses Of
sudden regard for the people of Utah
against whom in its platforms and by
hostility from its inception. Its simu-
lated affection is co-incident with the
appearance of a possibility of reDubIi-
I can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unseifish tend
erness which the spider feels for the
fly.
We denounce the only republican leg
isllture 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
10 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 ale0 by endeav-
orlng to cripple the public schools in
scheme to take away part OF the rev.
enue necessary to their support and d.
vert 1t Tor the purpose of giving boun-
ties to benefit private enterprises.
For striving 10 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
yorable to republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fusiDg to give necessary support to the
educational inSti utions 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 a 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 |
and absurd1ty.
The republican legislature showed |
more b0mbast and less capacity, more |
par5lmony and smaller economy,
greater partlsanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla-
tive assembly in the history Of the ter
rltory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West in the interpositiOn of
the veto power vested 10 him 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, have injured and disgraced
the territory. And we recognize in
the governor q firm, discreet and able
executive, whose influence has been
cast on the side of law and order and
the puollc welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
of Utah TO stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
Die, from which alone political redemp-
ton can come 70 this territory and per-
manent prosperity to the nation;
which will demonstrate the superiority
Of its principles and policy as soon as
measures of reform it has inaugurated
can be put into force and produce their
effects; which works for the greatest
good to the greatest number; which is
the foe of mOnnpolies and the friend of
the masses; which does not depend
1pon any one man however powerful,
for its guidance or its victory and
which VIII MAINTAIN and bear off tri-
lmphant those sacred doctrines and in
situations for which the fathers of our
country fought aud bled, and to which
we hereby pledge our faith, our devo-
ton and our energies, with the full
conviction that success will crown our
efforts and Utah will enter the Union
as free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM III. KING,
Chairman.
VIM. K. REID,
Secretary
DAVID EVANS,
JOHN L. GAME,
O. W, POWERS