The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-08

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and the executive in different place
to enforce the law, They have encouT
aged The massing at the seat OF COY
eminent of thousands of homeless men
made desperate by republican leg
lslation, hoping that their presenc
would embarrass the administTa
ton and convey the false impression
that the party in power is responsible
for thirty years of republican misrule
In this arraignment we include thos
local republicans who have endeavorei
to cast ridicule upon the governor, OPP
probrium upon the judges and insul
upon the militia and the cOnstabulaly
while those officers were engaged il
preserving the public peace and seek
ing to tam 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 deplort
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 Door, 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
trodnced by a democratic congress and
administration. can relief be afforded
to the oppressed and needy working
population and prosperity be assured
W the toiling masses.
! a a q a.
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 1t withthe heresy OF
protection. The terms "bimetalism'
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 foot the unsophIsticated.
They do not mean the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l, which is he only true solu-
ton of the money problem and the only
genuine blmetallic 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. It's simu-
lated affection is cO-incideDt Wsth the
appearance Of possibility of repubi-
can support in the territory, and that
its support was the only cause of its
new attitude. 1t is the unselfish tend
erness when the spider feels for the
fly.
We denOunce the only republican Les
islature OF Utah territory: For It's
waste of public time and money in
vain endeay0Ts TO manufacture party
capital
For its opposition to the educational
interests OF the territory, by refusiT@
TO appropriate sufficient tund6 for
agricultural college and to carry on s.
university according to the provision
of the law creating the institution al
requiring the establishment of neces
sary departments, and also by endeav
Oring to cripple the public schools in &
scheme TO take away part Of the rev
enue necessary to their support and d.
vert 1t for the purpose of giving b0un-
ties to benz ii private enterprises.
For striving 10 commit the represent
atives OF the people, il memorials to
congress, to gross misrepresentation OF
fact and egregiOus biunders in princi-
pie.
For defeating legislation which would
be for the general interest but not IA
vorable TO republican advancement.
For making appropriations, after re-
fuSing 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 bad 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 absurdItv.
The republican legislature showed
more bombast and less capacity, more
parslmOny and smaller economy,
greater partisanship and narrower
craftsmanship than any other legisla-
tive assembly in the history vi the ter
rItory.
We endorse the action of Governor
Caleb W. West IN the interpoSitlon OF
the veto power vested in him by law,
to prevent the enactment of vicious
and partisan measures and insulting
and misleading memorials by which the
repu blican legislature would, but for
his action, haYe injured and disgraced
the territory. And we recognize In
the governor firm, discreet and able
executive, whose influence has been
cast on the side of law and order and
the public welfare generally.
We confidently appeal to the citizens
of Utah to stand by and support the
party of the constitution and the peo-
pie, from which alone political redemD-
ton can come TO 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 monopolies and the friend of
the masses; which does not depend
upon any one man however Pcs erful, |
for its guidance or Its victory; and
which Will maintain and hear III.
those sacred doctrina l.
stitutions for which the fath9 II
country fought add bled, al .
we hereby pledge our faith e
ton and cur energies, wa
conviction that success will CIR U
efforts and Utah will enter the 49,
as free and vigorous democratic state.
WILLIAM IL. KING,
Chairman.