The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-26
THE PRESENT JUNCTURE.

Utah is really and truly democratic,
down even to her boot-heels. 1t is her
heritage. Democratic principles are
found at the very root of her system
This it was which piloted her brave
pioneers out upon and across the
broad plains to q mountain locked
asyIum by the Great Salt Lake. The
general voice of the east wag against
the church and bowling to the majority
che brought her institutions to the
west. Here the people have built up,
by many years of hard and unremt-
ting toll one of the bright prosperous
Young states of the west. she is
lust now about to enter the great
family of the, states upon an equal
footing. She comes into the union by
and under democratic influence ana
power. She understands where the
spirit resides which opened the doors
of the union to her. The influence
ia in consonance with her own princi-
pies, principles she imbibed from her
great leaders and apostles, Joseph
Smith and Brigham Young. The
moving spirit among her people is
democracy. They come from all the
nations of the earth and from those
classes which are struggling upward
toward recognition, that recognition
they could not achieve without wealth
in the old aristocracies of Europe, and
all chance to better their condition at
home was sedulously kept out Of their
reach. The people of Utah are real,
true democrats in blood and surround
ings, They cannot be anything else
logically, and their first great care
should be to preserve it priceless
legacy for her children to the remotest
generation.
The government under republican
or semi-aristocratic influences could
not and would not recognize her peo-
pie as worthy of a full rela-
tion to the citizenship of the union.
The democracy believing religously
in the doctrine of "the largest liberty
to the citizen consistent with
the safety of the whole
threw open the doors of the
union to her willing and fastening
footsteps. These are not the people
we rate them if this very fact of demo-
cratic friendship has not imposed upon
them an obligation which they will
meet next November at the polls, by
casting an immense majority for the
party which has stood spons or for the
new gem state of the eternal Rockies.
Never fear that the people of Utah will
Ego back on" such an obligation as
this.
of course the republican party will
leave no stone unturned TO drive Utah
into an alliance with the party of hate,
the party which demonetized silver
and which kept her out of the union so
long after she had qualified to enter,
They have the money to purchase the
necessary votes, but will the heroic
men of Utah who snatched this splen-
did commonwealth from ssvagery now
sell their manhood ior the money of
the republican party? We will only
believe it when we see il accomplished.
not before. Then it follows that they
must work and sacrifice now to avert
such q doom, illogical and false, as
republican victory next fall would be.
Every true blue citizen of Utah should
place himself Immediately in front pre-
pared to conquer or die in struggle
which 50 nearly concerns the honor OF
this people. November's election will
fix the political status of Utah for
years. Let it be fixed in accordance
with the dominant political sentiments
of her people and not fixed by the ad
venturers who come in with their
pockets full of republican and railroad
money with the avOWed and open pur-
pose of buying a whole statetull OF
American freemen, To avert such a
fate for our brave new state we must
all work as We have never before
worked in all our political lives. 1t
will be fierce struggle, but the victory |
will bring US honor, wealth and estab-
ishment.