The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-08
"TRANSPARENT HUMBOG."

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untruthfUl headline. A bit of preface
seems necessary. THE DISPATCH is
simply and only democratic news
paper. 1t is not an organ, save as to
democracy and only then when the
party is struggling for triumph upon
purely democratic principles and &C
cording to democratic usage. The
DISPATCH has no ulteriOr purposes to
serve. 1t opposes female suffrage be-
cause it conceives that all of that class
of legislation is undemocratic, remem-
bering that female suffrage has never
been seriously thought of in any dis
tincttvely democratic state. 1t is the
product ofthe "long haired men and the
short haired women" of Kansas, Wy
omiDg and Colorado, and God knows
that pure democracy never had and
meyer can have the ghost OF a chance
in either of those states. Female suf-
frage is not justified upon any other
theory than as a threat against the
liquor traffic and there is no other justi-
ficatIon or excuse for it and we have
never heard any other advanced. Now
prohibition laws are sumptuary laws
and sumptuary laws are anti-demo-
cratic, against the whole underlying
doctrines of the democratic party. The
Herald is just as far out of the true
democratic path in its advocacy of
suffrage" as Cleveland is in his war
fare against silver, another basic demo-
cratic doctrine. The democratic party
would not now be sitting in the ashes
and sack cloth of defeat had the presi-
dent remained true to this as to other
basic democratic theories and princi-
pies. We trust, however, that this un-
fortunate lapse of the Herald will not
side-tr ack it individually as the presi-
dent has done with himself by the aband-
onment of silver. If the Herald has
some concealed or unfrank purpose in
view, that is its own affair and we can
not justify 1t unless we know what
that concealed and unfrank purpose is,
or may be. We are dealing with the
question of suffrage from the plane of
open-and-above-boa democratic prin-
eiples. If Utah is republican we have
a. democratic aversion to doubling or
increasing their majority. If she is
democratic. why, thousand majority
is amply sufficient and Will fully satisfy
us. That's the politics of the question
so far as we see it. If there is any
thing else which moves the Herald
and justiies it in it's own mind, it
would be only neighborly on its part to
put us in possession of its informotion.
After quoting paragraph from The
DISPATCH in which we pointed out
briefly the menace that suffrage will
prove by its effect on the east the Her
aid dogmatically says:
The foregoing is from the Provo Dis
PATCH. 1t is q sample argument
against woman suffrage in the state
constitution. There is nothing in it.
"When the east comes TO act.n Will
the people who are endeavoring to &C.
complish by threats what they cannot
bring about by argument, please tell
US what the east or the west, or any
part of the country outside of Utah, |
has to do with our constitution or the |
admission of the state into the
Union?
We had hoped that it would haye
been unnecessary to go into particulars
on this point, and the mere suggestion
of the objection would have revealed
the whole danger. But our unfortun-
ate cotemporary does not see it. We
will try to make it plain, 30 plain that
q child or an idiot, or even the Herald
may see it. We trust our readers will
pardon us for this unavoidable thresh-
ing of old straw, but it seems both nec-
essay and unavoidable.
Nothing in it when the east comes
to act?" Would the Herald have us
believe that this president of ours will
simply and only do right unaffected by
popular clamor? If 80, it misreads
him as badly as it has this paper. The
east, whether the Herald knows it or
not, is bitterly opposed to polygamy
md they have not fully forgiven Utah
or once having practiced it, albeit the {
people there are getting over some OF
heir prejudice and will, we feel sure.
part with it all in time, if Utah is
prudent. The east is also as bitterly
opposed to silver. So is the president.
They will sieze the pretext of the crea-
ion of $4,000 or 10000 more new pro-
silver voters in Utah with ayidity and
20 to the president and recalling the
act also that Utah went republican
sst fall and say to him: Here, Mr..
PRESIDENT, besides increasing the Nor :
non strength, you are increasing the t
'ro-silver vote also, and future con- !
.ress may remonetize silver in conse- =
uence of this days work. You had e
etter refuse to issue your proclama- g
ion or defer it. By doing so you kill I
De bird for Us, while you kill one also =
or Yourself by the single stone of re- f,
lsal or deferring. Il
We believe it was unlawful q
nd wrong in Mr.. Cleveland n
slling the last batch of bonds to o
.othschilds & Co., at per cent when D
e could just as easily have sold them :
t 20 per cent. Yet be did it. Thus is n z
lis government muIcted out Of about 6;