The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-07
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

Just what elements will enter into
the coming campaign no one now
knows; just what the issues are to be ID
i'll the same interesting condition of
doubt. The republicans and demo-
Gratis of Utah are togt ther, measurably,
upon the financial policy but neither or
both together can do anything effective
next fall. The constitution forbids
state subsidy or the loan of the states
credit for any purpose. The constitu-
tion will be enthusiastically supported
by both parties so that there is abso
lutely nothing in sight at this moment
upon which to divide. This condition
will remain until the primaries come
along when little waves of excitement
will come up and the placid bosom Of
our political lake will begin to move.
Personal ambition will take the place
of party aspirations and the battle will
rage and surge about us with all OF it's
accustomed rancor and yet there will be
nothing in it ssaye the purpose to tri-
umph on the part of those who seek to
serve the people. We may enjoy the
coming quiet in that respect because it
Will be the last. The next time we re-
sort to the polls a new and untried
element will be injected into the strug
gle. The newly enfranchised women
with their graceful pIumes, with their
smiles and witcherias. will be there,
and it remains to be determined if the
men will surrender at the first charge
or fight as they have always.
The election Of a legislature which
will choose two United States senators
will, it is thought, make things bit
lively, but after all it will be simply
and only a struggle between four
gentlemen to get into office. They will
battle for nothing else or more. No great
principle will be decided. We are in the
formative stage and like young bear all
of our troubles are before us,or to come
in the future. In choosing these SEN
ators all we have to do is to see to it
that no matter who is elected, they
must be sound on silver and equally
deYoted to the other leading interests
of Utah. That will about fill the
measure of Utah's demands for her |
senators, and the same rule will ep-
ply with equal force to the represen-
tatjve she will send to congress. Let |
these be sound on the silver question |
and ali else will be simple indeed.
The next in Importance is to be the |
state administration. The governor
should be a representative man Of
Utah, pioneer, man in full sympa
thy with the Utah of the past, but
above all things in touch with the
Utah of today and for the Utah of the
future, or the Utah which is now loom
ing into sight so promlsingly. The
first state administration Will deter
mine if Utah is worthy the new dig
nifty conferred upon her, and it must
be in full sympathy with the one great
purpose OF nnanclal pollcY nlnted at
above. In other words Utah must
have state administration distinc-
lively free silver, not one pledged to
an enlarged use of the metal' to BIZ
metallism only, but to actual restora-
tion full and complete. No child's
play, no monkey business, but actual
and eternal warfare against mono
and tor free coinage at 16 to
|. This is to be Utah's platform of
politics. If she is wise enough to t
,dopt it, all well and good; if not, then 1
Ter future will be dark and uncertain
indeed. We have no fears. no misgiv,
ngs, but we heve the utmost conf 1
ence that her vote next fall will fully t
Indicate this. This is all we ask. /