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VENEZUELA. 



mestic purposes ; called for the employment of 

 Utah workmen on Utah public works, and the 

 use on them of Utah material, and for the eight- 

 hour system of labor ; and contained, further, the 

 resolutions below : 



We unqualifiedly denounce the un-American 

 course of the late Democratic Legislative Assembly 

 of this Territory in attempting to strike down the 

 great sheep industry, for its refusal to further 

 encourage the production of Utah sugar, for the 

 open hostility it displayed to the policy of develop- 

 ing the manufacturing industries of the Territory, 

 for its despicable attempt to divert the money 

 appropriated for the use of the Logan Agricultural 

 College to partisan uses and purposes, and for its 

 utter failure to legislate intelligently upon ques- 

 tions of vital interest to the people. 



The people of Utah are particularly interested 

 in the maintenance of republican institutions and 

 republican principles. Her principal productions 

 wool, lead, silver, and farm products are profita- 

 bly produced here only because of Republican pro- 

 tection. And yet these same productions receive 

 the special, open, and malignant hostility of the 

 Democracy. 



We again affirm our opposition to the disfran- 

 chisernent of any citizen except for crime of which 

 he shall have been convicted by due process of law, 

 and we favor the free exercise of the power of am- 

 nesty to all citizens disfranchised on account of 

 polygamy or polygamous relations, who will obey 

 and uphold the laws of the United States. 



The Democratic convention met in Provo, Oct. 

 5. and nominated Joseph L. Rawlins for dele- 

 gate, to Congress. After denouncing paternalism 

 in government, protection, subsidies, and Federal 

 control of elections, the resolutions declared : 



We denounce the action of the Republican con- 

 vention in this Territory iu approving the exercise 

 by the Governor of the absolute power of veto. The 

 subsequent withdrawal of that approval when its 

 probable effect upon the citizens was appreciated, 

 was but a subterfuge too flimsy to cover the real 

 sentiment of the party. Its action in reference to 

 statehood was similar in spirit, and a plain indica- 

 tion that Utah need not look to the Republican 

 party for aid in speedy deliverance from territorial 

 vassalage. 



We condemn the covert charge of the Utah 

 Commission, signed by all its members except that 

 grand old veteran Democrat, Gen. McClernand, 

 that polygamous marriages are still being con- 

 tracted in Utah, and that "a large number of people 

 are living in polygamous cohabitation, as false and 

 designed to deceive the American people and hinder 

 the progress of the Territory to the grand position of 

 statehood. 



We announce our complete confidence in the 

 sincerity of the Mormon people in their abandon- 

 ment of polygamy, in submission to the laws of the 

 land, and their division on party lines, and our full 



faith in the pledges of their church leaders that the 

 freedom of the members in political affairs shall 

 not be interfered with by them in any particular. 

 We view the attempts of individuals to make it 

 appear that the Mormon presidency secretly desire 

 and work for the success of any party, as a slander 

 upon the church officials and a disgrace to those 

 engaged in such despicable trickery. 



The resolutions further declared emphatically 

 in favor of statehood for Utah, and the restora- 

 tion of silver, and expressed the friendship of the 

 party to organized labor and its opposition to 

 the " policy of the Republican party in the inter- 

 est of capital, which results in the reduction of 

 wages, the importation of cheap workmen, the 

 employment of Pinkerton hirelings, and the 

 oppression of the laboring classes." 



The convention of Liberals met at Ogden, Oct. 

 12. The resolutions declared unalterable oppo- 

 sition to statehood, expressing the belief that, 

 with the opportunity which statehood would 

 bring, the priesthood would again assume com- 

 plete control. The reason for that belief is given 

 in the following, from the preamble : 



The Liberal party fails to see any such changed 

 conditions as others assert that they see. It looks 

 upon the assurance that conditions have changed 

 as a theory and not an established fact, and it 

 recoils from the prospect of imminent statehood. 



Anxious as every Liberal is to see every difference 

 adjusted, as anxious as they are to exercise the 

 utmost privileges accorded to the most favored 

 Americans, they remember what first caused clash- 

 ing here was the presence and control of an un- 

 yielding theocracy and an imperium in imperio, and 

 they cannot fail to note that at the last conference 

 of this theocratic organization the old assumptions 

 were all renewed. The bliss which awaits the po- 

 lygamous family in heaven was vividly portrayed, 

 the necessity of paying tithing was eulogized upon, 

 and the declaration was boldly made that they are 

 a distinct people, that their spiritual and temporal 

 affairs are inextricably blended, and that the only 

 remedy for trouble or differences should be an ap- 

 peal to the priesthood. 



Clarence E, Allen was chosen candidate for 

 Delegate to Congress. 



At the election, Nov. 8, the Democratic candi- 

 date, J. L. Rawlins, received 15,211 votes ; F. 

 J. Cannon, Republican, 12,405 ; and C. E. Allen, 

 Liberal, 6,989. The whole vote was 34,605, 

 while in 1890 it was 23,290. 



The vote for Commissioners to locate univer- 

 sity lands was different in each case from the vote 

 for Delegate. The Democratic vote ranged from 

 15,568 to 15,651 ; the Republican vote, from 11,- 

 502 to 11,516 ; the Liberal vote, from 7,035 to 

 7,062. 



V 



VENEZUELA, a republic in South America. 

 It seceded from the Federal Republic of Colombia 

 in 1830, and the Constitution was proclaimed on 

 Sept. 80 of that year. The system was federal, 

 as in the Constitution of the United States, but 

 with a larger degree of State rights and munic- 

 ipal autonomy. Jose Antonio Paez, Bolivar's 

 chief lieutenant, was the first President, and his 

 influence was predominant until the party of the 



landowners, called the Oligarchies, was over- 

 thrown by the Liberals after Jose Tadeo Mona- 

 gas, who had been made President in 1847 as the 

 nominee of Paez, became the pretended cham- 

 pion of the democracy. Monagas had led an 

 unsuccessful revolt against the Government in 

 1835, and after he ascended the Presidential 

 chair he called into his Cabinet the revolutionists 

 who were associated with .him, disarmed the 



