The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-09-11
Ths Gambling Law again.

Much has been said and written
lately about the LEADERS purse in
relation to the repeal of the gambling
license law. or course the gambling
fraternity does not favor the LEADERS,
project. nor does Judge Stephen "
seem to fancy it. They say it has de-
feated the Republican party in this
county. We say the Republican party
ought to be defeated at every election
until Republicans are educated up to a
point when they will work like one
man in favor of the repeal of a law
which licences one OF the worst Grim
inal practices, and which legalizes the
robbing of their fellow citizens and
strangers who come among us.
Are there eight hundred and fifty
voters in this precinct who are willing
to sacrifice the good name of Chey
enne and Wyoming, by leaving this
obnoxious law on the statute book,
simply for the sake of gaining a tenn
porary ascendancy as members of the
Democratic party Are the twenty
five votes that II be polled in the
gamblers interest in Cheyenne, such
"A bugbear to Il politicians, that they
must try to appease the gamblers for
the sake of getting those votes ? oh,
for shame, that.there is even a Judge
Stephen" among us, who dares to as
sumo the position, that opposition to
The gambling law brings defeat to the
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Do our people, Republicans or Dem
ocrats, realize what n curse the gam
blers' and lottery license laws are to
the Territory =? Do they realize that
hundreds Of men, strangers who come
here seeking homes, are annually
robbed of their property and sent to
perdition? Do they realize that the
malediction of these lost souls and the
curses of their friends and relatives
are res ting upon Cheyenne and Wyo-
ming, for having sustained and legal
lied the crime which has been the
cause of so much misery? No, we
will not believe that the people OF
Cheyenne and Wyoming are so lost to
all honor, justice and mercy, as to de-
sire n perpetuation of such n soul
destroying practice.
Only a few months since, a gentle
man, Col. ]. H. White, of Missouri,
came to Cheyenne, stopping here en-
route to the new Eldorado, the Black
Hills. He had with him a complete
outfit, wagons, horses, and about two
thousand dollars in money. He fell
into the hands of gamblers, who put
him under the influence of liquor,
robbed him of all he had in the world,
money, horses, wagons and outfit,
and turned him adrirt. He managed
to borrow money enough to pay his
fare to Denver, where desperate,
friendless and reduced to a wreck, he
ended his miserable life by shooting
himself through the head.
This is only one instance of the
ruin wrought by the Wyoming gam
bling law, which licences honest gam
bling. Only one instance which has
brought down upon this community
the curses of the widow and the father
less. Can a people who sustain such a
practice expect to prosper?
Ought the cowardly cry of pot house
politicians: PRAY, keep still, you hurt
the party" to prevent the LEADER
from pushing to the wall the gamblers
and their co-workers? No, a thous-
and times no; better were it for all
that defeat should come to the Repub-
lican party here for taking a firm and
bold stand against gambling aud lot