The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-06

brains of Laramie City. But it will
be observed by our readers that these
brilliant reasoners do not claim or even
intimate that the act of the Excelsiors
in starting with fifty feet of-hose un-
reeled was in conformity with the
rules adopted for their government.
LIN short, their reasons are simply bosh,
and are not worthy the reasoning of a
five year old child. If the doctrine laid
down in the first reason was accepted
as true, it would be just as proper to
decide that it was not necessary to
throw water out of the nozzle or make
the proper connections at the hydrant,
provided only that a good run was
made.
To illustrate further, it would be
just as reasonable for a Judge Of a
court of law to say that because a thief
had made a pretty steal of a few thous-
and dollars he should be discharged
from custody, and the law which re-
quires his punishment violated.
The second reason is equally as alb
surd as the first. 1t is a vote for fraud,
with the very consoling remark: "You
had the opportunity to do the same
thing" 1t is in accordance with the
old adage about the blessings of the
father to his son: ''Get money honest
ly if you can, if you can't get it hon
estly, get it anyway"
The last conclusion of the brilliant
judges is so weighty in its chop logic
that it admits everything that is
claimed by the Durants. 1t virtually
says you have sinned boys, you have
committed fraud, you have sought by a
dirty ~artifice TO steal that which you
were not able to win by fair, honorable
contest. But the wise judges say, we
have consulted experts who say that
not oyer two seconds could have been
gained by. the fraud. Those experts
must have been about as wise as the
judges themselves. Anyone who is at
all familiar with hose races where water
is required, knows that the slightest
thing will often make a complete fail
ure. Had this hose, when the Excel
siors run, been fully reeled the plugman
might have been dragged half way to
the goal from the hydrant and thus
failed of making the coupling entirely.
1t is impossible to make any correct
allowance for a fraud of this kind and
under these circumstances. The COM
pany should have had no time given
them but should have been at once
ruled off the ground, and the judges in
making the decision showed that mean,
dirty partisan spirit that has always
characterized the people who inhabit
that place.
There is nothing too mean, however,
for them to do. The LEADER has
recorded many of the dirty, thieving
tricks of that burg of late, and had our
iremen listened to its teachings they
would have given 1t a cold shoulder.
Our firemen are very indignant over
the treatment they received at the
hands of the Laramie leeches, and vow
mat they were never SO poorly cared
for in their lives. They are unanimous
in the statement too, that the large
majority of the inhabitants of that
scrub town are not endowed with the
first principles of common decency.
They assert that the Laramieites are
genuine blackguards and DULLES,
and that they did not hesitate to
show up their true character on the
Fourth at every available occasion.
When the animals who now inhabit
that locality die off, our iremen will
doubtless have II desre to visit that
burg and contest for the belts Gramm
has locked up in his safe. Till then
they will remain in Cheyenne.