The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-02
A DECEASED CITY.

We had occasion a few days since TO
visit the city over the hill, formerly
called the s'Magic City," afterwards
the city of s'd.sagreeable remembran-
ces, - but more recently known as the
Colorado Switch" The business of
the city is principally confined to the
transfer of passengers and express
matter from the Union Pacific railroad
to the roads leading to Colorado.
The business men of Cheyenne seem
TO be playing a game Of ''freeze-out''
and many of them have got down to
their last chip and hope to make a raise
before it comes their turn to deal.
The above extracts are from the
Laramie Times. Residents and bust
ness men of Cheyenne should read
these compliments ~ and remember
that they have a history. The proprie-
tor of the Times came down to Chey-
enne the other day on a foraging expe-
ditiQn. He thirsted for the where
withal that would ''spoil the Egypt
ians," as it were. His line of argu-
ment was that the Times is the organ
of the democracy of Wyoming, and as
such should be supported by democratic
business men. These are the facts.
Because the business men of this city
did not dole out charity for the impe-
cunious paper, its proprietor waited,
with commendable discretion, until he
got back on his own dunghill, and then
launched forth the puny inyective quot
ed above.
Why, bless you, the business men
here are not fools if many of them do
happen to be democrats. They do
business on business principles. What
would it profit them to throw away
money on q sheet which contains but
little more than black Roman charac-
ters arranged with mechanical skill?
Why advertise in the diurnal hand bill
which is SHE'D into the back yards of a
few adobe houses in an obscure hamlet
like Laramiep There is nothing re-
deeming in the whole transaction; not
one mitigating circumstance. Even
the plea of political charity was a sub
terfuge thinner than gossamer thread.
A democratic organ fors0othl When,
where and how did the Times ever say
anything about politics, let alone advo-
cate democracy 1t has never come
up to the prospectus of the proprietor,
trilled off SO glibly while he vas in
Cheyenne. So it is plain that this is
another case of false %pretense. And
the business men of Cheyenne are to
be commended for their good judgment
in refusing to be bled by vampires in
the shape of one-horse editors of anna
teur papers. Let it be understood then,
by the people of this city, that the
Times spews at them because they re-
fused it charity.
And that village would place itself
on a level with Cheyenne in prosperity
and aver ahead How we buffalo
chips do swiml Why, there isn't a
man in Wyoming who doesn't know
that the hamlet of Laramie is a per-
petual funeral. 1t is dead and ought
to be buried. IL is a burning, crying
shame that a corpse of SO long stand
ing like that, should be kept out of its
grave to pollute the air and stink in the
nostrils of respectable people. Its
ghost hovers over the spot demanding
nightly that its tenement of earth be
laid away meath the daisies. But as
the last man with a conscience left
there a long time since, the pitiful
pleadings go UNDECIDED through the air.
Hence the transcontinental passengers
on the U. P. road, the only visitors who
ever go through the village, are accus-
toned to weep and wear Grape for a
week after beholding the heartrending
sight.