The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-12
C~ONSPIRATOR no. 2.
A ReeOrd Reeking with Perjury and
Crime-The I-mmoralities OF n
Progressed MoraIist-An-
other Glass House.


In entering upon the disagreeable
task of stripping this man Slack, we
feel that an apology is due the people.
1t is distasteful to dignity such a miser-
able specimen of animal life by wasting
valuable space on him. But the per-
sistency of his attacks demands a set
tier and we propose giving HIM one.
Everybody has noticed small, snarling
ours barking and swapping at a large
Newfoundland. The latter pays no at
tention to the matter at first but finally
becomes provoked beyond endurance
and summarily squelches the afore-
said cur. The cur around the corner
has been swapping at our heels for
months and months. He has endeav-
ored to attract our notice. But until
to-day we have not needed his malice.
Slack is a member of the gubernato-
rial mutual admiration society, simply
because of his admirable qualifications.
He possesses the requisite cerebral vacu-
an NlO otusitAAlt HhaAAAy Va 1iNNh, III
the prescribed disregard for virtue.
Gov. Hoyt has succeeded admirably
in surrounding himself with men of his
WI kidney. In ''my AUDITOR and
''my treasurer he has able opponents
of his own character and practices.
Birds of a feather flock together"
hence the sweet trio of John W. Hoyt,
E. A. Slack and +. Z. Warren. If the
former can tolerate and honey his as
sociates, the people car stand the group
ing of ''the three graces."
This Slack has become very moral of
late. He didn't inherit morality; it's
simply a coating contracted from the
moral nature of the chief of the cote
rie. Slack must be moral because his
chief is-at least to outward appear
ances, and he has sat long enough at
the feet of the gubernatorial Gamaliel
to learn wisdom and to ''assume a vir-
tue If you have it not" Slack's high
ly moral epidermis has taken the hue
of a public reformer. He would point
out the errors in others respecting that
which is opposed to good morals. He
would set himself up as II holy teacher
of right and contemner of wrong. In
plain words he assays to point out and
scorn lotteries, etc.
Now Slack has n clear record on lot
teries. He is clearly a blackmailer and
swindler in lotteries. ut is a matter
of public notorietyn las his excellency,
the governor, would say that Slack
made the only money he eve possessed
in printing work for Pattee, his bene-
factor, whom he now abuses. Slack
was the boss printer and advertiser OF
the concern for a period of two years,
and extorted and blackmailed prices out
of Pattee that clearly proved his guilt.
Now, when Pattee is gone and no other
lottery in sight, he takes to abusing the
man to whom he should be thankful for
the possession of his property.
Slack says that the distribution com
pany which recently existed in this city
was a fraud from its inception, and he
knew it all the time. BY referring to
the file of the San in this office, we find
that Slack published the advertisement
for the same lottery. Now if the lotte.
ry was a fraud, and he knew it all the
while, as he says, did he not contribute
to the fraud? Was he not porticep,
criminis? He endeavored to obtain the
printing for this concern, and failing
in which he turned to besliming it.
This is his style, which is never mani.
tested in a man. 1t is the disposition
of a boy over again; a boy who will
make faces at the little sister of a COM
panion who has thrashed him.
To show how naturally "birds of a
feather flock together" Slack goes to
Denver and hunts up the champion
liar and swindler of the age, n Chas.
Mathews, who was once manager OF
the Great Western distribution compa'
ny. By bribery, Slack induces Ma
thews to perjure himself regarding an
affidavit connecting outsiders with the
| concern. This man Matthews is a fit
| companion for Slack. He is a double
dyed villain from Baltimore, who has a
foul record in the courts of that city
he has committed almost every crime
but murder, he has repeatedly stuffed
ballot boxes, and is even now a refugee
from justice, an indictment pending
against him for stufing the ballot
box, and he has been ttuice convicted of
perjury in the Maryland courts.
This is a fine witness to tie to-a pro-
fessional perjurer. But then he is the
moral equal of Slack, who suborned
his latest perjury. Slack got aGidavits
from two others, n of whom, Hill
dreth, is a ~penitentiary bird, well known
in Wyoming, and whose damning
record need not be repeated here. The
other has a record, which for ~villainy
surpasses comprehension, and which
will soon be published in full. This
last witness (p) testified under duress.
Slack and a certain official bulldozed
him = subornation again on the part
of Slack and the aforesaid official. The
peopleSof Wyoming will never believe
testimony, bought and bulldozed, and
all perjured. Such testimony is no tes-
timony. But it recoils upon the man
who has piyen IL circulation.