The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-13
.CONSPIRATOR no.. 3.
RID1cULOsITIEs or WARREN.
DazzIed by OFFICIAL SEPTEMBER o. He
Loses His Head-DespIcable
FIunkeyism-How He Got
an ONCE.

FIunkeyfsm-fIow He Got
an ONCE.
Conspirator No. 3, in the person of
F. Z. Warren, merits pity and COM
miseration, perhaps, rather than cen.
sure and condemnation. He has permit
ted himself to become a fawning syco-
plant at the artificial shrine of guber-
Material power. Dazzled by the feeble
rays of counterfeit splendor, he has
" given himself away" in innumerable
instances, and caused his acts of servil-
ity to become by-words in the commu-
nifty. That a man, gifted by nature
with ~shrewdness, should descend into IA
life analogous to that of a European
courtier, surpasses comprehension.
There was no apparent need for the
small favors which Warren sought and
received from the hands of the COVER
nor of Wyoming. Surely, the position
of territorial treasurer, with a few
hundred dollars attached, cannot be
the goal of his ambition, to reach which
he has sacrificed his individuality and
independence, and rendered himself a
laughing stock. In the absence of any
proof, or apparent reason, we must
conclude that Warren sold his right of
manhood for the mess of pottage in
the petty treasurer's Office.
1t is the worse for this man Warren
that lie has sunk his identity in the per-
son of so immoral q governor as Mr..
Hoyt. 1t is lamentable that a man
of more than ordinary intelligence
should pay such homage. In his ridic-
ulous admiration of the governor he
fills to a t, a proyerb, that ''He who
can pay homage to the truly despicable
is truly contemplate"
OF all men in the coterie of c~onspira-
tors, Warren has had the least cause to
enter into a personal war against
others. He vas not antagonized or
threatened. But with inscrutable fol-
ly he boldly took a stand with those
who were e~ndeavoring to crush out
others-others who had not previously
antagonized him. Hence, Warren's
acts are voluntary. lie enters the
arena as a meddler in concerns hat are
o vital to his own welfare. Warren
also goes upon record as a reformer
and a moralist. He, too, finds his
highly moral and doubly refined senses
shocked at the indiscretions of others.
He, too, magnifes an atom of circum-
writes of it and condemns accordingly.
Not content with going upon record,
this conspirator, Warren, openly boasts
in public that he will crush out this one
and that one, if he spends a fortune in
doing 30. And he proceeds in his ne
farious work in a hat spe.ks
the fanatic at every step.
Allow us to again remark that War
rem has had no occasion for his heinous
t%rcachcry. What, then, was the mo-
tive? There is u motive in every act,
however base. Warren had no personal
grievance; lie had no public grievance.
What, then, impelled his foul conspir-
acyp The nswer can be found only in
his puerile acts regarding official life.
He was granted by the governor the
boon he wished-the treasurership.
That was the clinching bolt that insep-
aratbly united the social and political
fortunes of Hoyt and Warren, Hoyt's
quarrels became Warren's grievances.
Hoyt goes hunting for scalps and War
rem is the sleuthhound on the trail to
point and assist in crushing the game.
That is the programme. The game is
not yet bagged.
In Slack and Warren, Hoyt has tools
that are only too willing. These male
f%urries, with their snakes and torches,
are fit ministers of m~alevolent VEN
geance. These character wreckers and
official assassins are a trinity of hate.
Their dastardly deeds will recoil upon
them rs deadly boomerangs. In speak
ing of n we speak of all. They are as
the three leaved shamrock, n and in
separable. Their unity is the result of
mutually favorable conditions. The
merging and grating process was nat
ural and easy. There is, consequently,
no need of repeating records. One is
as bad as another, il not worse. In
claiming one in the public pillory, the
other two come rs a result of their
connection.
Perhaps Mr.. Warren will regret by
this time that he ever gratuitously in
terfered against those who never did
him harm. And perhaps he is now all
the more embittered in his course be-
cause Of his ridiculous and contempt
BILE associations being exposed to public
scorn.
AS we stated at the outset Of our
campaign against the conspirators, we
have sought no conflict. We remained
under fire uncomplainingly until self
respect demanded that we resent the
insults and fight our enemies with the
weapons of their own choosing. Those
of our readers who are not interested
in the matter will be kind enough to
accept our apology for taking up 80
much space in disposing of the evil
genii of hate. It's housekeeping time
and the work must be done; rather
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