The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-16

q gOOQ point Is mad Dy tb6 Press In
noting the fact that the newspapers
generally speak of Mr.. Wayne Nae
Veagh, without the regulation prefix
Of 'tHon.n So eommoA has the appli-
cation OF honorable, general, colonel
and esquire become that all men Of self
respect are glad to have them omitted,
' e If deserved. Pretenders seek such
Titles. while those who have justly
earned them avoid them. The most
complimentary manner in which a
gentleman or statesman can be spoken
of is as plain .Mr., - as it implies that
he needs no display Of titles to proclaim
his merits or pretentions. The liberty
loving world will eyer speak of ''Mr.
Lincoln" because to speak of "Presi-
dent Lincoln" implies that the title is
his fame.-Phlddelphi Times.
There are few readers who will not
heartily endorse the above. But we do
not propose to moralize. A simple
statement of fact will suffice for our
purpose.
On Thanksgiving day, 1879, the mem
bers ofthe legislature OF Wyoming and
officers thereof were invited by the
Union Pacific railroad company to take
a trip to Denver and the mountain
towns. The invitation was accepted,
and on the given day a large train load
left Cheyenne for Denver. Many of
our prominent citizens had been in
vited to accompany the excursion,
among whom was the hired man of the
LEADER. There were, besides, the
clerks, pages and watchmen of the legis-
lature.
Well, a good time was spent in Den
yer. The press gang treated the visi.
tors with the greatest respect, and,
with extraordinary enterprise, OBJ
tanned from the registers of the various
hotels the names of all the Wyoming
ties, each newspaper printing a long
double column list of them.
The day following Thanksgiving, the
visitors picked up the papers with a
feeling of interest. You see they were
anxious ito know just what the papers
would say about them anyway" There
was ne difficulty in finding the articles.
They were all under heavily displayed
headings and occupied from one to two
columns each. All closed with the list
of visitors. There were governors,
honorables, generals, colonies, majors
and captains, until you couldn't rest.
Esquires, too, occupied a respectable
portion of the list. A Waterman was
dubbed an "Hon," while a page was
presented with ESQ., Men who never
saw a company drill, found Seen" as
a handle to their cognomens. Even
the names of several of the lady visitors
were prefixed with Hon. or "Col.,"
according to the fancy of the reporter,
for, when only the initials of a name
appeared On the register the press boys
fancied that the wearer was a male.
Titles! why the eye grew tired read
ing the list of titled pilgrims from
Wyoming. They were so unanimously
given that they became m%onotonous.
Even the recipients grew dissatisfied
when they saw how many of them they
were. 1t vas a hoped for relief to find
N name, only one name, that COM
menced with plain Mr." And there
was but one. This n was distin-
guished for his isolation. He was
honord in standing alone. He even
felt proud of that plain, old fashioned,
venerable and revered handle. Like
the writer in the Philadelphia Times he
felt that ''he needed no display of titles
to proclaim his merits or his preten-
slons." He was known in Wyoming
and Denver-only too well. A plain
"Mr." was sufficient to identify him.
That single, solitary, honored and con-
spicuous. WyomingIte was the modest,
unassuming and ingenious hired man
of the LEADER.