The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-19
TIE Sun AGAINST JACK AND
THE SUN FOR JACK.

The inquiry of the LEADER respect
ing the Suns position on Mr.. Meldrum'
lottery record in the legislature of 1877
paralyzed the editors of that paper TO,
a week; but it now demands a bundl,
of interrogatories, when, to a v i'll
maudlin soul, it can't answer the ont
already put to it. The LEADER wei
understands the silence of the Sun re
garding its query. The Sun fears t.
set up at this time its record during thu
winter of 1880 on the lottery ques
ton, because Jack Meldrum. was Their
berated for his opposition to the anti.
lottery bill, in language that would
greatly injure Mr.. Medium now, when
he is a candidate for congress. Per.
haps the Sun did not think, at that
time, that Mr.. Medium would so soon
aspire to congressional honors. But
now that he is a candidate, the fact it,
self does not weaken the position taken
by the Sun at that time. 1t cannot
now wipe out the stain that it then cast
upon the honor of John w. Meldrum.
1t must not be supposed that the cit
liens of our territory are so weak in
memory as to forget the war made upon
lotteries and also the strong opposi-
tion to the anti-lottery bill shared in by
Medium in the legislature. 1t is a
matter OF history that lotteries cursed
the good name of the territory; and it
was to the good order of society that
the bill suppressing them was intro
duced. On principle. no man could Oh
ject to the anti-lottery bill. However,
it is plain to be seen on what other
grounds objection and active opposition
in the legislature could be based. John
w. Medium opposed the bill, and the
p tblic records of the territory attest the
TACT. Was his opposition the outgrowth
of an honest yearning for the public
veal? Did the Sun 30 consider it at
the time? When that sheet spoke of
were influenced by ill-gotten gains that
were defrauded out Of the earnings of
hard working and ignorant men and
women all over the country, did it not
make such a charge against John W.
MeldrumP When it said that a band
of bold and designing men %conspired to
tarnish the fair fame of Wyoming ter
ritory by opposing the bill to suppress
lotteries, did it not include John w.
Medium? When it spoke of the oppo-
sition as men that consorted with
blacklegs and gamblers from the slums
of Baltimore, did 1t not class John w.
Medium with themp
These are ''childlike queries, =" accord
ing to the Sun.
But do the masses consider these
queries childlike ? Did they consider
it a childlike matter for Medium to
camp by day and by night on the trail
OF the bill and carry on a guerrilla war
fare against it ? Did the Sun consider
it childlike when it poured ont walls of
wrath upon Medium in 1879?
The Sun either owes Mr.. Medium
an apology for its abuse Of him in 1890
it merits censure for now supporting a
candidate whom it then declared was a
man fit only for the companionship Of
blacklegs from Baltimore. There is no
abuse to be heaped upon the Sun for its
course in 1879. Its actions were for
the benefit of good society. But it is
certainly lamentable to see it swallow up
a good record and-to borrow its own
simile-go wallowing among the slums.
One would suppose iromaa reading Of
its files of 1879 that the Sun was a
monument of virtue and good morals,
and hat no man with unclean skirts
could ever hope to enter its sanctum
with favor, much less to parade through
It's pages in columns Of counterfeit
glory.
The editor of the Sun should review
his own files and see how he stood as
to Medium in 1879. Then he could
answer the LEADERS query. Bat as be
hasn't done it, the dlsagreeable task is
here in part performed for him.
1t is doubtful if the Sun wants more
than one query of this sort at a time.
1t Is one too many for Mr.. Medium.