The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-11-03
,1IELDRUM AND THE REPUB-
LICANk,

E. Post, the republican party is broke
up into divisions on the question
voting for or against ]. w. Medium
In this respect the party may be regart
ed as made up of three classes. TIL
first class comprises. those republican
who have decided once and for all I
vote for Mr.. Post, and day after da;
as information is obtained from differ
emit parts of the territory, it appear
that many prominent and lifelong re
publicans are to be included in it. L
the second class may be put those re
publicans who will always vote the re
publican ticket, no matter who til
candidate may be. Another class take
in the republicans who have not yet de
cided how they will cast their votes
1t is to these we have a few words u
say.
1t requires no argument to establish
the fact that party divisions by the ole
lines are nowadays hardly to be recog
nized. This is a matter of everyday
comment. In such a condition of pc,
lftical affairs, men, as contrasted with
principles, rise into prominence.
This is especially true of this part OF
the country. Here the question is not
so much what a candidates party atfili-
ations may be, as what he himself is
able to achieve for the common good.
Is he capable Of performing the task
which will be placed before him in case
he is electedp In public life, has he
hitherto been true to the trust reposed
IN him? Is he a man who will repre-
sent the best interests of his constit-
uents? Is he acquainted with the
needs and the character of the people
he would represent?
Apply the test to Post and to Mel
drum. Mr.. Post has been in public
life long enough to have furnished a
guarantee of what may be expected of
him should he be sent to congress again.
The four years he spent as county COM
missioner gave him some insight into
public affairs, and his friends then saw
that he possessed qualities which fitted
him for work in a higher place. He
has strong common sense, capability for
effective work, a disposition to keep in
harmony with his colleagues, and is ac-
customed to assuming large responsible
lities. While in the territorial council
Mr. Doat waa choirmon of tba ;,,d;ot..-
committee, and there performed his du-
ties so well that it was thought by his
party that he. would be able to repre-
sent Wyoming ittingly in congress.
While he was at Washington. last win
Ter his efforts on behalf of the territory
were SO successful that the republican.
press at home added its testimony to his
worth, and there is hardly a republican
engaged in public life in Wyoming to-
day who is not a friend and well-wisher
of NJ. e. Post. An awkward attempt
lately made to show that Mr.. Post was
not successful in preventing the dis
of mail routes, or in estab-
fishing new routes, only gave the OPP
%portunity to his friends to show that he
has succeeded in getting the p~ostoflce
department to open new routes which
other delegates had failed to establish,
and that through his exertions routes
which had been discontinued were re-
established.
1t is often assumed by republicans
that their candidate for an important
office must, as the spokesman and stand
ard:bearer,, of their party, be a man
above reproach and Of eminent fitness
for the Office he aims to Oil. 1t will
hardly do to take this situation to be
the true one with Mr.. Medium. Had
the delegates to the territorial republi-
can convention met u%npledged, and had
they then discussed the merits of the
men spoken of for the nomination, re-
publicans could believe that their can
didate was the deliberate choice of the
party. But Meldrum's candidacy is
VIGOROUSLY the result of the scheming
of an adroit wire-puller. For a year
past MI. Medium has been at work
securing delegates to the convention
which nominated him. AS a political
intriguer he has found opportunity to
perform favors for other politicians to
be paid in kind, and while the stronger
and ADLER men of his party stood aloof
from handling the machine, Medium
gained control of it and put himself at
the head of the ticket.
Mr.. Medium, as a candidate, must
expect of those who oppose him that
they will ask what pledge his public life