The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-06

The Cheyenne sun of yesterday
contained the article following
A dish of crow-The LEADER assumes
u ~retrograde movement like unto the
festive crawfsh.-Atter abusing and
slandering its former employees it
begs them to return.
On the 21st of August the Wyoming
Typographical Union outIawed the
LEADER for the reason that the par
simonious management of the paper
compelled the members of the Union to
be brought into competition with I'M
skilled and inexpensive labor imported
from the east. A full report of the &C
ton taken by the Union was published
at the time by the Sun. The action of
the Union. and the attending publicity
given to the LEADERS style of treating
its employees, created much comment
throughout the city and territory. For
some time the ostensible proprietors of
the paper have, been endeavoriug to
have the Union reconsider the action
taken in August, and last night the
paper backed squarely down from the
position it assumed at the time of the
trouble. The members of the Union
magnanimously overlooked the treat
ment they had received from the LEAD
Err, and 4 compromise was effected
the LEADER said it wanted to make
up'' and the Union kindly received the
advances made.
AS some Of the mechanics employed
by the LEADER at the time of the trou-
BILE have resided in this city for a mum
Der of years, and as the LEADER, both
in its columns and by the personal
efforts of its publishers in "A social way,
has endeavored to injure these men by
assailing their character and mechan-
ical skill, it seems proper at this time
to say n word in their defense, and, IN
solicited, to protect them from what
ever of criticism this latter action may
cause them to receive. Among these
employees was mi who, for W elve years,
has been constantly employed upon the
paper. The changes in the ownership
did not cause him to leave it, and each
successive proprietor or proprietors
seemed satisfied with him. Another
held a similar position for eight years,
| and until the new firm obtained control
| of the paper his character and mechan-
ical skill were unquestioned. 9th RS
had been for II longer or shorter time
with the paper and had given satisfac-
ton.
For two weeks after the trouble the
LEADER maintained silence regarding
the matter, and then in n long article
| stated its case. Its former silence upon
the subject it accounted for by saying it
had %purposely waited that its blood
might become cool, thereby rendering
improbable hasty statements made in
anger and not worthy ofthe endorsement
of more sober moments. In the ar.
ticle mentioned, it said at is due to
our new employees to add. that as gen
tlemen and workmen, they far excel
those previously employed" or words
to that effect. These words were in
tended to serve n dual purpose-to
Justify the LEADER and to iniure the
parties who had left the institution.
As will be seen by reference to GER
tain resolutions published elsewhere
this morning, the LEADER has eaten a
large plate of crow-Eood old-fashioned
crow diet taken straight. 1t has adj
mitted that it lied when it praised its
imported ''rat'' printers and abused
the employees who refused to longer
work for IL. II has confessed it sland-
cred them, acknowledged it falsited in
! every statement made, and deliberately,
nay, eagerly crawlished from the stand
it took latter it had allowed sufficient
time to elapse to render n dispassionate
statement of the case possible
The fact of the matter is that for tif-
teen years the employees enjoyed most
harmonious relations with the paper.
and the mechanics and business men OF
the city were slow to believe that in
competence and insubordiuationn had
been so suddenly developed, or that the
Union was ''all wrong and the new
publishers ''all right This operated
against the paper. The subscription
list has been steadily growing beautl-
fully less, and upon the eve OF y politi-
cal campaign the paper found itself
pulling against the tide Of popular feel
ing. Like nearly all tender-feet the
new publishers thought they would as
tonish the natives out in this barbarous
land. They found that the astonish-