The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-18
POSTS IGNORANCE AND STU
PIDITY.

the republicans of Wyoming has found
will result in depriving him of the res
pect of every man who looks to the
Boomerang for excellence in English
composition and for wit that is moi
obscene.
1t has discovered that Mr.. Post ID
Ignorant and uncultIvated. 1t speaks
of him as a pleasant, sociable, and sue
cessful man, but processes to be dis
tressed at his bad grammar and i'm
perfect photography. It appeals, more.
over, to all who admire the Boomerang
editor as a purist to vote against Post
on that ground. Its position is of
course impregnable, but it is worthy
of note that it forebore advancing
many damaging points, in its argument
that Mr.. Post is stupid, which on
second thoughts might have occurred
to its alleged mind.
For example, there was that celebrated
occasion on which Medium and Post
were antagonists in the territorial
council of 1879. Jack had worked like a
beaver in opposition to the passage of a
bill---now a statute in the Laws of
Wyoming--which killed the business of
a gang OF robbers who we're working a
~disreputable lottery scheme. The bill,
opposed by the highly. intelligent
and scholarly Jack, was sent from one
committee to another. and at length it
fell into the hands of a committee of
which NJ. L. Post was chairman. This
Post, with a dullnes and inertness that
was Il feature Of his legislative career,
actually reported the an%ti-lottery bill
~favorably, and to-day there is a law in
Wyoming against justsssuch a lottery
business as smart Jack Meldrum was
working for.
Then, from 1870 to 1872 Post was
pursuing a course that was absurdly
stupid. He was holding the unremu-
neratiye office of county commissioner.
H, could have declined acting for the
public good in an office requiring
patient work and accurate information
as to Laramie county's needs, and could
have been absorbed in his private BUSH
ness, but with amazing and perverse
stupidity did the work of his public
office so well that in 1872 the republican
party recognized his worthlessness
and ignorance and Endorsed his
nomination, and he therefore was
reelected without opposition. 1t
was in those years that Jack Mel
drum became celebrated for tell
ing Boomerang stories in Boomerang
English, while performing the fatiguing
duties of warming a clerks chair seat
day by day in the Albany county court
house.
Jack is the smartest man in the terri
tory in one respect. He carries the
champion belt for getting up the best
campaign smile. The amount of posing
and Sinking which he must have done
before the looking glass to get up that
smile argues a persistence in the pur-
suit of an accomplishment which may
in time fit him to write an article equal
in %profundity and erudition to the
average Boomerang..editorial. Post, OIL
the other hand, stupid enough to be
honest, has uniformly treated well
ven those who vilify him, that the
Boomerang takes it for granted that all
the territory knows him to be pheasant
and sociable."
Posts blunder<ag stupidity has been
shown in his business course for twenty
years. Now, if jack Medium bad
wanted to cross the plains twenty years
ago, he would have been smart enough
to be appointed book keeper for a bull
dead head passenger. But Post, a
stolid young fellow, drove a mule team
800 miles across the plains -and went to
work in Denver at honest wages.
Post muddled things again when he
experimental in sheep raising in Wyo-
ming. Other men held back and said
it wasn't practicable-money would be
lost. Post risked his money, andthe
men now engaged in this profitable
industry know what his exertions were
worth to them. But Jack Medium is
too devilish smart to put out his money
on any risk whatever, except Just before
election.
Posts stupidity two years ago was pre-.
p%osterous. Opposed to him as a candi'
date for onnoraaa uaa ono of tha