, 1884-11-01
SCHEMES.
Leaves From the Life of a Genuine
carpet-B Dagger.
A Professional Office Holder With
out Ability or Energy.
Reasons Why He Came West, and
Some Other Facts.

Speaking of w. II. Schnitger. the Re.
publican candidate for Sheriff of Laramie
county and the present Marshal of Chey-
ennc' the Sun of yesterday prints the fol
living.
lie has demonstrated his capacity AZ A
purely executive officer, in that he has
maintained order, quiet. protection TO life
and property. He has demonstrated that
with GOODNESS he combines discretion and
moderation. With pluck he has iude-
ment.
That the above senile laudation of
Schnitger is false in nearly every feature.
is Il proposition so s~elf-evident that it
hardly merits the dignity a denial would
give it.
Who is this man w. r. Sc~hnitger. who
thrusts himself before the people and asks
them 10 elect him to an important Office?
Six years ago he came to Wyoming.
not to make a home in the Territory, not
10 engage in business, not to identify him
self with its people and not with the
slightest idea of contributing in any way
to the progress of the Territory, to the
end that he, as one Of its citizens. might
reap the advantages which attend mater
ial prosperity.
He came as the son Of his father. as n
full grown man who had, at least in years,
reached mans estate, but who was still
incapable of making a living by means of
any known industry. He came because
his father came, and because, as a Deputy
United States Marshal under his parents
care, he could idle his days away without
being annoyed with any anxiety regarding
the procurement of his daily bread.
Too incident to engage in any industry.
and lacking even the ability to conduct
any business enterprise, he has passed six
of the best years of a mans life in ma
terly and complete inactivity.
Wa ever there a more perfect specimen
of the carpet-bagger
Two years ago it occurred to the father
ofW. r. Schnitger, hat as a deputy his
son was decidedly more ornamental than
useful In fact it simultaneously flashed
upon the minds Of the Schnitger family
that if the younger member could obtain
some elective Office the position Of orna-
mental Deputy Marshal might he abol-
ished. w. II. Schnitger had come West to
hold Office and why not get a fat one ?
With pure American gall as his only
recommendation, Mr.. Sehnitger entered
the Republican convention two years ago
and ~endeavored to obtain the nomination.
The incidental fact that a worthy man Of
the people was the leading candidate did
not figure with Mr.. Schnitger, and in all
probability it never occurred To him that
his strife for the place would be rs gro
tesque as ill-timed. The convention told
Mr.. Sehnitger that it was not running an
intelligence office for the benefit of indi-
gent place hunters and 50 Mr.. Schnitger
was left upon his own resources.
But n manner of existence was known
to him. Office he must have and as City
Marshall Carr was anxious 10 resign.
Schnitger at once applied for the place.
He button holed every member of the
City Council who would be button-holed;
he talked, begged and implored every
friend of every member of the Council to
help him in securing the Marshalship and
for weeks he was so busily engaged in his
efforts to obtain the place, that for once in
his life he actually displayed some unnat-
ural symptoms of activity.
BY various and divers means he Sc
cured a place on the County Republican
Committee and thereby was given some
semblance Of an excuse to urge himself
upon the party and to implore its help,
The long fight in the City Council, which
did not end even after Marshal Carr re-
signed, is too well known to need recital
at this time. Suffice it, therefore, to say
that the Council, finding no one else will
ing to take the Office Of City Marshal,
appointed Mr., Schnitgcr temporarily.
Since that time he has managed, by care
fully nursing the job, 10 hold on 10 it,
and seems destined To do SO for n good
while to come.
But what a Marshal he has made The
city swams with loafers, bunco-steerers,
foot pads and tramps. In his ability as
a purely executive officer Marshal
Schnitger has been utterally unaware of
this fact.
He has maintained order, quiet and
protection to life and property, has he
During the last six months Mr.. Wight
man lost his valuable watches, Bakers
safe was riaed and Rowe was shot and
held up. Where are the criminals2 The
city swarms with bupcp-steerers but what
man has he arrested? Sam Clayton and
Dick Dyer are in jail, but who put them
there? Did he ever drive one of these
foot pads out of town. Has he worked
mp a single criminal case? Where is his
record as an ofRcial2 Not as City Marshal
certainly.
Yesterday morning a little truthful par
ngraph was accidentally printed in the
San, in the same issue which contained
the laudatory article on Mr.. Schnitger.
The paragraph in question reads as fol
lows:
THE tramps are beginning I flock in
from all quarters, and the city will soor
be full of them unless something is done
to keep them OUT
NIr Schnitger is toe busy in his ca.
paeity as a purely executive officer tl
even know a tramp or a bunko steerel
when he sees one.