, 1888-11-16
CARBON TACTICS.
Methods by Which a Republican
Majority Was Secured.
Only $50 Taxpayers and More
Than 900 Votes.
Abuse of Suffrage by an IIIitsrate
Swarm of Finlanders.

Special Correspondence of THE leader.
RAwLINs, Wyo., Nov. Ia have
just returned from Casper to learn hat in
the matter of election Grover Cleveland
has nc edge on the Democratic candidates
Tor Office in Carbon county. New York
should be Democratic, but conte ntions
and petty strifes in the party demoralized
it and played sad havoc with the vote on
Nov. 6. Such is also the case here. We
have q Democratic majority in this
county, but the party worked against
itself, and when a town like Carbon with
$50 taxpayers turns in 909 votes, most of
which we're cast by Finlanders, who can
not speak or understand the English
language, let alone read or write it, can
we wonder hat the business OF the county
is demoralized and its once prosperous
community discouraged and disheartened?
The town of Carbon is to the county of
Carbon what the state of New York is to
the United States, and on its vote hinges
the election.
| met a man from there to-day-Mr.
MISUNDERSTANDING in conversation
with him learned that the people of the
town of Carbon we're going to present a
bill to the next legislature asking that a
section of this county twenty miles square,
with Carbon as the center, be cut off into
a new county, and wishing to get the par
%ticulars [ interviewed him with the follow
ing result:
How many taxpayers have you in the
the town of Carbon, Mr.. KIP"
"Well, by the last assessment we had,
L think, about $50, and l guess we still
have that number, but no more"
"How many votes did you poll on the
9th of this month";"
Nine hundred and nine, and out of
that number there were over 600 good
Republican votes"
Zone hundred fifty tax payers, and 9O9
voters. Isn't that a strange state of
affairs, Mr.. KIP"
mo, it never struck me as being
strange. What l know about politics and
the government-and | think | am pretty
well posted, for | have been in America
nearly a year, learned IN Carbon, and
| don't remember of ever hearing that
paying taxes had anything to do with
voting. People pay taxes because they
happen to own property in the county,
and the tax is simply a license they must
pay for the privilege of owning that prop
erty. In order to pay taxes you must
own property, but in order to vote you
only have to get out your first papers, and
while | never knew of a case in Carbon
where a man paid taxes without owning
property, yet | have known cases there
where Finlanders voted without getting
out anything, not even to this country.
So. you see, there is no connection what
ever between the taxpayer and voter"
Nv ell | must confess | never looked at
it in that light. But, by the way, what
do you propose to call your new county
when it is cut off and organized?"
1--WE havn't decided on hat yet. Some
want to call it Finland, but then there
are others, and | think they are in the
majority, who believe the name Of Terra
firma' more euphonoOus, and at the same
time more appropriate, SO | think that
will be the name adopted.
81 heard a rumor here, Mr.. X, that
you are also going to ask for an appropri-
alton to put a barb wire fence around the
county when it is organized. Is there
any truth in that rumOr?'
Yes, that has also been discussed, but
there is a difference Of opinion as to what
kind Of a fence would be most suitable.
Some are iii favor Of a tour point, galya
nized steel wire with three inch space
between barba-what is known AZ hog
wire-tour strands, with cedar posts slx-
teen feet apart aud a pole On the top.
Then there are others, and | am one oi
them, who think a wire fence hardly the
proper thing. We favor II board fence,
with five SIX inch boards to the panel.
This, of cJur-p. O., nore expensive to the
territory, bul Ii u,Itcr Of this kind We
never consider ~. ]" USE
You SAY ,.u uiy round up every two
years-how do they talIy?''
We'll, you see We work hat this way.
| We expect TO roundup, AS | said, some