, 1888-01-10
WHO THEY ARE.
Men Who Represent the People in
the Legislature.
Their Political Complexion and
Some Personal Traits.
Democrats Hold the House and
Republicans the Council.

In order that the readers of THE LEADER
throughout the territory may sec Just what
sort of timber the legislature which con-
venes to day contains, the subjoined
sketch of each member who has reached
the capital, or about whom anything could
be learned, has been prepared.
TERRITORIAL COUNCIL.
G. P. Organ, j. W. Hammond and
John A. Riner comprise the Laramie
county delegation in the senior house.
Mr.. Organ is a sterling Democrat. The
other two gentlemen are Republicans.
The trio are residents of Cheyenne and
well known throughout the territory.
Messrs. Organ and Hammond are both
hardware merchants and are also inter
ested in cattle. The latter is a member
of the city council. Mr.. Riner is Junior
member of the noted legal firm of Corlett,
Lacey & Riner.
G. A. Guernsey of Lusk is councilman
at large for Laramie and Crook counties.
He OWNS cattle and is quite popular in the
northern portion of this county.
w. H. Holiday and j. Fl. Symons re-
side in Laramie. The former is the head
of the great furniture house which bears
his namc. He has been in the legislature
before, having presided at meetings of the
council during the session of the eighth
assembly. Mr.. Holiday was a candidate
for congress on the Democratic ticket sew
eral years ago, but was defeated after a
hard battle. He formerly resided here
and has hosts of friends in Cheyenne.
j. Ell. Symons is a Republican and one of
the leading attorneys OF Laramie.
Carbon county councilmen are Repub-
cans. P. L. Smith is ex-auditor, a fine
looking man with luxuriant black whisk-
ers. He was in Rawlins in early days.
Mr.. Smith owns cattle. F. A. Hadsell,
Elk Mountain, is a Republican; and has a
horse ranch near Carbon. He is middle
aged.
j. D. Loucks, Republican, was the first
business man in Sheridan, johnson
county. He has been west six years, and
during that time has become quite
wealthy. Mr.. Loucks is very moral, has
no ordinary vices, and is a good church
member.
Robert Smith of Rock Springs is one
of the three Democrats in the council. He
is a Scotchman by birth, a giant in stat
ure and a genial and intelligent gentle.
He formerly edited the Green
River Gazette in an able manner.
l.. G. Bliss, Lander, a merry Republi-
can, is a Wyoming pioneer and a genuine
Westerner. He represents Uinta and
and Fremont counties jointly. The gentle
man is a stock grower.
G. w. Carleton, billiard, is a Republi-
can. He is a pioneer, having been a tel
egraph operator at Salt Lake in early
days. Mr.. Carleton will assist Mr.. Bliss
in laboring for Uinta county. d,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
There are three Democrats and four
Republicans in the Laramie county dele
cation. The former are w. s. Weaver,
Cheyenne, of the Benjamin Weaver Cat
tic company, who is considered. a. most
valuable man f. w. Lafrcntz, one Of
Cheyenne's leading German citizens,
bookkeeper for the Swan Land and Cattle
company and secretary of Wyoming Fair
association j. A. johnson, Wheatland,
a member of the Wyoming Development
company. He is an EXPERT on the sub
iect of irrigation. The Republicans are :
City Attorney Willis VanDevanter, a very
able lawyer; T. B. Adams, secretary of
the Stock Association John Roberts,
the local real estate man, candidate for
councilman in the First ward, a Buffalo,
N. Y, boy, formerly a railroad employe
here Ed. T. Duffy, train dispatcher at
this point and owner of a ranch in the
county.
Tom Hooper, Democrat, halls from
Sundance, Crook county. He is an attor-
ney and stenographer, and resided in
Cheyenne twenty years ago.
Judge L. d. Pease, Laramie, is the
only Democratic member of the house
from Albany county. He has resided
over the hill for years, formerly ran the
Laramie Times, and now practices law.
The judge is of venerable mein, but a
very pleasant gentleman. Leroy Grant is
mayor of Laramie and proprietor of a
large livery stable. Howard Clugston
formerly owned cattle heal Laramie, but
now resides in California. A. L. Suther-
land lives on a ranch near Sherman. He
constructed the Cakes Ames monument
at the summit. W. @. Sampson, a Doug
las business man, is!.quitc young. He
was the nominee of both parties, though
a Republican. Mr.. Sampson is a civil
engineer by profession.
G. E. Blydenburgh, Rawlins, and J.
M. Kuykendall, Saratoga, are Carbon
county Democrats. The former is a highly
educated descendant of an honorable New
York family, but has been west several