, 1888-12-23
We, re lid ENOnGH

would be hailed with manifestations of
pleasure in all parts of Wyoming Terri.
tory.
Governor Moonlight fell into the shoes
of a local Democrat who had been treated
by the administration with the rankest
injustice. 1t was only natural, therefore.
that, as a nonresident appointco, he
should come here with a section of the
community p~rejudiced against HIM. 1t
was asserted. however, in his behalf that
he was a Western man with all of a West
erner's broad grasp of the peculiar needs
of a new and growing section. During
one period of lis career he had been sta.
toned IN Wyoming. 1t was therefore
taken for granted that he knew something
about the natural characteristics of the
country and would more readily appreci-
ate the peculiar difficulties under which
the settler and resident labored. A num-
Der of Wyoming people who had known
Col. Moonlight prepared the public mind
to give a more than ordinarily cordial
greeting to Governor Moonlight.
Many circumstances c~onspired to put
the new executive in accord with the peo-
pie of the territory, but from the very
beginning he set himself deliberately TO
work to do away with the good impress
sion viii III Others had helped to create Tor
him. He arrayed himself not only in
opposition TO the prominent members Of
-. an.n ,n.t., bat o., IL. ,,anrln ~ 1ha
entire territory. The simple fact that a
man ownedOg few acres of ground in Wyo-
ming T%st1sry was prin,a tacie evidence
to him that he was a thief and swindler,
and he officially treated him accordingly.
His afhliation has never been with the
substantial business men OF the territory.
BY some singular faulty he sought out
and found his intimates chiefly among
those who were socially and financially
irresponsible.
In his intercourse with officials and in
dividuals he has been harsh, domineering
and arbitrary. Instead OF a simple gov.
ernor, the chief executive ofi@al of a free
people, he seemed to regard himself
more in the light of a subordi
nate sent out by a Turkish sultan
to rule one OF his provinces with an
iron hand. So far as be has ruled, he has
used a rod of iron.
With an executive arrayed against the
people, apparently bent on icrestalling
their every hope and animated by a desire
to retard rather than aid in the develop
ment of the territory, it could not be ex-
pected that the people of Wyoming
would waste much sympathy and regard
on Governor Moonlight. Judged simply
from a party standpoint his course during
the last Legislature was such as TO ALLEVIATE
from him almost every prominent Demo-
crat and even threaten the disruption ofthe
territorial party organization. During that
whole session of sixty days no man
placed confidence in him who was not de-
ceived. His trusted adviser was a man OF
another political faith, who didn't stand
very well with his own party and who
hal besides his own selfish ends constantly
10 view.
When the session Of the legislature
closed without the removal of either the
Republican attorney general or the audi
tor The LEADER, in common with the
prominent men Of the party, lost conf.
dence in the governor both as an indivi-
dual and a party man and public sentiment
was soon crystalized by hi : strange con
duct into the belief that his ~favorite role
was that OF the bull in the china shop.
The purpose of the governors supple
mental report to the secretary of the in
terror is quite evident on its face. 1t is
not the work Of a broad minded man
bent on making the very best of his sit
uation and tightening the load of his
neighbors, but under the euise OF super
sensitive punctiliousncss he tries to hide
his real purpose which was to aim a
deadly blow at the dearest interests of the
whole territory. This he does deliberately
apparently finding his greatest Joy,
like n boy torturing a dumb
brute. in manifestations of agony
and suffering. 1t is a matter of no wonder
that a man with such strangely contorted
and crotchety notions of public duty
shoul1 forever ALLEVIATE the friendship, Ie-
spect and esteem, not only Of a commu
nifty but of a whole territory.
For many months THE LEADER has not
been in sympathy with Governor Moon.
lights public course. Knowing, how
ever, that his tenure OF office is now neces