, 1889-09-25
A TWICE TOLD TALE.
An Interesting Cheyenne Letter
Printed in New York.
Some Interesting Facts About the
Town and People.
And Subjects Which Have Recently
Been Discussed.
From the New York Times Sept. 1871
LITTLE WORRY
A BLUNDER THAT PRESIDENT
HARRISON HAS NOT REC
TITLED.

w1oMING's GOVERNOR AM HIS READI
NESS AS AN AFFIDAVIT MAKER-HE
wANTs TO BE a SENATOR.
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. lS.-Soon
after the appointment OF Francis E. War
rem to be governor of Wyoming there APP
pearcd in the Times a dispatch from this
city in which President Harrlson's choice
was criticised severely, and the new gov
der President Arthur and for two years
under President Cleveland, was con-
demned as a person altogether unfit by
capacity and integrity for the high Office.
The governor and his friends resented
the publication and denied all the allega-
ions which it contained. Soon after he
had made his denial Mr.. William Ware
Peck Of Cheyenne, in making charges
against Governor Warren intended to
show that he could not be always ex-
pected to be a man of integrity if his
I future was to be governed by his past,
presented the documents to prove that
while Governor Warren had made afida-
Wit to the statement that he had lived
upon a tract OF land in Laramie county
that he desired to take up under the pre-
emption act, he had been a continuous
resident of Cheyenne, and during the
time he had sworn TO a residence on u
ranch miles away from this city he had
been nominated To and elected as a mem.
Der of the city council, and had attended
xnorl,v ~ ,,naf,n- - L.. Id l-..-
his term office. These letters, which
we're reproduced in THE CHEYENNE
LEADER, were read by everybody in the
state. They provoked the hottest sort of
discussion in and out of the newspapers.
Nearly all, say all except half a dozen,
papers in the territory defended Gov
ernor Warren.
The discussion had not ceased in the
newspapers a month when the writer
reached Cheyenne. In a small town in
the west, so far away from the Atlantic
coast and the New York newspapers, the
presence of a newspaper man is soon
known. The state of the local news
paper man S mind was at once revealed
by the appearance of an editorial para
graph in the Sun, the organ of the gov.
ernor, intimating that The Times had sent
a man to Wyoming to consult with Mr..
William Ware Peck as to the best
method of renewing the attack upon Gov
ernor Warren As a matter of fact, the
writer did not see Mr.. Peck. He did call
upon Governor Warren and had several
conversations with him upon the matters
treated in Mr.. Peck's letters. From Gov
ernor Warren and his friends an opinion
was obtained of Mr.. Peck. From some
other gentlemen who were spoken OF by
Governor Warren with great respect
other facts and opinions were obtained
touching Governor Warren and his career
in Wyoming. Without quoting Cover
nor Warren or his critics, a fair state
ment of the case may be presented from
both the Warren side and the side of
those who may be said to be his critics
rather than his accusers.
Governor f. +. Warren is still a young
man, blonde, with glasses. He Is a
giant in statur If he were not SO tall
and we're less deliberate of speech he
might pass for a brother of Civil Service
Commissioner Roosevelt. He must have
come here at an early age, for he has been
in the territory about twenty-one years
With a good education to fit him for a
life work he was naturally bright, cool,
a~udacious, commanding. He had keen
business sense and capital, and the coun-
try was open to all who knew how to
make the best of the opportunities pre-
sented. Governor Warren dill not let
any opportunities pass him ulobserved.
That he should catch on was inevita
BILE. He succeeded wonderfully well. He
had already, in 1883, when he became in
volved in the affair which Mr.. Peck has
described, reached the position of leading
Republican in Cheyenne, If not in Wyom
ing, and was connected with several com
panies identified with the development of
the territory. A company with which he
was connected desired to acquire for
ranching or stock raising purposes a tract
north Of Cheyenne about eighteen or
twenty miles. They proceeded tn ac-
quire it.
According to the argument of Governor