The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

So much for the general impressions
still have of the practical workings of the
law in a new territory when election day
would shame the polls of any cultivated
city Of the effete east, where the day wore
= Sabbath serenity. No rum was sold,
women rode to the polls in carriages fur
nished by the two parties and every man
was straining himself to be a gentleman
because there were votes at stake. a
Wyoming election. as recall it, was stand
ing reblke to every eastern election l ever
saw.
The correspondent asks however for
some desultOry remarks on the passage of
the bill and other attendant circumstances
and gladly reproduce some of the speeches
made in favor of the measure in order to
show the originality and independence of
thought, characteristic Of the early legis-
lature.
A member whom l will call MIR Bigsby,
partly because | need a name for him and
partly because that was not his name,
was elected by the railroad men of the
southern part of the territory and was a
railroad man himself. He said in the course
Of his remarks, Gentlemen this is pretty
important move. It's a kind Of a wild train
on a single track and we've got to keep our
eye peeled or Wen get irt) the ditch. It's
new conductor making his first run. He
don't known the stations yet and be feels
Just as if there were a spotter in every
coach besides. Female suffrage changes
the management of the whole line and may
put the entire outfit il the hands Of a
receiver in two years. We can't tell when
Wyoming territory may be side tracked
with a lot Of female conductors and superin-
tendents and passle Of giddy girls at the
brakes.
81 tell you we want 10 consider this
thriving pretty thorough. OF course we
larc tina rhprly at fng close
of tho term and we won't care much, but
if the young territory gets into a hot box,
or civilization has TO wait q few years
because we get a fat wheel and thus block
the track or if. by our foolishness we tele
scope some other territory, folks viii point
US out and say there's where the difficulty
is We sent choice aggregation Of rail
road men and miners and cattle men down
there TO Cheyenne thinking we had . car
board of statesmen, for 70 work up this
thing and here we are without airy law OF
airy gospel that we can lay our jaw TO in
the whole domain. However, Mr.. Speaker,
claim that I've got my orders and l shall
pull in favor of the move. II your boys
viii couple on to our train am moderately
certain we win make no mistake | regard
il as q promotion when | go from the cattle
train of male, ward politics to take charge
Of a train with parlor car and ladies be
4ongiug to the manifest" (Appiausel.
The next speech was made by Unusual
Barnes, owner of the oar q brand horse
ranch and the crop mottle and key Q.
monkey wrench brand cattle ranch on the
upper Chugwater. He said: Mr.. Chairman
or Speaker or whatever you call yourself,
eau cut ont a steer on the range or pat
Eny red hot monogram on maverick the
darkest night that ever blew, but l an
poorly put up to paralyze the eager throng
with matchless eloquence. tell you tall
is inexpensive anyhow, it is rum and hired
help that costs money. / agree with thI
chair that we want to be familiar with the
range before we stampede and go wild like
q lot of Texas cattle just off the trail trave
ing 100 miles day and filing our pelt:
with pizen weed and other peculiar vegeta
bles. We want to consider what WE'RE
about and act with some Judgment. Wher
we turn this maverick over to the governor
to be branded we want to know that we're
corralling the correct animal You CAM
lariat broncho mule with morning glory
vine. Most always, and after we've run
this bill into the shute and taisted It's tai
few times we might want 20 pay two OF
three good men to help rs let loose Of j.
However, I shall vote Tor it Us i Is anG