, 1889-07-30

NNbAAl bANCAAChA " 'gOAAAhSs ~ ACAA
callv appointed him an officer OF the very
department which he is alleged to have
swindled? Whether the knowledge of
this affair came to you before or after your
appointment of Governor Warren did you
or did you not condone the perjury to
President Harrison to save YOU W grip
on the public patronage of Wyoming2
These are questions of live public interest.
Plain, straightforward and u%nequivocal
answers to them are demanded by the
public. We all know of the close rela-
tions existing between yourself and Gov
ernor Warren; some OF us know the ex-
tent Of the influence hat the one man
has over the other.
As to the political features Of your letter
you know as well as every intelligent man
knows that neither | nor any other Dem
ocrat "lashes himself into a fury every
time a resident is appointed to office"
The only disappointment that | have heard
expressed or seen exhibited has been in
the case Of Republicans who have felt that
they had earned and were entitled to re-
ceive certain Offices but failed to get
them because of your preference for some
one else. The autocratic power which
you possess over appointments in this ter
ritory-a power from which there is no
appeal-has its advantages and disadvan-
tages. Ii judiciously exercised it may
put plutocratic powers into the hands OF
local individuals throughout tie country
and thus tend to strengthen local political
organization, but to accomplish this men
tai dexterity. profound tact and great
shrewdness are required or the distributor
Of patronage will find arrayed on all sides
of him secret enemies who, while power
Less to reach a president, might find n
deputy president not ALTOGETHER beyond
their mark.
As a student Of history you undoubtedly
know that the tendency of all reforms is
TO go to extremities. Civilized people as
a rule bear injustice until it reaches a
point where it becomes unbearable. Then
they go to the opposite extreme. [ am
no apOloeist for Land Commissioner
Sparks or his policy, but | do say that
neither the land commissioner nor his
policy could have become possibilities but
for the crying evils hat had arisen under
previous Republican administrations.
As to home rule in the territories it has
been a principle Of the national Demo
cratic as well as the national Republican
platform. 1t was = plank in the platform
upon which Garfield was elected. Per
haps you will remember with what unani-
nifty MIR. Corlett was then endorsed for the
position of chief justice and how soon
after Garfield s Inauguration Judge Lacey,
then a resident of Indiana, received the
appointment. You have o forgotten the
flattering endorsement put to the request
for the reappointment of h. w. Mann as
register of the land office and the subse.
quent arrival here of Henry w. Rothert,
of Iowa, to succeed him. Democratic
lawyers are now unanimously in favor OF
the appointment of Mr.. Corlett for chief
Justice; four years ago Republican lawyers
openly advocated the appointment of
Judge Long of New Mexico.
Your present advantage. as you well
know, lies in your system.
On the subject of the removal of Gov
ernor Baxter permit me to doubt the sin
cerity OF some of your expressions. I'm
less long established public rumor be at
fault you yourself were one of the small
band of conspirators who perpetrated an
unprovoked and damnable outrage upon
a public Official against whose purity of
character and ability to discharge the du-
ties of his Office no doubt could be enter
tanned.
On the question of statehood THE
LEADER has been conservative. On a re.
cent public occasion you stated that the
expense OF a state government would not
exceed 60 per cent Of the present cost of
our territorial government. In a recent
communication to this paper it was shown
by in~controvertible facts and figures that
the expenses of a state government would
exceed those of the present territorial
government by 100 per cent. On a very
recent occasion, after a luncheon at your
private table, one of your guests published
to the world the fact that Judge Carey
Us to be- a United States senator as soon
as Wyoming is admitted as a state. The
opposition to statehood comes from two
sources: high taxation and the fear that
statehood means chiefly the political pre-
ferment of a prearranged list of individ-
uals without regard to the will. wishes or
general good of the people. There is no
objection to statehood per sc. There was
great objection to the original Republican
scheme of complicanng politics with con
stitution making.
Your review Of the alleged history of
The LEADER has very little personal in.
terest to me, A newspaper, like a gov
ernment, is a continuous corporation. Its
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