, 1889-04-18
AFTER WARREN. Y
A New York Paper Reviews
Wyoming Affairs.
The Governor is Attacked With
Much Venom.
And the Stock Association
Vigorously Scored.
Ex- Governor Moonlight is
Covered With Taffy.
From h New York Times, April al


ing Francis f. Warren governor of Wy
oming territory. Warren is not only no
toriously Unfit, but is a constant menace
to the continuance OF Republican rule in
the territory. The president will find this
out one of these days.
When MIR, Cleveland was elected War
rem was governor of the territory. He
Lad fCted up the executive Office in regal
style, and through the lavish display of
whisky and cigars made it more of a re-
sort OF men OF leisure than IA place for
the transaction OF matters of state. lie
was one of the cattle barOns ct Wyoming,
and like the others had secured n good
many sections of government land, and
by fencing in the alternate sections had
doubled his stock range and materially
diminished the public domain. He was
a capitalist and prominent in all the mo-
nopoly corporations which have Cursed
the territory and retarded its progress
He was the abettor of the Union Pacific
in all its schemes. and the Union Pacific
had at the outset of its career in Wyo-
ming stolen all the coal fields, soda lakes
and other deposits of natural wealth. and
then put hundreds of men at work in the
mines and robbed them OF half of their
earnings under the infamous laws its tools
in the Legislature enacted.
Warren was "a willy politician and tlok
good care to feather his own nest. He
was always in Office of some kind, and
when he Travelled 1t was in a special car
of the Union Pacific which cost him moth
ing. 1t Mas during his administration
that the famous Rock Springs massacre
occurred. There were lust fourteen ire
spOnsible boys and young men engaged in
that fasco. Before this haii-armed mob
of hoodluns 100 Cinnamon fed like
sheep, alter setting fro to their own
quarters, in the cellars of which a score of
Celrsiials, siupcfied with opium. were ~
ing with their heads buried in the earth
to overcome the effects of the irug.
These wretclies persisted in the flames
and their deaths were charged to the white
miners. Governor Warren at once called
on tine president for troops, who were sent
to reinstate the Cinnamon in the mines,
and were permanently stationed at the
Springs in quarters officially known as
Camp Pilot Buttes.
Then began the work on the part of the
Union Pacific of freezing out the white
miners. Ii is n notorious fact that during
the following winter the families OF the
miners were nearly starved to death, and
wOuld either have starved or frozen but Tor
the food aud clothing sent them from
cheyenne and the cities in the territory
where in lignatiOn meetings were held
and funds raised. IL is equally notorious
that the sheriff of S~wcctwatCr county
could, if he had been permitted to do so,
have preserved orler at hock Springs
and afforded all the protection necessary
to life and property. But this was not
According Ia the programme.
Warren was also governor of W yo-
ming during the strike which occurred at
Laramie City in June of the following
year, when the Union Pacific was per
mittcd to import carloads of Pinkerton's
men, who were sworn III as deputy
United States marshalS and armed with
Winchester rifles to overawe shop and
tram m,n, nearly every one of whom
owned has home in the city aud would
have prevented any riot or destruction
of the company = property had 1t threat
ened, in self interest. Thus the name OF
Warren came 10 represent monopoly rule.
IL was during his reign that the Wyo
ming Stock Association, the greatest in
cubus that has ever appeared in the terri
tory, fiourished. This corporation AFRO
gated to itself the power to rule the range.
IL TAN uOWn anu CdDiuEcu lHcn dCCllStu
of minor ~offenses and either hanged or
shot them without any trial or process of
law whatever. The secretary of this as
sociation declared that the citizens of
Wyoming were trespassers on the range,
which the Almighty had given to the
stockmen for their herds, and refused to
instruct his agents., who were paid from
the county treasury, to respect the laws
of any municipality.
Warren was displaced by President
Cleveland for fencing government land,
and Baxter was made governor. But
the latter did not stand in" with the
monopolist and thirty days after his ap
pointment was removed through the mis-
representations of Warren's friends.
Then Thomas Moonlight, who had been at
the head OF tine Democratic state ticket
in Kansas in the preceding campaign, was
appointed governor of the territory, TO
the secret icy of the Republicans as well
as Democrats. Governor Moonlight
came to v yoming to admisister the laws
and soon found that he was expected to
do so only in so far as they represented
the Union Pacific and cattle kings. He
had been n soldier in the rebellion. and
had participated in the early struggle for
freedom in Kansas, and when he found
that his determination to conduct an hon
est administration meant war, he braced
himself for the struggle.
When the territorial assembly convened
in January. 1888, the territorial press
was arrayed against the stockmen's. rule,
but the majority of both branches were
either members of the ASSOCIATION or I'm
der its control. A few days later the two
Cheyenne dailies, for value received,
changed their tunes and sang the praises
of the devil fish," The governor in his
message strongly urged the repeal of the
Infamous stock law. 1t was evident some
thing had to be done. for the outrages
committed on the range had aroused the
Indignation of the people. So the asso-
citation members of the assembly prepared