, 1890-08-10
STATE POLITICS.

Laramie was torn asunder yesterday by
a rumor that the city council had ordered
n warrant drawn for go. SO in favor of
the Pacific Hotel company to pay for the
board and lodging Of Judge j. M. Carey
and party during their recent visit there.
An investigation of the proved
that it was well founded and the uproar
which followed is said to have been the
greatest which Laramie has ever KIN own.
It seems that the bill had been brought
to the attention OF the city council at
their meeting Friday evening BY Mayor
A. S. Peabody who a~pologized for not
having alluded to the matter at the previ.
ous meeting. He said the subject had
slipped his memory. The bill was for
the entertainment Of Judge and Mrs.
Carey and Secretary and Mrs. Medium.
Judge Carey went over to Laramie
for the purpose of delivering
his now celebrated o partisan
partisan speech. Handbills scattered
about the town advertised him as "Citi-
zen Carey" returned to give the people
an account OF his stewardship. His
speech was Of a piece with the one de-
livered here-a mixture Of self-glorifca-
ton and partisan politics. Under the
guise of a non partisan speech Judge
Carey was therefore given the oppor-
tunity of making a speech of the most
partisan character. Not content with
having this satisfaction he must 20 fur
Their as a deadhead in the enterprise and
have his paltiy personal expenses Of
500 so paid by the entire people of Lara
mic through the obsequious and subser-
Went city council. When the recent
statehood meeting was held in this city
THE LEADER pointed out that the So
called statehood celebration had d~egenerat-
ed into a political jollifcation, the people,
regardless Of politics having contributed
TO pay the expenses. We then considered
this the highest point that cold blooded
presumption could possibly reach. Sugar
coated with whatever phrases it might be.
the Laramie meeting was incontestibly a
political meeting, but that the bill of ex-
pense incurred by Judge Carey and his
party in attending it should be charged
up to the people of Laramie is the most
monumental piece of presumption we
have ever heard of. Tho uproar created
in Laramie yesterday morning caused the
council officials to hesitate about issuing
the warrant to the Pacific Hotel company.
A party of Republicans were finally got
ten together, the hat passed around
among them. and the sum of $40. so
raised with which to liquidate the hotel
bill A peculiar feature of the Repub-
lican leaders is their desire to dance when
the people pay the fiddler.
The accounts which reach here Of the
recent Republican convention in Converse
county show it to have been a stormy
session of the faithful. De Forest
Richards WOE his own nomination and
that Of the legislative ticket hands down.
He was opposed bitterly by Maj. Wolcott
and Billy Irvine but both of these ex-
cellent and energetic gentlemen proved
too short in the reach to bring the banker
into camp. Wolcott, however. enjoyed
the profound satisfaction of telling
Richards exactly what he thought of him.
Those who know the major will have no
doubt of his ability in the tongue lashing
line and they do say that the way he
excoriated Richards was a caution to
snakes. One burst of eloluence was to
this effect: You have forced us on this
occasion to eat dog in the most humilia-
ting manner, Mr.. Richards, but | wish to
tell you right now and here that we will
force you to eat dog in a much more
Illuminating manner on the 18th
day Of next September" Richards
dictated the delegation to the state
convention. but both Wollcott
and Irvine are here with prox-
les and actually have a majority Of the
delegation with them. After Richards
had secured his own nomination, the house
ticket and the delegates to the state con-
vention, he threw his votes to the regency
candidates for the county Offices. The
result Of his per6dy is that he is even now
a dead cock in the political pit, having
abandoned all the principles of his cam
paign as soon as his own nomination was
secured.
A. ID. Chamberlain is in town to at
tend the Democratic state convention. He
is a candidate for state senator in Con-
verse county and will sweep the board.
DIR. Hayford has been the editor of a
Republican paper in Laramie for over
twenty years. In consideration of bis
past serviceshis Republican friend. have