, 1890-09-08
SCABS ON H o..
Three Reputable Engineers Tell
About Them.
They lmpeach the Testimony of a
Published Affidavit,
Making Pointed Statements Which
Cannot Be Misunderstood.

Governor Warren's intimacy with the
Burlington corporation has been long
known to many Cheyenne people. He
has always banqueted and c~lose-herded
the Q officials visiting Cheyenne. BE
sold the company his emporium for a
depot and practically gave them, through
a Republican city council, a large and
very valuable tract OF municipal land.
OF this transaction there is much more to
be said.
ARTMAN SNYDER.
A short time back Governor Warren,
with obvious intent, caused to be pub
lished simultaneously in the several news
papers owned or controlled by him two
affidavits denying that be had assisted the
Burlington in securing men to take the
places Of striking locomotive drivers dur
ing the memorable struggle between that
corporation aud the Brotherhood of En-
gineers. One of these affidavits was by
Artman Snyder. a scab who subsequently,
married a young lady employed in the
governors family and who with his bride
was driven TO the Burlington depot be
ing a barouche. In his statement Snyder
admits that he was a scab, that he took
the place of a striker and says that before
entering Burlington employ he sought
work at Laramie with a letter referring as
to his character and capabilities to Gov
ernor Warren. He had pre- siously taken
care of the heating apparatus at the en-
porium and worked about the executive
mansion. Thus a pretty close connection
is established between Snyder, the Bur
lington and the governor. He was refer
ring to Mr.. Warren right along. and it is
mighty strange if he failed to use the gov
%ernor's name when applying for a place
on the Burlington. and the evidence is
strong that Warren, his friend and patron
advised him to become a wretched scab.
T. NJ. INK
Both afidavits were sprung without
any public charge for them to disprove
existing. The second is by t. NJ. Junk. a
former Union Pacific engineer, still a
citizen of Cheyenne. Mr.. junk forfeited
his position on the Union Pacific by con-
tinuous conduct that was reprehensible
in a man often entrusted with hundreds
of lives. There is no disposition on the
part of THE LEADER to abuse or villify
Mr.. Junk. Republican papers are vel
come to all that sort of campaigning. The
man has a family composed of estimable
men and women. In his affidavit Junk
denies fatty that he was ever approached
by Governor Warren, even indirectly, or
in any manner or through any person
with a proposition to cutter Burlington
service during the strike.
Now this paper is 10 a position to make
a strong contradiction of Mr.. Junk's tes-
timony. 1t is a contradiction that will
destroy what effect the Junk affidavit NAV
have had. Subjoined are the statements
Of three reputable and old-time citizens of
Wyoming. All are locomotive engineers
employed for years BY the Union Pacific,
known all over the system and prominent
in the Brotherhood. OF their own
motion these gentlemen called on The
LEADER and offered to make affiia Wit to
the facts set forth below. Their state
ments are sufficient. No one darcs ques
ton the word of any of them. Here are
the statements, straightforward. clean
cut, and best of all absolutely truthful:
STATEMENT OF THOMAS MUCH.
CHEYENNE, Wyo, Sept. 6, $780, Il
have been running on the u. p. since
1871 and am now an engineer on the
hill division. l have known Engineer
7. NJ. Junk fourteen years. During the
Burlington strike, | do not rem ember the
date but 1t was during the early part of
the trouble between that road aud the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, l
met Junk on Fifteenth street and in the
presence of several others he said to me
that he lad a chance to go running again.
l asked him where, and he replied on the
scab road, meaning the Burlington. 1
then inquired who came after him. He
said the offer came through Governor
Warren. And this statement 1 make
voluntarily and of my own free will SO
that the actual facts may be known to all
interested.
THos. MCHUaH.
STATEMENT or 7 n pATI