, 1890-06-07
Daily Leader,
BEWARE OF SELFDECEPTION

BE WAKE OE oELF-DECE ILO2'
The proposition to send an exclusive
Republican delegation to Washington to
work for Wyoming's admission Is a good
one. The delay in the senate has been
entirely due to Republican i~naction and
it is the members ofthat party, therefore,
who must be labored with. Having a
clear majority OF ten they ave the Wyo-
ming bill a place on the calendar follow
ing the silver bill while realizing that
under this arrangement the Wyoming
bill could not be called up, except by
unanimous consent, until the silver bill
was disposed Of. In the face of this ar
rangement, without any objection on the
part of the Republican majority, various
other measures have been interiected
in the lulls in the discussion OF
the silver bill, thus prolonging the debate
over that measure to unreasonable lengths.
In addition to this It now leaks u that
the Idaho bill has precedence over the
Wyoming bill on the senate calendar. 1t
is alleged to have occurred through an
error Of one Of the clerks who took the
measures up alphabetically and as ~
N before wv" Idaho now comes
ahead OF Wyoming on the list. This is
peculiarly unfortunate as Tho opposition
to Idaho is much more aggressive than
the opposition to Wyoming and should
the Idaho bill fail of passage it will have
rather depressing effect upon the friends
of our own bill.
The LEADER believes rather in over
estimating than in Understanding the
dangers whiSh nov seem TO surround us.
There is no enemy so insidious or danger
Gus as fancied security. Statehood will not
be safely and surely achieved until the
president has issued his proclamation, and
no true friend of Wyoming can rest per
fectly content upon Any assurance until
the existing uncertainty IS replaced by
accomplished fact. At the joint meeting
of the Board of Trade and Real Estate
Exchange held last evening the editor OF
the Sun made a plausible statement to
the effect that all the news of a discour-
aging nature which has lately come
to hand originated with the Wash
ington correspondent OF the New
York Herald, an avowed opponent
of Wyoming's admission. He showed
that a number Of these dispatches,
printed simultaneously in some Eastern
aud Western papers, were precisely the
same in language and in substance. To
our mind, however. the case while plAus-
ible was not clearly made out. Dis
patches have been printed in the Chicago
Neics and Omaha Bee which bear no
comparison to the wording of the origi
nal New York Herald telegram. As was
pointed out yesterday one Of these dis
patches was sent out by a gentleman
friendly to our cause and an intimate
acquaintance OF Delegate Carey, Further
more we notice a statement made by
Delegate Smith OF Arizona. charging
the senate with holding back the bills tc
make states out Of Idaho and Wyoming
DecAuse Tue potitlcs Oi lutsc tNo ltftitof
les are doubtful. He says that the hous
acted on the Wyoming case NOR
promptly than it did on the Idaho bill
because the former was more surely
Republican territory, but that the senat,
has come to the conclusion that neither o
the territories is surely enough Republi
can to warrant statehood and that they
are to be held over till the exact political
complexion is known.
We should not attempt to deceive u
selves in this matter. That danger sur
rounds the situation is evident to the
mind OF every man who has watched the
course Of events closely and ~intelligently
There may be here and there a frothJ
nincompoop who, exercising his magma
ton in lieu Of his judgment, expresses
himself airily to the contrary. But suct
individuals carry no weight with them il
the face Of a crisis. The true friend o
Wyoming is the one who. while thorough
appreciating the dangers, is only the NOR
emboldened and stimulated to bravel
battle for the statehood cause.
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