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Judge Carey and SAID that even he, tn,
political idol and demi-god OF the Wyomn!
Republicans, could never Justify some
thing that was absolutely beyond iustif
cation.
MIR. Harvey, had he been 50 disposed,
might have gone much further and carried
his thought to ITS logical sequences. He
might have shown that the man who
speeks to Justify such political infamies a:
the Mckinley bill and force Till had ar
rayed himself under the leadership of the
very men who are now dragging down Ia
disgrace and contempt the laW-making
branch Of the general guvernment-men
whose public records are splotched and
scanned with crimes against the law and
the peoplg-men who stand b-andel
before the people as political Pariahs,
but who are now eudeayoring to live
down, by unmanly and cowardly silence.
the tnunts Of the public press. the indig-
nant excavations of the honest men of
their " party, and the hearty, unani-
nous aud wcli-merited contempt OF the
masses-o OF the people, regardless of party
affiliations. 1t Is under this leadership
that the Me and T. E" oligarchy is
naturally arrayed. With them in the
aseendency Wyoming would be a wheel
in the national political machinery oper-
ated by Boss Quay 4 Co and the citi
gems Of Wyoming would have contributed
their aid to the most brazsn, bareiaced
and shameless gang OF political harlots
which has ever drsRraced our national his,
tory. This is a phase OF the question
which has never been brought home to
the people, but it is destined to have its
effect in contributing to the popular en-
thusiasm with which the Republican
party Of Wyoming, AS il is at present con
stituted, will be buried by the voters at
the polls next Thursday.
Has the gentle reader ever paused
to inquire what the maintenance
in political power of Me and
F. f." means? Every citizen OF Wyoming
knows of their political conduct in the
past twenty years. d With the limited
opportunities which n territorial govern
ment has afforded them they have
developed a profound and overmastering
selfshne-s in the leaders and an adbes
iveness IN the followers that speak vol
umes for the strength OF their grip. The
people hive seen useless public offices
created in which to place political
baruacles aud heelers. They have seen
taxation piled up, the bonded indebted
ness increased to the limit and on the top
Of that placed a debt OF s2OO. 600.
They have seen a governors greed for
gam cause him to overstep the bounds OF
public decency and bring the public good
into subservience to his private interests.
They have seen the delegate, unlaithful
to his most solemn promises and pledges.
using his autocratic power as deputy pres
ident To appoint men t o public office, not
because his constituents desired or de-
manded it. not because Of their ability to
ill tho office or serve the people, but Boz
cause they had been useful to Me and
f. E. in the past and might be counted
on being so again in the future. 1t is
only lately that the people have
been permitted a close view
OF the oliRsrchY it is onl,
lately that their tracks have been uncov.
cred to the public gaze. The divlnit,
which doth hedge a king, and which has
in a measure hedged the governor and the
DELEGATE, is now drawn aside, and for the
first time they stand before the people in
their political n~akedness. Is the sight an
alluring one7 Does the deputy president.
the closer he is viewed. bear out the
promises of his friends or his own boast,
full utterances on the subject of that cter,
nal and everlasting r.? Unmindful of
tho demands of the whole people without
regard to earty, careless of his own most
solemn obligations and promises to Cor
lett, Brown and others-does this Re.
publican deity. this intellectual Samp.
son, when shorn OF his locks, present such
a figure as is conducive to purity IN poll
tics or integrity in public lie? Dc
either Me or f. E" come up TO the
popular conception of men who should
represent the people IN public office? Dc
the people realize that in the COMING
election they may continue power in tn,
same hands which have held it the pas
twenty years-that by e~lccting them thel
intreDeh in power men avaricious of pc
hueal distinction. ready to infict then
parasites upon the body polite and
strengthening the oliRarchy until it ex
tends like a stone wall about the people
consolidating the freedom OF the voters
corrupting the ~eorruptible, browbeatinl
the timid, wheedling the ~thoughtless
finally bringing the people to a state OF
political serldOm and making of free ant
fair Wyoming a rotten borough politica
pnncipaiity, in the great national autono
my? Do the voters realize this and real
izing 1t are they willing to perpetuatc th,
fagrancles Of the past and place their
necks in the moose Tor the future?
The speech Of Governor Baxter wal
such a one as the people expected to hea.
from him. Il was plain, furcible, direc
and straightforward. 1t was an appeal t,
their intelligence, not to their prejudices
1t was the speech OF a man who, if elcc
tod IN publie pni,o UOpld ,r,-, b,u,,.l