, 1891-01-17
OUR EMINENT STATESMEN

According TO the Washington cores
pondent 70 the New York Tribune Senator
Carey is a man of sincere convictions
and does not believe any more than Sena-
tor Frye in yielding to a local opinion
when 1t is against the representatives.
convictions, or when he believes such a
cause would be an injury to the whole
country. The senator thinks that it is a
small man who would prefer the welfare
of his own district to that Of the whole
country
IfSenRtors Carey and Warren, by their
own confession, Co not then represent their
own constituents what representatives
must Wyoming rely upon in the upper
branch Of congress? Must they go to far.
away Ohio and plead with the gold bug
god, Senator Sherman, or will they be
Obliged to seek the fountain head OF Re
publican inspiration, Senator Mat Quay,
both OF whom voted precisely as did Carey
and Warren ? These are questions which
have a deep personal interest to every
resident Of the state. The people of Wy
oming are a PLAN, steady going class.
who believe a spade is a spade and know
very little about fine haired verbal distinc-
tons. They know that Carey and Warren
were elected AS representatives from Wyo.
ming in the United States senate. In the
guilelessness of their hearts it has never
occurred TO them hat the Wyoming legis-
lature elected men TO represent the Uni
ted States Tor the Eastern gold bugs.
which seems to be about the same thing
in the eyes of Senator Carey and they
supposed, still free from guile, that the
Wyoming senators owod their first duty to
the people who had honored them. OF
course they are proud to discover thar
Carey and Warren have grown so big
They delight in the sudden luxuriant
growth Of the giant senatorial intellects
and they are proud to discover that their
representatives have found out and do not
hesitate to proclaim their superiority to
their constituency in little sorc-eycd
Wyoming"
But. still humbly and deferentially.
however, they begin to whisper that if
Carey and Warren are the peoples guard
ians instead of their servants, il they vote
against the local interests of their consti-
tuents in Difference to the general gool Of
the whole country. they might at least
condescend to enlighten their constituents
as to the motives which influenced their
action. For instance, the silver question
Is not regarded here as a simple local IS
sue. On the contrary it is considered a
matter which intimately affects every man
in the country who raises a crop or who is
striving to earn an honest dollar. II the
benighted people here do not regard the
silver question as a pure local issue will
the superior gentlemen who nominally
represent Wyoming, but actually represent
the United States. explain why they con-
slider it a local issue? We are panied to
say that such explanations as they have
30 far given have been received with
irreverent levity. The henighted people
Of Wyoming have actually been known to
smile with unwonted freedom when a re
port was published in the newspapers
which purported to be a justification Of
the senatorial votes. When Warren, for
instance, said he voted against the free
coinage OF silver because he knew it never
would become a law some people were
presumptuous enough 10 remark that
Warren best way to prove that he was
in favor Of silver was to vote in favor of
the hill. When he goes m IN saw that