, 1891-01-13
THE COUNTY

Laramie county stands disgraced in the
eyes of the people of Wyoming. To make
the disgrace more CALLING it was precipitat-
ed upon US by our own house delcga-
ton. or at least by some of those who were
elected to represent the county, Although
Laramie county will have two less mem
bers than it is entitled to under the United
States census and two less than were al
lowed in the bill which passed the senate
and failed to pass the house, we feel that
we express the views Of every honest man
in Cheyenne and Laramie county when
we say that we are glad the bill failed to
become a law. If we cannot get our
rights except by chicanery and
fraud, il with the leverage which
our big delegation should give US we can
not hold our own. then II is time for us
to either shut up shop or elect men who
will maintain their rights in a legitimate
way on the floor of the legi stature. The
closing scene in the house OF representa-
tlves was buta climax to the most extra
ordinarily inGnc management OF affairs
we have we have ever witnessed. From
the verv first our delegation, or Mr.. Bond
who assumed to lead it, seemed to strive
10 place themselves IN a%ntagouism to every
other section of the state. 1t seemed to
be assumed from the outse. that the men
who anne from the other counties we're a
set of c~lodhoppers who, while they
might know something about coal
mining and farming knew alb
%solutelT nothing about lawmakinG.
Every action and every word during the
early part of the session went to empha-
size the belief lin the minds of a majority
Of the Laramie deleRatiou) that Cheyenne
was the fountain head of inspiration in
lawmAking. 1t seemed as though some
evil genius was at work to abort the labors
of the Cheyenne men. Their assumption
of superiority, their apparently confident
belief that they were of superior clay,
while CALLING to many in the outside dele
cations was for some time borne in silence.
The sapient statesmen of local brew had
things their own way. In their mag
nations the legislative world was revolv
ing about them and when they condo
seconded to listen to the talk OF somC
granger from the north or "dyna'
inter from the west as they wert
pleased t. term the representatives iron
whose sections, it was with the air Of met
who believed they held the strings auC
when they desired the puppets TO dane
it wo1ld be to music Of their making
Carbon county desired a small appropria
ton to protect the walls of the p%eniten
tary and the bill was indefinitely post
poned with a snaTl and q snap. Blu
soon the outside delegations began Il
come together for self protection. Ii
measuring the Laramie county leaders b.
their own standard these men found tina
the professed intellectual giants collapse
like punctured bladders. They found to
that men from their own section
were able to talk a little an
as the session advanced they could cop
very successfully with the Laramie count
leaders. From that instant was iorme
the combination against Cheyenne. SPEAK
ing at a late day in the session with a Re
publican representative from the wester
part of the state, be said: When | FIR,
came down here l would have been vii
ing to vote SO. 900 for the capitol build
ing if | saw il was needed, but now
would rather cut off my right arm tina
vote a dollar 10 Laramie county Tor anl