, 1892-02-10

be chaperoned by appolntees of the fed
eral government, we are presumed to
have attained to years of discretion and to
to speak for ourselves.
Wyoming, like Colorado, is the legiti-
mate child of that restless spirit OF en-
ergy and activity and enterprise and Wig
orous manhood which strawberries the
people OF the west. She is great IN area
and great 10 her natural sources of wealth.
Until within the past two or three years
we have had but one rail connection with
the outside world, skirting through the
southern portion and the least attractive
section of our state, and the administra
ton OF that corporation has not been
such at all times as to stimulate and
encourage the development of our latent
wealth. Today these conditions are
changing. The great Northwestern rail-
way is extending its system east and west
through the central portion of the state.
and the cry is: ION to Ogden" The
Burlington company is laying its rails in a
northwesterly direction through the state,
reaching out for a connection with the
| Northern Pacific and that mysterious
wonderland of the world, the Yellowstone
National park. the completion OF the
work now in hand and projected will not
only afford an outlet for the products OF
numerous irrigated and highly productive
sections which rave heretofore lain dor
maut in their isolation, but will stimulate
the development of our almost inexhaust-
ible deposits of oil and soda and asbestos;
our gold and silver and copper and iron;
and as for our coal. we believe we have it
in sufficient quantities to keep the furnace
fires of the world burning for a thousand
years.
We believe we have the basis of a great
state. We believe the time is coming,
and we hope it may be in the near future,
when the development of our resources,
once fairly begun, will prove a revelation
to the people of our common country.
But. Mr.. President, if | do not mis-
take the prophecies of the occasion and
the temper of this vast assemblage, you
will, | assume be more greatly interested
in knowing. something of us politically
than OF our hopes for future material
and industrial gTowth-something of the
probable attitude of thin younger sister
with reference to the two great political
suitors for her favor. | think | may say
that like many other misses of her age
she Is as yet somewhat undetermined.
For the present she seems to have yield
co to tho persuasive pleading of our rival,
Dub L hlul hlsO Say thtlt III uuIllSidhh
BILE evidences that she has already expe-
rienced feelings of deep humiliation and
disappointment with the result.
In the short time which has interviewed
since our admittance into the Union, and
during which period the administration
of the affairs of the state has been in
Republican hands, our people have had
serious reasons for revolt against existing
conditions \Va hava aaap rho nrOatrfn-
ton OF public place to private gain.
trickery and deceit conspire to promote
unbridled and selfish ambition, the sacred
pledges of our constitution violated and
over ridden; we have been mortified and
Inundated by seeing our representatives
in high official station talk and act and
vote as if they were commissioned to
speak for a constituency which
surges up and down through Wall
Street. We believe the day of retribu-
ton is at hand. The day, Mr.. President.
has not long passed, when a Democrat in
any portion of this great northwest. found
himself confronted on every side by the
overwhelming numbers of his political adj
versaries, but Notwithstanding that condi-
ton of things, there were scattered
throughout this broad region men who
in their souls believed in the policies aud
principles of the Democratic party, men
who are Democrats solely because of such
belief, who had no thought OF personal
advancement, whose political faith was
not a thing to be traded in, but who allied
themselves with the Democratic party be-
cause they believed that the people who
are best governed are those who are least
governed, and that the best results in gov
ernment are to be obtained from that
party whose foundation stone bears the
inscription, compatible with public safe
ty the largest possible liberty to the indi-
vidual citizen and the smallest possible
power to the government To-day we
can look back with gratitude upon the
work OF these men. Throughout this en-
tire region we find the Democratic party
strong, hopeful. organized and cohesive.
In my own state We are again putting on
our armor and preparing for the contest;
we propose to assault the enemy in his
entertainments and we shall do so with
greater confidence and courage because of
the grand results which we see in the
state of Iowa, where but a few years
since, with the enormous adverse major
ity, of 81 1000 votes, snch changes nave
taken place, that the Democracy of that
state. under the wise and bold and ag-
gresslve leadership of one of your hon
oreu RuesIS Tonight, nave Deen enabled
to wrest the wreath of victory from the
arrogant brow of their opponents and
place it freshened and rejuvinatad and
beautiful Upon the brow OF Horace Boies.
And we see the fruits of this great re-
formation among the people in other por-
lions of the West. In our neighbor1ng
state Of Nebraska We see her wealthiest
and most populous congressional district
represented in the halls of congress by a
newly chosen leader OF our own political
faith, where already his high qualities of
craftsmanship have commanded general
recognition, and for the first time IN her
history, by the favor of God and her
Democratic masses, and the righteous
ludgmen. of the highest tribunal in our
land, we see the destinies of the state
committed to the wisdom and patriotism
of pne OF these early pioneers of whom I
speak, Governor James 4. Boyd.
10 reference to the attitude of your
younger sister in the mighty struggle
which is impending in the nation | do not
know that | can do more than to say we
are Western in our desires. our senti