, 1906-11-03
HAVE MADE
IT A F|ASC0

cal parties in the United States and
there doubtless always will be. 1t Is
right that there should be. Our form
of government demands 1t and justi-
fies it. These two parties settle their
issues periodically at the polls, and
when the majority has selected its pol
icies and its men, the minority must
acquiesce until it has had another
hearing at the bar of public opinion.
Such is the policy, the security, the
stability and the hope of republican
government, For more than forty years
the majority of the people of the ma
ton and in the greater states of the
Union have evidenced by their votes
that they believe in the principles adj
vocated by the Republican party. The
Republican party has chosen for its
leaders men of the character and cali
Der of Abraham Lincoln, William H.
Seward, Charles Sumner, ULYSSES s.
Grant, Rutherford b. Hayes, James
G. Blaine, James A. Garfield, John
Sherman, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas
B. Reed, William Mckinley, John Hay
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the peers in far.sighted and construc-
dive craftsmanship of great political
leaders in any country and any age.
During the greater part of the last
forty years, these men and many 9th
ers have fought m%anfully, for the en-
largement of human liberty and the de-
velopment of this great nation, in the
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Office of President of the United States.
They have been supported by a ma
jority who believed as they believed
and the result has been a material,
moral and mental development known
to no other nation in a like period of
time.
AS the tree is known by its fruit,
SO is the Republican party known and
honored by what it has achieved. Yet
the minority party has had its place
and its work as every reasonable man
is willing to concede. 1t is perfectly
right and proper that the minority
party, whatever it may be and wher-
ever it may find itself. should assert
itself so long as it is honest and sin
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what it believes to be right.
1t is proper that the Democratic
party in Wyoming should nominate a
ticket for any and every office If its
members choose to do SO. and after
a fair and dignified discussion of the
issues at stake, permit the people to
make a choice. The Republican party
T. -@- nfrntl rc g,,pt, n n n ,,p,iop and
indeed it welcome such a condition of
affairs.
When the local and state Democracy
considered the purchase of the Repub-
lican Leader not a pebble stone was
placed in it's a No doubt the con-
summation of this deal could have
been delayed until after the election
or even prevented altogether had the
Republican party of Wyoming consid-
cred it worth while to do SO. On the.
contrary, the moral support and n
enlargement the weak and hesitating
Democracy received at the hands of
the Republican leaders and workers
in the ranks. was greater than 1t re-
ceived from the masses OF its own
party, and this was sufficient to stiffen
their backbones to the sticking point
and give them what they had long
needed, a state Democratic organ.
Now what do we find? Instead of
a fair, dignified discussion Of political
issues, in which all the people are in
terested, the Democratic organ and the
Democratic candidates through mis-
representation and vilification are
seeking to discredit men of high per-
sonal standing and obstruct measures
looking to the material development
of the state. The Stone incident is
an instance of the rash n rank meth
DDS to which the inexperienced and
ofice-hungry coterie of would-be poll
ticians are willing to resort. Through
Mr.. Stone they are seeking to blot the
character of men like Governor
Brooks, Secretary of State Chatterton
and State Engineer Johnston, whose
interest in and work for Wyoming are
thoroughly unselfsh and patriotic.
1t was right and proper that the
Democratic party should nominate Mr..
Keister and Mr.. Hamm If it saw fit,
for governor and Congress respective
ly n the people of Wyoming would
gladly welcome any honorable effort
these gentlemen may make in behalf
of their own election. In a little over
one week the election will be held,
yet up to this time these gentlemen
instead of traversing the state n set
ting forth the merits of the cause they
pretend to espouse, have practically
turned their campaign over to a dis
gruntled Lander lawyer who has al
ready admitted to the State Engineer
that he has been paid his fee and is
now trying to carr 1t.
Mr.. Keister and Mr.. Hamm, instead
of afirmatively promoting their W
campaign, have spent nearly TWO
weeks in the city of Cheyenne coach
ing State Chairman Ross, and the net