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, 1906-11-02
STONE A RENEGADE.

Mr.. Stone of Lander is a pretended
Republican. Yet either for advertis.
ing purposes or for revenue he barriers
himself to Mr.. Keister and the Democ.
racy and travels up and down the
state assailing men like Congressman
Mondell, Governor Brooks, State En-.
gineer Johnston and Secretary of State
Chatterton.
In Cheyenne he spoke in a hall pro
vided by Democrats, was introduced
by Mr.. Ross, the Democratic state
chairman, and in his speech declared
his intention to vote for Mr.. Keister.
The words of a ]recalcitrant Republi.
a who prostitutes his political prin.
ciples for a lawyers fee will have no
more effect upon the voters of Wyo.
ming than a pail of water in quenching
the fires of hades.
Mr.. Stone is without standing in
either party and the Democrats have
made a bad bargain.
, 1906-11-02
ROOSEVELT SUMS IT ALL UP

The Cheyenne Leader, under its
present management, processes to be
an admirer of President Roosevelt, and
finds fault with Representative Mon
dell and other Republicans for alleged
opposition to the Presidents policies.
Let lis commend to the Leader. which
Is demanding free wool, the words Of
President Roosevelt in his speech in
Cheyenne in the 1900 campaign: you
DECREASE THE TARIFF AND
MAKE IT UNPROFITABLE TO SEND
WOOL TO MARKET AND YOU
MAKE IT BAD FOR THE MER-
CHANT AT BOTH ENDS OF THE
LINE AND BAD FOR THE RAIL,
ROAD MAN ALONG THE LINE"
Invariably in the speeches of Presi.
dent Roosevelt lie impresses upon his
hearers the fact that the interests OF
all the people of the country are iden.
Teal; that our industries are interde.
pendent and that no one part of the
country can be prosperous or de-
pressed without like conditions pre-
yailing it other parts.
Senator Warren also, in n speech
delivered in the Senate during the
recent session of Congress. called at
tention to the fact that our protective
tariff law is Of general benefit. and
helps all industries. He said:
"Our tariff laws when framed by
protectiunists have never been made
to favor one state. II section Of the
country, or one industry. They never
, 1906-11-02
CHAIRMAN BURD|Ck'S REPLY
TO Mr.. STONE

against Governor Brooks, and would
print and distribute over the state the
document which you had asked me to
read, and which you characterized as
containing cohsiuerupie p~ulcoflpe.
have understood since mat III your
interview with Engineer Johnston you
gave him the same intlmalions.
On Oct. Is you made a speech at
Lander, which, according to the press
reports, is almost Identical with the
document which O cav me to read,
and which you SAID you to
distribute over me state IN printed
FORM, and whlch o yourSelt char'
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, 1906-11-02

will be. We are all so in~terdependent
that an injury to one industry or to
one part of the country is an injury
to all. and a benefit to one is a benefit
to all. Under n universal protective
tariff, our freight cars are loaded going
both ways-frOm east to west; from
west to east; from north to south:
from south to north. The farmer Is
prosperous, as is the mapufacturer,
and employee Of both. A protective
tariff is a compromising tariff, and al
ways must be, else it would not give
protection at all. and unless It is given
fully TO all, it is given fully to none.
Protection can not be sectional and
selfish. 1t must be general and ade-
quate. Such protection is now in force
under the operation of the present law.
1t is the most perfect law we have
known. We shall. as a matter OF
course, have to revise It some time,
but not to-day. We are too busy, too
well employed, too well paid for our
labor, TOO prosperous to think serious
ly of tariff revision in the year of our
Lord 1906
Illustrating fully the contentious Of
President Roosevelt and Senator War
rem are the following tables showing
economic. trade and industrial condi-
tons in the United States, as a whole,
and in Wyoming during the Demo-
cratic, low-tariff, free-trade period of
1896. and the Republican protective
tariff period of 1906:
, 1906-11-02
A CAMPAIGN.

The Democratic party of this state
is unfortunate. 1t has a losing fight
to start with, and losing principles, or
rather, lack of principles, as a plat
form upon which to stand. But, then
the Democratic party has been unfor-
tunate for more than a half century.
1t was unfortunate during the Buchan-
an administration. 1t fought the aboli-
ton of slavery; it fought the war OF
the rebellion, claiming that the war
was a failure; it fought the resump-
ton of specie payments; it fought the
building of the Pacific railroads; it
fought a protective tariff, which has
made the United States the greatest
commercial nation of the world; it
fought the opening of lake traffic on
the Great Lakes of this country: 1t
fought the acquisition of Hawaii, the
only Democratic president since Blu
chanan ordering the lowering of the
American flag in those islands: 1t
fought the purchase of Alaska, now
one of the greatest go~ld-producing Sec
tions of the world: it fought the Pacific
cable; it fought the gold standard, now
the settled policy of every important
government on earth except China,
and now it is fighting the building of
the Panama canal by the government.
In this state the party has been as
unfortunate. 1t is fighting for free
wool, the state having grown to sec.
ond in Importance in the production
of that commodity.
1t is fighting the hide industry, con
tending that the duty on hides should
+, be taken off, permitting the cattlemen
again to reap reward" in the absence
of a market for hides.
It favors free coal, the state ranking
well up in the production of that pre-
cious mineral.
Some time ago the Cheyenne Trib-
uue spoke of a negative campaign" in
Albany county and the Second street
organ threw a fit. The party is fight
ing a negative campaign-it is against
everything. from A to lizard, and
views with alarm" every condition of
business and progress t%raceable to the
tarih and wise Republican measures.
1t is fighting backward, not a candidate
on the ticket seeming to care for his
fellow.
The party is unfortunate, but its mis-
fortune will be the good fortune of the
people of the state and county. Wyo-
ming is one of the best states in the
west and Albany county is without
doubt one of the best counties in the
state. The Republican party is for the
welfare of every citizen in the state
and county, sometimes in spite of him
self.-Laramie Republican.
This condition applies to every coun-
ty in Wyoming.
, 1906-11-02

Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. IS, 1906.
Mr.. V. IL. Stone,
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Slr:-I am I'm receipt from w. B.
Ross, chairman of the Democratic Cen.
trail committee, of your request
to arrange between yourself and
Governor Brooks, Secretary of state
Chatterton or Engineer Johnston a
joint debate of questions relating to
the contract between the state and
the Wyoming Central Irrigation com
pany.
Replying thereto, | decline to make
the suggested arrangement for the fol-
lowing reasons, namely;
On Oct. . you came to my office
and represented that you had pre-
viously presented to State Engineer
! Johnston a request for a water right
for the Settlers Cooperative Irrigation
company, which you were representing
as attorney. o said Engineer John
ston had declined to nccede to your
request, and you said you thought En-
gineer Johnston was wrong in his posi-
ton, but you admitted that you consid-
cred him an honest man; that it was
merely a case of his judgment differ
ing from yours. You said you proposed
to appeal from his decision to the
Board of Control, and then to the
courts of Wyoming, a procedure pro-
vided by statute, but that you were
desperate and determined to obtain
the water rights you sought and you
would resort to any and all other meas
ures.
You insisted upon my reading a type
written statement which you said con-
tanned your side of the case. And
finally when | agreed to cad it if you
would leave it with me, you laid it on
my desk with a statement that it con
tanned a good deal of buncombe." You
gave me to understand by intimation
that your purpose in talking to me
was to induce me to influence both
Governor Brooks and Engineer John
ston to grant what you called a Red
Flag or Flood Water Permit to the
corporation represented by you, and
you said unless such action was taken
by Engineer Johnston, or unless Gov
ernor Brooks used his influence to that
end, you would campaign the state
, 1906-11-02
MoNpELL HITS NAIL ON HEAD.

Mr.. Mondell devoted some time to
Stone of Lander. declaring that Stone
had two things before him-to cur
from the state something he has no
right to and taking pay from the Dem
ocratic state committee to go up and
down the state ~creatinf discord and
d~issension over the proposed irrigation
system of the Shoshone reservation.
He told of Stones plan, and said that
If the states laws on irrigation were
rotten enough to grant stones de
mand," Stone would be enabled to irri-
gate $1,000 or 10000 acres of that res
ervation, making it practically impos-
sible to bring the remainder of the
vast tract, about $50, 900 acres of irri,
gable lands, under the ditch.-Laramie
Republican.
, 1906-11-02
TURN ON TIE LIGHT

"Turn on the light Is a favorite ey-
preston employed by the Leader. It
recalls that much used war cry of the
Cleveland Democrats, Turn the Ras-
Gals Out" when boosting for the cleo
ton of that Democratic saint.
Cleveland appointed n committee to
turn on the light in the Treasury
department and Democracy expected
to show that Republicnns-long years
in ofHce-had looted 1t. But after much
and thorough investigation a shortage
one penny was discovered, which made
intact the several hundred millions of
funds turned oVcr to the Democrats,
In Wyoming when Cleveland com.
menced making federal appointments
the slogan might well have been:
Turn the rascals in" Old timers will
recall that n renegade lndianIan die
tated federal appointments in Wye.
ming. Old time Democrats We're
ignored and carpet-baggers and out
slders We're given places. Three of the
principal federal officials appointed
by Cleveland in Wyoming were dis,
missed or left Office under the cloud
Of personal misconduct. Others went
out under still more discreditable con.
d%itions, and of the whole bunch of
Democratic federal officers in Wyo.
ming under the last Democratic adj
ministration less than half n dozen
came out of office with credit.
If the full light of publicity were
turned on Democratic management
when it had control Of Wyoming fed
eral and state affairs, it wouldn't make
a very pretty picture.
, 1906-11-02
THE REAL FACTS IN THE CASE.


III Is an interesting Iact 'ha'
While Hon. Kenmore ohattertoh
was in Lander Tor the express
purpose OF explaining the actioh
OF the state oihciais III slNrhs
away everal mlilioh aoiiarS
worth OF state property ne was
requested by a committee OF cltl-
zens to allow Mr.. stone an oppor-
tunity to discuss the quesiioh on
the same platform Win MN puC
Mr.. Chatterton reiused TO meet
MI STONE -o"eSenne ~ :,
Wnen q WINES 90 IN tho tr,tb
a.5 ,atbtra hrt the
.ne ""o M, naa,snor that
run an tn,th al tbarehy
'e.l' " n mt.nanrosor+ is
- ~ -. 49, a..i1anoHor
eht'V'eu y o"' =,
III must 'eSpe''s SUIT So.
worse thah d coinp'e'e anu
f~alsehood.
The above is only half true.
Last week in order to snow then
good faith and meet their maligners
on their W ground Secretary oil state
Chatterton and State Engineer john
ston Travelled hundreds OF miles 70
Lander to meet the people OF that sec
ton and discuss fairly h wyoming
Central Irrigation company contract,
These gentlemen desired to go into
the whole question thoroughly and did
so. They very properly declined to fall
into the trap set for them by Mr..
Keister and MI. Stone to divide time,
| engage in a wrangle and break up the
meeting.
Thay avniained the entire ~proposi
tion fnIIv ana at tbe end of their ad
dresses gave the entire audience al
, 1906-11-02
ELEVENTH HOUR REPENTANCE

AS Mr.. Keister has receipts in
his pocket for the fares he has
paid the railroads since his nomi-
nation, and as Mr.. Hamm came TO
the Democratic state convention
on No. 8, the Los Angeles Limited,
and yesterday to Cheyenne on No.
2, the Overland Limited, neither
of which trains carry pass pas
sengers, these gentlemen don't
seem to be worrying much about
The Tribune's frenzy into which
1t has worked itself for want of a
reasonable issue.-Leader.
A mere subterfuge as The Tribune
showed several days ago.
AS Democratic state chairman in
1904 Mr.. Hamm used passes himself
and secured them for Democratic can
didates.
Mr.. Hamm rode from Cheyenne 20
Wheatland and return on a pass Oct,
IS, 1904. to Grin Junction and return
Oct. 90 and on Oct. IS requested and
received trip passes on the Colorado
e. Southern for Hon. j. f.. Osborne,
candidate for governor, other Demo
cratic candidates. The same is true
of other Wyoming railroads.
Mr.. Keister, the present Democratic
candidate for governor, received an
annual on the Colorado & Southern
in January and used it as late as Sept
IS, when he attended the Democratic
state convention which nominated
''this great reformer'' for governor. Mr..
Keisfer has not yet returned his c
g. S. pass and doubtless expects 10
resume using it after the November
election, when he will no longer be
before the limelight except in his sen
atorlal capacity.
This death bed, eleventh hour, at
interim embracing of the anti-pas'
religion is too thin and hypocritica
to carry any weight.
Does Mr.. Keister or the Leader deny
hat Mr.. Keister has or had a @. x )
annual and used the same as recently
as Sent. 13?
Well, hardly.
, 1906-11-02
SADDLE HAD A LITTLE PASS.

Keister had a little pass
And thought that no II knew;
But everywhere that Keister went
The pass was taken too.
The Democrats a meeting held
To solemnly decree
No n could use a railroad pass
In common honesty"
But Hamm and Keister kept theirs
safe, ,
Although against the rules,
And made their hearers laugh by talk
OF Corporation Tools"
When The Tribune called the bluff
II made the voters yell,
well pass these fellows up and vote
For Brooks and Frank Mondell."
why don't the people come our way?'
Anxiously John cried"
"They take no stock in what we say
Sadly Sad. replied.
Then bitterly did they regret
They'd let the issue rise;
They lost some votes and had TO give
Those passes back besides.
, 1906-11-02
EVEN STONE WAS ASHAME ED
OF 1T

State Engineer Johnston says:
Mr.. Stone has tried to argue in de-
Tense of the position he has taken. He
has a~Dologized to me State Engineer
for having taken up this work but ex-
cuses himself by saying that it is sim
ply a matter of fees with him and that
he desires the State Engineer to so
inform Governor Brooks. The fees
are to come from the settler. The To-
eating company is to secure so pay
ments from all of those who can be
deceived and Mr.. Stone is to be paid"
, 1906-11-02
Favors Depository Law.

Governor Brooks, speaking for Hon.
Edward Gillette, candidate for state
treasurer, said that gentleman was
compelled for business reasons to be
absent from this meeting. He is in
The northern part of the state, taking
care of a beet sugar plant for Sheri-
dan which eastern capitalists were
proposing to build Mr.. Gillette had
told him that he was in favor Of a
state depository law, and is anxious
and willing to have the people reap
the benefit Of the immense deposits of
state funds from time to time. This
was greeted with cheering.
, 1906-11-02
CONSISTENCY THOU ART A
PEACH.

We demand the enactment of
a law making it a criminal Of
Tense, punishable by imprison-
ment, to give, offer or accept a
free pass or ticket over any
transportation line within the
state to any state, county or mu-
nicipal official or members of the
judiciary or legislature.-From
Democratic Platform.
And yet Mr.. Keister, a Democratic
state senator, came to the convention
that framed that plank on a pass anC
nominated for governor.
This he will not deny.
, 1906-11-02

ket is good.
In the Chicago market Wyoming
steers are bringing from "a to $3.50
and at Omaha, Sept. 10, Wyoming cat
tie brought S5.40 per hundred.
Sept. IA, this year, Donald Mcdonald
sold 1870 big 1,21G pound steers at $500
per hundred, which means that each
one brought more than $50. Compare
that with $50 a head in "a and '95.
Wyoming native steers have sold as
high as $3.50 in the Omaha market this
fall.
On Sept. 10 Governor Brooks ship
ped two cars of l LOCO pound steers and
received $3.50 per hundred and some
LIPS pound stuff at s445.
Sept. 81 Bob Allan did some market
topping at Omaha. He got $40 for
G7 feeders and $40 for a shipment
of COWS.
Sept. 10 w. T. Wolfe marketed at
South Omaha 1000 pound steers at
$500 and j. b. Kendrick 1874 steers,
l,zrt pounds each, at $40.
Smith & Lowrie. also of Wyoming,
drew $40 for LOO pound steers.
John Whitaker likewise made a rec
ord selling OF Aug. IS in South Omaha
steers weighing 1876 pounds each vt
$5.25 and fair to good stockers at $500
to $l.25.
]. NJ. Carey & Bro. have found some
mighty good prices, having sold steers
this fall at $4.35 to SAGE.
As Exhibit B" we desire to add the
following market report received to-
day:
, 1906-11-02
| Am ALL IN THE DUMPS.

(Hamm's %Soliloquy.)
| am all in the dumps
For Frank holds the trumps
And the votes are going to Mondell.
| am surely bit
And my prospects are nit
For my campaign is all gone to, oh
well.
, 1906-11-02
A LITTLE LESSON IN CATTLE

This early and rather severe snow
storm reminds Wyoming ranchmen
that they need to protect, feed and
look carefully after their cattle. Such
storms and hardships upon herds
come, however, only a few times each
year.
There is a kind of protection which
history and experience have taught us
that the cattle industry needs all the
yea around: not only this year but
future years. 1t is a reasonable tariff
schedule against the cattle from Can
ada, Mexico. Australia, New Zealand
and South America.
While We say history and expert
ence have taught MS these things we
do no need to go farther back than
the last Cleveland administration for
our lesson.
1t vas a painful and expensive lesson
and n that has left its imprint upon
the minds and bank accounts of near
ly every cattle raiser in the United
States.
The Tribune will not indulge in
platitudes or generalities but the fol
lowing facts gathered from the gen
tlemen themselves or from the bound
volumes of the Livestock Reports tell
the story more forcibly than n Ian
guage we might use.
Cleveland became president in
March. 1898. and the Wilson bill be.
came a law a few months later. BY
Sept. / of that year hundreds of banks
had failed, manufacturing plants We're
shut down and boarded up and the
livestock industry began to go all to
pieces.
Wilson Bill Prices.
On Sept. 19, 1894, the Swan Land
& Cattle Co. sold in the South Omaha
market 20G Wyoming steers. weighing
1,191 pounds each, at s3.55 per hun
dred. On the same day ]. NJ. Carey
& Bro. sold 70 head, weighing Liza
pounds each, at S3.15.
On Oct. 10 Hamilton & Moncrieif
sold at Omaha 210 fine Wyoming
steers, 1850 pounds each, at $3.50, and
on the same day the Converse Cattle
Co. sold 1873 steers, 1920 pounds each,
at $685..
e. r. David YVES able to get but S3.05
for LAO pound Wyomings while Arp
& Hammond sold good LAO pound
cows on Nov. 7, 1894, for $3.50.
Thomas Sun marketed on Nov. %,
'94, a lot of fine cattle weighing 1,050
pounds each at s2.55.
In thai weeks market good stockers
and feeders ven at $3.50 to $40.
Good cows and heifers at S2.S5 TO
$3.25..
Sept. 81, '94, the Milwaukee & Wyo'
ming l. Co. sold Wyoming feeders
weighing 1000 at $3.50.
]. w. & C. Mackenzie let a ship
ment of LAO pound Wyomings go at
$2.25.
Whitaker Bros. of Cheyenne parted
with high bred LODE pound steers at
$3.50.
Aug. 30, 1895, Dogie Steed of Ma
trona county sold LAO pound Wyo-
mings at $3.50, E. w. Whitcomb 1880
pound stuff at $500 and ]. NJ. Carey
& Fro. 4s good steers, weighing 1,029
pounds each, for s2.95.
B. B. Brooks, who has always raised
fine stock. sold 1,1Sl pound steers at
$5.5G and 1868 pound COWS at $3.50.
r. p. Allan's Herefords in Angus,
1885. weighing 1,1G7 pounds, sold for
$3.50.
]. Willox of Converse county had to
separate himself from beautiful 1,222
pound w~hiteface steers az $500 and
Colin Hunter let go OF forty head OF
fat 1,415 pound Wyomings at S3.S5.
pingley Bill Prices.
1t is not necessary to go much into
detail nov as the whole general mar
, 1906-11-02

Secretary Hitchcock has been a reg
ular terror to the perpetrators of land
frauds yet the Interior department af-
ter examining the evidence recently
taken by the Interstate Commerce
commission says there is nothing of
consequence in it. This is another
one of Uncle Ictabod's little balloons
punctured.
, 1906-11-02

A prominent Democrat of Cheyenne
says: "a might have believed there was
something in this reservation water
business had Stone and his outfit
sought their remedy in the courts
instead of turning it into political bun
comhe."
, 1906-11-02

Eight Hundred Men Employed Mt
Sunrise.-Headline in this mornings
Leader. Give us free trade with its
dismantled and idle steel and iron
mills, as under the last Cleveland re-
gime. and there would not be eight
men employed at Sunrise.
, 1906-11-02

Big Horn Ranch Sale Involves s42,'
600. Headline in Leader. Not many
s42. 900 ranch sales were made from
1898 to 1897 except by the sheriff aud
then IT took a 100000 property 10
bring 100000.
, 1906-11-02
H BEST

:. LABORERS WANTED-On :.
:. sewer at Ferguson and Twenty =
:. sixth street, 25c to SOC per :.
= hour. nine hours work. NJ. P. :.
= Keefe. :.
:. :. :. :. :. :. :. :. :. :. !. :.
The above want advertisement is
taken from this mornings Cheyenne
Leader.
Just think of it. Times so good and
labor so much in demand that a con
tractor must advertise for workmen
and offers % cents and 80 cents an
hour.
A condition like that is ar antidote
for all the ~platitudes W framed into
a Democratic platform.
, 1906-11-02

And even hat other great reform
err and sheep king" DIR. ]. E. Os
borne. when a candidate for governor
two years ago travelled on a pass
These Democrats all seem to have
the habit.
, 1906-11-02

Men like Warren, Mondell, Brooks
Chatterton and Johnston stand for the
development Of Wyoming. lhey are
not all candidates but they are all lie
publicans and workers.
, 1906-11-02
DOC ossoRNE's PRESCRIPTION

S. A. D. keister,
Druggist,
Lander, Wyo.
One ton of bombast plus plenty of
misrepresentation, one cwt. of mud,
one stone ". h of ~buncombe, one
pound of anti-pass hypocrisy, one
ounce of wind, n drachm of irriga-
ton H 2 o, a few grains of Shoshone
reservation sand. will make first-class
Democratic dope and ought to brace
the old mule up till 1908.
]. e. OSBORNE, NJ. D.
, 1906-11-02

It means a great deal to have a mar
for governor like Governor Brooks
His beautiful speech boosting Wyo
ming at the Vice President Fairbanks
banquet in Denver a short time age
was reproduced in full by the Troy
IN. W Times.
, 1906-11-02

If Mr. Stone believes there Is con
siderable buncombe in his speech and
Mr.. Burdick says Mr.. Stone told him
there is then the voters have a right
to take Mr.. stone at his word.
, 1906-11-02
CATTLE GOOD cAMPAIeNERs.

The cattle on a thousand hills
The prosperity of the west,
Tell the story for the G. o. p.
And tell it much the best.