, 1906-01-11
THE BooMERANG's POLITICAL AK

league is to be organized in Laramie
and tina it's preparation is for the next
election. 1t asserts that republicans
as well as democrats will join the
league. What is the presumption?
That the republicans of this city, or a
portion of them, will trail along after
the political lead of the proprietor of
the boomerang, Mr.. N. e. Corthell.
What are the Boomerang charges?
1t says there are a host of political
parasites or prodigies who like leeches
cling to office and make an abundant
living by graft" And yet it does not
show one solitary instance of graft or
name one of the gratters. Just a great
blanket charge against every office
holder in this community; against men
who are working for little or no salary
SO far as boards are concerned and for
small salaries where salary is paid. So
far as The Republican has ever been able
to learn there has never been a suspic-
ion of graft against any republican of
fetal in the city of Laramie. We did
have a democratic city treasurer at one
time who robbed the treasury of some
thing like thirteen thousand dollars,
but no republican official has ever been
a defaulter to the extent of a single
cent
What does the Boomerang mean by
bringing an unsupported accusation of
Laramie? Does it hope to make the
people believe in the guilt of their
neighbors whom they have elected to
office without a specific charge, without
the statement of a single fact?
It means (and this is all 1t means)
that there is an approaching election
and that it wishes TO replace the re-
publicans with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
who are subject to the beck and call
and who would be placed like the pins
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this community. Republicans get to-
gether and nominate n ticket, The
democratic nominees of this county
have been named by an individual.
Weeks before the last democratic cor
%ven'ion, this paper published the names
of the democrats who were to be nom
mated for the leading places on the
ticket. And where did those candi-
! dates go for their instructions after
they had been placed?
The Boomerang charges:
There is just as much graft, Doodle
and corruption in Laramie, for its size
as in New York and Philadelphia, only
1t is concealed by a cloak of religion
or social distinction or a well-lined
pocketbook."
Is there honesty in a charge that is
not specific? Has any man who poses
as a reformer the right to make a
sweeping accusation against public Of
ficials without citing some one specific
instance wherein graft or corruption is
in evidence? Let this man Of law, who
poses as a saint morally and political
ly, make his charges specific. Let him
offer some evidence. Otherwise his
charges must fall fiat and the people
will condemn him for an outrageous
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men who have borne stainless records
in this city.
But the real spleen and animus of
the TRADE is against one man, who is
charged with being at the head of the
commercial club, the school board and
the board of trustees of the University
of Wyoming. How did Mr.. Gramm
come to be president of the commercial
club? He was elected by the mer-
chants of the city, the vote being unan-
imous. Who placed him upon the
board of school trustevsf The electors
of the district, the vote in his favor be-
"S aPPiSAihiaIeiy lOuT W one, anu lnlS
after eighteen years of continuous ser
vice. Who insisted upon his nominal
ton to the position of university trus-
tee? TIL people of this community,
without dissent. And it is a pleasure
to be able to say that he has made
good in every position the people have
called him to occupy.
The Republican has ever decried
graft and corruption in every form and
will continue to do so. If the Boone
rang can show one instance wherein a
republican official in this city has been
guilty of graft, this paper will join in