, 1907-07-20

charges Of graft, fraud or irregulari.y
and failing to prove them stirs up a
lawsuit or what is worse destroys Its
influence and stultiies itself among
fair-minded people.
! Traditionally %prejudiced and legged
on by the calamity bowler the Chey,
enne Leader has made a specially CT
/ mud-slinging and damaging charges
and has not made good on a single one
OF them.
And yet there may be people SO i'm
pressed with this class Of journalism
that the editor OF the Leader still gets
some encouragement to SANDER indis-
criminately.
We ask our readers to recall a few
Of the charges made without equivoca-
ton by the Leader which were shown
to be utterly and absolutely false.
The present management began Its
career by serious charges against Gov
ernoor Brooks. State Engineer John.
ston and then Secretary OF State Chat
I~terton in connection with the Wyo-
ming Central Irrigation company con-
tract.
Files of the Leader show some very
damaging statements which had the
LEADERS word counted for aught might
have greatly injured these men.
But the vote at the polls gave the lie
Ito the charges and made the Leaders
boosted influence look like "a sesterce
which is equal to about four asses"
Shortly after the election the Leader
came out in startling headlines alles-
ing that President Roosevelt had or
dered an investigation OF Senator War.
rem.
Tribune readers will recall the hot
newspaper controversy that ensued.
the bringing out OF the fact that Edi-
tor Bartlett had supplied a variety OF
the charges from partisan newspaper
clippings against Warren and a com
plete collapse of the Leaders big in
lvestigation story.
A little later the Leader announced
that w. A. Richards, commissioner OF
the general land office, was to be dis
missed in disgrace. Instead he served
until March 4, 1907, and resigned as
he had announced a year before he
would do. When he left President
Roosevelt paid him a fine tribute in a
personal letter.
Then came the Prof. Morton charges,
THE Leader as usual swallowed the
bait. hook and all.
Again there was no Judgment used,
no discrimination, no qualification OF
the charges that Gramm was hoggins
Everything In sight and Miss Hebard
was dwarflng the university and driv'
ing instructors away with her peculiar
ly "~tyrannical, petticoat government
The Leader made no allowance fol
local Laramie prejudice, for political
bias, for personal %jealousies in the in
%stitution but proceeded to libel the
school and practically everybody con
Injected with 1t.
The complete report Of the commits
sion is a sufficient, answer to the Ill
advised position of the Leader n the
Laramie Boomerang.
But it is indeed an i'll wind that
blows nobody good.
The Investigation, growing out OF the
Morton charges, is in many respects
one Of the very best things that could
have happened to the university.
Able and honest men OF both politi
cal parties from widely separted sec
lions of the state have examined the
institution and "have seen the books
They have said in their report that
no charges of dishonesty have beer
sustained but they have made some
sterling, practical recommendations
which will result in great benefit II
carried out.
The commission has paid a high trib'
ute generally to the instructors and
on the whole left the university in bet
ter standing than it was before.
The Tribune hopes no unnecessary
delay will be had in putting the sug.
gestions of the commission into full
force and effect.-Cheyenne Tribune.