, 1907-03-08
NO DISPOSITION TO BE FAIR.

Since the adjournment OF the Ninth
legislative assembly The Republican
has looked in vain for one fair state
ment in a northern Wyoming paper re,
lating to the apportionment law. MOI
n has given the actual representa-
ton accorded the several counties to
gather with the actual membership
they are entitled to upon the basis of
their population. Without giving any
figures, they have contented them.
selves with assertions that they were
cheated and robbed by the Union Pa
cifc counties. Possibly some editors
have been honest in their belief that
the north was not given a fair deal,
but If this is true, it would seem an
easy matter for such honest editors to
take the population of the several
counties and figure out whether they
We're robbed and give the facts to their
readers. Bare assertions do not count
for much. The people will swallow
that sort of stun for q time, but finally
they learn the truth and her the men
who have deceived them are forever
alter disoredited. The Republican
would like to have any northern editor
show by the record n by the facts
just how any northern county has beer
given less representation than 1t Il
entitled to. If this cannot be shown
then all this unfair and unwarranted
talk should be stopped. Nothing is ltc
be gained, either locally Or from a
statewide standpoint, by fostering and
strife.
In the latest issue of the Sheridan
Post, now under the editorial. control
OF a gentleman formerly connected
with Golfers Weekly, the following
paragraphs are found:
What is auce for the goose should
be sauce for the gander, but the
trouble is the gander squawks IL he
doesn't get a double portion That s
what they say about the matter in
Cheyenne, because the northern coun.
tiles were jObbed out of a fair repre-
sentation. They ssay We ssquawk for q
double portion. 1t is one single por-
uuiI all u.vy way round and NO double
portions for Laramie county is what
Q are; isauawking' shout. We have
a-eQuawk' coming on this matter.
representation Is always appor.
toned on population basis. That was
the Dinwiddie bill. The substitute or
rather the subterfuge measure was an
arbitrary one. In short-we give you
an extra one or two, bat We will be
careful to keep enough for ourselves
TO out vote you on any proposition on
which, YOU can't see 1t our way,whether
We are entitled to them or not. This is
the creed of that band of political pi-
rates doing business down. Cheyenne
way"
Now, will the editor of the Post show
by the record just how any northern
county was "jobbed out of a fair rep
r~esentation?" Unless he can, he must
be held up as a demagogue seeking To
mislead the honest, people of his coun-
ty. The fact is, and he ought to know
1t, that Sheridan county, under the
present law, has q, greater representa-
ton proportionately than Laramie
county or Uinta county. and this is
also true Of every northern county.
Gentlemen. isn't 1t a fact. that the
counties OF the southern portion OF the
state are entitled to representation
upon exactly the same basis. that you
are, or do you hold that the majority
of the people of this state should yield
to the minority and permit them to
make the laws and rule the roost?'
The north went home from the
Ninth legislative assembly with prac-
tically all that was asked in the way
Of legislation and WITH A GREATER
REPRESENTATION, population con-
sidered, than the counties Of the south.
What is to be gained. gentlemen of
the northern press. by withholding
these plain facts from the people?
The Standard Oil company pleads
not guilty but it is saving every excep