, 1910-08-18
Judge Carey's Candidacy for Governor

AS rule if a man aspires to the Republican nomination for
governor of Wyoming he would first seek the support of his own county
and then the support of the leaders of the party thruout the state.
Above all he would go before the republican state convention, asking
for the nomination and abiding by it's decision, unless there was pal
pable fraud or coercion in its manipulation. There is one thing he
would not do, if he were a candidate, and that is, he would not go
about the state breathing threatenings and defiance to the leaders of
the party, nor would he attempt to subsidise the democratic and indie
pendent press of the state to his support by paying them SO much
blood There is still another thing he would not do, unless he wish
ed to disrupt the party in his state. and that would be to declare. in
advance of the convention, that fl he was not nominated he would run
Independent.
The above remarks are called forth by the course that Judge Carey
is taking in his canvass for the nomination for governor this fall.
When he announced his candidacy he did not say that he would go
before the republican convention, asking the endorsement of the re-
publican party, and only once in his announcement does he refer to
the fact that he is a republican. At first Judge Carey had a strong
following and if he had shown the same broadminded judgement in
the conduct of his campaign that has marked all of his great public
it is quite certain that, failing in the endorsement of the repub-
lican state convention, he might have gone before the people and won
his fight. Even when he attacked, in s unjust a manner,t the tax
commission law and the appointment of Ex-Governor Richards as Tax
Commissioners law that was approved by the entire press of the
state and al appointment that gave general satisfaction, )some oil the
papers, the Sun among the rest, out of the great love and esteem they
had for the Judge, let the matter pass without comment.
But when Judge Carev IMPORTS press agent. who around the
INDEPENDENT papers a possloeto pay 8 much per column per week for
the insertion of matter intended to defeat the republican party at
the polls this coming fall, he does that which puts him beyond the
help of the republican press of the state.
If Judge Carey had declared himself an independent candi-
date in the beginning, if he had served notice on the repu blican party
that he intended to attack its record in the state and endeavor to win
or inconsistent in his present course. But while tacitly seeking
the support of the marty in the state he has atackad ito IeodorS md
condemned its administration of affairs in the state. In other words
he has served notice, at this late day, that he intends, with the help of
such strength as he is able to draw from the republican ranks, and
the aid of the democratic press, to overthrow the party in Wyoming
and take the leadership himself.
The Sun has always had a very great esteem for Judge Carey and
when he announced himself as candidate for governor it hoped for his
success, suppoing, as a matter of course, that he would seek the
from the republican state convention. But it is not ready
to follow him outside the republican party and into the democratic
ranks where 1T now finds him, seeking aid and comfort of the enemy.