, 1921-07-03
WILLIAM DEFINING AND HIS TRIBUNE.

Our old friend, William c. Deming. of the Chey-
enne Tribune, has brought up a very painful SUD
ject and one in which we take no pride Tor the
thoughtIess part We played in the matter. Long ago,
in Il moment of recklessness and ineonsiderate at
tsnton to editorial amenities, we referred IN a more
or less unfeeing manner to a serial feature that the
Cheyenne journal administered to its readers IN
homeopathic doses, entitled The CONCESSIONS OF n
bl.dc.' Ne recall with shame and Illumination that
We even made scurr1lous illusions to the same. In
t-r .iHpctuous youth and lneSperience we even ad-
y..d mkt such matter be cast out from the columns
O. ~ moral and upright = publication. We have since
lived and learned that honest confession is good for
tie soul, even where a bride is concerned; and when
ts confession had run its course it was not at all
Whit we expected it to be. 1t was perfectly harm
losr. The cheyenne editor stood pat, went through
to he litter Cud, in spite Of what was Intended TO be
SAFE advice Oh our part. We are not so sure that our
p,ur little arrow dd not lind its mark in the Chey-
eEnc sGrctum after all, and Il it did we shall not feel
50 badly about it. We observe n different feature
nc1 running in Mr.. Deming's paper. This one is la
bslcd Confessions OF d Husband" This is much
better. The sur-of-a-gun ought to confess and get
it eff his mind. He was in the wrong from the start.
We haven't any sympathy with him in his escapades
either before or since marrying the woman. But
somehow when the first story was running, we just
couldn't pick up the Cheyenne Tribune With any sat
iEfactlon. We didn't want the bride TO bawl out all
she knew. You simply couldn't tell who might be in
volyad or what complications would come next.
But, kidding aside, it is noticed that the Kemmerer
Republican has lately said of Mr.. Deming, that his
sphere of influence is limited 1t was applied in a
political sense. while what We had in mind to say
would deal with Mr.. Deming in relation to his citizen
ship and his business success. In either case the Re
publican would be unjust.
1t was not so many years ago that Mr.. Deming ar
rived in Cheyenne, with mostly rain checks and shoe
strings. With these things and some marbles and
chalk re obtained possession of the Tribune. He has
all through the ensuing years given the people a uni
formly better newspaper than they ever had before.
He has built up a splendid plant that is now a valu-
able newspaper property and entirely worthy the
years of patient labor and Intelligence he has devoted
to it. His newspaper has always enjoyed a wide cir
cuation.
Further than this Mr.. Deming has out of his earn
ings wisely invested in Cheyenne property of the rev.
enue producing Kind and today you find him owning
a good newspaper and office building, high class
apartment buildings. and offer productive invest
ments which, make him a solid citizen. His bust
ness career has been a perfectly honorable one, his
public example and habits of life correct. In brief.
Deming has been a model citizen. And so, in our
humble Judgment a man who has accomplished what
peming has, has not done so without exerting a con-
siderable influence, not only locally, but wherever his
newspaper has circulated, and his acquaintanceshi
cessful Citizen"
and Wien the Kemmerer Republican looks over