, 1926-06-02
W Y @ M | N G
CAPITAL COLUMN
THE PEOPLES BUSINESS
Reviewed Briefly For Those
Who should be Interested
By George II. Hand

The expected has happened. Not
quite as soon as an astute political
forecaster might have predicted but
perhaps it was delayed in tran
Sit or possibly it was held
up awaiting recruits or reinforce
ments from back east but the out
burst could not be bottled up any
longer. The Wyoming Beagle, in a
rare burst of Democratic disingenu-
BUSINESS, has exposed the wicked
plot of the Republican party to
throttle and emasculate the Primary
law by holding a state pr%e-primary
conclave.
'TweedIe Dee and TweedIe Dunn"
True the Democrats themselves
decided months ago to do exactly
the same thing. that is to hold a
state meeting prior to the primary
election and then and there to dis
cuss party policies and to consider
such other matters as might proper
ly come before the meeting. This
entirely innocent and %innocuous
gathering is to be held in Their
mopolis. But what the nice Demo-
Gratis may do with IMMUNITY the
naughty Republicans may % do
without throwing the Primary over
board" as the nautical editor of the
Beagle expresses it We are solemn
ly assured by the inspired editor
that 'the primaries will be held
and that "the Democratic party still
stands by the primary system"
A Clear Record
1t is doubtless a waste of time
but it will do little harm to quote
verbatim from the official an
nouncement of the determination of
the Republican party of Wyoming
to hold a pre-primary assembly at
Casper: Both the county and state
conferences are to be purely advis-
ory in character-pre-primary con-
ferences in fact ANY man
oil woman may become a candidate
at the primary election for nomin-
alton to any state office, regardless
of the action of the state assembly.
Thus an individuals rights under
the primary law are fully preserv-
ed and in no respect nullified or
evaded." This idea was brought out
clearly at the Cheyenne meeting
of the State Central Committee and
stressed. Every Republican under
stands this, so why worry about
the Beagle?
interest is Keen
Notwithstanding the fact hat a
number of newspapers in the state
have bemoaned the lack of agrees
sive out-and-out candidates for state
offices particularly, there is actually
ia very keen and definite interest
in the assembly which will
in Casper June II and IL. This
is evidenced in many ways which
are not yet in a form sufficiently
concrete for publication. II one
may be permitted to conjecture
this far in advance it appears more
than likely that, as far as the nom
ination for governor is concerned
various counties will present their
"favorite sons" for such consider
alton as the assembly may decide
to give in an advisory capacity.
Favorite Sons
Some of these have recently de-
veloped considerable strength since
the publication in this column of
the avowed entrants three weeks
ago. Based entirely on a perusual
of the state newspapers and as an
individual forecast it appears that
the following counties named in
alphabetical order, will present fav-
orite sons for the g~ubernatorial
nomination: Carbon-W. w. Daley;
Fremont-James Graham; Johnson
Frank E. Lucas: Laramie. c.
Underwood; Natrona-Patrick Sui
Ivan; Park. M. Schwoob; Sheri-
dan-Peter Kooi; Sublette-P. w.