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The No rthe rn WyomingHe raid
AN D TH E GARLAND */Jt R IG AT ION ERA
OFFICIAL PAPER OF PARK COUNTY
*Tne ape r That la Making Cody Famous”
G . C . Morris, Managing Editor
£ * ° " o Gremnleaf, Ateietant Manager.
Entered as second class matter Octolier 27, 1910, at the postofflce at
Cody, Wyoming, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
CODY, WYOMING. NOV. 24, 1911
“There’s a chiel among ye tahin’ notes, an’ faith, he’ll
prant ’em”---Robert Burns.
MISS NANCY— LUSUS NATURAE
In the semi-weakly of last Saturday
under the caption of “The Wail of
the Bosses” appears this paragraph:
“With characteristic hypocrisy and
Inconsistency, the kept* organ of
Prosecutor Walls, et al, yelps be
cause the Enterprise has exposed the
crisis in the county bond issue. The
gang would have preferred to keep
the people in ignorance of the true
state of affairs as long as possible
and to conceal their own incompe
tency.”
What has Miss Nancy exposed now,
but her hereditary stupidity, her utter
inability and chronic unwillingness to
tell the truth.
As to hypocrisy, who attacked
piano contests with the post office
department and which paper was ex
cluded from the mails?
Who attempted to uphold the
county superintendent of schools In
her bold, impudent efforts to grab
public money? Which paper had
nothing to say when the records and
vouchers were produced? Even “Han
dy Andy” did not have the nerve to
defend her.
Which paper told, a Cody minister
an untruth in order to steal a petty
job of printing worth less than five
dolars? Which editor did the subse
quent apologizing? Would not that
song “He goes to Church on Sunday”
be particularly applicable to Miss
Nancy in this connection? ?
Which paper has had the courage
to wage a fight for better water, bet
ter electric light service at a lower
rate for Cody? Has the semi-weakly
ever uttered a word in behalf of these
things? Why has It not? What did
Miss Nancy tell the editor of this
prper when asked to co-operate for
good wate.*?
Miss Nai cy would like to know
who in Cody had the courage, other
than The Herald, to attack the elec
tric light coterie.
The corespondence is open to any
HONEST PERSON interested in the
agitation for better water and better
electric light service in Cody. The
sembweakly would like to expose the
writers to the hatred and subsequent
attack of the monopoly that forces
Cody to drink dirty and filthy water
and pay tribute in extortionate elec
tric light bills. The correspondence
is certainly not open to the enemies
of good water and lower electric
light bills.
The semi-weakly has never been
able to "scoop” The Herald on VITAL
news. “She” doesn't know the defini
tion of the word “scoop.” The semi
weakly did scoop The Herald on the
Harry Willi. story and for which
publication emi-wcakly may YET
have to defend a criminal libel suit.
If the adole scent putative editor of
the semi-weakly would examine court
decisions of the IT. S. Supreme court,
or ask so od attorneys other
than the t ) whom he owes his
newspaper his existence, his
counsel and leg \ (?) advice, he would
never assert that elementary law
(whatever that is) transcends the
written law of any state or common
wealth. THE VERIEST TYRO OF A !
LAW STUDENT KNOWS BETTER.
But when did a democrat ever know
anything.
Miss Nancy reaches her most sub
lime heights of ignorance and stu
pidity when “she” asks “Then why
did J. H. Van Horn, acknowledged
to be one r the state's best author
ities on technical law. insist that the
voting places he mentioned in the
proclamation of the Tody Canal
Irigatlon Dbirict election?
Why you poor, driveling Incompe
tent? BECAUSE THE STATUTES
EXPRESSLY PROVIDE THAT THIS
SHALL BE DONE.
Mr. Van Lorn had no other option
in the matter except to follow the
law.
Tell your masters Messrs. Simpson
&Dnnloy to give you better advice—
if they know how. Do they?
“Who is that person” asks Miae
Nancy “ hat tried to secure convic
tions in he city courts?”
Did not R. L Donley, acting city
attorney in the celebrated ash pit
cases REFUSE to pay HIS petty fine
of SB, and s.r "these city ordinances
are not worth the paper they nre
printed upon.” Did HE pay HIS fine?
If NOT why NOT? Others citizens
paid theirs. Was tbi
part of Mr. DunW v if it
I for others to pay why did not Donley
pay?
r With a marcidity of ideas, facts,
and arguments as usual Miss Nancy
jumps from one delusion to another
like an English sparrow feeding In
the roads.
Did sister Jemima (R. L. Donley)
the god mother of Miss Nancy advise
“her” that it was “elementary law to
make such a specification (that is
name the polling places) state sta
tute or no state statute?” Where did
it come from?
The lying semi-weakly says that
Wood the attorney for Devitt Trem
ble & co. wrote those words.
The lawyer for the bond house
NEVER made the statement as quoted
by the semi-weakly, and the untruth
ful editor of the semi-weaklv .knows,
that Wood did not. # Why this lie?
Miss Nancy should get better legal
advice than her god mother, sister
Jemima gives, if “she” wishes to
delve into legal lore, or she” will be
deeper in the mire than “she” has
ever been.
Mr. Walls needs no defence at the
hands of The Herald. In “her” efforts
to belittle the prosecuting attorney
by comparison with the present at
torney general Mr. Preston, “she”
is again particularly unfortunate.
Ask any old timer of Big Horn county
as to the legal acumen of the present
incumbent of the attorney general's
office at Cheyenne, and “she” will be
told Mr. Preston owes his appoint
ment chiefly on account of political
labors rather than for any KNOWN
reputation foT honors attained at the
bar of Wyoming past or present.
Miss Nancy in “her” Wednesday
gives strong indications of, just
as she has in all of“her” controver
sies, having started something “she’
could not finish. “She” lays down as
is “her” custom.
If “she” will predicate “her” future
efforts on truth “she” will be “thrice
armed” and never fail down so inf
erably as “she” has in each and every
instance ‘she” has attempted to break
a lance-with The Herald.
But her” congentital and perhapi
hereditary atmosphere will b 3 the
most charitable reason for “he . * per
iodical lapses, and the editor o' 'l he
Herald Is gen jrous enougi to throw
this mantle over his contain; -
as “she” Is “Lusu=j Natura*
Take up your fancy work Miss Nan
cy, the rude 01 -e realm of politics,
lias no part in thy dainty, delicate
world.
♦ ♦ *
THE FATHER OF ECONOMY
The great exemplar or economy
and retrenchment in county affairs.
Judge W. L. Walls, is himself proving
a mighty expensive luxury for the
people, many of whom “fell” for his
Liren con talk during the campaign
over a year ago. To a man up a tree
R would seem that the present coun
ty and prosecuting attorney is an or
nament our people can ill afford even
If the old duffer cuts out the salary
teature altogether, and then also by
way of good measure, throws in the
little side graft of so much per for
office rent. Wonder how our old
friend enjoys appearing in the stellar
| role of “goat.” —Powell Tribune.
What Is the use of you Nelson, let
t:ng your feeling run a_way with your
Kood judgement? It would appear to
u thot you are a little premature in
your adimaverslons.
Judge Walls Can well afford to
St'ind upon his record. We would sug
pest to all of those who attempt to
criticise the alleged fafluro of the
sale of the hond issue to read up the
Wyoming statutes, and decisions of
the United States supreme court. Then
30 to your closets and meditate a
wh’le on people who to play small,
I oc ut and petty politics are willing
to blacken the good credit and good
nr.iiio of Park county.
til.' Herald wants to toll all of you
men, that It will not stick with the
people and tho taxpayers of Park
county. They possess ns much lntell-
Iranc ns the writers of somo of the
stuff which has been put out tho past
week and are not to be deceived by
such sophistry..
•f ♦ ♦
G. p. O'Meara lias taken the rail
way mail run from Billings to Cody
and will net ns snlistitufi for (" irlns
Northern Wyoming Herald. Cody. Wyoming, November 24, 1911.
(iI jii What is St ?
J One chap bet it was a new cigar,
I I Someone else declares its a break-
J fast food—or a new book !
| | But do YOU know what “ll”means?
Continue to Watch! IV/h a* le «l I” 1
More News Next Friday. WI IQ TIS II ,
JOINED TO HIS IDOLS
With it’s issue of last week the
Northern Wyoming (Cody) Herald
reached maturity—entered upon tho
second year of its existance —and Is
now entitled to classification as a
“legal paper” in every sense of that
expression. And thus through lapse
of time, has this hitherto destinctive
ly “scab” and spurious publication
become thoroughly and completely
legitimized. The aimable coterie
of gentlemen composing the Repub
lican machine have for one whole
year ‘got away” with a proposition
as amazing as it was impudent and
reprehensible. The grafting Herald
outfit have violated the letter as well
as the spirit -of the law—have Impos
ed upon its readers and the public to
an extent and In a manner quite be
yond all semblance of what is gener
ally recognized as decent and respect
able in legitimate journalism.
All of which, however, is now an
cient history and Important merely
as showing the real character of cer
tain unscrupulous political jobbers
and tricksters.
Our friend Morris, the present edi
tor is getting out a rattling good pa
per and is beyond all cavil one of the
ablest newspaper men in Wyoming.
His bright and forceful editorial 1
page is a veritable tower of strength
to the tottering cause of Bourbonism
in local political circles. There is
not in Wyoming a more consistant
and persistant champion of reaction
ary Republicanism than our highly
esteemed contemporary at Cody.
There is absolutely nothing In com
mon between Morris and the Tribune
man as regards Ideas and ideals po
litical; our difference on this score
are at once vital and irreconcilable
but for all that we are like the cuss
anyhow and actually weep as we thus
behold ability of the first order be
stowed upon what is obviously a for
lorn hope.
But with the genus standpatter it
is ever thus. Those who answer that
description find no music in the
onward march of progress. The spirit
and genius of our times has for them
no charm—no significance. Ephriam
is joined to hla idols and from them
he will not depart. Our heart goes
out to the “old man” whose head is
already sprinkled with the snows of
many winters —who Is old enough and
bright enough and who really ought
to know better.
But “Ephriam is joined to idols,
let him alone" Alas, Alas! —Powell
Tribune.
♦ ♦ ♦
DO SUGAR BEETS PAY?
Yesterday won beet pay day. The
first installment of the beet crop
returns was distributed. There was
about $70,000 paid out In Bridger.. And
a big payment Is still to come. A
neat fortune for Clark Fork farmers.
The payment could just as well have
been double. There is as much more
good beet land still aw.Aiting cultiva
tion. Small tracts thoroughly cultivat
ed. insure the best returns Divide
your big farms nr.d make room for
more people and still maintain your
income. —Brldger, Mont.. Times.
The above from the Bridger Times
confirms what The Herald has been
advocating—produce something else
upon the land other than alfalfa that
will bring in the cash In good season
and bad.
The ranchers In and rround Lovell
this year It is renllably stated were
paid by the sugar heet factory several
hundred thousands of dollars. „
There would Roem to be no valid
reason why sugar be***■'• could not be
cultivated here In Park county.
EPHRIAM’S IDOLB PURE GOLD
The editor of The Herald has
threshed out the question as to the
valadity of, or rather the legitimacy
of the origin, birth and subsequent
existence of this paper with his
friend Nelson, to tho editor of The
Heralds satisfaction.
There is no one, excepting those
that desired the position that The
Herald now enjoys, as the official
paper of Park county, or who wished,
or do NOW wish the defeat of the
Republican party, that for one mo
ment, gives any credence to the
claim of the able, versatile and übiq
uitous editor of the Tribune in the
above particular.
The editor of The Herald has seen
the republican party convulsed and
in the throes of * re-construction m
th£ early 70’s, he has seen it nauseat
ed by an over dose of Rag Babyism
in the late 70’s; he sew it hurled from
power by the Mugwumps who were
headed by that former champion of
the O. O. P., Henry Ward Beecher
and who elected Grover Cleveland
through FRAUD In the tough wards
of New York City In 1892; he has
seen the craze of free silver fomented
by Bryan In 1896, until the electorate
of the U. S. was whipped to :t frenzy
between the panic of Cleveland and
the financial vagaries of the “boy
orator of the Platte,” and he haa
finally lived to witness the Republi
can party lead by It’s La Follette’s,
its Cummin's, endeavor to stampede
the organization to their own use
and ambitious purposes.
But the editor of The Herald wishes
to say that amidst it all he has stood
with the Republican party because it
has demonstrated to him and to the
American people that it is the only
party worth while In this country that
has yet come into existence
The Republican party has ever met
tho demands of the country as a
whole, while it may have denied the
clamor of a vociferous minority, and
It has adjusted itself to any general
call by the country for reforms. It
will do so in the present instance
The Republican party is not an
ignorant, howling mob like the Dem
ocratic party. Brains, intelligence,
and sound reason are the symbols of
Republicanism. Members of the Re
publican party are never ashamed to
tell the whole world that they are
REPUBLICANS.
Where is the man who is PROUD
that HE Is a Democrat?
Yes, Ephram is JOINED to his
idols. They are of pure gold. He is
proud of a party that can produce a
Lincoln, a Grant, a Garfield, a Me
Klnley, a Roosevelt, a Taft.
Does any man raise his head in
pride over the party which developed
secession, rebellion and gave birth to
a Jeff Davis, to the Copper Head
Thomas A. Hendricks, once vice-pres
ident of this Union, to a Ben Tillman,
who on the floor of the U. 8. senate
glories that he shot and killed human
beings down like dogs because they
exercised tho right to vote, to an Ar
thur Pue Gorman who corrupted tho
state of Maryland as no other man
ever did,or would perhaps attempt,
to a Joe Bailey of Standard Oil odor,
—hut what’s the use no man of in
telligence proclalma he Is a Democrat
—he usually hides the fact from his
fellows.
There is nothing to democracy o:
nothing to Its membership that awak
ens any emotions of pride or patriot
ism. This Is why the overwhelming
majority of the WHOLE people ARE
Republican*!
♦ ♦
H. J. Sawtell, of the Alfalfa City,
and one of her hustlers was up this
week. * * 1
the official frank
How many people know anything
about the (ranking privilege? Not/
many, we are aure. When a United
States senator franks a sewing ma
chine or piano, as senator Ben Till
man (Dem.) is said to have done, that
is carrying the matter too far.
Here is the law:
SEC. 7. P. 336, VOL. 19, UNITED
STATES STATUTES AT LARGE,
SAYS:
“That senators, representatives and
delegates in congress the secre
tary of the senate and the clerk of the
house cf representatives may send
and receive through the mall, all pub
lic documents printed by order of
congress; and the name of each sen
ator, representative, delegate, secre
tary of tho senate, and clerk of the
house shall be written thereon, with
the proper designation of the office
he holds; and tho provisions of the
section shall apply to each of the per
sons named therein until the first day
of December fokmtng the expiration
of their respective terms of office. --
Again in Volume 30. Page 441, we
find:
"That hereafter the vice president,,
members, members-elect and delegat
es and delegate-s elect to congress
shall have tho privilege of sending
free through the mails, and under
their frank, any mall matter to any
government official or to any person,
correspondence not exceeding two
ounces in weight upon official or de
partmental business.”
Under this very broad Btatute the
Washington political headquarters of
Senator La Folete have been mailing
loads of documents. Thousands of
people have received Senator La Fol
lottc's and Senator Bourne's speeches
this year, mailed out by the clerkß in
the Progressive League Club.
During the special session Mr. Mon
dell prepared a very complete speech
on tile wool tariff question. It wag a
matter of wide public Interest in the
west particularly—a public economic
issue of importance.
The National Wool Growers* asso
ciation desired to cend out several
thousand, but as Mr. Mondell had to
pay in cash for the printing of his
speeches over and above a limited
number he could only spare the asso
ciation 1,200 fewer than there are
sheepmen in Wyoming.
Yet, in &, frantic effort to discredit
Mr. Moridel! rnd promote the political
fortunes of Mescro. Carpenter and Os
borne, the circumstance is paraded as
a “striking abuse of the franking priv
llege.”
The Tribune does not Believe the in
telligent people of Wyoming are go
ing to be deceived again by such
flimsy charges. —Cheyenne Tribune
♦ ♦ ♦
ISCONSIN INCOME TAX
Under the now Wisconsin law,
which goes into effect ,noxt year, in
comes above eight hundred dollars a
year as to single persons and twelve
hundred as to married pcrr.onß are
taxed; but for each child in the fam
ily under eighteen years of ago. or
other dependent., there In a furthur
exemption of two hundred dollars.
For an average family'then, the tax
begfna wh- it the Income reaches six
teen or eighteen hundred dollars. It
is one per cent on tho first thousand
dollars above exemptions, increasing
a quarter of one per cent on each
additional thousand up to flvo thous
and; then Increasing one-half of one
per cent up to twolvo thousand. Above
that It Is six per cent. This Is In
tended to supplant tho per
sonal-property tax; and any personal
property tax that a citizen pays 1s
deducted from his Income tax.
This Wlsoonsin law Is inter -stlny.
because sooner or later—sooner,
probably, rather than later— the
come tax will be a permanent fit.
tnre of oar revenue and all of
enjoying Incomes above a certain
amount will be subject to it The
flr-t question Is, What income sh™ i
be taxed?
The exemption is small in Wiscon
sfn. The Federal law of 1894, began
with incomes above four thousand
dollars; but there was no abatement
of course on account of any personal
property tax paid by the tocomehold
er. Under the Wisconsin law a man
with a wifo. and two children, whose
Income Is three hundred dollars a
month would pay twenty-two dollars
and a half—roughly one-third of one
week’s Income—which is not an ex
cessive contribution to the public
purse.
This is the fairest form of taxation
yet devised, for under It a man pays
more nearly according to his ability j
to pay. Thus a married man pays lea
than a single man; a married mo
supporting children pays less rlua
one supporting none; one wrose in
come exceeds h\» reasonable neefr
pays more proportionately than one
whose Income is below that point.
—Saturday Evening Post.
♦ ♦ ♦
SOCIALISTS IN OFFICE.
Writing-in the Journal of Politic*]
Economy on the Rising Tide of So
cialhni. Professor Robert F. Hoxey
finds that the number of Socialist*
elected to and now holding office in j
the United States is not less than
four hundred and thirty-five—chiefly
as follows: one Congressman; one
state senator; sixteen state represen- 5
tatives; twenty-eight mayors, vllllage
presidents and township chairman;
men, councellors and village trustees;
sixty-two school officers; twenty
three city or town clerks and treas
ures. The remainder are sheriffs,
coroners, supervisors and do on. These
Socialists were elected In one hun
dred and sixty municipalities or el
ection districts, scattered in thirty
three states, Milwaukee being the
only large city they have won.
This roster of Socialist office
rolders is interesting. Theoretically
Socialism is the moot ambitious ot
political programs, involving nothing
Rhort of a whole nationwide —or
worldwide— revolution; but. except
a solitary congressman and seventeen
members of the state legislature*.
Socialists have been elected only to
local offices, and those usually of an
administrative rather than legisla
tive nature—elected, that is, not to
bring in a brand now all-embracing
revolutionary program, but to work
the lumbering old machine In a little
honester, more intelligent, kindlier
manner perhaps than some Republican
or Democrat would work It.
Designing a new wo#d is more fas
cinating than scrubbing off p° m?
Kmall particular dlrtspot on the old
one—but fesß practical.
—Saturday Evening VoSt
♦ ♦ ♦
MISS NANCY’S LATEST THEFT
Miss Nancy in “her” desire to nay
something real naughty, applies th
term “kept” paper to Tho Herald.
In this “she” is just ns dishonor
as she is In all that “she” essay*-
“She” stole the term from a Dander
newspaper man who applied it to th e
Dander Journal.
Miss Nancy is neither original nor
honeßt —“she” cannot be either. Or
iginality would hurst asunder ‘‘her
cerebellum and to practice honesty
would mean sudden death to “her.
George Pennoyer foreman of the
Rocky Mor.ntain Cattle Co. waß Iri
Wede"HfD>lf fn moef. Dolph VonKce
*, r, - iolr.er about
40 r iPad of ca* ■j he latter men.