They had fooled the people so long and
so successfully that the ringmasters lor a
long timo failed to realize the extent and
depth of the feeling against them and
their ideas of public administration. The
more they went over the state, however,
the more they realized it, and republican
orators are now pawing the earth in all
directions, frantically denying everything
and just as frantically promising every
thing. But as a gentleman remarked last
evening, they are just about three weeks
behind in their explanations, and there
fore have now enough t o answer for to
keep them buw until a week after the
election is over.
No wonder, therefore, that the most
encouraging reports come from all parts
of the state, and that the democrats and
people’s party are working side by side
like beavers to secure the grandest polit
ical success ever known in the history ol
Wyoming.
Tpe republican ring in Wyoming have
been fought to a standstill on the state
issues. No amount of boodle will cover
that significant fact in the canvass and no
amount of campaign lying will obscure it
from the people.
It is said that George W. Hoyt will
run in the county like a cast-iron grey
hound. It wouldn’t seem like Laramie
county if Hovt wasn’t running for some
thing.
AN IMPORTANT OFFICE.
For the important office of county com
missioners the democrats and people’s
party iiavc this year put forward three
competent and first-class men. A cry lew
men possess the same thorough, practical
knowledge of the county as does John A.
