Show WYOMINGS GOVERNOR The New York rimes is waging earn stand st-and determined war against the governor of our neighboring territory Wyoming We would be more inclined to think that our contemporary was wrong if Governor WAUREX would take the trouble to explain ex-plain or disprove the ugly charges which the Time persists in reiterating in regard to him True his excellency has made a denial but ought that to be considered sufficient suf-ficient when it is so easy to establish his innocenseby indisputable proc n FRANCIS E WARREN was governor of Wyoming when CLEVELAND was inaugurated in-augurated and the former was one of the first removals by the latter lat-ter The alleged ground of removal was that the governor was a landgrabber that he had caused to be fenced vast tracts of the public domain contrary to law and had waxed rich thereby CLEVELAND removed re-moved him and sent a stranger to take his place Whether or not there was anything any-thing in the charges against WARREN it is certain that the governor was very popular in the territory and equally certain I cer-tain that his successor was decidedly unpopular un-popular One of President HARUISOXS first acts was to summarily obounce governor gov-ernor MOONLIGHT and reinstate WARHKX since which the Times has been doing its utmost to make the governor odious od-ious ana bring the administration into discredit by reason of his appointment appoint-ment Some time ago a Cheyenne correspondent corre-spondent went for WARREN without gloves picturing him as an almost infamous in-famous creature and charging all manner of corruption against him saying among other things that he was the tool of the Union Pacific railway that he was a prominent prom-inent land grabber and that as governor he had been guilty of manipulating territorial terri-torial legislation in the interests of corrupt monopolies WUSUEN was prompt to deny the charges but the Times repeated them with emphasis and published over his own signature a letter from a reputable citizen of Cheyenne in support of all the paper had alleged Governor WARKEN has since said nothing apparently cencluding that he can live down the accusations Herein lies his error of judgment It is an error which reflects on the administration as well as upon the governor Neither can he afford to let the matter rest with the simple denial de-nial of the accused As specific charges have been preferred rroof of the innocense of the accused should be forthcoming otherwise there are those who will believe what the Times and its correspondents say and think Governor WARKEN does not clear himself because he is unable to do so TUB HEKALD knows that Governor WAR REX is popular in the territory and that a good many Democrats as well as the Republicans Re-publicans generally desired his reinstatement reinstate-ment when the administration changed It is because of this knowledge that we suggest sug-gest that he cannot afford to rest under the imputatious on his character and integrity in-tegrity |