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Show The people of Wyoming, like those ol all the territories, are a 11 ic ted with federal officials net at all to their liking, and who are by no means satisfactory to them. At present our Wyoming friends aro trying to prevent pre-vent the confirmation by the Benate of William Ware Peck, associate justice of the supreme court. Peck was a college chum of the president's; hence the appointment; but in our neighboring territory he is charged with procrastination, partiality and incompetency three qualities which a judicial officer ought not to poa seas, but which unfortunately can be found too olten in territorial federal judges. The Wyoming legislature, now in session, has the situation practically in ita own hands. If Peck's confirmation cannot be prevented the legislature will at once re-district the territory and give the offensive judge a distant patch of sage brush and a lew alkali lakes, removed from the haunts of men, over which to preside. There be may hold his court and eit in judgment, Eolitary and alone, but can do little harm. Where the popular feeling against an official is so general, one would think that the offensive individual indi-vidual could not be induced to accept the place, but experience teaches that luch is not the case. He is usually a political pauper, who has neither the ability nor energy to earn an honest living by his own exertions, and whose lelf-renpect isn't so great as to prevent him from accepting a government office with the accompanying accom-panying bread and butter, even though he is detested by all with whom he comes in contact. We hope that in the case of Judge Peck, should he be forced upon the people, the Wyoming legislature will carry out its threat of setting him out in an unpopulated district of prairie. There would be some satisfaction in going so far towards "setting even" for an outrage. |