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Show !j MIXING POLITICS jj'j WITH RAILROADS , Peculiar State of Affairs Brought ' ( $j About in "Wyoming- by Oppos- ' j jf iug- Party Factions. 1j 1 I i CCORDING (o the Denver Time?, 4 1 ' , A the two now railroads, which are i M I tnc tQl)lc oC s0 much talk and ox- i Jj pectation in Wyoming, aro in !i reality only the factors in a bitter po- i Jitlcal struggle. The Times calls at- ''' " tentlon to the fact that the Chicago ! & Pacific Raolflc Railroad company, Tj which proposes to build n road SOO j I miles long, was incorporated for only , 5100,000. ' Republicans In Wyoming arc divided i into iwo factions, that of Governor J Fonimorc Chatterton and his opponents, n ' J "who aro known as the machine. Some i wealthy Belgian capitalists wci-o In- : duced by the Governor to form a syn- ' dicate, the Bclgo-American Drilling , " i' trust, to develope the Wyoming oil ' o fields and later to undertake thc con- ( j ' structlon of a railroad from Casper to I f lender end thc Salt creek oil fields. f This coup had Its desired effect in in- ! r leasing the popularity of Governor F Chatterton to such an extent that the ' ' leaders of the other faction had to look i about, them for some menus of break- I I Jug the tide that -was going against i r them, j They soon hit on what they thought was a plan. Toward the end of March f. announcement was made of the Incor- j1 poration of the Chicago & Pacific Rail- load company. J. B. Bradley, William B. Rhodes and the other Casper people j "who are the incorporators of tin' com- ) pany, are known to be staunch sup- ; porters of what Is called the machine parly. The party organs came out In plowing terms about the new rond and ridiculed the Belgo-Amcrican company, who, by the way, had already appropriated appro-priated 310,000,000 for their oonstruc- Hons. In consequence of this the I French and Belgian capitalists forming f Die latter company have been discour- f siged in their new enterprise, and fear 1 competition: and many people in Wyo- , mlng are afraid that they arc going to lose this chance of getting n railroad ' Through n part of the State -which bad- ) Jy needs one. |