Why should Amos W. Barber, acting governor, violate this plainly written statute? Why should he, by an official act, over-ride the law and transfer the power to call out the militia from the civil to the military branch of the state government? It was a very strange proceeding. There is but one explanation possible--it was a necessary safeguard to the invaders. With that law in force the moment a band of invaders crossed the line of Converse or Johnson counties the respective sheriffs would call out the company and contest their advance. This would be a menace to the cattle men. There was a strong company at Douglas and one at Buffalo. Malcomb Campbell of Converse County, and W. G. Angus of Johnson, were known to be men who would act promptly in an emergency, and shape their action to the interest of the people. The military must be withdrawn from their call. This order was made on the 23rd day of March, and on April 5th the cattlemen’s forces moved on Johnson County--a “mob, or body of men acting together with intent to offer violence to person or property,” in the county; but the hands of the sheriff were tied, so far as the authority to call out the military was concerned. Do you see how nicely the order fit the case? Can any fair-minded reader fail to realize that General Order No. 4 was issued for the protection of the cattlemen while engaged in their bloody work--to render the settlers of Johnson County helpless in the hands of a gang of men supposed to be large enough in numbers to burn and loot the premises of the lone settlers on the public domain? The constitution of the state of Wyoming contains the following distinct and easily understood utterance: “Article No. XIX.--Police Powers.--Section 1. No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body, or unarmed body of men, shall ever be brought into this state for the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the Legislature or executive, when the Legislature cannot be convened.” Under the above section of the constitution the duty of the governor is clearly manifest in the emergency of an invasion of the state. Amos W. Barber was acting governor of Wyoming on the 5th day of April, 1892, when an armed body of men came on a special train from Denver, and after stopping for a time in Cheyenne, rolled away on another special train made up at the city depot and stockyards for the northern part of the state, on murder and arson bent. His closest personal friends, with whom he had been in intercourse most of the day, joined the gang at the depot, and it was simply impossible, under the circumstances, for him not to have known of the violation of the constitution being perpetrated. The governor is Commander-in-Chief of the state troops, yet he folded his arms and allowed the hired army to move on the unsuspecting settlers while they were plowing for their spring crops and endeavoring to provide for the wants of wives and children.